What is happening to the world?!?

It was in the Asian Wall Street Journal today: Maids are being beaten in Singapore and Hong Kong. The article was quite shocking. It started describing how an Indonesian maid was kicked and punched so badly that she had internal haemorrhage due to liver rupture. The employer was indicted and is currently serving 5 years in a correctional institution. The article went on explaining why these poor girls endure such harsh treatments from their employers, how they come from small villages and the opportunity to work and provide for their families just cannot be passed as even the smallest monthly salary paid is more than they would do in one entire year. How frightened they are to report abuse fearing they will loose their jobs and be deported. It is a very sad situation. But what is even sadder is that it is common.

How can educated people from Singapore and Hong Kong behave like this? Have we completely lost reasoning? What kind of perverted mind would be willing to kick and punch someone till their internal organs burst? You don't do this to animals let alone human beings.

So they get upset because lunch was late, their shirts are not properly ironed, their floors are not shiny and perfectly clean and they beat their maids to death??? I just don't understand...

In Singapore the government is launching campaigns to educate people on how to treat maids. A good start... Hey, hold on a second! Isn't it supposed to be obvious this kind of inhuman behaviour is not acceptable? Do we really have to tell people: "Listen, you can fire her but do not bludgeon her"?

Remember, we are not talking about some isolated incident where two guy got into a fight and got carried away in the heat of the moment. We are talking about physically abusing someone who lives in your house, takes care of your children, prepares your food. How can someone be so cruel intentionally???

Yes... We seems to have lost common sense. We have become so incredibly commercialized that we now think money can buy anything and life is something as disposable as yesterday's news paper. Welcome to the uncivilized civilized world we live in.

"I don't know why the world keeps turning round and round, but I wish it would stop and let me out now"... (Marshal Mathers)