Kugan’s final journey

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By Deborah Loh and Zedeck Siew, The Nut Graph

IT was not an ordinary death, and so it was not an ordinary funeral.

A Kugan's funeral on 28 Jan 2009 drew hundreds of people who followed his body in a procession from the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) across Petaling Jaya to Puchong Batu 14, where he was laid to rest.

In between, the procession stopped at the police station at USJ8 where he died on 20 Jan while in police custody. The family members performed prayers there before the cortege moved on.

The funeral resembled a political rally; Kugan had come to symbolise injustice by the authorities.
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