Interlok: Your God in capital letter, my god in lower case

Written by Iraiputtiran
Commentary

CPI Introduction
In final comments in the open letter addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, on his handling of the Interlok textbook issue, blogger Iraiputirran noted:

“Under your Umno NEP system, many of the professors and PhDs that you produce can hardly write an article for a journal let alone accomplish the task of writing and producing a book. Coming from the same racist system, how could you be any different, Mr Minister?”

These comments are a reminder that the Minister was supported in his decision by an eight-person expert committee consisting of so-called distinguished professors and eminent scholars. Various members of the panel have remained deaf and dumb as theInterlok issue rages around them although one would have expected them to be concerned with enlightening the public and parents of school children as to the reasons for the decisions the panel arrived at.
 
The behaviour of these members of the panel brings to mind the harsh judgments below arrived at of a certain class of academicians:

“The system of journal editing existing in our field at the present time virtually forces academics to become prostitutes: they sell themselves for money (and a good living). Unlike prostitutes who sell their bodies for money, academics sell their soul to conform to the will of others….

For these Malaysian academicians, it appears that the gains are too high for them to buck the system.  Academic perks; rapid rise in the academic hierarchy; professorships, datukships and even Tan Sri-ships: these rewards await them who engage in fawning and sycophantic support of the system however illogical, devious or harmful the policy decisions may be.
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Interlok: Your God in capital letter, my god in lower case
By Iraiputtiran


Open letter to Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin

You, Sir, are becoming a complete embarrassment to this country. If Interlok has given anyone an opportunity to prove anything at all, then probably it has given you the best chance to expose your Umno NEP intellectuality.

From the very beginning, the issue with Interlok has been very clear. It was a case of an unsuitable book and wrongly chosen without a thorough analysis. Or otherwise, it was deliberately chosen with the ill-intention of poisoning innocent young minds in schools with the venomous agenda of Umno racism and Umno supremacy.
The book – which Indians were the first to object to (infuriated as they are by the vilification of their community from the demeaning portrayal of Indian characters throughout the novel) – is also being rejected by non-Indians, who have begun to see the inappropriateness of the book as a major public exam material.

Your excuses for rejecting the amendments suggested as ‘minute’, ‘not pertinent’, not sensitive’, ‘non-important things’ , etc. demonstrates your shallow thinking and dearth of knowledge in the areas concerned – linguistics, literature and academic assessment!

You rubbished the suggestion to correct the misspelt word ‘tuhan’ to ‘Tuhan’ as ‘minute’ ‘not pertinent’ and ‘non-important’! Is this sheer stupidity or ignorance beyond help? It is really hard to figure out in those bred by Umno’s NEP.
 
Respecting spelling and scholarship


Accuracy in spelling is a basic requirement in language, literature, and all other disciplines for that matter. Simonsen & Gunther (2001, p. 104) in their research paper, Best Practices in Spelling Instruction: A Research Summary concluded that while often neglected, spelling is an important academic skill for students to learn in school. Masterson & Apel (2010, p. 35) in discussing spelling sensitivity explained that spelling is a language skill supported by several linguistic knowledge sources, including phonemic, orthographic, and morphological knowledges.

Even for students with learning disabilities and dyslexia, different teaching and assessment methodologies are being used to develop their spelling skills.
 
A quick search in the world’s top teaching research journals would reveal hundreds of research work world wide and their findings on developing spelling skills. As Interlok is a compulsory text, it is of utmost importance to ensure that both the examination paper and the reading material are perfect, devoid of any error. Hence the long list of suggestions from the three Indian panel members.

Nevertheless, in an attempt to belittle and vilify the Indians (as Umno stalwarts like you always do), you had actually brushed off those suggestions as ‘minute’ ‘non-important’ and ‘not pertinent’!

In all honesty, this (tuhan) is not merely a misspelt word but rather deliberate and continued act by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka – DBP (baashai/pustakam from Tamil) to promote Islamic bigotry and religious fanaticism. By spelling the word ‘tuhan’ with a lower case ‘t’ whenever it was Maniam or his family members referring to God, in contrast with Seman or his mother referring to God with an upper case ‘T’ for ‘Tuhan’, you and Umno are also telling the Hindus that the Muslim God is the only God and ours is a lower God, a demigod.

If this is not yet another subtle form of Islamisation of the young innocent minds into accepting Islam as the greatest religion, just as what is being done with the History syllabus, then what is it?
 
“Sejak bapanya meninggal dunia, Seman cukup rajin beribadat. Cukup banyak dia meminta doa kepada Tuhan supaya …Dia teringat akan Tuhan … Barangkali ibunya sedang meminta doa kepada Tuhan supaya … Siapa tahu kuasa Tuhan? Barangkali itupun kuasa Tuhan. …Barangkali itupun kuasa Tuhan. Baru kali inilah dia berasa dirinya benar-benar dekat dengan Tuhan. Baru kali inilah dia berasa sembahyangnya diterima oleh Tuhan…(pages 293-294)
Compare this to: Maniam tidak ada anak…Dia percaya suatu masa nanti, tuhan akan memberi kepada mereka cahaya mata. (p. 214)
 
Maniam berasa dia mengenali orang yang bertubuh rendah itu… Ya, tuhanku! Serunya perlahan-lahan. (p. 230)
 
Maniam terus mencangkul… Ya tuhanku! Mengapa aku jadi begini? (p. 244)
Hold your breath and read on…!

Children of lesser gods
Tuhan I: Allah yang mencipta alam semesta…(Kamus Dewan Edisi Ketiga, m.s. 1478)
tuhan II sesuatu (seperti dewa dsb) yang dipuja oleh golongan manusia yang agama atau kepercayaan mereka tidak berasaskan kepercayaan kepada Tuhan Yg Esa (Kamus Dewan Edisi Ketiga, m.s. 1478)

Yes, the above Malay national dictionary citations are a deliberate propaganda by DBP that is responsible for publishing both Kamus Dewan and Interlok (student edition) to promote Islam as the greatest religion in the world.

Tuhan can only be Allah, and can never be Jesus, Shiva, Shakti, Buddha, Yahweh, Waheguru, or any other God. All other gods are lower beings than the Islamic Tuhan. Look at how DBP reduces the other gods into ‘sesuatu’, ‘dewa’ dan ‘sebagainya’.
 
In Hinduism, Dewa or Devargal is/are never God(s). What is DBP and Umno trying to indoctrinate in the minds of school children with such an extreme vilification of other religions?

Who gave the right to Umno and DBP to decide whose GOD is higher and whose is not. Such spelling of words has far reaching consequences, which Umno seemed to have capitalized on very well.
 
A research by H.M. Olk (2002, p. 126) titled Translating culture, a think-aloud protocol study, proves that students perceive capitalized nouns as having a higher status, given that in English, all proper nouns have capital letters and that usually means they are important. Going by the same perception, our students too will eventually be made to believe that Islam is the greatest religion in the world. We know Umno’s shrewd mine just too well.

In translation there is a methodology called ‘back translation’. This technique is used to get accuracy in translation of difficult words, including cultural terms. A back translation of the misspelt word ‘tali’ would give an equivalent ‘kayiru’ (rope/string) whereas the translation of the suggested correction ‘taali’ would produce an equivalent ‘maangalyam/ taali/manggala sutra’ (marriage sacred thread). As such, the marriage sacred thread should be spelt ‘taali’ as rightly suggested by the three Indian panelists reviewing Interlok.
 
In the English grammar, the rules of using capital letters are clearly explained. Capital letters are among others used for the first word of a sentence or a fragment, names of days in a week, months in a year, etc., names of languages, nationalities, ethnic groups, proper nouns, festivals and holy days, religious terms including names of religions, names or titles of divine beings, titles of certain important figures, names of important events, names of sacred books, name of a book, a play, a poem, a film, a magazine, a newspaper, etc.

Hence it is simple logic that a special reference to god should be capitalized. Nonetheless, in Malay, only Islamic god is ‘Tuhan’ not any other god. We are tempted to ask you then, will you agree to India referring to your Islamic god as ‘allah’ and their god as ‘Shiva’, ‘Krishna, ‘Rama’, ‘Lakshmi’, ‘Parvathi’, etc? Will you agree to England referring to Muslims as ‘muslims’ or ‘Quran’ as ‘quran’?

MALAYSIA: A COUNTRY HIJACKED BY FASCISTS‏ ; Transforming Indonesian, Thai and Filipino muslims into Bumiputeras to further oppress Indian poor.

The checklist which the regime uses to identify citizens as ‘Malays’ is arbitrary so that not only have the Iskandar Kuttys who came to Malaysia from Kerala, India on board the steamer Mamak Tongkang been transformed into Malays but also the recently arrived immigrants from Indonesia who form the vast majority of citizens classified as ‘Malays.’ The situation has become more confused when Bangladeshis and pure ethnic Chinese ( i.e. those who have found it gainful to convert to Islam) were admitted to the ‘Malay’ fold. All of them enjoy the Bumiputra status (i.e. native son/daughter) which entitles them to range of exclusive privileges denied to the Non ‘Malay’ citizens.

Jurists, historians and anthropologists have said that the term ‘Malay’ as used by the regime has no precise meaning…. Philosopher S Radhakrishnan commenting on J B Watson’s (1878 – 1958) Behaviourism which, by the way G B Shaw called a soulless stupidity said that we can make a god out of glands, if only we set about it. Employing the methods used by the regime I could easily transform a musang (Asian palm civet) or a cockroach into a Malay. If you think my claim is fantastic, then please note that Federal Minister Nazri announced in Parliament recently that 60,000 illegal Muslim immigrants from Thailand were given citizenship papers and converted into Bumiputras. The fellow exhorted us non Muslims to sympathize with the Government for having had to make the difficult decision it made!.

I have already written about Project M a sinister scheme which was devised to render the native peoples of Sabah a minority in their own land. In peninsular Malaysia the Government carried out a campaign to register people who because of some technicality did not or could not apply for citizenship. It was ostensibly done mainly for the benefit of poor Indians but there are among us hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Indonesia without valid papers. These will surely benefit from the exercise and what is more the vote bank of the regime would be considerably increased. Incidentally comparatively few Indians were registered.

The newly arrived immigrants from Indonesia who are called Malays — a word derived from the Tamil malai uur (hill country) — dominate the Armed Forces, Police, the Civil Service and Government Linked Companies. They are also overwhelmingly represented in the public universities. The regime has created many affirmative action schemes exclusively for them with taxes collected mainly from non Malay citizens. It is claimed that their numbers justify such disbursement of funds. But massive corruption and mismanagement at every level of the public sector is so prevalent that ordinary non Malay citizens have not hesitated to call these guzzlers of tax money crooks and robbers .

Meanwhile we non Malays find it extremely difficult to keep pace with inflation. The overwhelmingly Malay dominated public service will not let us build places of worship without imposing all kinds of unreasonable conditions and restrictions. Likewise even publications meant for our own use attract humiliating restrictions. Our bright children cannot obtain scholarships. In an astute move the regime announced last year that the Public Service Department would be limiting scholarships across the board. What it did not say was that ‘Malay’ students could still get scholarships from Government Linked Companies and quangos all of which were set up with taxes paid mainly by non Malay citizens

Some decades ago Mr Lee Kuan Yew observing the abject servility of the MCA leadership called them political serfs. Today the phrase seems applicable to about 98 % of the non Malays. The regime denies us basic religious freedoms, positions in the Armed Forces and Police, our children scholarships and places in the public universities etc etc and yet all we can do is whine like a drugged rabbit.

We must boldly demand our rights and if the regime will grant them we can appeal to the International Court of Justice. The ICJ will be able to tell us if there is any justification for classifying citizens as ‘Malays’ and granting them numerous exclusive rights and privileges..

Letter to Editor.

Islamic-Malay bias in history text books

(Malaysiakini) Historian and writer Ranjit Singh Malhi contended that in his expert opinion, there is an Islamic-Malay centric bias in Malaysian history text books and will not stay silent about it.

"So what, I lose a few million(in book contracts). I will be unpopular. It's all right. Don't sell your soul... Speak the truth and shame the devil," said the historian at a forum organised by the Catholic Teacher's Asociation in Petaling Jaya.

Bemoaning the "lopsided" and "biased" crop of local history textbooks, he lamented some historians do not admit that such things occurred in our history text books.

He quoted a local historian whose statement was published in the Malay Mail on Dec 17 last year dismissing bias in the writing of history text books.

As proof of his claim, Ranjit submitted his own research which has shown that references to other religions were reduced significantly while those to Islam have bloated from 17 percent in the previous form four history text book, to 41 percent in the current one.

Proving perhaps that you can read the book by its cover, Ranjit held up successive versions of history textbooks and how significantly they differed from the early ones compared with the current crop. 

He argued that previous covers included representations of non-Malays as well as civilisations other then Islam, but noted that in the current versions, only Malay leaders and depictions of Islamic civilisation are included.

Ranjit (left) who has written numerous history textbooks for the Malaysian education system said that he had stopped doing so being unable stand the shenanigans he had observed in the way history was selectively written.

"History was distorted. It all started in 1996. Prior to that there no value judgements in history text books. But the form four history text books for example are full of value judgements,"he said.

Value judgements mar text books

He was commenting on recent addendums to such text books which he indicated has prescribed morale judgements on historical events biased in favour of one race and one religion in particular.

At the time when Ranjit said that these "distortions" began, current Premier Najib Razak was the education minister, serving from 1995 to 1996 prior to taking on the mantle of defence minister.

Such practices as putting in value judgements in historical texts said Ranjit go against the principles of good history text.

Good history text books, he said, must be;

• Factually accurate,
• Generally objective,
• Well balanced, and,
• Devoid of value judgements.

However ,he argued that he can prove that history text books nowadays are totally the opposite of such values.

Ranjit listed four faults of our current history textbooks after poring over them word by word. In his expert opinion, the current crop exhibit;

• Islamic-Malay centric bias,
• Some half truths,
• Numerous factual errors and contradictions, and,
• Politically motivated orientation.

'Historical death'

One 'crime' observed the veteran writer, is the intentional 'killing off' of certain important non-Malay historical figures from the pages of official history.

"I call it historical death, you won't find it in books, because it is a term I invented,"he explained in relation to non-Malays and their contributions to Malaysian history he claimed were edited out.

He listed several key figures, crucial to Malaysian history who have been left out of in the modern official re-telling;

• Yap Ah Loy responsible for building early Kuala Lumpur, well acknowledge by world historians, have been reduced to one sentence in Malaysian historical text books,
• Gurchan Singh, the 'Lion of Malaya' who published and distributed an underground newspaper during the Japanese occupation, and,
• Sybil Karthigesu, the nurse who helped treat MPAJA soldiers and did not desist even after the Japanese tortured her.

As for factual errors and half-truths, Ranjit pointed out a few of the more glaring ones, including the omission of the fact that Parameswara was Hindu and died a Hindu and the glossing over and belittling of the contribution of non-Malay troops in the defence, of then Malaya, against the Japanese onslaught.

"This is bulls***t!" he jokingly exclaimed, quickly apologising for swearing in a holy place of worship.

He also pointed out the miraculous appearance of references to Ketuanan Melayu which was not found anywhere in history text books prior to recent events.

The historian also recommended several steps which he believes will help to resolve the matter;

• A review of all history text books to ensure factual accuracy, consistency, objectivity and a balanced account,
• History text writers must have content mastery, good track record and are meticulous,
• History text books must be devoid of value judgements,
• Emphasis on critical thinking and learning as opposed to rote learning and memorisation, and,
• More involving and inclusive history lessons as opposed to traditional lectures.

However, Ranjit clarified that he has no problem with the Malays or Islam in general, but his problem lies with the lopsided depiction of history alone.

The forum about the biased depiction of history in school text books was held at the Assumption Church in Petaling Jaya and was well attended by NGO representatives, parishioners and members of the media.

It also featured a commentary on the same issue by SUN editor Terence Fernendez and was moderated by Father Micheal Chua.

Every year SPM top Indian Students denied equal educational opportunities: SPM top students result certificates starts flowing in. Fax us your SPM result slips.

Article 12 of the Federal Constitution provides for equal educational opportunities to all students irrespective of race, religion and place of birth.

However under the racist and bully UMNO regime @ junta it only remains a letter of the law without any compliance to it despite the Federal Constitution the highest law in the country.

Every year top and high achieving Indian students are being denied equal educational opportunities despite their excellent result continues. To add this misery, Saranya Subramaniam who scored 7As and 4b+ in the recent SPM Examinations Science Stream is being denied her constitutional right by the UMNO regime to become a Medical doctor.

In her childhood, Saranya had always dream to become a doctor. She studied hard and produced the results. Had she been a Malay muslim she would have easily qualified for a scholarships and Matriculation to do medicine locally or granted a scholarship to do Medicine in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Russia, Ukraine etc. But being born a poor Indian is a sin in One Malay-sia. And Saranya’s case is only the tip of the iceberg.

If this result was obtained by Malay Muslim students offers and scholarships will be pouring in and the sky will be the limit. But for Indians it is just the one moment in glory and may be their pictures in the newspapers. But their ambition sooner or later will be buried by the UMNO regime through their racist and bully social engineering.

SPM students who scored 5As and above in the SPM examination and who had been or is likely to be systematically excluded from higher educational opportunities, please fax us your result slip for us to continue championing equal educational opportunities or contact us at 03-22825241.

Proof of racist UMNO bully“ethnic cleansing” of Bukit Jalil Indian plantation village to make way for malay muslim cemetery.

DBKL claims that the land belongs to the state religious department Jawi, but the land office has no record of this.

KUALA LUMPUR: The tussle between Ladang Bukit Jalil residents and the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has taken a mysterious turn with the Putrajaya Land office claiming the land did not exist in its records.

Independent observer Chin Choong Men said although DBKL, in its affidavit, said the land belonged to the Federal Territories Islamic Department (Jawi), there was no evidence provided to back this.

“The land office told us there are no documents to prove that someone owns the land as the land itself does not exist in their records,” he told a press conference here.

Also present were Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) secretary-general S Arutchelvan, Human Rights Party national coordinator K Balakrishnan and the estate’s action committee secretary S Thiakarajan.

On March 14, the 41 families living in the estate obtained an interim injunction to stop DBKL from demolishing their homes after being slapped with eviction notices on March 1.

The court had set April 27 to hear an inter-parte hearing between both parties and the residents would be represented by Lawyers for Liberty coordinator Fadiah Nadwa Fikri and PKR vice president N Surendran.

Residents classified as squatters

Arutchelvan said that DBKL, in its affidavit, also sought to declare the residents as squatter dwellers and its notices on June 2007 to evict them under the Emergency Ordinance as legal.

“The Federal Territories and Urban Well-Being Ministry had already told that these people are former estate workers and that is why compensation is being offered.

“Now their legal team is calling them squatters. So who is lying here?” he asked.

In February, Federal Territories and Urban Well-Being Minister Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin had admitted that the residents were former estate workers after a meeting with them.

Arutchelvan also took a swipe at DBKL for giving more consideration to the dead while trying to evict the residents.

“It is stated in the affidavit that the land belongs to Jawi and it is slated to be turned into a cemetary.

“We are disturbed by the fact that the entire 26-acre land is being alloted to the dead. Is it wrong to set aside a four-acre land for the living?” he asked.

Saying that the affidavit contained false information, Arutchelvan urged Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to intervene and resolve the matter amicably.

Search your soul, Pakatan told

Indian leaders tell the opposition alliance why it is losing the community’s support.

GEORGE TOWN: Indian community leaders in and outside Pakatan Rakyat have called on the opposition coalition to do some soul-searching over its loss of Indian support.

They say Pakatan must question the sincerity of its leaders and the competence of its state administrations in addressing Indian concerns.

Hindraf Makkal Sakti adviser N Ganesan warned that Pakatan would not be able to woo back Indian votes if it continued with what he called “shadow-play” politics, occasionally using officials with “Indian-sounding names” to hand out “peanut funds” for Indian NGOs and Hindu temples.

He said Pakatan had failed to capitalise on its control of several state governments, pushing the Indian working class back to BN “because they prefer the familiar devil to a friend they don’t know”.

A DAP leader in Penang said it was time for Pakatan to carry out “pro-active initiatives” that would bring “real benefits” to the Indian community.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said last weekend’s meeting of the Pakatan Indian leadership was a good start but must be followed up with dialogue sessions involving the coalition’s Indian members and NGO representatives.

The meeting was held in Penang and attended by Pakatan leaders from states with high Indian populations. It was chaired by P Ramasamy, one of Penang’s deputy chief ministers.

He said Pakatan should not wait too long to hold the follow-up sessions in light of speculation about the imminence of the next general election. Pakatan states should use the findings as bases for policies benefitting the Indians, he added.

Another DAP man lamented the Pakatan governments’ failure to form state-level caucuses immediately after the last general election to address Indian-related issues.

G Asoghan, chairman of DAP’s Jalan Bagan Luar branch here, said Indians abandoned BN to vote for Pakatan in the last general election because they thought the opposition parties could resolve long-standing issues affecting their community.

“They are now disappointed that Pakatan governments have failed to carry out any noteworthy policy to help the predominantly poor Indian working class, even in Penang, where there is a deputy chief minister of Indian origin.”

Bad governance

He rebuked Pakatan governments for focusing on building support among Malays and Chinese while neglecting the Indians.

“This is not good governance,” he said.

He belittled last weekend’s meeting, saying that the exclusion of some elected representatives showed a lack of seriousness in addressing Indian concerns.

Absent from the meeting were state assemblymen M Manoharan of Kota Shah Alam, S Sivasubramaniam of Buntong and V Sivakumar of Tronoh. Sivakumar was the Speaker of the Perak State Assembly when Pakatan controlled the state.

Asoghan also spoke of rumours about misappropriation of funds collected by DAP in a 2008 campaign to help Sri Lankan Tamils.

According to one of the rumours, part of the money has been deposited into the account of a London-based Sri Lankan who is under suspicion of funding terrorism.

He said he would write to DAP headquarters for clarification. “Party members have the right to know the status of the fund now.”

Ganesan said the governments of Penang, Kedah and Selangor had committed the same wrongdoings that their BN predecessors were guilty of.

He pointed to the demolition of Kampung Buah Pala in Penang, the destruction of a Hindu burial ground in Kuala Ketil, Kedah, and the closing down of a temple in Bukit Gasing, Selangor.

Life savings gone into sinking homes

Residents of a village are crying foul because the houses they built on a former dumpsite are tilting dangerously.

(Free Malaysia Today) IPOH: Ten families who used their life savings to build their dream homes 15 years ago are now having sleepless nights – their houses are slowing sinking.

Life for these families from Kampung Tersusun Buntong Tiga Tambahan has become a daily nightmare since then.

The distraught residents feel they have been short-changed by the state government into building their houses on a former dumpsite.

The families are former squatters who have been relocated from various squatter areas by the state government to this village which has about 500 houses.

The affected families had invested between RM50,000 and RM80,000 each from their life savings including the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to build their houses on the land given by the state government.

But to their horror, the families found out that the houses were built on an unstable dumpsite. With the passage of years, their houses began to tilt.

One of the affected residents, E Sutharam, 70, a schoolbus driver, told reporters today that he had withdrawn RM75,000 from his EPF to build his house in 1997. But after two years, he saw cracks appearing on the walls.

Over the years, the foundation of his house started to sink and now his house has tilted to one side.

Fearing for the safety of his family, Sutharam moved out, saying that his house may collapse at any time.

He is also worried that he might lose his job because of his age and wonders how he is going to pay the monthly RM450 for his rented house.

Gas-like odour

Another victim, A Sellahma, 70, took out all her family savings of RM50,000 for her house in 1994.

According to her, the house is now tilting and the back portion has sunk. But she said she does not want to move out to her children’s place because she has invested all her savings in the house.

Residents have also detected gas-like odour emitting from the ground and claimed it is flammable.

Another resident K Subramaniam, 70, also a schoolbus driver, had invested RM80,000 into his now sinking house and feels the state government has short-changed the residents.

All the 10 families had approached the state government in 2003 just before the general election. They also sought the help of former state MIC chief G Rajoo who allegedly promised them alternative houses or government quarters.

But until today, the state government has yet to fulfil its promise of repairing the damaged houses or providing alternative housing.

Meanwhile, DAP Buntong assemblyman A Sivasubramaniam said he highlighted the plight of the residents at the Perak State Legislative Assembly sitting on Aug ,3 last year.

But he claimed the state government was evasive in its reply.

He also alleged that the state government had made election promises in 2004 and 2008 of providing relief to the residents but they were not fulfilled

He added that he would raise the issue again at the next assembly sitting on April 12.

He also suggested that the government could relocate the residents to 27 unoccupied houses in Taman Buntong Ria.

Second Autospy rightly as of right for Malay muslim victim Ahmad Sarbani. But denied and misery for hundreds of such Indian victims under racist bully UMNO regime.

With no hue and cry the Federal Police HQ Deputy CID Director Dato Acyrl Sani under UMNO PM Najib Razak’s orders  as of right a second Post Mortem. For the racist UMNO bully this order is just because the victim is a Malay muslim.

We recall the tip of the iceberg case in 2004 when Francis Udayappan was brutally killed at the Brickfields police station and his body was thrown  into the Klang River.
His body was kept at the University Hospital mortuary for almost 2 years. When released only bits and pieces of his skull a piece of rotten and smelly flesh and bones were handed over (see photos below). In the mean time in this two years imagine the misery of Francis mother Sara lily every day and every night. But when it is a Malay muslim victim as in the instant case rightly the misery ended within the second day with the second post mortem being amicably conducted.
Tens of (now) Hindraf and HRP activists were arrested in public campaigns, scores of police reports lodged. But zero action on police murder despite 7 years now. Even the 98% Malay muslim UMNO racist and bully, High Court and Court of Appeal dismissed Francis’ civil suit without even hearing the Police murder’s defence.
One rule for Malay muslims and the economically powerful Chinese and another rule for the Indian poor.
(see The Star 8/4/2011 at page N 3)
Karunai Nithi @ Compassionate Justice.

No Justice for Human Rights Party? In 98% Malay muslim UMNO controlled Judiciary?

The Human Rights Party (HRP) had been granted a date for hearing of its application for Judicial Review for Certiorari and Mandamus vide Civil Suit No: R2-25-67-11 to compel the rightful registration of the Human Rights Party as a political Party. 26 April 2011 has been set as the hearing date for the above mentioned hearing for leave.
The case will be heard in Jalan Duta High Court on 26/4/2011 at 9.00 a.m. The application for leave was filed as the UMNO racist bully Home Minister and their Registrar of Societies refused to register Human Rights Party as a political party despite several applications and letters dated 18/6/09, 25/11/2010, 16/12/11, 17/2/11, and final Letter of Demand dated 14 March 2011 asking the Registrar of Societies to register Human Rights Party as a political party.
We await the day we see Justice for Human Rights Party in the racist bully UMNO Courts.
Karunai Nithi @ Compassionate Justice

Teoh Beng Hock & Ahmad Sarbani: State murder victim must be Malay or Chinese to get justice. Indians denied justice under One-Malay-sian sun, zero media coverage & pin drop silence by PKR, DAP, PAS,NGOs & civil society.

Way back in 2003 at the height of police lock up murders at the rate of one such murder in every two weeks and police shoot to kill murders at the rate of one such murder in every week of almost all Malaysian Indians, then Senior Malay Mail reporter Neville Spykerman told me politely (and with no bad intentions) that if there were a few more such police murders in the next few weeks it would then take a national dimension with the public outcry and the media reporting the same and perhaps these deaths in police custody and by police shooting would come to an end.

Note: Public outcry by Malay-sian standards means protest and public statements by the 90% majoritarian Malay muslim and Chinese, PKR, DAP, PAS, NGOs’, Bar Council, “Malaysian civil society and the mainstream print and electronic media and alternative medias wide coverage of the same.

I replied that I begged to disagree. I also replied that he (Neville) would be right if it was a few more Malays or Chinese who were similarly killed in a short space of time.

As I anticipated the state police sponsored killings and murders went on unabated and with impunity as it was “merely” the Indian poor who were the victims.

Even the 25th November 2007 Hindraf Rally and my subsequent detention without trial under the ISA did not really make the difference.

The real difference started with Teoh Beng Hock and now Ahmad Sarbani Mohamad as they were (rightly) given the widest possible mainstream print and electronic media coverage’s the alternative media also carrying the public protests and immediate and urgent public statements by the top leaders of PKR, DAP, PAS, NGOs’ Bar Council, “Malaysian civil society”.

In the case of Ahmad Sarbani Mohamaed  at least the local dailies and alternative media carried the following  top headlines if not front page news including the three Tamil dailies are as follows:

1)    “Death and furry (The Star headlines 7/4/2011)
2)    Customs officer found dead (The NST headlines 7/4/2011)
3)    MACC Hq death fall (The Sun headlines 7/4/2011)
4)    Saksi SPRM Maut (The Sinarharian headlines  7/4/2011)
5)    Death of Customs Officer at MACC Building Malaysian Nanban headlines (7/4/2011
6)    Fell to his death Selangor Customs Officer Makkal Osai headlines 7/4/2011)
7)    Pegawai Kastam mati di perkarangan pejabat SPRM (Utusan  Malaysia front page7/4/2011)
8)    Pegawai kastam maut di pejabat SPRM front page 7/4/2011)
9)    Selangor Customs Deputy Director falls to death from MACC Building Tamil Nesan front page 7/4/2011)
10) Lim Kit Siang calls for justice and immediate probe into death (The Star 7/4/2011 at page N3)
11) PAS Vice President Salahuddin Ayub “Thorough Investigations on Sarbani’s case.(The Sinarharian 7/4/2011 at page N4)
12) Police HQ  Bukit Aman Special Task Force to investigate  on Sarbani’s case (BH 7/4/2011 at page 4)
13) Bar Council wants immediate inquest, Royal Commission of Inquiry on Sarbani’s death. (The Sun 7/4/2011 at page 6)
14) Form RCI – Perkasa (Utusan Malaysia 7/4/2011 at page 7)
15) 800 demo on Sarbani’s death (Sinarharian 7/4/2011 at page S7)
16) PM: Sarbani’s death different from Teoh’s  & 5 others article (Malaysiakini.com)
17) PM defends MACC amid latest death & 3 others article (Freemalaysiatoday.com)
18) ‘Suicide’ claims twist knife in Sarbani’s mourners & 7 others article (The Malaysian Insider)
19) Customs Officer Falls To Death At MACC Office & 5 others article (The Malaysian Mirror)

And in the next few days many more PKR, DAP, PAS leaders, and especially Indian elite in the blogs, etc will rightly be howling for justice for the family of Sarbani Mohamed. They will all be outraged and stand up for the rights of the Chinese and Malay killed. No howling for Indian deaths.

We commend PKR, DAP, PAS, Bar Council, NGO’s the police and  the Malaysian civil society.

But on the very same day Teoh Beng Hock was killed at the MACC HQ, P. Gunasegaran was brutally killed at the Sentul Police station. But all of the aforesaid PKR, DAP, PAS, Perkasa, Bar Council, NGOs’,
Malaysian civil society mainstream print and electronic media coverage, the alternative media etc did not broadcast/speak up for justice for P. Gunasegaran simply because  Gunasegaran was a Malaysian Indian. In fact One malay-sia has never heard of P. Gunasegaran again because he was “merely an Indian” and they want to be “politically correct, play to the 90% Malay muslim natives and Chinese gallery or fear losing the 60% malay muslim voters.

If P. Gunasegaran had been killed in a police lock up in London or L.A being a soft target and vulnerable minority the white Christian 90% majority community and their media would have bend backwards to condemn, speak up and champion for Justice for P. Gunasegaran.

This is the reality “Malaysian civil society” as opposed to the Western Civil Society.
P. Gunasegaran’s case is only the tip of the iceberg.

Hundreds if not thousands of other Indians have been similarly killed by the Malay-sian state sponsored police force. But it never mattered to the Malay-sian civil society, including the Malaysian Indian elite, the usual howlers if Malay and Chinese rights are questioned! These are the ultimate jokers in the country.

But when we point out this level of Malay-sian racism both by commission and by omission we instead are accused of being racist by no less than the Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, that it is Hindraf & HRP that is racist, a bizarre definition which exists in no other part of the world except by “civil society”, masyarakat madani Malaysia and the Opposition Leader who hiself has been accused of sodomy and adultery.

Res Ipsa Loquiteour (The facts speak for itself).
“Rights not Mercy”.
P. Uthayakumar
 

Hindu Temple to Goddess Faces Imminent Destruction in Pakistan

Washington, D.C. (March 13, 2011) - A historic and ancient temple of Durga Mata, dedicated to the Hindu Goddess, is facing imminent destruction in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan’s Sindh province. The temple, between 2,000 to 2,500 years old, is endangered by newly started quarrying for granite at the base of the hill on which the temple stands.

Hindus lodged a complaint to halt the work, but the Sindh government, ignoring their request, issued an official lease to the contractor of the quarry to continue. The temple may be destroyed within a month if the quarrying for granite continues, experts claim.

"Our 2010 Hindu Human Rights report again highlights the woeful condition of Hindus and Hindu places of worship in Pakistan,” said Prof. Ramesh Rao, Hindu American Foundation’s Human Rights Coordinator. “While the bulk of international opprobrium against Pakistan is concentrated on its machinations in Afghanistan and India’s state of Kashmir, the ongoing human rights crisis ongoing within its own borders involving the Hindu minority are too often overlooked. It is incumbent upon the U.S. to predicate its military aid to Pakistan on improvements in the country’s atrocious human rights record.”

Some 200,000 pilgrims visited the Durga Mata temple during the recent holy festival of Shivratri. The pilgrims protested the destruction and urged the government to stop the work. The work was halted during the festival but has resumed again. Pakistan’s media, both print and television, have thus far failed to publicize the Hindu complaints, and spokespersons for this fast shrinking and neglected minority feel that Hindus are increasingly alienated in Pakistan.

Educationist on ‘Interlok’ -Part1 & Part 2

Photos : Hindraf @ Capitol Hill, Washington & USA roadshow on UMNO racism against Indian poor.

    

HRP goes to court on registration

Racist bully UMNO AG Gani Patail and Malaysian Court not ready with Witness List but fixes speedy hearing date to fix up 21 Hindraf activists and disqualify them from contesting in forthcoming General Elections.

This morning 6/4/11, at the trial of the Hindraf 21 we saw how the KL Magistrate Zulkapli bin Abdullah as does almost all other Magistrates, Sessions Court Judges, ie., they all literally look to the DPP or Federal Counsel for ‘directions’ and for Hindraf lawyer P. Uthayakumar the Attorney general Tan Sri Gani Patail himself for “directions” and then make their decisions accordingly.

In P. Uthayakumar’s Sedition charge in the immediate aftermath of the 25th November 2007 Hindraf Rally with the personal presence of the AG Gani Patail himself the K.L sessions Court imposed bail  of RM 50,000 ie ten times the maximum fine of RM 5,000 plus his passport being impounded..

And today morning the Magistrate looked at the junior just out of college but wielding almost absolute DPP powers. When this DPP told the Magistrate that she had “arahan” (instructions) not to serve the documents on the lawyer  but on the 21 accused directly the Magistrate delivered and executed AG Gani Patail’s “directions”. Incredible!

This is just the tip of the iceberg on almost all Court proceedings especially against the UMNO government this is the Order of the day or how justice it has evolved today after 54 years of Independence.
Karunai Nithi @ Compassionate Justice.