Thursday, October 7, 2010

Is the Sultan of Johor promoting further annihilation of minority’s rights?

The recent statement by the Sultan of Johor in relation to the constitution has thrown to light for what seems to be a veiled support to encourage the neo-fascist movement PERKASA with their antics based on the purported Federal constitution.

The failure by the Sultan to recognize and acknowledge the second limb of Article 153 that provides for legitimate interest of the non-Muslim will only provide credence to PERKASA to continue their shenanigans hand in hand with UMNO against the non Muslims.

Malaysia is a secular country and in their representation to Reid Commission in 1956, the Rulers have specifically agreed that Islam should be for ceremonial purpose and that they did not intend to make Malaysia an Islamic state.

This was further echoed by Tunku Abdul Rahman, at the 80th birthday celebrations organized by the Barisan Nasional in his honour on 8th February 1983, where Tunku pointedly said Malaysia should not be turned into an Islamic state, that Malaysia was set up as a secular State with Islam as the official religion which was enshrined in the Constitution. This is the true spirit of the constitution.

The constitution had been pristine clear in its objective, yet UMNO & the government had diluted the true spirit of the original document with more than 650 amendments since 1957 where now the original Federal constitution only bear a biased mirror of its original model against the minorities.

The very notion that it is amended just to favour a certain parties seems all too obvious as what had been observed over the last 50 years with such dilution of basic rights for the minorities on the basis of religion including the East Malaysians.

The devolution of the Rulers power in the constitution was itself emanated by their own weakness as what had been observed in during the Mahathir era in 1983 and 1993 as Mahathir was able to obtain the obedience of the rulers for reasons known best to them. Therefore any issue of any amendments to the Sultan & Agong rights stated in the constitution was a downfall of their own doing not the public at large for the excessive manipulated power UMNO possessed during the Mahathir era.

In relation to judiciary and its independence, as a rule of thumb, constitutional monarchy needs to understand and grasp the separation of power between judiciary, legislators & executives. The weakness of the rulers to ensure that the legislators toe the line was obvious during the spill over of the UMNO general election of 1987 that created the Malaysian Constitutional crises in 1988 with the suspension of Tun Salleh Abbas for opposing the subordination of the judiciary to the legislators and executives during the era where the Sultan of Johor was the Agong. This was a clear breach of the Federal constitution, yet it was succumbed to for the Mahathir legislators & executives to absorb the functions of the independent judiciary for judiical powers.

If you look further to East Malaysia, the monarchy is a non issue as they were never part of the 1957 constitution nor are they neither subject to such monarchy nor what the monarchy states or intimidates against the minorities based assertion for basic rights.

Bearing the above facts, and as the bearer of a constitutional monarchy for all Malaysians irrespective of race, religion or creed, the Sultan should make attempts to ensure the sanctity of the Federal constitution in its true sense in upholding it rather than making veiled threats to minorities against questioning the malay rights and acting as spokesperson to Perkasa. Citing lessons to be learned from the May 1969 racial riots are most distasteful and insulting the intelligence of Non Malays who no longer live with the idea of subjection.

As the Ruler for all communities, the Sultan should remind the government and umno of the second limb of article 153 which provides for the legitimate interests of non Muslims and Article 8 which provides for equality for all citizens.

Thank you.

P. Waytha Moorthy

CHAIRMAN

HINDRAF

Kuil diroboh, penduduk kecewa dengan DAP

Oleh B Nantha Kumar - Free Malaysia Today

SERI KEMBANGAN: Penganut Hindu sekitar Taman Bukit Serdang berasa marah dan kecewa dengan DAP kerana gagal bertindak sebelum Pejabat Tanah Daerah Petaling memusnahkan sebuah kuil.

Pada pukul 9.00 pagi hari ini, dengan arahan daripada pengarah pejabat tanah daerah Petaling, sekumpulan penguatkuasa dan polis terdiri daripada lebih 60 orang memusnahkan Kuil Sri Maha Perchai Vada Bathra Kaliamman Alayam di Seksyen 5, Taman Bukit Serdang.

Ketika dihubungi, pengerusi jawatankuasa sementara kuil, B Gopalan merakamkan perasaan kecewa.

Beliau mengakui walaupun insiden ini berlaku bukan atas arahan DAP tetapi pada masa yang kelewatan DAP bertindak dalam isu ini adalah antara satu punca utama kuil ini di roboh.

"Saya sangat kecewa dengan DAP yang lewat bertindak dalam isu ini. Sejak enam bulan yang lalu persatuan kuil mendesak DAP untuk memberi tapak yang sesuai untuk pembinaan kuil yang baru tetapi mereka enggan," katanya.

Tambahnya lagi, "DAP perlu menanggung keseluruhan kejadian dan jangan memberi alasan".

Gopalan mengulas bahawa kuil ini dibina oleh Pemuda India Bukit Serdang,di Seksyen 6 sejak 10 tahun yang lalu. Ia dipindah ke tapak sementara atas arahan DAP kerana tapak sebelumnya dijual kepada syarikat pembangunan.

Beliau menambah: "Kerana tapak sementara, kami dicadangankan membina kuil dalam keadaan serba sederhana. Kami telah pun menyediakan duit yang mencukupi untuk membina kuil yang lebih besar selepas mendapat tapak yang baru."

Katanya, "Secara keseluruhan kuil ini dijaga oleh pemuda-pemuda sekitar Serdang. Motif kami adalah bukan sahaja membuat aktiviti agama malah aktiviti sosial juga seperti kelas tuisyen percuma, perpustakaan mini, ceramah agama dan lain-lain."

Gopalan yang berkerja sebagai pemandu lori, menolak cadangan DAP untuk membina kuil bersebelahan kuil lain kerana ia tidak masuk akal.

"Tempat yang dicadangkan adalah sekitar 1km-2 km jauhnya dari Taman Bukit Serdang, yang jauh bagi kita. Ini akan menyebabkan ketidakselesaan besar untuk umat Hindu di Taman Bukit Serdang, terutama mereka yang tidak mempunyai pengangkutan sendiri,” katanya lagi.

Beliau mengakui telahpun membuat satu laporan polis berhubung kes ini dan akan mengambil tindakan selanjutnya.

Malam ini, jawatankuasa kuil akan mengadakan satu perjumpaan tergempar dengan ahli parlimen Serdang Teo Nie Ching.

News Flash: Racist NRD Putrajaya has started making it difficult for 28 stateless Indian poor.

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No.6, Jalan Abdullah, Off Jalan Bangsar, 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: 03-2282 5241 Fax: 03-2282 5245
Website: www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com Email: info@humanrightspartymalaysia.com
Your Reference :
In Reply :
Date : 06/10/2010


News Flash: Racist NRD Putrajaya has started making it difficult for 28 stateless Indian poor.


This morning as early as 8.30 a..m, a ten member HRP team led by S. Thiagarajan were present at the National Registration Department (NRD) Headquarters in Putrajaya.

The NRD has started getting difficult if not started implementing their and UMNO racist and religious supremacist policies.

To start off with they were denied the meeting room that they were given access to the last week and the weeks before or any other meeting rooms at the grand and place like majestic NRD Headquarters in Putrajaya to facilitate the processing of the 28 cases of the Indian poor being denied their Identity Cards, Birth Certificates and Citizenship.

This is strange when the NRD can even have a mobile unit going to even the most remote orang asli, Iban and Kadazan villages registering stateless people.

Puan Junaidad (PRO) is not taking S. Thiagarajan’s calls or replying to his SMS.

The NRD are starting to show their colours with their red tape. They have pushed the HRP team back to the basic counter that these poor Indians went to up to fifty-three (53) years ago but to no avail and have now come to HRP.

P. Uthayakumar had immediately called Puan Janisiah, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) assigned to attend to us by the Director General of the NRD Dato’ Alwi Bin Hj. Ibrahim at 10.00 a.m. This PRO had agreed to attend to our 28 cases but insisted that we see one En. Nik at Customer Service counter at the main counter downstairs.

S. Thiagarajan is waiting at Putrajaya NRD HQ together with Selvam, Latha, Nava, Mano, Manimaran, Shanthi, Param, Ravi.

When the NRD can do this to even Hindraf and HRP, we can imagine the misery these 28 poor Indians would have gone through in all these 53 years.


S. Jayathas
Information Chief

Stateless poor Indians’ IC & BC applications: UMNO NRD HQ @ Putrajaya uncooperative, gives HRP run around, rude, threw files, chased out and threatened to call in police (Police S.B. recording HRP).

Hishamudin
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No.6, Jalan Abdullah, Off Jalan Bangsar, 59000 Kuala Lumpur. Tel : 03-2282 5241

Fax : 03-2282 5241 Fax: 03-2282 5245

Website: www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com E-mail: info@humanrightspartymalaysia.com

Your Reference:

In Reply : MISC/09/2010

Date : 6th October 2010

(Press Release-06/10/2010)

Re: HRP’s 3rd batch of IC, BC & Citizenship denial for 14 Indians after meeting the Director of Birth, Deaths and Adoptions, NRD on 21/09/2010.

This morning the Human Rights Party (HRP) has submitted 14 cases in it’s third batch from an estimated 450, 000 Malaysian Indian poor being made stateless by being denied their lawful Birth Certificates (B.C), Identity Cards (IC) Citizenships, and their rightful names and religious status denied. And the improper and unlawful race and religious based implementation of the Federal Constitution and the Birth, Death and Adoptions Act 1975 in Malaysia.

There was a hiccup the first thing this morning (6/10/2010 @ 10.00 a.m) when the usual meeting room was denied and all 14 applicants were pushed back to the ground floor counter and the National Registration Department’s (NRD)headquarters at Putrajaya Public Relations Officer Puan Jainisah refusing to take HRP’s S. Thiagarajan’s calls or reply to his SMS (Full details are as per our news flash as at 10.00 a.m today (6/10/2010) and are enclosed herewith.

The 16 cases submitted by HRP to the NRD this morning is as follows:-

1. Salvaraju a/l Batumalai (42) – Only has Singapore BC, wants to apply for Citizenship as both his parents are Malaysian citizens.

2. Simon Anthony (21) – No IC and BC- They have applied since 2006 but application rejected without justification by JPN.

3. Indra a/p Navasu (43) – RED IC. Already applied for citizenship more than 6 times but no reply. This is effecting her child as given below in Item No 4.

4. Juvanna a/p Selvaraj (13) (Indra a/p Navasu’s daughter) She is denied her father’s name in her BC and IC as her father has left her mother.

5. Panjavarnam a/p Kannan (23) – Malaysian born but no IC because her parents are born in India but carrying RED IC (permanent resident). Panjavarnam’s BC needs amendment as on the BC it has stated Panjavarnam as “BUKAN WARGANEGARA”. According to the Federal Constitution when at least one parent has a PR, the child should get the BC and IC and a Malaysian citizenship but JPN refuses to implement the same.

6. Panjavarnam’s daughter Rajini a/p Saravanamuthu (2) is seeking amendments to her BC as the JPN (Port Klang) describing her daughter as an illegitimate child (anak luar nikah) by applying Article 13(indicated at bottom of BC)

7. Anusha a/p Ganesan (28) has been seriously affected by the wrongful and illegal insertion of Islam as her religion and her name as Anizah a/p Ganesan in the birth certificate and IC. Her two daughters Nivetha a/p Thamayanthiran (7) and Swetha a/p Thamayanthiran (6) has been classified as an illegitimate child (Anak luar nikah) citing “Article 13”in their birth certificate. This was despite Mr.Thamayanthiran who is the biological father of the two children being present when the application was submitted. The issue is specifically caused by the event of her alleged conversion to Islam which she denies. In particular the Federal Constitution and the Births, Deaths and Adoption Act 1975 does not stipulate religion as a requirement for the registration of Births Certificates, Identity Cards and Citizenship.

8. Sundrammal a/p Subramaniam (58) – No BC and IC. Her BC was revoked by JPN vide Reference No: E 356454

9. Deva a/l Ramu (14) – No BC and IC. His father left him as a baby at an orphanage and never come back. His guardian is unable to get the BC and IC. And now the JPN insists that both Deva’s parents be present. This is ridiculous. The JPN officer refused to use Article 13 in providing the BC and IC by stating the name of the Guardian as the step father.

10. Shree Shashnitha a/p Paramasivan (3) She has been denied her BC – She was born at home and the witness is her grandmother. However the JPN has failed to provide concrete reasons for rejecting the application.

11. Malaysian citizen mother Anjali Devi a/p Letchumanan (23) give birth to three children who have been denied even their Birth Certificates because her husband is an Indian National. Her children are:-

12. Sateshwary a/p Karupusamy (6)

13. Durgeshwary a/p Karupusamy (5)

14. Pandeswaran a/l Karupusamy (4)

All these cases are cases of wrongful and unlawful denial of Malaysian statehood and birth registrations by denial of their rightful and lawful BC, IC and citizenship which is in violation of the Guarantees in the Federal Constitution and the Births, Deaths and Adoption Act 1975. This has led to their lifelong misery.

The N.R.D officers were today not too co-operative as HRP has been making adverse website postings in www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com on the NRD handling of cases submitted through HRP. We had to even bring in our own photocopier to do the photo copying for these fourteen applicants. We were also not allowed to receive faxes on important documents at the NRD HQ at Putrajaya and had to send the same urgently by taxi.

The ten (10) member HRP team in attendance today at the NRD Headquarters at Putrajaya is led by S. Thiagarajan and the others being Selvam, Latha, Nava, Mano, Manimaran, Shanthi, Param, Ravi and Kumaran.

Our case is as per our letter to the Director General of the National Registration Department dated 13 August 2010. (copy enclosed herewith)

Thank you.

Your faithfully,

S. Thiagarajan

Central Executive Committee Member (pro tem)

019-308 5944 / 016-313 7840

For those in the Central region and Southern Region please contact the HRP HQ office Tel: 03-2282 5241 Fax: 03-2282 5245. Contact Persons: Ms.Gevitha or, S. Thiagarajan 019-3085944, and for those in the northern region you may also contact the following people. Kalaiselvan 017-410 7244, Devendran 012- 540 9943, Ganesan 012- 480 3284.