inSing.com, 17 Nov 2012A message from the mother of a fulltime national serviceman who died during training has found new life online.
This comes after Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen revealed in Parliament this week that there were “clear breaches of training safety regulations” that led to their deaths.
Two months back, Private Lee’s mother, Felicia Seah, made a call to parents “to advocate for greater accountability on the part of the SAF (Singapore Armed Forces) for the safety of our sons”.
On the Facebook page “In memory of Dominique Sarron Lee”, a note posted on her behalf read: “We cannot allow for our sons to be at the mercy of the training officers, be it the platoon sergeants or commanders, who are very often, little older and none the wiser than the boys they are tasked to oversee, boys whose lives often depend on the decisions that they make.” Full story
