RIP

The life of a young bright spark was destroyed by the nonsenical acts of terrorism! These terrorists are really mad, pursuing their morbid goals at the expense of precious human lives!
Terrorism must end!

World leaders should stop their constant bickering and have a coordinated efforts to stop terrorists! Innocents are sacrificed for their irrelevant goals.

My condolences to the family of the deceased.

my heartfelt condolences to the husband and family of Ms Lo. May God grant you the comfort, strength and peace that you need.

Take care

really felt sorry and condolences for the husband and marry. i REALLY think Singapore should DO something with INDIA about the terrorism… If not… this will continue… Things must come to a stop! God… pls comfort this people who are in shock!

Er..why you have to post a photo of her showing so much cleavage..Anyway shocking and sad for her family.

Her awful end should be avenged. Seek for those mutha fcukers and make them suffer, more then what she and her close ones have and are going through

My sympathies and my prayers for Ms Lo and this world we live in. It can happen to anyone, anywhere

My deepest sympathies to her family and loved ones.

RIP, Miss Lo.

my deepest condolences to her family and loved ones. Rest in peace..singaporean blood will not spill in vain for i swear we fight against terrorism to the last bit of our breath

Singaporeans let us unite as one people to stop this action of terrorism.WE MUST NOT GIVE UP!

Of all the photos for ST to use. How inappropriate.

Yes It really was a deep quiet in our house once we knew. All stopped what they were doing reflecting on their own. She was one of us. RIP

I agree with Jackson, please edit her photo out of respect.

This is indeed a very tragic and sad day for the whole world. Many innocent lives were lost in the last 2 days through such a vicious terror attack. Hope the perpetrators and the mastermind of these attacks will be brought to justice soon.

I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the late Ms Lo and to pray for strength in their hour of mourning.

My condolences to the family of the deceased.
RIP.

Condolences to Ms Lo’s family…

Chilled guys, thats her wedding photo taken last year, it was published by Straits Times.

Deepest condolences to all those affected. It sucks to read something like this..

RIP, Ms Lo.

Condolences to her family.

Stay strong and take care.

Heaven bless.

The terrorists have killed one of our own. May these terrorists face the full wrath of justice, either in this life or the next.

Dear family of Ms Lo

As Singaporeans , we are all shocked and very saddened to receive this piece of news. We want you to know that we are griefing with you as a nation and that our prayers are with you. Be strong and we are behind you during this time of great loss.

Regards

I have to agree with one of the posters…..Countries have to unite to get rid of terrorism once and for all. They have to put their differences aside and make a concentrated effort to rid the world of these people.

let us pray.

rest in peace.

I’m sad but we can’t predict that this would happen, so I guess her family has to accept the truth afterwards…

i am deeply upset by the passing of a fellow singaporean due to terrorism
no one had the right to take her life away like this…
rest in peace…
and condolences to the family…

it is never safe to travel now unless they are really necessary. 2 of those seen on tv last evening are bankers. Thank God, many were safe. Unfortunately, there were some sacrificed through acts of some crazy guys. Pray that families of those killed find comfort in their God. I found biz trips increasingly dangerous over the past years (since Marriot bombing in Jkt) as we never know when we are in the wrong place at the wrong time. God help us rid our world of those crazy guys..

It goes to show that when we go abroad need to be extra careful as the world now is in chaos.

No where is safe now and such things happened all the time.

Countries such as India, Middle east, China are all hot spots for terrorism.

RIP and my sympathies to the family grieving now.

Australian also has 4 of it’s citizens killed so far.

I’m afraid that such violence can never be ended in our lifetime. As long as there are people who are willing to subscribe to ideologies, devoting them of rational thought.

RIP fellow Singaporean. You were there at the wrong place, wrong time.

I am so sad to hear that bad news and my condolences to the family and love ones. This is an important message to everyone that no place is safe and our community should continue to stay together and be on the high alert to prevent such event from taking place in Singapore. Whatever, the differences we may have within ourselves whether politics or personal and when it comes to security measure everyone have a role to safeguard not only Singapore but also your family, relatives, friends and fellow Singaporean. I served the army at the age of fourteen known Singapore Armed Forces Boy’s School, and still all those command and training are fresh in my mind. Those days my salary was only $ 30/- with painful training. What I had earned before and applied it in life by saying never give up. To the family of Ms Lo, I pray for her sole to be blessing in heaven and live as an angel in her family and our lives. Singaporean lets stay together and beat those devil’s out there.

RIP.

But let us be wary that our ISA is not abused in the coming elections.

9/11 afgan / iraq links, Chia Thye Poh, Catholics marxists – it is so easy to be manipulated by the govt of the day.

May God Bless Ms Lo and her family.

kudos to TOC for updating the picture of Ms Lo. This would be a more respectful picture to use for such times as this.

A wicked and barbaric act by terrorists.
Right in Singapore the pap government may not kill in cold blood but they induced deep sufferings on those who dare to standup against them and who disagree with their ideology. They are as revengeful and frightening as the terrorists.

I seriously condemn the act by terrorists

I and my family deeply saddened by the tragic death news of our beloved fellow citizen ‘Ms.Lo Hoei Yen’

My sincere condolelences to her husband, family and loved ones. God will never forgive these madness nonsenical acts and India should take appropriate actions to prevent terrorism from the neighbouring countries.

From a fellow citizen’

Singapore-29th November 2008

My heartfelt condolences to the husband and family of Ms Lo.

Every Singaporean even though not releated to Ms Lo have been saddened by the terrorists maddness killing of Ms Lo.

May God blessed the husband & family of Ms Lo with lots of inner strengths to overcome this difficult moment.

Compared to the 1990s, the frequency and magnitude of terrorist attacks have intensified, with an increased in the scope of boundaries as well.

Terrorist attacks are no longer confined to the Middle East, it has become borderless. I believe terrorism has become more unprecedented as compared to the 1990s due to the increasingly wired world, made possible by technology.

The internet has made the world a borderless world and shaped the face of terrorism into one which is borderless too. Internet and the new technology might have given media-crazy terrorists excellent avenues to propagate their ideas and their acts are often carried out to capture as much media attention as well by leveraging on the new technology as evidenced in the Mumbai terrorism acts.

Terrorism is a war of ideology, it is not a war for territory as in the past centuries. Where the medium for the conventional wars is airplanes, warships and tanks, the medium for the terrorism is the ever-growing cyber-technology for the propagation of the terrorists’ thwarted ideology. This may explain why there is now an unprecedented number of terrorist acts in this century (starting from 911) as compared to the 90s.

When your time is up, your time is up. People die. Everyday. Every second. Many
in tragic circumstances. Keep it in perspective. We are slowly being killed as well here. Some had died. Some are going to. Most of us will, at the end!

Condolences to Ms Lo and her family. It is saddening to see them targeting even non-combatants/civilians/women/children.

This 2 day shootout in Mumbai is extremely tragic, yet it is even more tragic that one of our fellow singaporeans, Ms Lo, has been killed while being held hostage. I offer my sincere condolences to Ms Lo’s family and may Ms Lo rest in peace.
I hope that world leaders will soon understand that minor conflicts among countries can be put aside and they must all collaborate together to combat terrorism and prevent more innocent lives from being taken away.

Saddened by the news. Condolences to the family. She’s one of us, Singaporeans, and we feel the loss of a precious life.

What is this world coming to? All these years of progress in technology and science, but the human psyche has not progressed one bit on peace and harmony.

Really sad for this world. My condolences to Ms. Lo’s family and friends. We can only seek solace in the fact that she has found peace in God.

In Memoriam: Ms. Lo Hwei Yen

join the Facebook group that condemns the attack in Mumbai.

this week, “lightning does not strike twice” does not only apply to Bali (2002 & 2005). within 3 years, Mumbai became the 2nd city to be experiencing such an attack.

deep condolences to Ms Lo’s family, and may her soul RIP and as well as all those who died the hands of murderers
real men dont kill women, children and innocent civilian in whatever name its called.

shame on you cowards

what is our muslim council say on this – come and speak out for God’s sake

I am saddened by her unfortunate demise too. My condolences to her family.

While the timing of her death is not clear and the sequence of events is still hazy, it seemed from the various press reports that the commandos did not carried out their counter attack on the terrorists at ALL locations simultaneously.

When I heard that the commandos only stormed some locations, I feared for the lives of the hostages at the other locations. From the way how this attacked was coordinated, it is not inconceivable that the terrorists not attacked will be informed of the commandos operation. It is in the terrorists’ playbook to start executing hostages as a revenge for their fellow terrorists killed by the commandos’ action.

I wonder how many hostages were executed as a result of their failure to mount a single coordinated rescue operations at all hostage locations. The truth will never be known.

JUSTICE must be seeked!!

Its quite scary. Many Singaporeans are being sent to these places like India on business trips. Earlier, one of ours , a guy , went there and lost a limp in a car accident there.

Dangerous places to work or do biz.

My condolences to her family and friends.

Terrible is the consequence of radical ideologies, yet they seem nowhere near fading from mankind.

As we grief for the dead, let us not be defeated by the core aim of terrorism: fear.

My deepest condolescences to Ms Lo and her family. It must be especially hard for her mother – to give birth, spend all those years bringing up a child to have her taken in such tragic circumstances.

43) peace – “real men dont kill women, children and innocent civilian in whatever name its called”

“Real men” like George Bush did systematically start this war of terror by skewing the US foreign policy to discriminate, dominate and kill. If anybody should perish in this war of terror, it is those who started and continue to perpetuate systems of injustice and discrimination in the name of religion, race, nationhood etc. As soon as policies are skewed not in fairness and justice, when groups of people are maligned and feel injustice, and there does not seem to be any recourse to justice and fairness, then there will be these who take up arms who go on killing rampages.

If these young men who went on a killing spree in Mumbai grew up with all the opportunities all Singaporeans have – to education, a chance at making good of our lives in all fairness and justice, with enough food and warm shelter, they would be out there making something good of their lives, instead of finding some sort of reprieve or cause to do harm.

There is no sitting on the fence in living – either we actively go out and do, promote good, fairness, justice, equality so that there is no poverty, that every human have a chance to live in peace, or we may one day perish at the hands of those whose lives are given to hatred and evil.

Until the ‘civilise world’ like the US or UK think they belong to stop systematically discriminating against minority in their midst and others around the world who have different colour, ethnicity or faith than them, and stop using their foreign policies to perpetuate more evil, there will be no end in this war of terror. I don’t know which is worse – using economics to terrorise other nations or using guns to shoot down people.

And there is really no reason for asking the Muslim Council in Singapore to speak out on this or other terror acts. They have no hand in Mumbai, nor do they approve of terrorism or violence of any kind. We should instead be grateful that our Muslim Singaporeans here are peaceable, good neighbours, most with sound teaching, and able to work with people like the JI extremists to teach them that true Islam is peaceful.

I think we should honour Ms Lo’s life by actively promoting peace and dialogue, understanding instead of hatred and revenge. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

I may not know her but I recognise that she is one of us. It is painful to hear that she is gone. It is a loss to Singapore.
My condolences to Ms Lo and her family.
May her soul rest in peace.

I also agree with SSC (# 48) – there’s no need for Muslim Council to speak out on these. The terrorists are answerable for their own actions.

However, I feel SSC has underestimated the psychology of these terrorists.

It is NOT only a matter of Bush starting the war, that they are angry with. They’re not only angry with Americans. If you understand the mentality and the other reasons for their hatred…for what they did what they did, you will see why understanding and trying to exist amicably with them is IMPOSSIBLE.

The reasons are simple: They won’t allow you to exist! They won’t allow for negotiations. They call the shots, not you. And even after getting what they want, do you think they would allow you to live?

Short of asking Bush to pay for the mistakes he made, the only way OUT of the situation is to STOP the terrorists, lock them up securely even if there’s no other penalty for them. If they are released, more innocent lives will be lost.

Revenge is not quite the same as “justice’. Do the family members of the innocent dead want justice?

What Singapore needs to do (or any other nation) is to stop playing the BLAME game and beef up on security.

“The reasons are simple: They won’t allow you to exist! They won’t allow for negotiations. They call the shots, not you. And even after getting what they want, do you think they would allow you to live?”

If one reads up on extremist Salafist ideology practised by AQ affiliates, one would realise that these buggers are playing a zero-sum game, where our usual notion of costs and benefits in a strategic game do not apply to them.

How do you make it costly when their view of actions we deem costly, are in fact coded as a benefit?

Deepest condolences to Ms Lo’s family, may her rest in peace.

History is only written by winners and not cowards who fight this way.

I just got back from overseas training to learn about this sad news.

[---deleted---] What a pity that such a young and vibrant life is lost… terrorism is bad. Why they go and shoot the rich and beautiful people?

Regardless of whether her father-in-law is PAP man or not, as a fellow Singaporean, I can say with a united voice that: we condemn the terrorists!

by the way, how did she die? killed by terrorist or friendly forces? newspaper say everyone shooting in the dark, so how to see? also how come the terrorist ask her to tell singapore garment to tell india garment a message, the sinkapore garment also neber broadcast the message publicly.

i blame her tragic death on the ineptness of the sinkapore garment – never responded to demand of terrorists fast enough. It’s garment fault and they should be held responsible!!

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I just got back from overseas training to learn about this sad news.

This babe is so hot! What a pity that such a young and vibrant life is lost… terrorism is bad. Why they go and shoot the rich and beautiful people?

Regardless of whether her father-in-law is PAP man or not, as a fellow Singaporean, I can say with a united voice that: we condemn the terrorists!

by the way, how did she die? killed by terrorist or friendly forces? report says everyone shooting in the dark, so how to see? also how come the terrorist ask her to tell singapore garment to tell india garment a message, the sinkapore garment also neber broadcast the message publicly.

i blame her tragic death on the ineptness of the garment – never responded to demand of terrorists fast enough. It’s garment fault and they should be held responsible!!

moderator – pls delete report – apologies.

50) Kelly – “It is NOT only a matter of Bush starting the war, that they are angry with. They’re not only angry with Americans. If you understand the mentality and the other reasons for their hatred…for what they did what they did, you will see why understanding and trying to exist amicably with them is IMPOSSIBLE.”

Yes you are right Kelly that once terrorists get to the point of carrying arms, there is no reasoning and no return. Up until they are recruited however, there are many factors which can drive them to taking arms. And one of it is that they themselves feel a great sense of injustice has been inflicted on them, and there is no recourse to justice.

Imagine if I were a young Iraqi girl growing up in Baghdad. One fine day, a whole lot of US troops land in my country supposedly to get rid of dictator and weapons of mass destruction. In reality they only are interested in stealing oil with rich contracts given to Bush’s friends. In the meantime, my friends, my brother, my father all die trying to fight them off my country. Every place I love in my country is in ruins. I have no more home to live in anymore. Everyday I grieve for my family but there does not seem to be a stop to this nonsense. So while hiding in some hole somewhere, a fellow countryman talked to me at length about avenging the death of those I love. I decide to go ahead and be a suicide bomber…

The above scenario is repeated in many part of the world – people get recruited because they are in a state of agitation and unrest. Normal people like you and I are not likely at all to take up arms or blow ourselves to bits. No theory or brainwashing can get to us because we have so much to live for. But if the day comes when my country is taken, my child dies at the hands of aggressors, my loved ones perish for no reason, everything I live for and love are taken away from me, and there is no way I can get justice, then the root of hatred and vengeance may creep in my life.

Things around the world must change. The rich countries must stop exploiting the poor ones. Do you know how much some Costa Ricans get for the bananas they grow? That we get to buy for less than 20 cents a piece? When there is injustice in the world, those who suffer it day in and day out may turn violent.

Many terrorists’ stories of recruitment are very sorry tales of years of sustained abuse, poverty and disenchantment. In Bradford England, and many parts of the UK, discrimination on the basis of colour and religion is still very strong. When you grow up being stigmatised, you can be very warped.

And religious fanatics are not limited to the Muslims. Christians equally have blood on our hands. Those Christians who preach hatred for others just because they do not believe, and seek to destroy others, steal from them systematically on the basis that God is on their side – they too are responsible for the bloodshed. Remember Bush said he thinks God is on his side when he went into Iraq?

As long as we keep thinking – “we are right and they are wrong”, instead of trying to seek justice and peace in every area of our living, then the world will continue to be a place where injustice reigns. Stopping terrorists in their tracks is like fire fighting, very essential but also deadly. Prevention is way better than cure.

This 2 day shootout in Mumbai is extremely tragic, yet it is even more tragic that one of our fellow singaporeans, Ms Lo, has been killed while being held hostage. I offer my sincere condolences to Ms Lo’s family and may Ms Lo rest in peace.
I hope that world leaders will soon understand that minor conflicts among countries can be put aside and they must all collaborate together to combat terrorism and prevent more innocent lives from being taken away.
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Aiyo, we cannot blame PAP la. Not that i’m pro-PAP or anything but the straits times clearly states that because the Mumbai government was not persuaded by the Singapore government to withdraw troops, she was killed. Makes me wonder why they don’t choose an ang moh to do it. Wouldn’t AMERICA have a bigger cloud over India? (if you understand the expression).
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Thank you SSC (#56) for the logical input! Yes there are extremist Christians too (some would do anything to be the next Pope with materialistic intentions). But thank goodness, they are not branded as “hateful terrorists”!

Ms Lo’s untimely death has got nothing to do with her parentage (father a grassroots leader). It could have happened to anyone who was there at that time.

The only thing I saw “technically” wrong – letting the terrorists know that that the govt troops were upon them. They weren’t stealthy enough. Someone must have forgotten that these terrorists were ready to die along with all the rest. Unfortunate!

i agree with #57) stephanie on December 3rd, 2008 1.42 pm

I 101% agree with 56) SSC on December 2nd, 2008 1.13 pm.

I don’t know her personally but like many Singaporeans, I feel for her and her family. May Lo Hwei Yen rest in peace. The whole of Singapore is with you. God Bless.