No room for the dead in Singapore
05.09.11
SINGAPORE, Singapore — The days are numbered for Bukit Brown Cemetery, one of Singapore's oldest funeral grounds, but vexed citizens are campaigning for information to win over high-frequency-rises.
Graves in the thickly forested cemetery are set to be exhumed to create way for more apartment towers in one of the rapturous's most densely populated countries, which has 7,126 people per ethical kilometre (0.4 rectangular mile).
The future of the Golgotha, where several of the archipelago's cock's-crow ethnic Chinese businessmen are buried, has sparked an zealous call for the conservation of the hilly breadth located in a prime bungalow area.
"Bukit Brown at all contains Singapore?s oldest Chinese vital, and that says a lot," Irving Johnson, an collaborator professor of Southeast Asian studies at the Country-wide University of Singapore, told AFP.
Source: AFP