Think Deep In Finance - Part 2: Asian Rare Earth Private Ltd and Bukit Merah Village

Continue on my previous post on the inverse perception on finance. If you had read the supplement of China Press currently (started at 23th Nov 2009), you should have know that there used to be a toxic (rare earth) plant operated near Kampung Baru Bukit Merah, Lahat in Perak a few decades ago, which is also where my house located.

In 1979, Asian Rare Earth (a Japan company) came under close scrutiny after it was discovered that its operation was causing radioactive emissions in the area. It was extracting yttrium, which is used in making colour TV tubes, from monazite, and the process created the radioactive thorium hydroxide waste. The company was de-commissioned in the early 1990s after a long-drawn legal battle and countless public protests.

Even it had decommissioned, but there are lots of things at the back there, from what the protestors said, the government had arrested them under ISA that time. And I was unable to understand what the Fucking Hell of the Damn Shit “high” officer thinking that time.

Man, the solid facts that so much villagers suffering due to that damnable toxic plant, and the officer just to guarantee so easily that there is no problem on the operation of that plant? And when villagers stepped out to protest for the sake to protect their own lives and healthy population for their beloved, but the Fucking authority captures them under ISA, how could it be? Why?

I just wanna keep questioning on the officers in charged, did you Fucking ever live at that area? How do you know there will be no effect on the villagers as you are not one of them and didn’t ever visit them who are suffering once? As you just live at your luxury house and stay at your comfortable working place, but able to judge everything without seeing them by your own Ass Hole eyes?

Well, I just wondering, is that a country development and capital inflow much more important than human’s life? Why the damn authority that time (one of them included country’s top leader that time, Dr. M…), didn’t ever care for the poor villagers? What the hell stuffs running in their mind? That’s why I said before, if you think finance is a field to help developing the world, you should think twice on it, for there are lots of stories behind that beyond yours and mine knowledge.

I am glad and paid my full salute to the peoples who fight endlessly and persistently to banish that toxic plant that time. You are the great people, much greater than the Fucking Hell Ants class which only think of and chasing for power and wealth, in the past, current (presently the cases that most of us seen, almost not “news” anymore…) and forever, but never care for the citizens in sincere. God sake, maybe this is only piece of the pie only…pitiful citizens.