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June 15, 2007

Is it wrong to prosecute?

If a chairman of a charity organisation, misuses funds and is prosecuted, he well deserves it. The writer of a letter published in the local daily obviously doesn't get the entire picture. This is not a simple case of criminal breach of trust. It has got to do with public donations, and how most of this money didn't filter down to people really in need. The public gave willingly, for a cause i.e. to help kidney patients.
I heard first hand, from patients whose dialysis costs were still expensive AFTER SUBSIDY. Many could not afford to pay. We do not know how many eventually perished because they did not receive sufficient 'help'. When an organisation raises funds for a cause, then it's only fair that the donors are assured the monies are for the stated cause, not for the key staff of the organisation to have a little luxuries; gold taps are hardly necessary.
When is punishment enough? Well, for the many who suffered under this 'dictatorship', perhaps it will never be enough. If you needed dialysis 4 times a week and can only afford a lower frequency, you would have compromised the life-span of the kidney - and we can never put a value to that.
Patients who suffered and died silently. No matter how badly he is punished now, it can never equate to an 'un-suffering' of those patients so we're supposed to let him off when he has 'blood' on his hands? If he did a good job, it's a job well done for his well-being, his friends' well-being - it was never for the interest of the patients.
Anyone would do an excellent job of raising funds if most was ending up in your own pocket.
It's easy to be generous when you're giving away money that doesn't belong to you.
It's easy to say 'move on' when your family wasn't the one deprived of subsidy.
It's easy to say 'forgive him, where's your compassion' if your loved one didn't perish because you couldn't afford to pay for dialysis.
This is not about sending a message across to the public. This is about how many people had to suffer because he decided to live a life of luxury on donated funds. This is about manipulation and what it cost dozens of families.

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