HIndraf Makkal Shakti

Friday, March 19, 2010

Hindraf initiates London start for global Anwar campaign - Malaysiakini

Hindraf Makkal Sakthi has initiated a global campaign for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim beginning with an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the British Parliament.

Malaysiakini was tipped off on the EDM by Suresh Grover who heads The Monitoring Group, a human rights organisation in Britain and Northern Ireland.

Anwar's people, according to Grover, approached Hindraf chair P. Waythamoorthy to do something for him and the latter suggested an EDM filed through an MP.

Jeremy Corbyn, Labour MP for Islington, North London, who will introduce the EDM, said he was approached by Waythamoorthy.
"We are 100 per cent for Anwar. He's a good man badly treated by the Malaysian Government," said Corbyn yesterday in a telephone interview with Malaysiakini.

"The charges levelled at him are not correct. The EDM is an expression of parliamentary opinion on the matter."

NONE The Labour MP based his characterisation of Anwar(right) on his efforts over the years to forge a closer understanding between the West and Islam.

He also disclosed that he, like many other members of the British Parliament, had known Anwar for a long time and could vouch for him.

Citing his EDM, Corbyn called on the Malaysian Government to "bring an end to the harassment and persecution of members of the political opposition".

He plans to call on the British Foreign Secretary to discuss an appropriate British Government response to the Anwar case.
This will go together with an appointment with the Malaysian high commissioner to Britain.

Corbyn is certain that the UK Government will make known its views on Anwar either publicly or privately besides the stand that would be taken by the British Foreign secretary.

The British MP will also be raising the issue during a forthcoming executive committee meeting of the British chapter of the Inter Parliamentary Union.

The IPU in Britain will be making common cause with other IPUs across the world to forge a common stand on the Anwar issue.

Members of the public and media are welcome to pen their thoughts on the EDM to Corbyn, at corbynj@parliament.uk.

Grover said that his movement will be monitoring the EDM for starters and will lobby MPs to ensure there's 100 per cent support in the house for it.

Political manipulation

Unlike Corbyn, Grover did not mince his words and dismissed the Sodomy 11 charges against Anwar as "not based on any real evidence but merely political manipulation of criminal legislation and members of the judiciary".

"This is an extreme example of the Malaysian Government's attempts to silence the opposition and human rights activists," said Grover.

"The ruling elite are intolerant of any political opposition or advocacy of human rights issues and reform."

Anwar aside, he said that reference can be made to many other cases against other opposition leaders and members in Malaysia.

In all these cases, he added, the basis of the government's action was to manipulate the criminal laws in the country.

The Monitoring Group, Grover disclosed, will hold a public forum in the British Parliament on Anwar after the forthcoming elections which is likely to be held by May.

Members of the local Muslim community, lawyers, MPs, NGOs, academicians, civil society and Malaysians resident in the UK would be among those invited to attend and participate.

Waythamoorthy said he did not see the EDM being initiated by him as being at variance with his publicly announced decision to cut off all links with the opposition Pakatan Rakyat and the Parti Keadilan Rakyat.

"Basically, I am a human rights lawyer and advocate," stressed Waythamoorthy.

"What they are doing to Anwar is wrong and I am just chipping in with my little contribution".

WAYTHA FIGHTS BACK

Promises to go to the International Court of Justice

T.K. LETCHUMY TAMBOO

PETALING JAYA: The self-styled leader of Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) P. Waythamoorthy (pic) yesterday challenged the Malaysian government to revoke his citizenship.

He said this would give him the opportunity to bring his case to the International Court of Justice and Malaysia could then defend their case against him.

Waythamoorthy, who is in the United Kingdom after he fled from Malaysia, said this in response to Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz's statement in The Malay Mail yesterday that he was not welcomed in the country due to his stand to abolish Article 153 of the Federal Constitution which involves Malay rights.

Mohamed Nazri also said that the large majority of "our Tamil brothers" were loyal to the constitution but only wanted a bit more equality and a reasonable share of the economic cake. Waythamoorthy also reiterated that he wanted the Malaysian government to return his passport, which he said was revoked in April 2008.

"Allow me to come back and I am willing to face any criminal charges, including treason which carries the death penalty for questioning Malay privileges as suggested by the Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam in 2007," he said in an email reply to The Malay Mail.

Waythamoorthy said he would not apologise to the government when asked whether he was willing to do so for them to allow him to come home.

"There is no issue of apology as I have always spoken the truth and sought justice for the marginalised, oppressed and suppressed Malaysian Indians," he said.

When asked to comment about a report in a local Tamil daily last week that mentioned him, Hindraf adviser N. Ganesan as well as a group from Sabah and Sarawak represented by Common Interest Group Malaysia (Cigma) activists Daniel John Jambun and Nicholas Bawin Anggat who had visited the House of Commons to enlighten the British Parliamentarians about marginalised ethnic Indians in Malaysia, he said:

"Last week’s Conference at the House of Commons by both Hindraf and the natives from Borneo is just the beginning of a series of campaigns that Hindraf will mount to challenge the unlawful and unconstitutional act of the Malaysian government."

He said Malaysia was independent for 53 years and the government had instead recolonised the non - Malays and natives from Sabah and Sarawak.

"As the fifth and sixth generation labour migrants, we are equally sons of the soil and deserve the protection of Article 8 of the Federal Constitution, which provides equality for all," he said.

Last September, Waythamoorthy had also stated that he wanted the Malaysian government to return his passport and was prepared to take responsibility for his actions, even at the risk of being detained under the Internal Security Act.

He had said the government owed him an apology and held Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar, the former Home Minister, responsible for revoking his passport.

Syed Hamid, however, denied he had ordered it.

Utusan Malaysia for the first time seriously acknowledges Indian problems and as a national issue

Selangor Indian Exco Mandore’s MIC style peanuts representation

Getting some peanut reduction of land premium is an achievement for this Selangor PKR Indian Exco Mandore.This is the very same game his predecessor MIC Exco Mandore had been playing in the previous 50 years. This Indian Exco Mandore cannot get his ex UMNO Tuan PKR MB Selangor and a 17 year ex-UMNO No. 2 i.e., Anwar Inbrahim to solve substantive land issues for all 98 tamil schools, all hindu temples and cemeteries.

So he does this kind of wayang kulit tamil newspaper politics through his “able” ex-DAP mandore P.A Pakianathan to keep afloat and be seen as relevant among the Indian community.

How come we don’t read of these kind of cheap skate “achievements” in the Malay, English and Chinese newspaper?

Shame on this PKR Indian Exco Mandore, his tuan Selangor MB and Parti Chief Anwar Ibrahim.

A.Sugu

Tuisyen Rakyat Indians poor Indians excluded by UMNO.

UTM is a 100 % Malay Muslim only university with 120,000 undergraduates organizes tuition for poor Malay muslims but excluding almost all the poor Indians. We hardly hear of any Indians benefiting from this Tuisyen Rakyat, the same wayang kulit show pieces broadcasted on UMNO’s print and electronic media.

P.Uthaykumar

UMNO’s wayang kulit of a bag of rice to Indians only proves height of poverty.

This UMNO’s wayang kulit of giving one bag of rice to a poor Indian lady is reflective of the height of poverty among the Indians . We do not see or read of Malays or Chinese “begging” for just one bag of rice.

Giving a bag of rice is giving a fish and not giving a person the means to fish.

This Indian lady must be given the opportunity for upward mobility like the 10 acre land ownership schemes Felda, Felcra, Risda, Agropolitan, Mardi, Fama, etc which are 99.9 % denied to the Indians. Or the thousands of cow, goat, freshwater fish and shrimp farming opportunities by the Agriculture and Agro based Industries UMNO Ministry.

P.Uthayakumar

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Doors are closed on Waythamoorthy

The Malay Mail,

Hindraf leader barred from returning to Malaysia because of his anti-constitutional stance

Kharleez Zubin

KUALA LUMPUR: P. Waythamoorthy, the self-styled leader of Hindraf, who fled Malaysia for refuge in the United Kingdom, is not welcomed home.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz said the government was not willing to allow him back.

"Although he has confided he wants to return, the government has closed the doors on him," Nazri told The Malay Mail at the Parliament lobby yesterday.

Nazri said the drastic decision was made not because he was fighting for the rights of Tamils in Malaysia but because of his stance that Article 152 of the Federal Constitution concerning Malay rights be abolished.

On several occasions, Waythamoorthy, had remarked in public that the inherent rights of Malays in the constitution must be removed.

According to Nazri, the large majority of "our Tamil brothers" are loyal to the constitution and the rules but only want a bit more equality and a reasonable share of the economic cake.

In April 2008, the Malaysian authorities revoked Waythamoorthy’s passport.

He travels on a United Nations' document issued by the British Government which granted him political asylum last year after the revocation of his passport.

Presently, he resides in London after five Hindraf activists, led by its founder P. Uthayakumar, who is Waythamoorthy's elder brother, were detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in December 2007.

All five detainees were released shortly after Datuk Seri Najib Razak became Prime Minister last April.

A Tamil daily reported last week that Waythamoorthy and Hindraf adviser N. Ganesan went to the House of Commons to endear the British Parliamentarians on what he claims as the marginalisation of ethnic Indians in Malaysia.

The report added that Hindraf had joined forces with a group representing the interests of indigenous groups from Sabah and Sarawak, represented by Common Interest Group Malaysia (Cigma) activists Daniel John Jambun and Nicholas Bawin Anggat.

Both groups insisted that Britain had a historical, legal and moral obligation towards former subjects in its ex-colonies.

Ganesan alleged the Indian community, largely the descendants of indentured plantation labourers brought into Malaya by the British from Tamil Nadu, were being systematically marginalised by the government.

Last September, Waythamoorty stated he wanted the Malaysian government to give him back his passport.

He said he was prepared to take responsibility for his actions, even at the risk of being detained under the Internal Security Act.

He had also said the government owed him an apology and holds Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar, the former Home Minister, responsible for revoking his passport.

Syed Hamid, however, denied he had ordered it.

UMNO force Tamil school in containers Qualifies for Guinness Book of World Records

Tamil school pupils in SJKT Jugra in Banting have to study in a steel box, cramped up and in claustrophobic conditions because of shortage of classrooms, and 214 Tamil school pupils are cramped into six classrooms and two classes had to be held in either the library or canteen. The library and allocated space for the classes are only separated by book racks. A visit by the Malay Mail found that the library was not only lacking in reading material, it could only fit less than 15 pupils at one time. (MM 24/2/2010 at page 5).

How come this does not happen to any Malay, Islamic, Chinese or Arabic schools in Malaysia?

As usual to add insult to injury UMNO gets it’s Indian mandore to do a wayang kulit giving the impression as if UMNO had done a favour to the Indians and this is blasted in the three Tamil newspapers, Tamil Radio and TV Tamil news.

P. Uthayakumar

16, 793 voters changed address 11, 163, 409 registered voters

(Refer BH 24/02/2010 at page 6)

This is in furtherance of the Indian political empowerment strategy – where Indian voters in the first leg are to register as voters in Kulim, Perai, Buntong, Seri Andalas, Port Dickson and Tanah Rata which all have from an average of 30% to 46% Indian voters.

P. Uthayakumar.

99% Pantai Dalam stalls, Kuala Lumpur by Malays and Indonesians

Almost all the illegal stalls along Jalan Pantai Dalam leading to Pantai Hill Park are either owned and run by Malay muslims or Indonesian. Despite the traffic jam it is casing it is allowed by UMNO because the Malays benefit. The only stalls operated by Indians are a car wash and that too because the Malays do not prefer to do this business. An Indian hair stylist rents this illegal stall from a Malay.

There are a large number of illegal Indonesian stalls selling food, goring pisang, phone shops, fruit shops, etc. Hundreds of such stalls perated by the Indians have been demolished within months. But these Pantai Dalam stalls have existed for a good long 30 years already. But never mind for UMNO because it is either the Malay or Indonesian muslims who are the operators. And now this 30 years will be further extended by the Federal Territories Minister announcing that the stalls will only be demolished upon buildi\ng the new stalls.

P. Uthayakumar.

UMNOs’ RM 300 Million to Felda, Felcra and Risda. Indians excluded.

UMNO has granted RM 300 million to look at ways to improve production and market the produce of the three agencies.

But one million or so pre-existing Indian plantation workers have been completely excluded from opportunities in these ten acre land ownership schemes, but a token participation of an estimated 1% in Felda.

But for Malay-sian Prime Minister Najib this is One Malay-sia.

P. Uthayakumar.

Indians excluded by UMNO & PKR Felda’s Bisnes Tani & Pasar Tani

(UM Mega 19/2/2010 at page 1,2,3,4)

The Agriculture and Agriculture based Industry Ministry, Mardi, Fama, are all backing up the 322 Fama participants of contract farming in 949.86 hectres of land in Selangor alone.

But UMNO & PKR has deliberately excluded the poor and underprivileged Indians from this scheme.

When PKR Selangor could grant 949.86 hectres of agriculture land to the poor Malay muslims why is there not a single hectre of this Fama land ever granted to the thousands of poor and underprivileged Indians since PKR has been in power for two years now? As it stands they are no different from UMNO vis a vis the poor Indians.

P. Uthayakumar

JKKK helps (only poor Malay muslims).

The Jawatankuasa Kemajuan dan Keselamatan Kampong (JKKK), the lowest and grassroots level government body was created to help all Malaysians at the very grassroots level.

But in reality the grassroots Indians excluded from this JKKK help.

Right from the poor Indians needing welfare help, medical help, Sosco help, Indian orphans, Hindu temple and cemetery land, land for Tamil schools and Indian settlements, are all ignored or prevented from being channeled to the appropriate authorities, causing hundreds of thousands of Indians from being excluded from the national mainstream development of Malaysia by this Malay-sian JKKK.

But Prime Minister Najib Razak otherwise cries One Malay-sia.

P. Uthayakumar

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

MIC 29 year Minister Mandore “solving” peanuts in 10 B.C cases

In the very same Malaysia Nanban today 16/3/10, on the front page the 29 year MIC Minister mandore acclaims his success in dishing out Birth Certificates (B.C) for 10 Indian children all in one family, and five others. How is this an achievement for a Minister mandore of 29 years standing? Who is going to solve the maliciously UMNO created problem of 150,000 Indian children being denied Birth Certificates? Going at this rate even assuming every week it would take another 312.3 years to solve all the rest of the 149,900 Indian children being denied Birth Certificate! This is not having taken into consideration the hundreds of Indian children born on a day to day basis but denied their B.C by UMNO.

Karuna Nithi

PKR Mandore “solving” peanuts 10 B.C cases

Just before the March 8th 2008 general elections, the immediate past UMNO Menteri Besar of Selangor announced that 50,000 Indian children in Selangor do not have (have been denied) their birth certificates.

Within one month of coming to power the new PKR Selangor Menteri Besar announced RM 100 million and 1,000 acres of land in Sepang for pig farming. But this PKR Menteri Besar has refused to alienate land to all 98 Tamil schools in Selangor for a start, let alone all Hindu temples, crematoriums, Indian Settlements, land for the poor and landless Indians to rear cows and goats which was never done in UMNOs’ 50 year rule of Selangor, and now two years under the PKR rule. Is PKR saying pig farming gets priority over allocation of land for schools?

Getting to the point, this new PKR Selangor state government have been urged by HRP to set up a special Unit in the Selangor state Secretariat to undertake the task of ensuring Birth Certificates are given to all these 50,000 Indian children within a targeted six month timeframe, using the services of one executive director, five managers for five zones in Selangor, twenty supervisors and 100 full time staff to go full steam to get this job done as scheduled.

Why not this project “Selangor Sifar Dinafi B.C” when there has previously been “Selangor Sifar Setinggan 2010” project?

When Anwar Ibrahim’s PKR led Selangor state government together with DAP and PAS refuses to address this very critical Indian problem, they get their Indian MP, Exco and ADUN mandores to do a one by one Wyang Kulit paper politics in the tamil newspapers, Birth Certificate (B.C) and Identity Cards (I.C) giving ceremonies, to keep themselves “politically alive and afloat” within the Indian community. And in the case this Indian MP mandore advertising nine Indian children and one adult having been given their BC and IC. Wow! Bravo!

But what about the balance of the 49,991 Indian children being denied their Birth Certificates? Even going by this ten B.C. cases assuming even in every week, it would take another 104.1 years to solve the existing B.C being denied by UMNO cases What more the scores of new cases escalating on a day to day basis!

We need a serious, comprehensive and permanent solution to address these injustices which only requires the political will of Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and Hadi Awang. As opposed to the present MIC mandore of UMNO style of politics by these Indian mandore PKR MPs, Excos’ and ADUNs.

If not, how then is PKR, DAP and PAS any different from the 53 year old fascist UMNO regime vis a vis the critical Malaysian Indian problems, let alone the other problems.?

Karuna Nithi