Mourners carry banners calling for ‘Justice for Beng Hock’ and ‘We want and answers and truth’ as Teoh Beng Hock’s funeral gets under way. — Picture by Choo Choy May
ALOR GAJAH, July 20 — Nobody knows how he died even though the autopsy report says he died from internal injuries sustained in a fall. But what were his thoughts just before he died? Was he alone?
Today, at his funeral, thousands of people were determined that Teoh Beng Hock would not go to his final resting place alone. The funeral procession is led by a group walking ahead of the hearse and carrying a huge black banner that says, “Justice for Beng Hock, Answers for Rakyat.”
A band is playing and his crying siblings walk behind the slow-moving hearse. They each have a hand on the hearse as it moves through the congested road in Melekek.
His parents mourn at home, following a Chinese custom that dictates parents do not attend the funeral of a child.
A whole phalanx of Pakatan Rakyat politicians walk behind the Teoh siblings while hundreds line the road, saying their farewell to the 30-year-old political aide to Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah.
A little after 11am, the procession ends and the cortege makes its way to the cemetery in Semenyih.
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