Press Statement - 6th Feb from Hindraf

HINDRAF
135 -3 Jalan Toman 7Kemayan Square 70200SerembanN..Sembilan

PRESS STATEMENT 6th February 2008

Re: GOVERNMENT’S SILENT ADMISSION ON ITS FAILURE AND NEGLECT OF MALAYSIAN INDIANS- TIME TO RELEASE THE BRAVE MESSENGERS OF TRUTH

Whilst the Government accepts the reality of the woes of the Malaysians Indians as raised by HINDRAF and promises to act on them, but strangely the Prime Minister has incarcerated the 5 messengers of truth – P.Uthayakumar, M Manoharan, V Ganabatirau, R Kengadharan , T.Vasanthakumar under the ISA.
It makes no sense when the Prime Minister and his Cabinet Ministers acknowledges the veracity of the neglect of Malaysian Indians but he see it fit to imprison the very 5 who conveyed this messages.
Last Thursday in his address to the Malaysian Associated Indian Chamber of Commerce he was quoted to say “ I have listened to the problems addressed by every sector of the Indian community ….and I will do everything to improve the situation from on,”
If the Malaysian Premier Dato Seri Abdullah Badawi is sincere in his intentions to improve the social, economic, educational and cultural conditions of the Malaysian Indians he would move to release the 5 HINDRAF leaders immediately , as it is blatantly obvious there is no justification for their detention.
The 5 HINDRAF leaders were exercising their social conscience in raising the plight of the 70% poor Malaysian Indians within the democratic process of basic human rights. They posed no threat to National Security for detention under the ISA.
The continued detention of the 5 leaders will not assure the 8 per cent of the Malaysian Indians that the BN government is honest about addressing the grievances of the ethnic Indians when the proponents of the concern are continued to be unjustly and inhumanely detained.
The immediate release of the 5 will demonstrate to the Malaysian Indians that the Prime Minister is serious about what he says, otherwise it will be seen as empty promises.
There is no integrity on the Prime Minister’s promises if he does not release the 5 harbinger of the message


P.Waytha Moorthy
Chairman
HINDRAF
Currently in London