Record deaths, deceit expose government failure

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From Ashraf Abdullah“Don’t even bother sending stories for a week,” News Editor Sulochini Nair told me over the phone about an hour after Block 1 of the Highland Towers in Hulu Kelang collapsed, killing 48 people.When the tragedy occurred on Dec 11, 1993, I was the staff correspondent of the New Straits Times bureau in Kuantan, Pahang. As expected, the news reports from the tragedy made headlines for days on end. The stories and pictures also filled almost all the inside local news pages of every newspaper in the country. Insignificant, regional stories from Pahang had no chance of seeing the light of day.For Malaysians, a tragedy involving even a few deaths was a rare thing. Forty-eight people dying in the Highland Towers was then a nationwide catastrophe. In fact, there were many other tragedies in Malaysia involving fewer deaths, and those news reports too made headlines for…