Friday, February 5, 2010

PKR Selangor and P.R refuse to resolve Estate Workers Housing scheme.

This 52 year old estate workers housing scheme by UMNO was never seriously implemented. For 50 years UMNO was doing wayang kulit on this scheme.

But for the malay muslim poor housing cum plantation ten acre land owner ship schemes in Felda, Felcra, Risda, Fama, Agropolitan, Kejora Kesedar etc. 99.9% of the pre existing Indian plantation workers were excluded from these land ownership schemes.

And now the Selangor PKR Indian EXCO mandore in continuing with the MIC mandores tradition puts up a wayang kulit in the Tamil press and tells the poor Indians some new stories and excuses on the reason why the Dusun Durian Estate workers housing scheme cannot be solved. (Tamil Nesan 4^th Februari 2010 at page 14 & Makkal Osai 4^th Februari 2010 at page 9).

We gave up on UMNO and asked the Indians to vote for PKR, DAP and PAS who are more or less playing the very same mandore politics with Indians as very clearly seen in this case.

We want a solution at the state levels in PAS, DAP and PKR ruled states of Kedah, Penang and Selangor. It is coming to it two years since they have come to power. Why have the Menteri Besars and chief Minister of these three states not implemented the Estate Workers Housing Scheme in these three states. After all land in these states are 100% in the control of these Menteri Besars and Chief Minister.

We want an urgent wholesome and permanent solution to the problem and not piecemeal one by one and full of excuses wayang kulit politics through the PKR, DAP and PAS Indian Exco, DCM II and other mandores as very clearly seen with this Selangor PKR Indian Exco Mandore.

P. Uthayakumar

Memo to IGP:Norizan bte Salleh, 5 Gunshot wound by Polis Raja Di Malaysia

Norizan bte Salleh, a 30-year-old single mother sustained five gunshot wounds when policemen opened fire on a car that she was traveling in. At least she is alive today to tell her story, unlike the rest of the 95% of Indian victims shot dead by Polis Raja Di Malay-sia and killed in police custody but form only 8% of the Malaysian population.

Today Human Rights Party’s S.Jayathas accompanied the victim Norizan bte Salleh together with Lawyer N.Surendran, MPs and NGO’s submitted a protest note to the IGP and for the prosecution of the police criminals for attempted murder.

See Protest Memo below:-

Tan Sri Musa Hassan,

Inspector General of Police,

Bukit Aman

MEMORANDUM OF PROTEST

Shooting by police of Norizan Bte. Salleh

The Facts

1) On 30.10.2009, 29 years old Norizan bt Salleh was shot 5 times by police.

2) Norizan was travelling in a car when the incident happened. Without justification, police shot at the car from behind, the bullets penetrating through the body of the car and hitting Norizan who was seated at the back seat.

3) After being shot, Norizan was then kicked and stepped on by the police personnel despite bleeding profusely from being shot.

4) No person in the car was armed with any weapon and there was no threat of any kind to the police. Despite this, police chose to open fire repeatedly at the car.

5) Norizan is an innocent woman who has never been charged in court for any crime. She has suffered serious injuries including permanent damage to her hand. A bullet lodged close to her heart had to be removed by surgery at Institute Jantung Negara. Norizan is lucky to be alive today!

6) Norizan lodged a police report on 16.11.2009 complaining of attempted murder by police, but no action has been taken by the authorities against the culprits.

Increasing incidents of unjustified police shootings

1) Activists, lawyers and elected representatives have raised the issue of unjustified shootings by police on many occasions, but have been ignored by both the Police Force and the Government.

2) In almost every case, the police version of the events has been similar; that the victims opened fire and police returned fire, killing all of them. It has been easy for police to get away with this version, as the victims are usually dead and the truth buried. This has also been the police version in two recent shooting cases. [Kulim shooting (February 2009) and Klang shooting (November 2009)].

3) Norizan’s shocking case proves that unjustified shootings by police have reached dangerous levels.

4) The brutality with which Norizan was treated after the shooting indicates the extent and seriousness of problems in the Police Force.

WE THE UNDERSIGNED DEMAND:-

1) An immediate investigation by a Bukit Aman team specially set-up for this purpose;

2) The result of the investigation be made fully public;

3) All those police personnel involve in Norizan’s brutal shooting be suspended/arrested immediately;

4) That the case be classified as attempted murder;

5) That there be immediate and thorough reform of the Police Force;

6) That the IGP explain to the public why the police have never revealed this shocking incident to the public;

7) The leadership of the police support the setting up of the IPCMC.

8) That all suspicious police shooting cases over the past decade be re-opened.

Endorsed by,

1) Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)

2) Civil Liberties Malaysia

3) Democratic Action Party (DAP)

4) Human Right Party (HRP)

5) Police Watch Malaysia & Human Rights Committee

6) Group of Concerned Citizens(GCC)

7) Lawyers for Liberty.

UNITEN: 1, 400 graduated, 0.5% only seven Indians

1, 400 final year students graduated from University Tenaga Nasional (Uniten) (UM 4/2/2010 at page 27)

As usual the Indians are almost all excluded. We estimate that only about 0.5% or about 7 students out of 1, 400 who graduated from Uniten.

This our believe is further enhanced because the racist religious extremist and supremacist Malay-sian UMNO regime would never make public this Uniten or any other Public University places intake or at least the names published in the Ministry of Higher Education and the respective Universities Websites.

Article 12 of the Federal Constitution specifically states “ Rights in respect of education”.

(1) Without prejudice to the generality of Article 8, there shall be no discrimination against any citizen on the grounds only of religion, race, descent or place of birth -

a) In the administration of any educational institution maintained by a public authority, and, in particular, the admission of pupils or students or the payment of fees; or

b) In providing out of the funds of a public authority financial aid for the maintenance or education of pupils or students in any educational institution (whether or not maintained by a public authority and whether within or outside the Federation)

But UMNO does not abide by the Federal Constitution and the Law. Instead the ethnic minority Indian Human Rights Lawyer P. Uthayakumar who questioned these violations of the law and the Federal Constitution is detained under the ISA for 514 days and also charged for Sedition to put him in jail for another 3 years.

S. Jayathas

UMNO denies water to poor Indian family (Refer The Star 4/02/2010 at page N50)

Masy India tidak diberi – 50,000 rumah baru untuk golongan miskin (Utusan, 4 Feb, 2009)

Sebanyak 50,000 buah rumah baru akan dibina untuk golongan miskin dan miskin tegar dalam tempoh tiga tahun bermula tahun ini bawah Program Bantuan Rumah di seluruh negara.

Pelan kerajaan ini dialu-alukan. Usaha ini seharusnya dilakukan dengan ketelusan sekali gus mengambil kira keperluan semua kaum yang dilanda kemiskinan. Tumpuan serius perlu diberi kepada masyarakat India yang miskin di kawasan bandar dan pinggir bandar kerana pelbagai kekusutan dialami oleh golongan ini. Kos hidup mereka amat tinggi berbanding orang miskin di kampung atau kawasan pedalaman. Kawasan pinggir bandar juga amat berpotensi untuk menjadi sarang penjenayah dan gengsterisme kerana peluang yang wujud di kawasan bandar yang berdekatan lebih besar dan menarik.

Belia India yang banyak terbabit dalam gengsterisme dan jenayah sememangnya berasal dari tempat-tempat seperti ini. Dengan ibu bapa yang kais pagi makan pagi, kais petang makan petang, golongan belia terdesak untuk mencari jalan keluar yang salah di sisi undang-undang. Sewa rumah ialah beban paling besar bagi mereka lebih-lebih untuk ibu tunggal yang berpendapatan amat rendah.

Satu lagi, kerajaan harus memaparkan nama, gambar keluarga, dan maklumat tentang mereka yang mendapat faedah secara langsung daripada program kerajaan ini sekurang- kurangnya dalam Laman Web Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan. Kerajaan mesti telus (transparent) dalam hal ini ! Maklumat mereka boleh dipaparkan dalam laman web agensi-agensi kerajaan yang berkenaan yang lain seperti Kementerian Kebajikan. Kita nak tengok berapa banyak orang India miskin yang dapat bantuan ini !

- CikguParu -

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Racist remarks against Indians: Prosecute Prime Minister’s Special Officer for Sedition

NO.6, Jalan Abdullah, Off Jalan Bangsar, 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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

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Date : 3^rd February 2010

Racist remarks against Indians: Prosecute Prime Minister’s Special Officer for Sedition

Media Statement (3/02/2010)

We read with regret the malicious and racist statement uttered by a very senior civil servant that “when he labelled the Indians and Chinese in this country as ‘pendatang’ or immigrants”. “He was saying that the Indians and Chinese came here as immigrants and are now enjoying life in this country”. “He also remarked that the Chinese, especially the women, come here to ‘jual tubuh’ (flesh trade),”. He also threatened to ‘revoke’ the citizenship of those who were vocal about the subject cap for the SPM examination. This statement is by no less than the special officer to Prime Minister Najib Razak himself.

We hereby call upon Prime Minister Najib and his special officer to tender an open apology to the Indian and Chinese communities in Malaysia in addition to the Prime Minister forthwith sacking this his Special Officer.

The Prime Minister must also order the Attorney General to prosecute this Prime Minister’s special officer for Sedition.

After all our Secretary General (pro tem) Mr. P. Uthayakumar was prosecuted for Sedition for merely speaking up on the truth of the “ethinic cleansing” in Kg Medan where five Indians were murdered by a malay mob believed to be UMNO sponsored and from outside Kg Medan, indiscriminate demolishments of hindu temples at the rate of one in every week in Malaysia, indiscriminate demolishments of hindu crematoriums, murders of Indians in police lock ups and by being shot dead by the police then forming about 80% of the Malaysian victims when the Indians are only 8% of the population and also by and the overall exclusion of the Indians from the national mainstream development of Malaysia.

Article 8 provides for Equality before the law and so this special officer must similarly be prosecuted for Sedition forthwith and in any event within seven (7) days from the date hereof.

And when convicted this special officer must serve his prison sentence and not left murky and suspicious as the prison sentence meted out to the former Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Rahim Noor and some other UMNO linked personalities who in reality are suspected to have “not served their prison sentences”.

Thank you,

Yours faithfully,

S. JAYATHAS

Information Chief

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Hindraf supports Zaid's call for reforms - Malaysiakini

Hindraf Makkal Sakthi chair P Waythamoorthy has expressed cautious optimism over Pakatan Rakyat (PR) chair Zaid Ibrahim's call for change and reform in Malaysia.

Makkal Sakthi – people power in Tamil – is the Hindu Rights Action Front (Hindraf) theme.

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Waythamoorthy (left) foresees that Sabah and Sarawak will be taking an increasingly neutral stance to determine who rules in Putrajaya.

“The March 2008 political tsunami in Peninsular Malaysia has given a chance for them do what is best for themselves,” said Waythamoorthy.

He was speaking to Malaysiakini in Kota Kinabalu from London.

hopelessly divided

The Hindraf stalwart sees both sides of the political divide in Peninsular Malaysia as hopelessly divided in the foreseeable future. Still, in Umno for example, there are leaders like Tengku Razaleigh who can be expected to reach out across the political divide.

“Peninsular Malaysia is emerging as volatile and unpredictable despite the best efforts of Umno to force the Malays to circle the wagons,” said Waythamoorthy.

Under these circumstances, Sabah and Sarawak have the opportunity to be a third force in Malaysian politics, he added. “This is more than a catchphrase. This signals a maturing of politics in Malaysia.

kitingan project ic 250107 jeffery kitingan “There is strong political leadership in Sabah and much promise in Sarawak. Hindraf has much support in these two states and we have much to learn from them. We don't mind campaigning in Sabah and Sarawak to push the agenda for change and reform. We have raised this with Dr Jeffrey Kitingan (right).”

Waythamoorthy sees the politics of both states as rising above petty rivalries and race or religion. He believes that the people have the right to hear the truth and decide the kind of political parties they want in government and the opposition. For him, the choice appears to be between keeping feudal-style Malay political warlords or embracing egalitarianism in the running of the nation's politics.

No amount of temple demolishing, church bombings or hurling wild-boar heads into mosque compounds is going to derail the people's political process in Malaysia, swore Waythamoorthy. “The people's message from the streets to the lunatic fringe is to cease and desist.”

Critical views

Former Sabah PKR State Secretary Kanul Gindol takes a more critical view of the PKR, however. He thinks it is bogged down by Anwar Ibrahim's 'politics is my family's business' approach in running the party.

Then, he reckoned that there is the Umno-style “corrupt to the core political vagabonds who have jumped on the PKR's bandwagon. There's also the “proxies, stooges and traitors” cultivated in Sabah and Sarawak to serve their political masters in Peninsular Malaysia,” continued Kanul.

Former Sabah PKR deputy chief Daniel John Jambun sees Zaid's speech as the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. “It offers hope to Sabah and Sarawak,” said Daniel, also the deputy chair of the powerful Sabah PKR KadazanDusunMurut Task Force.

However some former senior Sabah BN activists in Sabah and Sarawak are not that sure and expect four crucial events in the near future to stress PKR to the breaking point.

The first is Anwar Ibrahim's Sodomy 2 trial. Then there is the suspected willingness among a number of PKR MPs to be bought over by Umno to give it a two-thirds majority in Parliament to pass the new electoral rolls.

Thirdly, the Federal Court is expected to rule on the continuing saga of the two Menteris Besar in Perak on Feb 9 and the decision could have a huge impact on PKR's future.

Finally, it is believed, that Umno 'moles' in PKR are ready to seize control of the party 'when Anwar is carted off to jail'.

The last group, said to be closely linked to Anwar himself, is said to have already written his political obituary and successfully lobbied for party elections, due next month, but expected to be deferred to May.

East Malaysia will be watching these developments very closely.

“Those who think that they can seize control of the party and get away with it are sadly mistaken., said a senior Sabah PKR activist. “Sabah and Sarawak won't just go along with anyone in Peninsular Malaysia who comes to power through undemocratic means.”

Family rejects 'suicide' claim, wants independent autopsy - Malaysiakini

The family of a man, said to have committed suicide while in police custody, have refused to collect his remains from the morgue and are seeking another post-mortem.

Sawmill worker P Babu, 28, was found dead in the Jempol police lock up at about 4am after he surrendered himself in connection with a robbery case.

When contacted, Jempol MIC Youth chief M Palani said the first post-mortem report classified the death as suicide.

The deceased had apparently used his shirt to hang himself.

"But this is unofficial. We were told that we would get the black and white report within seven days," he added.

'Strong willed person'

Palani said the family have rejected the findings because "Babu was a strong willed person and would not have this decision (to commit suicide)".

"We are also questioning the fact that he hung himself using his shirt. Shouldn't he be wearing a police issued t-shirt (for detainees)?" he asked.

Yesterday, Palani filed a police report calling for a thorough investigation into Babu's death.

Both MIC and PKR politicians have cried foul over the incident and offered to help the family secure a second post-term.

For years, activists and politicians have been complaining about the high number of fatalities involving Indian Malaysian police detainees.

In January 2008, a police constable was charged with causing hurt to extract a confession from A Kugan, 22, who died in police custody in Subang Jaya.

In July, P Gunasegaran, 31, was found dead in the Sentul police station. An inquest is currently underway.

Najib's aide to resign over 'racist' remarks - Malaysiakini

Nasir Safar, the special officer to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who stirred a hornet's nest with his stinging 'racist' remarks will resign, according to a statement from the premier's office this evening.

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"The remarks allegedly made by Nasir in Malacca today do not in any way reflect the views of the prime minister," the statement said, according to Bernama.

"... Nasir never intended to make any derogatory remarks. He spoke at length on the contributions made by all races in developing the country.

"Nevertheless, Nasir apologises for any offence caused...and in light of this, will tender his resignation."

Prompt action lauded

Lauding the move, MIC vice-president and Human Resources Minister Dr S Subramaniam said the prompt action by the prime minister indicated his seriousness and commitment in ensuring the success of the letter and spirit of the '1Malaysia' policy.

dr s subramaniam interview 210308 01 "This should act as a deterrent to ensure that similar statements are not repeated by any quarters," he added in a statement.

Subramaniam said the government is very receptive to the sensitivities of all communities.

"The spirit of unity in in diversity and that of inclusiveness rather than tolerance as has been exemplified by the prime minister should form the premise of the foundation of this nation as we move forward in the globalised era.

"I am sure it is the wish of all Malaysians to create such a Malaysia and we should come together as we persevere to achieve that goal," he added.

Walkout staged

Earlier, Malaysiakini reported that Nasir drew flak for his comments made during a seminar titled 'Rapat 1Malaysia' in Malacca this morning.

Among others, he had allegedly described the Indians and Chinese in Malaysia as 'pendatang' or 'guests'.

NONE He had also threatened to revoke the citizenship of those making 'extreme demands' to scrap the subject cap for the SPM examination.

A source, who was among those at the seminar, claimed that Nasir also said that Chinese women come here to 'jual tubuh' (engage in the flesh trade).

His remarks prompted scores of MIC and MCA members as well as non-governmental organisation representatives to stage a walkout.

Following this, MIC leaders, including party president S Samy Vellu, demanded that stern action be taken against Nasir.

Samy Vellu called for the special officer to be punished under the Sedition Act.

Press statement – Malaysian Indian and modern day slavery at the hands of UMNO.

The latest custodial death toll of the Malaysian Indian just moved a notch up with the death of P. Babu in Jempol. The endless death in police custody of the Malaysian Indian has no boundary for the unfounded power that the PDRM wield under the UMNO led government.

Imagine? P.Babu, a young orphan, attended willfully for an enquiry and he ends up beinf murdered in police custody.

All the talk of One Malaysian and the stage drama conducted by Najib in visiting Chennai and Thaipusam is nothing but a charade for the voters’ bank. Similarily those who dance to his tunes including those Malaysian Indians who are totally nonchalant in ending the policy driven slavery of the Malaysian Indians at the hand of UMNO is similar to what the segregated African had to go through the Apartheid system from 1948 to 1994.

The poverty stricken Malaysian Indians are in similar position today in an indirect slavery, through the policies and underhand powers that UMNO supports in maintaining the slavery of the Malaysian Indians in police custody as well as the socio development of this segment through their mandores.

The significance of poverty stricken Malaysian Indian is always played down for the stigma that is created whether it is from UMNO or the opposition as they are only visible when the vote bank counts. It is a foregone conclusion that Pakatan is not the kind of force that can challenge UMNO hegemony when the MB of Selangor was conveniently sidelined in Batu Caves and all that they could do is brood in media and play politics rather than to take measures to prevent such events that they should have foreseen.

The problem here lies not with UMNO, but the inefficient and ineffective PAKATAN, UMNO has its own problem driven by greed and power and therefore weak in her stand. However the PAKATAN coalition seems to be equal partners as they fail to reach out to the poverty stricken Malaysian Indians to address their problems but rather diddle around without a direction in their political ploys.

The death in custody of a Malaysian Indian is a national issue irrespective of origin, but nobody seems to focus on it except that what we normaly see, a statement or two by the leaders then everything dies off as another political playground reigns. Only if the Pakatan can stay chained and focused, will they have the chance to make the difference for the majority of poverty stricken Malaysian Indians and in whole for the masses.

The death of P.Babu will soon become another brutal episode for UMNO to celebrate its slavery of the Malaysian Indians and PAKATAN to play politics similar to what happened to Francis Udayappan, Kugan, Teoh Beng Hock, and Gunasegaran.

The Premier of Malaysia, Najib should be ashamed of himself, as he goes wooing the Malaysian Indians yet in his backyard, his dogs ie the PDRM continues its unbridled slavery through their policies against the poverty stricken Malaysian Indians with the murder of P. Babu in police custody.

P. Waytha Moorthy

Hindraf- Chairman

Police murder Indian in Bahau police lock up. Police The Star & MIC axis

Yet again another ethnic minority Malaysian Indian is killed by the police in the police lock up and this time at the Bahau police station. In our annual “Malaysian Indian Minority & Human Rights Violations Annual Report 2009 Malay-sia Truly Racist ” we had estimated that about 95% of the victims of death and /or killings in police custody and killings by being shot dead by the police are Indians.

The Indians having been targetted by UMNOs’ 98% Malay muslim police force has been ongoing for over especially in least the last 20 years or so. And today P. Babu’s (28) killing in the Bahau police station is just the tip of the iceberg of the hundreds if not thousands of Indians being killed in police custody or by being shot dead by the police.

Late November year Surend a 17 year old juvenile together with four others were shot dead by the police in Klang. The sister R. Seetha who could not take the pain of this police atrocities and had committed suicide after consuming paraquat and giving the same to her four young children.

Two months before that six Indians were shot dead by the police in their house in Kulim, Kedah.

Some three years back an Indian middle aged man was given an electric shock and killed in the very same Bahau police station within 24 hours of his detention.

A. Kugan was brutally beaten up and killed at the Taipan police station.

All these and the hundreds if not the thousands of Indians never got justice from the UMNO government or their courts and merely “mati katak”.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the hundreds of thousands of such cases of police unlawful arrest torture and atrocities year in and year out.

The MIC as usual is assigned to do damage control. This time the MIC Exco mandore for Negeri Sembilan plays “wayang kulit” by saying “we hope the police can enlighten us on what really happened” as was reported in The Star.

The Star, another UMNO linked newspaper takes the pro police murder justified angle and gives the impression of this murdered victim to be seen to be guilty even before being found guilty of the alleged offence by a Court of law and so he deserves to be killed in a police lock up. Their sub headlines” Ex convict assisting police investigations found dead in cell speaks for itself.

If at all the police had earlier opened fire on P. Babu as was reported by “The Star the police defender”, the police would have released a photo fit of Babu, a manhunt would have been launched, newsreports published to alert hospitals and clinics to report on this injured Babu, an all points buliten launched etc especially when Babu was alleged to have been shot on the leg. But neither The Star nor any of the other UMNO controlled or other newspapers had done so.

This is just another typical tip of the iceberg case of the whole state machinery plus the media (Star) and also the pin drop silence by NGO’s and even the 82”multi – racial” Opposition PKR, DAP and PAS MPs and their supreme and top leaders. When the victim of this most serious and fundamental violations of human rights is an ethnic minority Malaysian Indian, which community has no or very little political or economic clout, no one cares.

And so these UMNO atrocities against the Indians continue with impunity.

P. Uthayakumar.

S’gor PKR denies Indian poor agricultural land to get out of poverty

Even Anwar Ibrahim’s PKR led Selangor State Government would not set aside agricultural land for especially the poor and hardcore poor Indians at least in Selangor although they are already in power for two years now.

But this very same Selangor State could allocate 526 hectres of land in Serendah, Rawang, Selangor to the almost exclusively malay muslims Yayasan Basmi Kemiskinan (YBK) Selangor. (NST 2/2/10 at page 13)

Even if one quarter hectre is granted to people like S. Bawani (32) a widow whose husband suddenly died of a heart attack and now left stranded and merely earning RM 200.00 per month as a cleaner and having to feed her five children (Tamil Nesan 2/2/2010 at page 2 )they could be helped out of hardcore poverty. On this quarter hectre of land they could rear high yielding goats and live on the same land. Based on this 526 hectres (526×4=) 2,104 poor and hardcore poor Indians in Selangor could be instaneously pulled out of poverty. But the multi – racial PKR, DAP and PAS will not do it as they fear losing the Malay votes.

How then is PKR, DAP and PAS any different from the previous UMNO regime at least in Selangor?

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Thaipusam wayang! PKR, DAP & PAS mandores beat MIC mandores.

Thaipusam wayang! PKR, DAP & PAS mandores beat MIC mandores.

By dishing out peanuts promises of cash by way of mock cheques. That is if these hindu temples and Tamil schools actually receive this promised cash. After this paper politics no one would ever know if the Tamil schools and hindu temples actually received the said RM 50,000.00 We have received many complaints that most of them if at all only get a fraction of the mock cheque sum as what the MIC had been doing for over the least 50 years.

But why are all these hindu temples, cemeteries and tamil schools not granted state government land all in one go as a permanent and lasting solution as opposed to a temporary and piecemeal solution which can be done by the stroke of the pen of their “tuan” Menteri Besars of Selangor and Kedah and Kapitan Chief Minister of Penang.

See photographs the desperate PKR,DAP and PAS mandores and their wayang kulit theaterics at Batu Caves, Ipoh, Penang and Sungai Petani. All just for the cameras. To stay politically relevant and politically afloat! And to finally replace and take up the vacant slots left behind by the MIC Mandores.

Editor

UMNO separates traditional and heritage hindu ritual riverbed from Batu Caves (refer NST 28/1/10 at page 12)

Yet again the UMNO racist religious extremist and supremacist regime by design segregated and separated the traditional 200 year old hindu ritual (especially for Thaipusam) riverbed from the main Batu Caves temple on the following counts:-
1. The Sentul Railway station is a dead end. If only this Railway station had been shortened and brought forward and built on the empty piece of land just before the main road leading to Batu Caves, a whole long stretch of this Batu Caves ancestral riverbed could have been preserved and maintained as part and parcel of the Batu Caves Heritage and to be in tune with Batu Caves being a World Heritage Site.
2. Was the closure of the main road from the said riverbed to the Batu Caves Hindu Temple to make way for some UMNO linked companies to make hundreds of millions of Ringgit Malaysia by the building of the spiraling elevated bypass across the railway tracks.
3. Why wasn’t an overhead railway bridge built instead which would have cost a fraction of the spiraling elevated bypass and in order to maintain this ancestral and heritage walkway from the said riverbed to the Batu Caves hindu temple.
4. In the alternative why wasn’t an underground railway passageway not built to maintain this walkway from the said riverbed to the Batu Caves hindu temple.
5. The whole row of 20 traditional up to fifth generation Indian flower shops leading to Batu Caves has now been by passed with the building of this new spiraling elevated bypass and which risk closure at anytime now.
6. Why didn’t the Selangor state government, the 82 PKR,DAP or PAS MPs’ and/or in particular it’s Indian MPs’, Exco member, State Assemblymen or Senator mandores order a Stop Work Order with the view to restore this original historical, traditional , and heritage walkway to Batu Caves.
7. Even now we demand for the restoration of the original road and the maintainance and preservation of the original walkpath to Batu Caves. The present PKR led Selangor state goverment even at this juneture can act at least to undo these injustices.
8. Why didn’t the PKR led P.R. Selangor state government lodge an MACC report on the possible acts of the corrupt practices by these UMNO linked companies that unduly benefited from this project.
9. The Batu Caves Tamil school has now been cut off from the riverside part of Batu Caves and also causing grave inconvenience to parents and school children forced to cross the steep,dangerous and unsafe overhead bridge across the railway lines to get to their school.
10. Why couldn’t the original Railway gate crossing be preserved and the then existing road been maintained which would have cost a fraction of the cost of this spiraling elevated bypass.
11. We are not aware of a public signboard and any advertisement in especially all the three Tamil newspapers notifying the eventual closure of this ancestral walkpath from the riverbed to Batu Caves hindu temple. Why?

P.Uthayakumar
1/2/2010

Thaipusam; Kapitan Guan Eng and Tuan Selangor MBs’wayang kulit (refer The Star 30/1/2010 at page N39)

Just by putting on a garland and showl, smiling at the Thaipusam Indian crowd and dishing out RM 50,000.00 to Tamil schools and hindu temples as also seen on Malaysiakin.TV on 30/1/2010 is just a drop of salt in the ocean in so far as the critical Indian problems are concerned.

We want real solutions to the critical Indian problems especially in PKR and DAP ruled Selangor and Penang.

We repeat that Selangor and Penang State government land be granted to all 98 and 28 Tamil schools in Selangor and Penang respectively and land for all hindu temples, cemeteries and Indian squatters and settlements.

This one act by the mere stroke of the pen of Kapitan Lim Guan Eng and the “Tuan” Selangor MB will solve at least half the critical Indian problems in these two states. But PKR, and DAP would not do it as they “assess” that they may lose the Malay votes and so never mind that the Indians have to suffer.

P.Uthayakumar