COMMENT | It has been ten years since G Balasunderam, a lawyer for the marhaen (common people) was killed in a violent knife attack as he alighted from his car outside his house to let himself in.

It didn’t take long for it to dawn on us that someone had planned in detail and paid hitmen to execute the murder. But how could it be possible that a kind and gentle soul like him, tough-looking and loud exterior notwithstanding, be so desperately hated?