EVERY year, thousands of Malaysian tourists throng Angkor Wat in Cambodia. But it is safe to say that many of them have not even heard of an equally historic Hindu temple site right at their doorstep – Candi No 11 in Lembah Bujang, Kedah.
Last week, the demolition of the remains of the 1,200-year-old tomb temple to make way for a housing project would have gone unnoticed if not for heritage NGO Bujang Valley Study Circle chairman and researcher Datuk V. Nadarajan, who lodged a police report after conducting a study at the site and finding it destroyed.