Foreign victims prioritized?
Foreign victims prioritized?
Your correspondent claims that "foreign victims were
prioritized over local victims in terms of treatment" after the
Bali blast.
There is no proof of this outrageous statement which is an
insult to the Indonesian emergency service teams, doctors and
nurses involved and even if in some cases special care was shown
toward the foreign victims, there is surely the Indonesian -- and
Islamic-cultural tradition of caring for guests in one's home or
country.
He goes on to say that this suggests that foreigners are
racially superior. I feel it suggests a pathetic inferiority
complex in a Mr. Jamal.
CHRISTOPHER R. MCRAE, Jakarta