The world he'd left behind is just that little bit dimmer, from his simple, humble but enduring contributions.
| My wife Bae Ling and I lost a good friend yesterday, on Easter Day 2020. KC or Karam as he was fondly known, a fellow Teochew with a wry sense of humour, but certainly a man of great distinction and renown integrity and erudition.
But, more importantly, I learnt from Karam that one mustn't let our personal emotion colour our perspectives, not that we cannot have our own opinions, but that we must also see the more rigorous points of law, that can run counter to our own experience or viewpoint. And the laws of the land count, despite our disagreements with them.
We shared our passion for advocacy for human rights, as he was then Suhakam's commissioner for at least two terms. We shared some common grounds of interests. Ten years ago, I had participated in a few of Suhakam's inquiries into human rights violations, particularly health and human rights for the Orang Asal/Orang Asli and migrants in Sabah and Sarawak, as well as deaths and maltreatment of detainees in lock-ups, prisons, as MMA Human rights chair and the president then.
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