THE weekend has been abuzz with news of the early morning fire at the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah school in Jalan Datuk Keramat which took the lives of 21 students and two teachers last Thursday. Malaysians everywhere sympathise with the victims’ loved ones and mourn their loss too.
To learn later that it was a premeditated act of arson by a few teenagers over a dispute begs another bigger question. What has happened to the family structure especially among the Malay community that youngsters are allowed out till the early morning hours to carry out this crime?
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