Monday, March 2, 2009

SMK Oya, Dalat Bullying Incident


Students in a secondary school in Dalat, a small town in the Mukah division of Sarawak, have taken bullying in school to new heights by posting their antics on YouTube, the video-sharing website on the Internet.
When you go to search the video in youtube, you will see this alert "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation." May be because student who are upload the video fear to be acted by the police .

KUCHING, March 1 (Bernama) -- Police will record statements from the 10 students of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Oya in Dalat here for allegedly assaulting a Form three student of the school, which recording was uploaded into YouTube, when they return to the school tomorrow.

Dalat district police chief DSP Marin Koo said the students were suspended since Feb 23 after the victim lodged a police report on the alleged the incident.

"The affected students will return to school with their parents tomorrow, following which we will take them to the Dalat police station to have their statements recorded," he told Bernama when contacted today.

He said police hoped to find the student who recorded the incident as he witnessed the incident.

Meanwhile, Sarawak education director Dr Julaihi Bujang said the department has instructed its officers in Kuching and Mukah to investigate the matter before deciding on the next course of action.

The three-minute video clip of the assault showed a younger boy being kicked, slapped and repeatedly punched, including hit with a kettle, by a group of students, in a hostel at the school.

The victim, who is in Form Three, lodged a police report on Feb 23 claiming that 10 students assaulted him at the school hostel.

-- BERNAMA

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