Serious 5 SCDF Officers Charged Today (25 July 18). Why ???

[CoffeeAhSoh]

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[CoffeeAhSoh]

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paging urgently for bro. PTADER

 

[songsongjurong]

the malaysian parents/family of the deceased be multi millionaires in bolehland !!! akin to striking jackpot !!!!

 

[bobby]

Why got so many Mohameds until I see blur?

 

[Hypocrite-The]

If it was SAF n they were scholars..the whole case would have been buried. Too bad they not the real elites. N they are now used as a political weapon to show how fair pap is. Suckers at the wrong place and at the wrong time.

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

this should not have happened. but it has.

Command Responsibilties' Appicable here ???

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Read in another language Command responsibility Peace Palace in The Hague Command responsibility, sometimes referred to as the Yamashita standard or the Medina standard, and also known as superior responsibility, is the legal doctrine of hierarchical accountability for war crimes.[1][2][3][4][5] The term may also be used more broadly to refer to the duty to supervise subordinates, and liability for the failure to do so, both in government, military law, and with regard to corporations and trusts. The doctrine of "command responsibility" was established by the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, partly based on the American Lieber code, a war manual for the Union forces signed by President Abraham Lincoln 1863, and was applied for the first time by the German Supreme Court at the Leipzig War Crimes Trials after World War I, in the 1921 trial of Emil Müller.[6][7][8] The United States of America confirmed and incorporated the mentioned 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions on "command responsibility" into United States federal law through the precedent set by the United States Supreme Court (called the "Yamashita standard") in the case of Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita. He was prosecuted in 1945 for atrocities committed by troops under his command in the Philippines, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Yamashita was charged with "unlawfully disregarding and failing to discharge his duty as a commander to control the acts of members of his command by permitting them to commit war crimes."[9][10] Furthermore, the so-called "Medina standard" clarified the U.S. law to clearly also encompass U.S officers, so that those as well as foreign officers such as General Yamashita can be prosecuted in the United States. The "Medina standard" is based upon the 1971 prosecution of U.S. Army Captain Ernest Medina in connection with the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.[11] It holds that a U.S. commanding officer, being aware of a human rights violation or a war crime, will be held criminally liable when he does not take action. However, Medina was acquitted of all charges.

 

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The usual nonsense where Superior Commanders escape responsibility and liability. This is especially since they are backed by self-serving Ministers like that Indian in MHA who is worried that command responsibility may not just stop at commanders level if commanders are held liable. Instead it may lead to the inevitable clamouring by the public that the buck should not just stop at operational level commanders but at governmental and ministerial level as observed in countries like Japan where Ministers are held accountable for manslaughter like this.

Of course, if it's good news, these ministerial clowns will be rushing to claim "responsibility". This happened in March 1991 with the other MHA Indian, S.Jayakumar, who trumpeted to one and all about the immense "political courage" he had, and had to undertake from the airconditioned comfort of Changi Airport Control Tower to make his immensely "politically courageous" decision to inform the SOF to proceed to storm SQ117.

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

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Five men who were allegedly involved in the death of a Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) full-time national serviceman were charged in court on Wednesday (25 July).

The five SCDF personnel were implicated in the drowning incident at Tuas View fire station on 13 May in which 22-year-old Kok Yuen Chin died. Staff Sergeant Mohammad Nur Fatwa Mahmood, 33, was charged with one count of causing death by rash act and one count of obstructing, perverting, preventing or defeating justice.

He is alleged to have pushed Kok into the well leading to his drowning, and then instructing a colleague to delete the footage of the incident. Warrant Officer 1 Mohamed Farid Mohamed Saleh, 34, was charged with abetting a rash act that resulted in death. He is alleged to have instigated Fatwa by telling him to push Kok into the well.


Lieutenant Kenneth Chong Chee Boon, 37, was charged with abetting a group of men to commit a rash act that caused grievous hurt by omitting to prevent them from pressuring Kok to enter the well.


Chong was the commander of the rotation (ROTA 3) to which the men involved were attached. Senior Warrant Officer 1 Nazhan Mohamed Nazi, 40, the deputy commander of ROTA 3, was similarly charged with abetting a rash act that caused grievous hurt.


Staff Sergeant Adighazali Suhaimi, 32, was charged for intentionally obstructing the course of justice by allegedly deleting a video from his phone of Kok being pushed into the well.

The police have also referred eight other officers who were present during the incident to the SCDF for departmental investigations. Fatwa’s lawyer Diana Ngiam said her client intends to plead guilty.

His case will be heard on 25 September. Farid’s lawyer Vinit Chhabra said he has been instructed to view the CCTV footage of the incident.

Lawyer Singa Retnam, who is representing Chong and Nazhan, said the same thing. Adighazali’s lawyer Mato Kotwani said he had just been appointed and needed time to take instructions.

Apart from Fatwa, the men will appear in court again on 3 September. If convicted of causing the death of a person through a rash act, Fatwa may be jailed up to five years and/or fined.

If convicted of abetting a rash act causing grievous hurt, each man faces up to four years’ jail and/or a fine of up to $10,000. If convicted of obstructing the course of justice, each man can be jailed up to seven years and/or fined.

About the case Corporal (CPL) Kok Yuen Chin, 22, had died after being thrown into the 12m-deep well, which is used as a reservoir for training and testing fire engine pumps.

The incident happened while Kok was celebrating his impending Operationally Ready Date with his squad mates. When Kok, a non-swimmer, did not resurface from the well, a few SCDF personnel jumped in but failed to find him.

Kok was eventually pulled out after the well, which had been filled to a depth of 11m, was drained. Kok was taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Four days after Kok’s death, Parliament debated the incident, with Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam describing it as a “celebration gone wrong”. He said the “conduct of some of the people involved” was in “clear violation” of the SCDF’s rules.

According to the SCDF, the ragging activities that resulted in the mishap were prohibited. A Board of Inquiry – chaired by a senior director from the Ministry of Trade and Industry and comprising members not from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the SCDF – has been convened to review the circumstances that led Kok’s death.

 

[songsongjurong]

Lieutenant Kenneth Chong Chee Boon be made the fall guy..

most of the subjects charged are Malay so it be fine...our dear i̶n̶d̶i̶a̶n̶ Malay President abang adek...also a birth right here and across causeway.

 

[songsongjurong]

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[Annunaki]

Lieutenant Kenneth Chong Chee Boon, 37
37 years old still Lieutenant must be farmer non scholar confirm have to take the rap.

 

[swine_flu_H1H1]

CB! what kind of NS is this?

During our days ROD mood personnels are Lao Jiao to bully the new birds. Even superior officers we also harassed them. Where got such thing ROD personnel kenna Tekkan die one? If I wanted to I could easily murder a few bastards in my unit before my ROD, they know my hostile plots and toned down with me already, so nothing happened. If I dove a huge heavy vehicle run over their landrovers, at the most BOI accident, go DB and ROD some time later only. They will die Lan Lan! KNN! Like this 5 bastards, I can drive fire engine run over them flat. Roti Prata understand? Flat Flat ah!


Charge me lah!

My statement will be very simple, fucking don't know what insect flu almost into my ear when I was on the wheel I lost control of vehicle immediately. Period. When I regained control I stopped immediately, I found them dead, I shouted for help. Enough?

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/5-men-charged-drowning-scdf-nsf-014722037.html


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yahoo got x 86 views reactions.

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

Lieutenant Kenneth Chong Chee Boon be made the fall guy..

most of the subjects charged are Malay so it be fine...our dear i̶n̶d̶i̶a̶n̶ Malay President abang adek...also a birth right here and across causeway.

the buck stopped there. sad.

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[Leckmichamarsch]

WHY ALL MALAY NCOs bullying a young chinese??????????
VERY DANGEROUS TREND IN THE MAKING!!!!!!!!!

 

[songsongjurong]

simple..they just pin the blame on the Chinese officer,Lt Chong.

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

WHY ALL MALAY NCOs bullying a young chinese??????????
VERY DANGEROUS TREND IN THE MAKING!!!!!!!!!

good point. BOI may also want to review the racial mixed in scdf .

just like hdb review the racial mixed a each hdb flat per block.

just guesting current mix maybe very imbalance .

i will just pluck it from the picture above :

1 to 4

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every 1 chinese vs 4 malay.

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

simple..they just pin the blame on the Chinese officer,Lt Chong.

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4 vs 1 , the answer is there.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

good point. BOI may also want to review the racial mixed in scdf .

just like hdb review the racial mixed a each hdb flat per block.

just guesting current mix maybe very imbalance .

i will just pluck it from the picture above :

1 to 4

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every 1 chinese vs 4 malay.

For NS..most m&ds go to scdf n Mata...high security risks if they go saf. Very few m&ds In navy and airforce
The most looked after units in the saf.

 

[congo9]

If it was SAF n they were scholars..the whole case would have been buried. Too bad they not the real elites. N they are now used as a political weapon to show how fair pap is. Suckers at the wrong place and at the wrong time.

Yes Peasants are made example so that there is a presume fairness in the system.
Of course we know there is another set of rule applied to the elites, Perks,Rewards/Punishments, treatment are all different.