Sunday December 7, 2008
Highland Towers survivor: The nightmare will not end
PETALING JAYA: Dr Benjamin George (pic), a survivor of the Highland Towers tragedy in 1993, believes that landslides will never end – because the authorities do not have the will to stop it.
Commenting on the landslide in Bukit Antarabangsa, the 80-year-old plastic surgeon said politicians should be held accountable for what they say because they make statements against development but nothing ever materialised.
“The politicians will climb up their helicopters and say all development must stop.
“There will be a stop-work order for two months but in the third month the tractors will start work again.
“I have survived long enough to see all this nonsense repeated,” he said, adding that landslides would happen every few years.
When asked how he felt about the latest tragedy, Dr George – the Highland Towers owners and residents committee chairman who had to abandon his home at Block B of the Highland Towers – said he was sad, angry and disappointed.
“Imagine if it were your father, mother or child in there,” he said.
Dr George, who lives in Ukay Heights, is currently fighting against further development of Taman Hijau which is on the same hill range.
He claims that the developers keep on saying that they can develop the area further and make it stable with the latest technology.
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