COMMENT | Two young adults who wanted to forge their careers in the military became the tragic casualties of a system riddled with negligence and apathy.

In 2017, the National Defence University cadet, 20-year-old Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain was targeted and tortured to death by his peers over a laptop, and in that fortnight, neither his lecturers nor wardens noticed his absence from lectures and roll call.

A year later, 27-year-old J Soosaimanickkam, was victimised allegedly because of his race...