Thursday, September 16, 2010

In Memoriam: Kg Buah Pala the last Indian traditional village in Penang demolished. Kapitan Lim Guan Eng not forgiven nor forgotten.

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 image One year has passed today since Kg Buah Pala, the last traditional Indian village in Penang was demolished, of all dates 16/9/09, ie Malaysia Day, but the promised double storey houses for all the villagers community hall and a Hindu temple by Towkay Kapitan Lim Guan Eng and who got his DCM II Indian mandore to repeat it over and over again, using the Tamil dailies, remains a false promise, as it was never intended to be fulfilled in the first place.
To add insult to injury this towkay a few months later even demolished the cattle sheds of the said Indian victims which was even outside the land in the Court Order. Lim Guan Eng obviously sided with the Chinese capitalist developer and the Malay Koperasi in the interest of his pocket and the DAP coffers. But never mind the poor Indians kena nyaya.
Kg Buah Pala is a unique case where a traditional Indian village was handed over to a Malay koperasi, who then handed it over to a Chinese developer for a share of profits arrangements.
DAP and Lim Guan Eng will be remembered in the 2012/2013 General Elections.
Every dog has it’s day. So too does Hindraf and the victims of Kg Buah Pala.
Rights not Mercy.
Karunai Nithi @ Compassionate Justice
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Posted by barred at 5:44 PM

PEACE AND HARMONY…..A DREAM OR REALITY?

By Muralitharan Ramachandran- http://malaysianminorityindians.blogspot.com

September 16 marks another chronological mile stone to all Malaysian and the pledge given by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to protect Malaysians from the destructive acts of racism and extremism is really heartwarming. There were a series of scores from all levels of people on racism including the former premier Tun Mahathir Mohammad. The former premier’s statement which supported Perkasa the right wing of UMNO’s stance and the editorial column in UMNO’s Utusan Malaysia is rather seditious and provocative to other races in Malaysia.

Although the Prime Minister feels these people tend to be small in numbers but it is indeed an alarming situation. Keeping an eye alone is not enough and it should be ‘nipped in the bud’ to prevent it from growing any larger. There were a multitude of episodes on the crackdown of people and organizations which seemed to have sparked racial sentiments in the eyes of the government. Perkasa is still a legal body where else Hindraf an organization which raised the rights of Malaysian Indians were labeled as terrorist, illegal movement, the legal advisors were arrested using the draconian law and revoked citizenship of the chairperson. A few politicians from the opposition party and activist were also arrested using the same draconian law back in the 1980’s in the pretext of constructing racial tension. The chairman and the Patron of Perkasa is still out and crafting racial tension which could destroy the harmony of our beloved soil while the main stream media of UMNO, Utusan Malaysia writes supportive articles of the duo which is a hindrance to Malaysia.

Why is the double standard being practiced here? The law should be the same for everyone. Here again, Malaysians are against the draconian ISA act and it is called to be abolished. To show the commitment of Datuk Seri Najib’s 1 Malaysia concept the duo should be charged in an open court under the sedition act, Perkasa and Utusan Malaysia should be banned. These actions will be cheered by many peace and harmony loving Malaysians. To the question of security threat which of course will occur due to dissatisfaction by supporters, it will be definitely in a very tiny percentage which the peace keeping forces in our nation will be able to handle it amicably because majority of Malay ethnic group are also against the movement and also feels disturbed by the comments of Tun Mahathir and this proves that there will not be much of a threat to the nation.

For a start of this Memorial Day Datuk Seri Najib should show his seriousness in combating racial tension and working towards his 1 Malaysia concept.

Wishing all Malaysians A Happy Malaysia Day.
Posted by barred at 5:43 PM

Complaint to U.N on 2, 237 top Indian students denied higher education in Malaysia

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Your Reference :
In Reply :
Date : 15/09/2010

Mr. Kamal Malhotra
UN Resident Coordinator
United Nations Malaysia
Wisma UN, Block C, Kompleks
Pejabat Damansara, Jalan Dungun,
Damansara Heights,                                               Fax No: 603-2095 2870
50490 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.                               Email: registry.my@undp.org


Dear Sirs,

RE: HRP Memorandum ON:-

(1)      An estimated 2,237 top and high achieving Indian students have been segregated and denied JPA scholarships, PTPTN loans, Matriculation and University seats. 
(2) Indian students in Public Universities systematically reduced from 28% to 0.27% in 40 years.       
(3)   Request for United Nations fact finding mission to investigate the ‘a la apartheid’ denial of higher education for the top and high achieving ethnic minority Indian students in Malaysia.
(4)   Request for United Nations nominated official to head the Selection Committee together with three (3) others for JPA scholarships, Matriculation and University places in Malaysia for an interim five years.


We refer to the above matter and to our letter dated 27/07/2010.
We would appreciate the update on your forwarding of the aforesaid Memorandum to the
United Nations (U.N). High Commissioner for Human Rights Council’s special Rapporteur on Right to Education.
Thank You.


Your faithfully,
Mr. S. Jayathas
Information Chief
Human Rights Party Malaysia (HRP) & HINDRAF
6 (A) Jalan Abdullah, Off Jalan Bangsar,
59000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tel: 2282 6241 / 012-636 2287; Fax: 03 – 2282 5245
U.N to HRP: No Rights to Education (for minority Indians) in Malaysia (which is racist – by UMNO)
Memo on Top Indian students systematically denied JPA scholarships etc, University & Matriculation places to UN Secretary General accepted by UNICEF Head Malaysia Mr.Hans Olsen on 22/7/2010 
c.c:
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary General of the United Nations
One UN Plaza, First Avenue and East 42 Street
New York, NY10017 Fax: +41-22-917-9011

Ms Navanethem Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Office of the Nations High Commissioner of
Human Rights (OHCHR)
Palais Wilson, 52 rue des Paquis
CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland. Fax: +41-22-917-9006

Mr Vernon Munoz Villalobos
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education
United Nations Human Rights Council
Tel: (506) 2248-2508, (506) 2258-8585, ext. 1161.
Fax: (506) 2248-0991, (506) 2248-2533
PO BOX: 1245-1007 San Jose, Costa Rica
Email: vernormu@yahoo.es

UNESCO
7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP
France. Fax: +33-1-4567-1690

Independent Expert on the Question of
Human Rights and Extreme Poverty (ICHRP)
Rue Ferdinand- Holder 17 Fax: +41-22-775-3303
CH-1207 Geneva Email: ichrp@ichrp.org

Mr Oliver De Schutter,
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Palais Wilson, 52 rue des Paquis
CH – 1201 Geneva, Switzerland Fax: +41-22-917-9006

Ms Gay McDougall
Independent Expert on Minority Issues
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Fax: +41-22-917-9006

Mr Githu Muigai
Special Rapoorteur on Contemporary Forms
of Racism,
Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
Palais des Nations
CH- 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Fax: +41-22-917-9006
Posted by barred at 5:06 AM

HRP welcomes and to meet new U.S Ambassador to K.L on Malaysian Indian Minority & Human Rights Violations Annual Report 2009.

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No.6, Jalan Abdullah, Off Jalan Bangsar, 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: 03-2282 5241 Fax: 03-2282 5245
Your Reference :
In Reply :
Date : 15TH September 2010
To : Your Execellency Mr.Paul W Jones
Ambassador of the United States of America
Embassy of the United States of America,
Jalan Ampang, Fax: 03-21489192
Kuala Lumpur. Email: mariatimy@state.gov
Re: Welcome to Malaysia
Appointment to pay courtesy call on your goodself.
Your Excellency,
We, of the Human Rights Party Malaysia wish to extend your goodself a very warm welcome on your being appointed the Ambassador of the United States of America to Malaysia here in Kuala Lumpur.
It is heartening to read in The Star daily 15/9/10 that quoted your goodself as saying President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton have encouraged you “to harmonize the relations by having conversations and engagements with all parties”. We are extremely happy that you are starting on this note. This openness on your part will certainly contribute to strengthening democracy, human rights, minority rights, the rule of law and in upholding the Malaysian Constitution.
As you probably are aware, there has been, in recent years a significant weakening of the various institutions of governance in Malaysia. One of the major effects of this has been a noticeable erosion of fundamental human rights and minority rights. We, of the Human Rights Party of Malaysia represent a significant section of the population who have been adversely affected by all of this. Central to our political thrust are two major initiatives. One is to bring the marginalized minority even up to the sixth generation Malaysian born merely 8% ethnic minority Indians into the mainstream of national development of the country, who have been marginalized and segregated by the slanted policies of the current ruling coalition. The second of our thrusts is to eliminate all forms of state sponsored racist, supremacist and segregationist polices.
In the United States of America a first generation and son of an immigrant can become the President of the country, while here in Malaysia even the fifth and sixth generation non-Malay muslim citizens cannot aspire to be even the head of a small department within the government, for example even a Post Master, not to mention all the other innumerable deprivation, that is allowed to take place with impunity in the name of Article 153 of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia. Segregation, unfair allocation of resources, inequal treatment in almost all facets of life continue to occur in Malaysia in the name of this Article 153 in subtle but sure ways.
Most of the segregation of this Malaysian Indian community is as is reported on a daily basis in our website www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com .
We hope that with the openness that you will offer, you will be able to get a better understanding of all of this. This will require that you give groups of all persuausion appropriate hearing and to convey to your government a balanced picture of the Malaysian situation. This will hopefully result in the provision of the appropriate motivation to the ruling political party here in Malaysia, to move on with the process of complete democratisation and a consolidation of human and minority rights in the country.
In this regard we would like to request an appointment with Your Excellency to present the Malaysian Indian Minority & Human Rights Violations Annual Report 2009 and to share our perspective on all of that with you. We hope you to be able to meet you soon.
We welcome you once again to Malaysia and we look forward to working with you.
Thank You.
P.Uthayakumar
(Sec. General pro tem)
Human Rights Party of Malaysia

US Ambassador
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The last Indian Railway man

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN COSMETIC TYCOON'S GRISLY MURDER CASE

By Muralitharan Ramachandran - http://malaysianminorityindians.blogspot.com

First and foremost let us pray for Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and her three friends for their souls to attain eternal peace. It is indeed sad this incident took place during the holy month for the muslims. The whole nation regardless of ethnics is grieved by these gruesome murders. While police are conducting investigations, certain quarters of them are using these gruesome murders to generate racial tension among Malaysians.


It is indeed poignant to see media like Utusan Malaysia (14/09/10) which carried headline news which linked one of those detained who is a lawyer by profession as giving legal aid to Hindraf. This statement is rather seditious and could affect racial harmony and disunity among Indians and Malays in this country. The question here is, the police are not even over and done with their investigations, so how did Utusan Malaysia get a hold of this information? Main stream media like Utusan Malaysia should play an important role on emphasizing racial harmony and unity among Malaysians. They should pursue stringent journalism ethics by not publishing seditious and fictional statements such as above.

As for the main stream Media Utusan Malaysia, they are not first timers in these kind of issue. Numerous police reports were lodged against them but were fruitless. Another question here, are the relevant authorities blind or blind folded for certain reason? There are also other blogs on the internet which is aggravating racial disunity using this grisly occurrence. Their motives are clear and it is obvious that these irresponsible people are all out to construct racial pressure among Malaysians. It’s time the relevant establishment steps in and put an end to this state of affairs. These Internet blogs and main stream media should be given ruthless punishment.

Malaysians out there please think outside the box and don’t craft anymore racial disharmonies as lot of damages have been done by immature selfless people and organizations in the name of race and religion which has turned the nation into disarray. Let us give moral support to the families of the deceased and let justice triumph
Posted by barred at 6:40 PM

Umno at odds with race-tolerant world, says HRP

By Athi Shankar - Free Malaysia Today

KUALA LUMPUR: The Human Rights Party (HRP) today congratulated Malaysia-born Penny Wong for her appointment as Australia’s new finance minister and used the occasion to denounce the current Malaysian government as racist and out of tune with the times.
HRP pro-tem secretary-general P Uthayakumar said Wong’s appointment yesterday to the Australian cabinet was part of a global tide against racial and religious prejudice.

“Sadly, though, this will never happen in our 1Malaysia,” he said.

“The whole world is now going against racist and religious supremacy, except our Umno-ruled 1Malaysia.”

Uthayakumar, a former ISA detainee, is also the legal advisor for Hindraf Makkal Sakti.

He also criticised Pakatan Rakyat parties for similarly going against the global trend.

He said Malaysia was not only bucking current trends but also going against its own admirable history of appointing officials without reference to their racial or religious backgrounds.

He recalled that the first minister of education of the yet-to-be-independent Malaya in 1955 was Clough Thuraisangam and that in post-independence Malaya the first two finance ministers were Tan Cheng Lock and Tun Tan Siew Sin, the first navy chief was Rear Admiral K Thanabalasingam, the first chief justice was CS Gill and the first governor of Malacca was Leong Yew Koh.

“And the list goes on if one were to refresh one’s memory on the number non-Malay or non-Muslim CPOs, OCPDs, district officers and council mayors,” he said.

“This cannot happen again in Umno’s 1Malaysia.”

To illustrate his assertion that the rest of the world was moving away from racial and religious prejudice, he mentioned, among other personalities, former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, former US secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, former Tamil Nadu governor Fatima Beevi, former Indian presidents Zakir Hussin and APJ Abdul Kalam and several Singapore presidents and foreign ministers.

“But most intriguing is that the current president of the world’s most powerful nation, the United States, is a black with a Muslim name,” he added.

He alleged that in contemporary Malaysia “even sixth-generation Malaysia-born Indians could only dream” of becoming national school headmasters, postmasters, district officers or “even assistant district officers”.

Turning his ire on Pakatan Rakyat, he said “Pakatan Indian exco mandores in Selangor, Penang, Kedah and previously Perak” all held only the minor portfolios such as welfare, labour and community activities.

“Why don’t Pakatan governments give them more significant local government, finance or land portfolios even when they qualify?”

He blasted Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng for not elevating the highly qualified political scientist P Ramasamy to the post of Deputy Chief Minister 1 instead of maintaining him as Deputy Chief Minister 2.

He charged that Lim did not promote Ramasamy when Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin resigned in April last year because “he was merely a politically powerless ethnic minority Indian”.
Posted by barred at 6:40 PM

IGP GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS ON FIRST DAY....WILL HE BE SINCERE TOWARDS HIS DUTIES....??

By Muralitharan Ramachandran

KUALA LUMPUR: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar began his first day in office yesterday with a series of meetings with senior officers. (NST 14/09/10).

Looks like the new top cop in our nation has officially started his duties promising to combat crimes...bla, bla, bla.....just like the other top cops who spoke on their first day of their duty but what about Tan Sri Ismail Omar? Will he be sincere towards his duties...?? To safe guard the nation's law and order, to fight corruption within the forces, to combat abuse of power by his officers and the most talked about lately, the interference of third parties concerning police duties?

 I am sure Tan Sri Ismail has plans and answers for all these questions above. Every Malaysians like me will be wondering what is he going to do about this. And, during media interviews pertaining on going crisis, is he going to answer the same way as the former, The Great Tan Sri  Musa Hassan answers....:"Do Not Speculate, Let Us Investigate" and after someone is shot dead by the police, the same stereotype answers from him " My Men were Following Them, Upon Knowing It, They (the suspected criminals) Fired A Few Shots Forcing My Men To Open Fire At Them."

As for me, I wonder what are his actions going to be on the allegations by his former boss on "Interference Of Third Parties". Is he going to dig up old files and start investigations or wait for the former to lodge an official complain about this? Whatever his actions going to be it should clear the  doubts of all Malaysians who will be magnifying his actions from now.

Now, Lets look at the image of our Polis Diraja Malaysia. It doesn't really portray an image of what it should be. There was a spree of  deaths in custody and unwanted shootings lately. How is he going to change it?  Is he going to hold a Royal Commission or at least an internal enquiry on all those police personnel involved?
There are a lot of issues to be looked into by the new Top Cop.

So, Malaysians of all ethnics, let us wait patiently for our answers. And then again, "Do Not Speculate, Lets wait And See".
Posted by barred at 5:51 AM

Suspend Racist and religious supremacist UMNO Utusan Malay-sia for maliciously implicating Hindraf lawyers in murder of Susilowati


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Tel: 03-2282 5241 Fax: 03-2282 5245
Website: www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com Email: info@humanrightspartymalaysia.com

Your Reference :

In Reply :

Date : 14/09/2010





Y.B Dato Seri Hishamuddin Hussein
Home Minister,
Aras 12 Block D 1,
Complex Kerajaan Fasa D,
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan,                Fax: 03-8888 4913 62546 Putrajaya. E-Mail: hishamuddin@moha.gov.my


Dear Sirs,
RE: Suspend Racist and religious supremacist UMNO Utusan Malay-sia for maliciously implicating Hindraf lawyers in murder of Susilowati.

We refer to the above matter and to the Utusan Malay-sia headlines amongst others “Siasatan juga mendapati Datuk itu (an Indian lawyer) pernah memberi bantuan guaman kepada Pertubuhan haram Hindraf dan menjadi ahli seumur hidup sebuah parti politik”.
This statement is a completely untrue, false, malicious and a Seditious statement calculated to tarnish Hindraf, cause disunity among the peaceful Indian and Malay communities in Malaysia and to cause racial disharmony.
Hindraf categorically denies that the lawyer/s implicated in the murder of Susilawati has ever represented Hindraf or any of it’s supporters or had rendered legal assistance to Hindraf at any material time. And neither do we know them or had ever known them.
This is not the first time but this UMNO linked Utusan Malay-sia has repeatedly done this especially during the period immediately before and after the 25th November 2007 Hindraf Rally.
We hereby call upon your goodselves further to Article 8 of the Federal Constitution (Equality before the law) to stop this UMNO and Utusan Malay-sia racist and religions supremacist agenda and forthwith suspend Utusan Malaysia like what your goodselves had done to Makkal Osai at least on two occasions
within a space of about six (6) months or so in 2008 and previously to Tamil Malar a Tamil daily and various other publications.
End the UMNO racist and religious agenda in One Malay-sia.
Kindly revert to us accordingly.
Thank you.
Your faithfully,
………………..
P. Uthayakumar
(Secretary General pro-tem)
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Posted by barred at 5:26 AM

Finally, Mahathir concedes he screwed the merit system

JB03_170508_MAHATHIRSambu lingam, via e-mail - free Malaysia Today

Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad in a statement (FMT Sept 4, 2010) finally admitted that he and the Umno government intentionally discriminated against innocent non Bumiputra students by denying their educational rights as enshrined in the Constitution.

He said: "If we use the merit system , half of the university students (Bumiputeras) don't qualify..."

What one can gather from his statement is that the education system over the past 53 years has failed to produce Bumiputera students to meet the set requirement by Umno's own higher educational qualification merits.

Despite the billions spend to improve the educational achievements among Bumiputeras, citizens of this country are now been told by this longest serving Malaysian Prime Minister that Bumiputera students in Malaysia can only survive upon discrimination against their fellow non Bumi students. What a shame!

The former Prime Minister also revealed the truth on why local public universities are constantly dropping in international standard ratings. He admitted that half of the undergraduates did not qualify for entry into universities but were nevertheless granted places merely on race considerations.

I wonder how he justifies such brutal educational injustices. The moment a government tolerates such discrimination, it is actually planning to fail the country and its citizens over the years to come.

By implementing this racist based policies, thousands of fully qualified non Bumiputera students are cruelly denied entry into matriculation courses , local public universities intakes as well the PSD scholarships.

To summarise Mahathir's statement, he as the former prime minister and those in power ruling this country today clearly do not implement meritocracy in local university intakes, half of our university students are actually non qualifiers for higher education.

Fully qualified non Bumiputera students are oppressed and suppressed by the implementation of racially biased educational discrimination. The Umno-led Barisan Nasional government over the past 40 years have conveniently violated article 8 and 12 of Federal Constitution.
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