Preserve Pudu Jail or move it

MONDAY marked the end of an icon for Malaysia. An easily- recognised place. One which was built in stages beginning 1891, and completed in 1895.

As it did for so many of its infamous and not so famous occupants, the death knell sounded for Pudu Prison, originally known as Pudu Gaol and more commonly referred to as Pudu Jail. Work to tear down the prison began on Monday night beginning with arguably the most recognisable feature of the structures which make up Pudu Prison - the almost 400-metre outer perimeter wall, with its lovingly-painted though increasingly peeling mural, which some reports say is the longest mural in the world.

Earlier that same day, Thomas sabo charms Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Dr Awang Adek Hussin had said Pudu Prison, despite being more than a century old, would not be turned into a heritage site as it is not a source of pride.

Officially closed in 1996 when the new Sungai Buloh prison complex was completed, Pudu Prison held some of the most notorious criminals within its walls. These included the ruthless gang leader Wong Swee Chin, known more infamously as Botak Chin. He was one of almost 200 people executed in Pudu Prison during its existence. Botak Chin was hanged in 1981, and the last known execution was carried out reportedly in 1993.

A former inhabitant once described hangings at Pudu Prison. All the prisoners would know of the time an execution would take place and when it came to the appointed time, all would cause a ruckus in support of the man who was about to pay the ultimate price for his folly. The cacophony of sounds would continue until the gallows were worked. The opening of the trapdoors would create such a loud sound, sending out vibrations which could be felt throughout the building, that even the most hardened of criminals would flinch. There would then be total silence as each prisoner contemplated his own mortality.

And while its former occupants - those who survived and continue to survive - will have lost no sleep over the demolition, there are those who wish that at least some part of Pudu Prison with its unique X-shaped cell block building, could be preserved, even if moved to a different site.

That last bit may seem Immersion Replica a little odd to some, but it's not as if it has never been done before. Granted, it has probably never happened in Malaysia but it has been done elsewhere.

One mammoth project was undertaken in the 1960s by Unesco and involved the temples at Abu Simbel in southern Egypt.

The two temples were built by Rameses II, or Rameses the Great, circa 1244 BC, to honour several Egyptian gods and himself and his favourite wife, Queen Nefertari (the pharaoh was reported to have over 200 wives and concubines during his long reign), as well as to intimidate the various tribes of Nubia south of Egypt's borders (in present-day Sudan).

Rameses was known for many things, and one of these was as a great builder, creating monuments and temples all over Egypt.

The temples were lost with the passage of time and only rediscovered in 1813. It is reported that a Swiss national named J.L Burckhardt found the top frieze of the Great Temple and mentioned this to Italian explorer Giovanni Belzonu, who succeeded in digging out the structure in 1817.

There are many wonders associated with the temples, not least of which is the fact that they were cut from the face of a mountain.

When the Aswan High Dam was proposed, the temples we
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