TRUTH: Women are raped everyday in this country

Speech by DAP National Vice Chairman and MP for Tanjong Chow Kon Yeow when debating the second supplementary budget at Dewan Rakyat on Thursday, 4 May 2006
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The Police announced the Crime Index for the months of January and March 2006 and it is worrying 56,116 criminal cases were recorded in just three months.

There were 12,210 cases of violent crimes, 36,960 cases of property crime (including 14,937 cases of snatch theft), 1,731 commercial crime and 5,215 narcotics crime.

It is alarming to note that 586 cases of rape and 478 cases of outrage of modesty have been recorded in this period.

This works out to 6.5 cases of rape and 5.3 cases of outrage of modesty every day!

Rape cases have increased from an average of 4 cases daily a few years ago to 6.5 cases daily now.

According to women NGOs, for every case of reported rape, there could be 4 cases that are not reported.

The high number of snatch theft (with many victims losing their lives) has instilled a sense of fear and lack of security among the citizens and tourists.

We can no longer feel safe in our towns and cities, women and men, young and old, regardless of our class or creed.

We call for better policing to keep our environment free from crimes.