JUST as I was about to go to bed last Sunday night, I got a phone call at 1.30am, saying that about 200 supporters of one political party were ready to jump ship and if I was interested in the story.
Being the troopers that we were, we (me and my colleague Foon Fong) were on the road headed to the scene virtually in minutes. Fortunately, two boys in the lobby of the hotel we were staying in were willing to take us there, about 3km off Sekinchan town. Once off the main road, we were on a slip road travelling through an oil palm plantation. It was pitch dark other than the beams from our headlights and the motorbike ahead of us.
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