Please stop distributing it....

Just last week, two Brunei-registered cars were involved in a horrific road accident in Limbang, where five people perished in the accident.

Over the following few days, a video, which had been taken by a passer-by just minutes after the accident, was in circulation here. It was reported that the video was even posted up onto YouTube. In the video, one could clearly see the victims being pulled out from the wreckage and two of them were still in the heavily-damaged car. At one point, one could see camera being pointed towards the victims as they laid motionless on the ground and in the car.

It is one thing that people drive slowly whenever an accident occurs, but it is another when they stop and take videos and pictures of the accident, and then distribute the videos and pictures to the general public. Have we turned into a society of heartless voyeurs? Have we turned into a society of sadists? Are we a society of freaks, who get high from other people's misfortune? Please spare a moment and a thought towards the victims and their families. Let them grieve privately and peacefully, without having to know that a video of their loved ones during their final hours of being alive is in circulation.

I urge whoever has this video in their inbox to stop circulating it and delete it.

Please take a moment to remember the deceased and hope that they all rest in peace. Al-Fatihah.