Malaysiakini : SAMMY CHAN APOLOGIZED PART 3

Please refer to PART 1 and PART 2 before continue reading PART 3

PART 3


9) Oct 3, 2008. About 1.00 pm. An article appear on MAKKEZ website title Amoi’s issue in MalaysiaKini. He wrote that the infamous “Amoi and her racist post issue” which was exaggerated furiously a few days back has now made its way to MalaysiaKini.com.

10) Oct 3, 3.06 pm. Sammy Chan issued a statement in her blog asking for forgiveness. She posted her apology on her website OFFICIAL APOLOGY and called on everyone to forgive her for her shortsighted outburst in a Sept 23 posting.

11) Oct 3, 2008. At about 4.00 pm. An article appear on Raged Indian website again with a title Amoi - Unexpected ending.

He wrote that the news that he (Durai-RagedIndian), Makkez, and Naga highlighted about the Amoi became a major issue.

He said that he just came through this posting from Makkez blog. Never expected this though . But then , he said that she needs to face the co-sequences. In his last statement he updated his blog and he wrote :-

Update : Guys, she had updated her blog with another apology.

This latest one seems to be very sincere. No matter what , she is no politician, and she is young. She would regret this her whole life and it would be a good lesson to the rest of us. Let us forgive and forget. About the part of police action towards her, obviously she has to face it . What’s wrong is wrong.

12) Oct 3, 6.06 pm. An article appear again on Malaysiakini title Blogger apologises over controversial remarks by Athi Veranggan Oct 3, 08 6:06pm. This time the article appear with Sammy Chan photo on it.

During that time many bloggers didn't pay a lot of attention pertaining to that matter. But after Malaysiakini posted it in the evening article, the engine started to move even faster on her blog.

13) When contacted by Malaysiakini, she says :- “I offer an unconditional apology to every single person out there whom I've offended. I'll not be unfair to other races again and I'll learn to only get angry at those who really hurt me instead of generalising them according to race.”

“I did not really mean to stir racial sentiments or offend the Indian community,” “I did not expect my personal comments to become a national racial issue and invoke such a major public outburst. I’m extremely sorry for the whole controversy caused by my immature and angry remarks."

“I sincerely and honestly apologise to all Malaysians, not just Indians, as my comments have offended them,” Chan said she was prepared to cooperate with the police in their investigation and said she would even personally apologise to Hindraf national coordinator RS Thanenthiran over her posting.

14) RS Thanenthiran said Hindraf would accept Chan’s apology and he issued a statement :-

“We understand now that it was a ‘spur of the moment’ outburst. We sympathise with her loss of her phone. We hope that the lesson learnt from the controversy will help her to be more careful in future.’

15) Sammy said her blog was swarmed by at least 9,000 visits since Malaysiakini reported the issue this morning. The visibly upset blogger is now contemplating to suspend her ‘Life is a drama’ blog “until things have cooled off”, adding that she was a bit worried of being detained under the Internal Security Act.

“I’m just a young and a fresh graduate. I hope the whole controversy will not affect my future,” she lamented.

16) From 7.15 pm when I visited her website, she has about 18,500 visitors or hits. During that time I posted a comment on her article and she accepted it.

My comment was at number 17, but by midnight her comments jumps to 52 comments but some of the comments need her approval first then only can publish inside her comments. By midnight when I was following her comments, her hits has jump to around 25,840 hits in just 6 to 7 hours.

17) Oct 4, 2008. Around 1.45 am she closed her blog and put her blog as "This blog is open to invited readers only".

The moral of this whole article PART 1, PART 2 and PART 3 is to tell us that :-

"Bloggers should be careful with their words.. No doubt that blogs are for sharing your life and fun, your opinions and remarks would cause a big impact on the society.. Blogs nowadays are no longer just a tool for leisure and fun, but they are also the medium with tremendous influence to effect great changes." (Gaffe -by Kai Chi)

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