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The Sukma Rape & what it tells us

 On Sunday, the news spread like fire throughout the social media world and naturally made the front page of all major dailies on Monday morning - A 19-year-old official with the Federal Territory handball players team had been allegedly raped by three players at the Sukma Games Village in Universiti Putra Malaysia last week. The issues that arose from this incident was - lax security at the games village, the fact that alcohol was smuggled in and that which has got everyone frothing at the mouth - the image of sports and the Sukma games has been tarnished. These are all legitimate issues of course. But the bigger issue here is that what happened at the  games village could have happened anywhere, because rape is a crime of opportunity, when the opportunity arises, the predators will strike. Of course the organisers have to look at beefing up security and supervision at future games to ensure that something like this never happens again. But the issue here is th...