PSM MP Dr.Jeyakumar ‘s reply denying HRP position on UMNO racism against the Indian poor.

UK: excuses (by PKR,DAP,PAS,PSM, NGOs’ & Indian elite)to divert and dilute the real and critical Indian problems to get to play to the 90% Malay muslim,natives and Chinese vote bank?Or so as not to risk losing the 60% malay muslim voters?Playing to the majoritarian gallery?


Dear Jayathas,
As you have agreed to put our response in your website. These are responses from both Dr.Jeyakumar and myself since the article has attacked both of us. I hope you would publish our views in full. Thank You
Arul.
Dr. Jeyakumar’s response
On March 19, Uthayakumar, the Advisor to the Human Rights Party, criticized me, Arutchelvan and the Parti Sosialis Malaysia for taking a “soft line” on “UMNO Racism” and thus serving to cover the oppression of Indians by UMNO. We, in the PSM, think that it is Uthayakumar who doesn’t understand the root causes of oppression of the Indian Poor in Malaysia, and that his ill-advised statements and actions actually make the situation worse for the Indian Poor.
However, before going into the issue of root causes of Indian poverty, I would like to place on record that though I think his analysis is wrong, I recognize Uthayakumar’s courage to stand up and speak up for what he believes is true. He has not been silenced by ISA detention and has remained consistent in the past 12 years that I have known him. Quite clearly he is impervious to attempts by the BN to buy him over. Society needs men and women who are prepared to stand by their beliefs – but these beliefs must be based on a correct analysis, otherwise such individuals might actually do more harm!.

UK:Thank you for the compliments and and we too have never doubted Dr Jayakumar’s struggle as being a lot more sincere than that of PKR,DAP or PAS’.


I also wish to place on record that the Hindraf led uprising of November 2007 was a major factor leading to the March 8^th Tsunami in the 2008 General Elections, and I too was a beneficiary of that wave of discontent against the BN. But that doesn’t mean that I will go along with Hindraf’s analysis if that is off the mark.

UK: No wonder there was a tsunami if not an avalanche of reciprocating Parliamentary Emergency Motions, RM1.00 Minister’s pay cut motions,walking out of Parliament, strenuous Parliamentary questions, Public forums, public protests etc for the real and critical Indian problems by PKR,DAP,PAS and PSM MPs’. Also pin drop silence when 53 Hindraf activists were prosecuted early March 2011 for being members of Hindraf, a minority and human rights NGO and the 300 over Hindraf activists who were arrested on the 27th Febuary 2011 Hindraf Rally. Let alone for the Hindraf lawyers who were immediately thereafter detained under ISA for 25th November 2007  Hindraf Rally.Thank god in particular the Indian poor masses stood by us until the very end the very day of our release lest we would still be languishing in Kamunting Prison.(We will welcome the long list of the aforesaid PKR,DAP,PAS and PSM ‘deeds’ for our publication in full in this our website!Believe us, we have the space!)We also have not forgotten PSMs’ official written stand that the Hindraf rally was racist and telling the people not to attend.But they did not mind the fruits of the Hindraf rally though! 


The main differences between the PSM and the Hindraf analyses are
1.  Hindraf/HRP believes that the main cause of the marginalization of poor Indians in Malaysia is the racial policies of the UMNO led government.
The PSM agrees that there is racial discrimination against the non-Malays, and that this has to be changed. But in our assessment, racial discrimination contributes only about 30% to the socio-economic problems of the Indian Poor. About 70% is due to the Capitalist system that oppresses the poor of all races through low wages, inadequate housing, eviction of communities to make way for development, privatization of basic amenities, etc.

UK: The broad based phrase non-malays has long been conveniently ‘used” by PKR,DAP, PAS, PSM,NGOs’ and the Indian elite to dilute and divert away from the far far more real and critical Indian poor problems socially engineered by UMNO racism as is reported on a day to day basis in our website www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com But which the aforesaid parties pretend does not exist.One cannot equate the Indian poor with the (non malay) especially Chinese poor which community are the economic giant that controls some 60% or so of the Malaysian economy and which in any event has 507 Chinese New Villages as their social safety net for the Chinese poor as opposed to the almost zero Indian villages for the Indian poor.There may be some temporary Indian Village names but which the racist UMNO has classified as ‘squatters” and is awaiting systematic eviction if not systematic “ethnic cleansing”.The poor Malay,Orang Asli,Iban,Kadazan etc all have thousands of their permanent ancestral villages and land as their social safety net which 99% of the Indian poor don’t have.So let us not pretend that the Indian poor equals a malay or non malay poor.
We beg to differ.Capitalism is a convenient excuse not to fight UMNO racism that has socially engineered to preserve the 70% Indian poor and to create the future Indian poor.Socialism certainly includes championing the cause of the Indian poor and against UMNO racism.


2. Hindraf/HRP believes that the best way to help the poor Indians is to mobilize all Indians to oppose UMNO. So Hindraf seizes on any issue it can that has the potential to make Indians angry with UMNO.

UK:No,Hindraf rose to fill the almost full vaccum left vacant by the almost zero takers for the non “politically rewarding” Indian problems vis a vis to fight UMNO racism.Hindraf fought without fear or favour while PKR,DAP,PAS,PSM,NGOs’ and the Indian elite pretended that it did not exist and choose to play to the aforesaid majoritarian especially the Malay muslim political gallery.On the other hand MIC and almost all the other Indian NGOs’ merely played the UMNOs’ Indian mandore role via their scores of wayang kulit propaganda on a day to day basis which is reported on a day to day basis especially in the three Tamil dailies etc.


The PSM believes that the way to help any poor community is to get down to the ground and mobilize them to fight for their rights. PSM also believes that in the longer rum, the only way to solve the problem of the Indian poor is by forming a multi-racial coalition of the poor from all ethnic groups to come together to demand a fairer share of the economic cake for all the rakyat. So the PSM tries to build solidarity among the poor of all races.

UK:Yes we agree and are still waiting for the day it really happens.


3.  Hindraf/HRP wants larger quotas for Indians – for scholarships, for university seats, for shares, contracts, for positions in local councils, etc.
The PSM says that defining quotas by ethnicity will lead to a much larger share of the quotas going to middle class Indians and the rich Indians and very little to the poor Indians. Quotas must be defined strictly by socio-economic criteria and not by ethnicity.

UK:No,Hindraf has never asked for higher quotas.We have always demanded for equal rights which is our constitutional right as is enshrined in Article 8 of the Federal Constitution.In fact our motto is “Rights not Mercy” and being up to the the sixth generation Malaysian born Indians we too are equally the sons of this soil as much as any other Malaysian.


4. Uthayakumar seems to argue that fighting for the rights of the poor in other races is a betrayal of the Indian poor as it takes our time and energy away from the Indian issues.

UK:No.One betrays the cause of the Indian poor when one pretends that for every Indian poor there is a Chinese poor.And the Indian poor is equals the Malay muslim poor for which poor when it comes to higher education,business opportunities and government jobs in particular,the sky is the limit.This is definitely not the case for the Indian poor.Why/Why not?And why does one sidestep the gravity and seriousness of the Indian poor problems as equals to every other Malaysian poor problems.Why are we in a state of denial?In short intellectual dishonesty by diluting and diverting away from the real pressing and critical Indian poor problems created by especially UMNO racism is the betrayal of the true cause of the Indian poor.



The PSM believes that our involvement in the just struggle of the non-Indian poor actually strengthens our capacity to fight for the rights of the Indian poor. In many of our pickets to prevent eviction, we draw multi-racial participation. If there are arrests of Indian settlers, within hours we can assemble a multiracial crowd in front of the Balai. Multi-racial solidarity of all the poor is the best tool to fight both class oppression and  UMNO racism.

UK:Yes.We are also still waiting for the day for this to happen.


You can’t fight Malay racism with Indian racism! For this is exactly what UMNO wants – for it helps them consolidate their support among the Malay population.

UK:Accusing one of fighting Malay racism with Indian racism is about the most convenient excuse used by especially the many liking to sound magnanimous “multi racial” Indian elite to sidestep the real and critical Indian problems which was first told to me some 20 years ago by the “multi racial” Indian elite.Thank god even as a young lawyer I did not fall into this “multi racial”Indian mindset trap.Today I analyze this to be arising out of Minority complex and Inferiority complex.For championing this cause of the Indian poor I was detained for 514 days under the ISA and on 11 other occasions and a charge of Sedition for alleging UMNOs’ “ethnic cleansing”especially with regards to the Kg Medan racial attacks targeting the Indian poor where 5 Indian poor were murdered and 100 over inflicted with grievous bodily injuries and carrying a three years jail sentence are still hanging over my head in the UMNO Courts.I have no regrets.(We have not forgotten that in this Kg Medan atrocities, the worst case of human rights violations in the history of Malaysia saw almost pin drop silence from the supposedly “multi racial” PKR,DAP,PAS,PSM,NGOs’ and the so called “multi racial “ Indian elite.


5.   Uthayakumar believes that his strong criticism of UMNO and its racism is weakening it.
The PSM believes that though Uthayakumar is sincere in opposing UMNO, his action and pronouncements which can be easily portrayed by UMNO as attacks against the Malay community, actually helps UMNO politically. Hindraf/HRP provides the perfect counter-foil to Perkasa!

UK:Unlike PKR,DAP,PAS,NGOs’ and the ‘multi racial”Indian elite, Hindraf and HRP refuse to play to the majoritarian racist political gallery nor are we prepared to become their Indian mandores.The Perkasa allegation is yet another “multi racial” Indian excuse to play to the 60% malay muslim majoritarian voter gallery and but never mind the Indian poor kena nyaya on a day to day basis.Our paramount public interest is to go by Justice,equality,equity and Human rights and not whether UMNO gets the votes or not.We leave that to the good doctor Dr.Jayakumar,PSM and his ‘multi racial’ Indian elite friends, PKR,DAP,PAS etc


These then are the main points of difference between the PSM position and the Hindraf/HRP position on the causes of the “Indian Problem” and the way to overcome it. I think it will be good to continue the debate on this, but may I suggest, lets not descend to name calling and attributing bad intentions to the other side, so that we can focus on the key issues and get these clarified.
Jeyakumar Devaraj
(PSM)  21/3/2011

UK:Mandorism is not name calling.It arose out of the 50 years of pain,suffering and misery of the Indian poor that led to the 25^th November 2007 Hindraf rally.In short Mandorism is our well thought out and defined terminology to describe Indians who help UMNO and now the PKR,DAP and PAS state governments to subjugate the Indian poor.(for full definition see our 2009 Malaysian Indian Human Rights report of a mandore and mandorism available on our aforesaid website)


We do not have the luxury to debate on this issue. One must be able to feel the Indian poor cause to know what the true Hindraf and HRP struggle is all about. Either you feel it or you don’t. To quote a Tamil proverb “If one cannot help one should not come in the way of Hindraf and HRP”. “Rights not Mercy”

We now treat this matter as closed as our real enemy is the racist and religious supremacist UMNO.

Siapa pendatang?

Penulis mengajak pembaca menilai suatu isu besar yang berada di depan mata tetapi sering tidak dibincangkan secara terbuka.

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Saya amat menyampah apabila sesiapa sahaja merujuk warganegara Malaysia daripada kalangan kaum Cina, kaum India dan “lain-lain” sebagai “pendatang” dan “bangsa asing”.

Ternyata kelompok yang menggunakan istilah berbentuk penghinaan itu tidak tahu membezakan antara “keturunan”, “kaum” dan “bangsa” serta tidak tahu sejarah dan asal-usul masyarakat pelbagai kaum di negara ini.

Sepatutnya kelompok seperti itu ditahan mengikut Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) kerana mampu menggugat keamanan dan keselamatan negara dengan membawa unsur-unsur ekstremis dan perkauman melampau.

Saya biasa mendengar penggunaan istilah “bangsa asing” dan “pendatang”; misalnya apabila kelompok tertentu (termasuk Badut Paul Lathic, tentunya) berkata, “Bangsa asing dan pendatang perlu menghormati bla bla bla …” di mana istilah itu digunakan untuk merujuk kepada mana-mana warganegara Malaysia yang bukan “kaum Melayu”.

Saya juga amat menyampah apabila kelompok tertentu bercakap mengenai penduduk di Sabah dan Sarawak bagaikan kedua-dua negeri itu bukan sebahagian daripada Malaysia!

Sering juga saya mendengar orang berkata, “Bangsa asing dan pendatang pun sudah pandai bercakap Bahasa Malaysia” di mana “bangsa asing” dan “pendatang” bukan merujuk kepada bangsa asing (bukan warganegara Malaysia) dan pendatang asing tetapi merujuk kepada sesiapa sahaja yang bukan “kaum Melayu” walaupun mereka adalah warganegara Malaysia yang berjiwa Bangsa Malaysia.

Saya berani mengatakan bahawa istilah “pendatang” dan “bangsa asing” digunakan ke atas warganegara Malaysia yang bukan “kaum Melayu” hanya oleh kelompok yang fanatik, penuh dengan kebencian, bersikap perkauman secara ekstrem serta menganggap dirinya sendiri adalah “pendatang” yang sedikit pun tidak berjiwa atau bersemangat Bangsa Malaysia.

Maka, untuk menutup hakikat kelemahan dirinya itu, mulalah individu berkenaan melabel orang lain sebagai “pendatang” dan “bangsa asing”; tidak ubah seperti kelompok tertentu yang takut bayang-bayang sendiri dalam soal penggunaan istilah “Bahasa Malaysia” apabila merujuk kepada bahasa kebangsaan dan bahasa rasmi negara ini.

Pada 26 Julai 2010, saya ada menyatakan begini pada ruangan status di laman rangkaian sosial Facebook:

“Terkejut kerana masih ada kelompok tertentu yang merujuk pada warganegara Malaysia kaum India dan kaum Cina sebagai ‘bangsa asing’ dan ‘pendatang’.”

Pelbagai reaksi dan protes peribadi

Status itu mendapat beberapa reaksi daripada rakan-rakan. Masing-masing memberikan pandangan, komen dan kritikan untuk manfaat bersama. Sekurang-kurangnya, ada ruang dan peluang untuk mereka bersuara dan menyatakan pendirian berhubung topik yang sengaja dilabel pihak tertentu sebagai “sensitif” dan “menggugat keselamatan negara”.

Pada tarikh yang sama juga, saya memutuskan untuk mengambil langkah wajar sebagai protes peribadi terhadap penghinaan yang dilakukan mana-mana pihak melalui penggunaan istilah “bangsa asing” dan “pendatang”.

Keputusan saya adalah seperti berikut; sebagaimana saya paparkan pada ruangan status di Facebook pada 26 Julai 2010:

“Sesiapa yang berpendirian bahawa warganegara Malaysia daripada kalangan kaum Cina, kaum India dan ‘lain-lain’ sebagai ‘pendatang’ dan ‘bangsa asing’ tolong segera klik Remove From Friends kerana saya tidak layak menjadi sahabat anda. Teruskanlah hidup anda yang penuh kepura-puraan.”

Dalam masa tidak sampai 24 jam, dua individu berbuat demikian. Terima kasih, Tuhan, kerana menyelamatkan saya daripada terus berkawan dengan puak ekstremis yang menggugat keamanan negara!

Bayangkan! Walaupun negara merdeka pada 1957 dan Malaysia terbentuk pada 1963, desas-desus melibatkan “pendatang” terus kedengaran pada 1960-an, 1970-an, 1980-an dan 1990-an.

Sejak kecil, saya juga sering mendengar kanak-kanak, remaja, orang dewasa dan warga emas mengatakan bahawa kaum Cina dan kaum India di negara ini tetap dilihat sebagai pendatang dan boleh “dihalau keluar pada bila-bila masa”.

Tentu sahaja sebagai seorang kanak-kanak – dan kemudian remaja – perasaan saya terguris mendengar kata-kata yang menafikan hak dan kedudukan mana-mana warga Malaysia.

Saya juga sedikit marah terhadap generasi terdahulu kaum Cina dan kaum India yang masih risau memikirkan kemungkinan mereka “dihalau keluar pada bila-bila masa” kerana kononnya mereka tetap dianggap “pendatang” walaupun mereka lahir, tinggal dan bakal meninggal dunia di sini.

Bagi saya, citra kaum India di Malaysia adalah seperti watak Madhavi dan Vijay Kumar serta datuk mereka (Kumara Kurunadhar) yang saya paparkan dalam cerpen “Nayagi” (Menara 5, 1993).

Keakraban generasi muda pelbagai kaum di Malaysia adalah seperti yang diwakili dua watak kanak-kanak dalam cerpen “Orang Pulau” (Siru Kambam, 1996).

Peristiwa 13 Mei 1969 sepatutnya sudah menjadi satu pengajaran besar. Tentu sahaja tidak mungkin berlaku bencana seperti saya gambarkan dalam sebuah faksyen berjudul “Pulau Pendatang” yang sebelum ini disiarkan secara bersiri dan eksklusif menerusi blog saya mulai Ogos 2010.

Dahulu, saya tidak faham mengapa ada kaum Cina dan kaum India yang masih “takut” sedangkan segala hak dan kedudukan mereka terjamin di bawah Perlembagaan Persekutuan, iaitu undang-undang tertinggi negara.

Gajah di depan mata

Namun, nampaknya isu “pendatang” masih berlarutan pada Alaf Baru. Pelbagai cara licik dan tidak bermaruah digunakan pihak tertentu untuk terus mempersoalkan kesetiaan rakyat negara ini.

Kreativiti dan inovasi ternyata dimanipulasi sepenuhnya dalam hal ini. Sekadar contoh, apabila kaum Cina dan kaum India kurang berminat menyertai angkatan tentera, dikatakan mereka tidak patriotik!

Mujurlah majoriti Bumiputera Sabah dan Sarawak masih kekal di negeri masing-masing. Jika tidak, mereka juga berhadapan risiko dianggap “pendatang” berdasarkan acuan yang dijadikan ukuran untuk membezakan antara “rakyat” dan “pendatang”.

Realiti yang menyedihkan di negara ini adalah bahawa sesiapa yang tidak termasuk dalam acuan budaya kaum tertentu dan/atau acuan agama tertentu secara automatik masih boleh dipertikaikan semangat patriotik mereka dan masih boleh dipanggil “pendatang”.

Dan tindakan tidak bermaruah seperti itu dianggap tidak bertentangan Perlembagaan Persekutuan. Malah, jangan lupa bahawa sehingga 24 Mac 2011, kaum India yang dilabel menggunakan gelaran tertentu dalam novel Interlok edisi murid (DBP: 2010) dianggap tidak menjadi masalah.

Di sisi lain, polemik mengenai konsep, makna dan agenda sebenar “Ketuanan Melayu” (sila bezakan dengan “Kedaulatan Melayu”) masih berlarutan dalam kalangan kaum Melayu di negara bertuah ini.

Sesiapa sahaja tentu berhak mempertikaikan hasil penelitian rambang yang saya paparkan di sini bahawa kaum Cina dan kaum India di Malaysia masih dilabel sebagai “pendatang” dan ‘bangsa asing”.

Pada masa sama, tentu sahaja mana-mana pihak yang mengakui kewujudan Tuhan tidak boleh menafikan realiti yang benar-benar wujud di depan mata berhubung perkara yang saya perkatakan.

Kita tidak memerlukan WikiLeaks untuk membantu membuka mata kita untuk melihat gajah di depan mata!

Uthaya Sankar SB tidak menolak kemungkinan dilabel sebagai “pendatang”, “pengkhianat” dan “mengancam keselamatan negara” berikutan keberaniannya mengeluarkan pandangan seperti ini. “Saya lebih rela mati di hujung pedang daripada mati kena tendang,” katanya di www.uthayasb.blogspot.com

204th Police Day today but Malay-sian police force retains criminal and racist police force tag

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Date : 25/3/2011
Re: 204^th Police Day today but Malay-sian police force retains criminal and racist police force tag.
Today marks the 204^th Police Day. We opine that it otherwise only marks 54 years of a largely criminal and racist police force.
Just as late as the end of last month, i myself even as a lawyer of 20 years standing was arrested literally right outside my doorsteps for “attempting to commit an arrestable crime” that is for attempting to attend the 27^th February 2011 Hindraf Makkal Sakthi peaceful assembly. On the same day 300 over Hindraf Makkal Sakthi Human Rights Defenders were unlawfully arrested and jailed (123 or 109 plus the 14 candle light vigillers that was acknowledged by the police)
All done with impunity and total disregard for Article 10 (1) (b) of the Federal Constitution which guarantees the right to assemble peacefully without arms.
Earlier on 13/12/2007 the police force colluded with the racist UMNO and caused my detention and that of the other Hindraf lawyers without trial for 514 days under the draconian Internal Security Act for merely championing the cause of the Indian poor. A civil suit seeking justice did not help either as even the High Courts take a pro UMNO police stand as is evidenced by the Kuala Lumpur High Court even as late as yesterday striking out my and M. Manoharan’s 514 days unlawful detention without trial ISA civil suit.
Almost everyday we get phone calls and complaints from especially the Indian poor of police abuses from gross unlawful arrests to being hurled with racist and abusive words like keling paria keling pun _ _ k etc to being manhandled, beaten up and even murdered in police custody. To the point that the Malay-sian police lock ups has even been described as “killing fields” a la Khemer Rouge.
Even in yesterday’s media reports the UMNO Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of G. Francis Udayappan who was murdered at the Brickfields police lock up and then dumped into the Klang river. The said Malaysian Court of Appeal Judges Datuk Hasan Lah, Datuk Abdul Malik Ishak & Datuk Mokhtaruddin Baki held that it was not police murder or any crime at all.
But the Malay-sian Police Force from time to time do their kosong media propaganda that they have succeeded in reducing the crime rate to even surpassing that of Interpols’. Of course they may be right going by their “arm twisting” standards of arresting mere suspects, beating them up to a pulp and then forcing up to 99 of in particular the Indian poor “suspects” to plead guilty irrespective of their guilt, which they almost always do as they cannot even afford to raise the bail what more to pay lawyers (minus the Western civil society standards Legal Aid) and with no or very little family support.
Many IGP’s have come and gone with their five year plans but it is not working. (see NST 25/3/2011 at page 18). In the 54 years of independence the Malay-sian police force has shamefully come to be known by many Malaysians as “Polis Raja di Malaysia”.
In my twenty years as a Human Rights lawyer and Legal Adviser to the Police Watch and Human Rights Committee, the Malay-sian Police Force has obviously not got better . The change can only come when there is a change of the racist UMNO leadership at Putrajaya and perhaps the Army Chief being unprecedentedly appointed the new Inspector General of Police to overhaul the entire “Polis Raja Di Malaysia” culture and mindset from the roots.
In conclusion the Malay-sian police are far from “putting a human face to the forces. (see Starmetro 25/3/2011 at page M 4).
P. Uthayakumar
Secretary General (pro tem)

1,900 Batu Caves Tamil School children and 120,000 others nationwide denied even a School Hall under racist UMNO agenda.

(see SH 25/3/2011 at page S8)

Interlok: Umno’s subjudicationist and racist agenda against the Indian poor

From P Uthayakumar,
Umno’s insistence on retaining Interlok after all the public outcry and allowing only 19 out of 106 proposed amendments is akin to proposing the editing of Satanic Verses and lifting its ban in Malaysia.

What is the motive for still being adamant on retaining this book if not for Umno’s racist and supremacist agenda in continuing to subjudicate especially the Indian poor?

It is in direct contravention of Articles 8 and 12 of the Federal Constitution which guarantees equality before the law and that there shall be no discrimination against any citizen on the grounds only of religion, race, descent or place of birth.

We are unable to accept the book whose original version had the racially insulting and derogatory and degressive “paria” word, “dark skinned Indians”, “memamah sireh seperti kambing”, etc. as the racist basis and thereafter retaining the remaining parts in the book for example replacing “paria” with “golongan yang sama”.

The Umno education minister by accepting a mere 20% or 19 out of the 106 amendments proposed by the Interlok panel makes a mockery of the said independent panel. The three Indian representatives were, as usual, ultimately made use of to endorse Umno’s racism.

The lesson yet again learnt from this is that the Indian elite should in future refrain from accepting such “Indian mandore” positions.

We once again call for Interlok to be replaced by the Nov 25, 2007 Hindraf Rally novel by P Uthayakumar (see www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com).

It analyses amongst others the real racial and religious harmony and co-existence that existed even immediately after independence 54 years ago, and which has today regretfully ceased to exist, and the gross acts of Umno racism that led to Nov 25 Indian poor popular uprising.

Also in the hope that the present Form Five Malay, Muslim students in particular, as the future leaders would be able to better understand and hopefully undo the gross injustices meted out to especially the Malaysian Indian poor.

Irrespective, HRP and Hindraf will continue with our struggle beyond Interlok which is really Umno racism on a day to basis meted out against the Indian poor.

Our latest firm and uncompromising stand against Umno racism and religious supremacy is evidenced by the 53 Hindraf Makkal Sakthi human rights defenders being maliciously prosecuted within one week of this month alone.

They are the only human rights activists in the world to have ever been prosecuted for merely being a member of a human rights NGO. Over 300 were arrested on Feb 27, Hindraf rally alone (123 or 109 plus the 14 candle light vigillers officially acknowledged by police).

The writer is pro tem secretary general of the Human Rights Party

Hindraf will not let Interlok rest

The movement's chairman P Waythamoorthy also slams Muhyiddin Yassin for using high-handed tactics to silence the critics.

PETALING JAYA: Hindraf Makkal Sakthi has vowed not to close the chapter on the Interlok controversy until the government withdraws the book from schools.

In a statement, its chairman P Waythamoorthy also took Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to task for using “high-handed” tactics to silence the critics.

“Muhyiddin, with the the support of his toothless allies encourage segregation of Malaysians by retaining such sardonic literature in the school curriculum for juveniles.

“By using media tools such as Utusan Malaysia and Malay Mail to defend its act, it shows that Umno is adamant in perpetuating its ‘master and slave methodology’ between the Malay supremacists and the minorities,” he said.

Upset that the government rejected reasoning and concerns voiced by various NGOs, Waythamoorthy called on the public to rise against the blatant disregard for the feelings of the minorities.

“And we must ensure that the minorities’ future generations will prosper in tandem with the majority instead of having their sacrifice hijacked by a fascist Umno,” he said.

Yesterday, Muhyiddin, who is also education minister, announced that the government had either dropped, changed or substituted 19 parts considered offensive by the Indian community from the novel.

He explained that the changes were made following the recommendations by the independent panel set in January to review the controversial novel.

Among the words substituted was the word “tuhan” with “dewa” and also the dropping of the phrase “orang berkulit hitam” (dark-skinned people).

The remaining 87 parts recommended were not considered offensive by the government.

Unhappy with the outcome, DAP’s Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran traded verbal blows with Muhyiddin in Parliament when the latter said the novel would continue to be used in schools.

Muhyiddin defended his decision by saying that even MIC had agreed to the amendments.

HOW TO PROTEST AGAINST INTERLOK ONCE AGAIN?

By Johnson Doss,

The Education Minister have broken his silence ...He said "The government today confirmed the retention of the controversial “Interlok” novel for the secondary school syllabus, choosing only to amend parts deemed insensitive to the country’s Tamil community.

At last we know , he have made his stand on the interlok issue.

Now , what are we going to do about that?

Lets be united now in this issue of INTERLOK , lets state our disagreement about this book for our children in School . Our panel have staged a walk out and still they don't want to listen to the views of 3 Indian educationist . what does that means then ...and why are the 3 was put into the panel for what purpose.

According to a friend of mine, a secondary Bahasa Teacher said , Interlok is a Bahasa Malaysia paper 2 subject of which interlok is one of the novel to be studied by the students. In SPM examination , these questions pertaining Interlok carries a mark of 20% the maximum. ( pleas correct me if i am wrong in this issue)
So, Indian students need this 20% for getting a A+ or A- or A for SPM Bahasa paper. That's a reality and a fact now.

Lets examine these carefully through this 2 examples of choices :-

1) Say that our INDIAN students refuse to take up INTERLOK and just sit in the class ... They will be asked to do work on interlok as homework , failing to they can be given 3 times warning , then suspension and thrown out of school. If this students sit for SPM exam and just leave it blank on INTERLOK question ,,then they will lose abt 20% of thier marks making them to obtain a B or C for Bahasa Malaysia.They can secure few % if they write somethings in the interlok issue as this is a written paper and it carries some marks and maybe our students will get about 5 or 6 % out of it. This students will not get all straight A's for SPM for sure . They will able to secure a place in Universities or collages too. If they opt out to work , they still can find a job in government sector for a credit in Bahasa Malaysia.

That's how I look at it at this moment of time ? Are we ready to accept this fact and continue to ask our kids not to study INTERLOK.

2) Say that our students take up INTERLOK but refuse to write the Bahasa Paper 2 on the part of interlok in the SPM examination ...just leaving it blank but doing homework at the classroom level... ignore but just write some nonsense into their homework sheets just like the Indian students doesn't understand INTERLOK ( buat blur aje), then the school can't punish them. if this students sit for SPM exam and leave it blank , They will lose abt 20% of thier marks making them to obtain a B or C for Bahasa Malaysia. This students will not get all straight A's for SPM for sure . They will able to secure a place in Universities or collages too. If they opt out to work , they still can find a job in government sector for a credit in Bahasa Malaysia. They can secure few % if they write somethings in the interlok issue as this is a written paper and it carries some marks and maybe our students will get about 5 or 6 % out of it.They can secure few % if they write somethings in the interlok issue as this is a written paper and it carries some marks and maybe our students will get about 5 or 6 % out of it.

So that's how i look at it .... Are we ready to stand firm in this matter ... shall we ask our Indian students to ignore or to follow the rules of the education ministry. I am abit upset about it now .... my fear is our INDIAN students become victims of a stupid INTERLOK.

My genuine suggestion ....

Lets united and fight against this stupid INTERLOK , we create rally and picket and sent our Indian's again to the street . Lets invite foreign TV network such as CNN, BBC, ALjazerra and others worldwide to televise our plights. Lets go again to the streets ( NON VIOLENCE and NO FIGHTING ) AND DEMONSTRATE OUR REMORSE OF INTERLOK ....

Listen dear Parents ,

HINDRAF fights an NON VIOLENCE fight .... be with us and come together for the sake of our own kids now and in future FORM 5 students . WE need to remove Interlok .... forget of other things especially which party we belong to or which group we belong to . Let us for once come as INDIANS , no matter what political parties we belong to. Be it MIC, PPP, DAP, KEADILAN, HINDRAF OR WHATEVER PARTY WE BELONG TO. LETS JOIN HANDS AND FACE THE INTERLOK ISSUE.

FOR PARENTS, COME AS IT INVOLVES YOUR KIDS FUTURE, NO MATTER YR SON OR YR DAUGHTER IS IN STANDARD ONE OR FORM 5, REMIND YOUR GOOD-SELF THAT ONE DAY YOUR OWN KIDS WILL GO THRU IT TOO ... THERE IS NO RUN AWAY CASE IN THIS MATTER.... LETS FACE IT.

I pledge and want commitment from all INDIAN'S from all background, profession, big, small, INDIAN Tan Sri, Datoks, and all layman ...come one come all ...for the sake of our poor INDIAN children ...please i beg all of you.

Start talking about Interlok and get a copy and read it yourselves and understand what a discrimination we are being held to... then only ...we would able to stand tall and demonstrate our non giving in to this stupid book called INTERLOK.

Racist and biased UMNO Court of Appeal led by C.J Tun Zaki Tun Azmi clears Malay-sian police murderers of G. Francis Udayappan at Malay-sian police station – killing fields of Indians. See gruesome photos below.

Francis Udayappan was murdered at the Brickfields police station and thrown into the Klang River behind that very same police station.
It was the clearest case ever of the Malay police murdering this soft target Indian youth.
P. Uthayakumar, S. Jayathas and ten others were arrested for holding a peaceful assembly and carrying a mock coffin to the Brickfields police station in April 2005.
Francis’ body was kept at the P.J University Hospital for nearly 2 years. Francis head with injuries was destroyed and only parts of the skull and a highly decomposed flesh and bones were handed over to his mother Sara Lily and that too about 2 years later.
We had no confidence in the Inquest at the K.L magistrates Court and heard by Malay muslim coroner Mohd. Sham.
And now the 95% Malay muslim dominated Malay-sian Judiciary and in the Court of Appeal Judges Datuk Hasan Lah, Datuk Abdul Malik Ishak & Datuk Mokhtaruddin Baki after 6 years decides that the police did not murder Francis.
So who murdered Francis then? And right in the heart of the UMNO Malay muslim police station killing field of in particular Indian youths.
(see Utusan Malaysia 24/3/2011 at page 33)
Karunai Nithi @ Compassionate Justice

Interlok karya propaganda Umno

Menurut Lee Ban Chen, ia juga menonjolkan semangat Ketuanan Melayu.

KUALA LUMPUR: Kolumnis Malaysiakini dan Merdeka Review, Lee Ban Chen menyifatkan karya Sasterawan Negara Abdullah Hussain Interlok ‘berunsur politik dalam kerangka Umno’.

“Ia mempertahankan dasar ideologi Umno yang diwarisi daripada penjajah British. Ideologi ini dipupuk agar kerajaan negara ini menjadi kerajaan boneka British,” kata Lee pada forum bertajuk “Interlok: Antara Kesusasteraan, Pendidikan dan Hubungan Kaum” di sini malam tadi.

Ideologi Umno, jelasnya adalah berteraskan Ketuanan Melayu, pro-British, anti-rakyat dan anti-komunis.

Beliau turut mengecam gambaran tentera komunis yang digambarkan sebagai perogol.

“Komunis bukan perogol. Mereka cukup berdisiplin. Apakah kita lupa bahawa mereka membela negara ini?,” Lee menyoal sambil menegaskan bahawa keadilan mesti diberikan kepada tentera komunis anti-Jepun dan anti-British.

‘Karya tempang’

Profesor Dr Chong Fah Hing dari Fakulti Bahasa dan Komunikasi, Universiti Putra Malaysia pula menyifatkan Interlok sebagai ‘karya tempang’.

Dari sudut ilmiah, karya Abdullah Hussain ini juga tidak menepati definasi sastera dunia ketiga yang menitikberatkan nasionalisme.

“Abdullah Hussain hanya melihat nasionalisme Melayu dan menekan nasionalisme masyarakat lain lantas menjadikan novel ini tempang.”

Dalam analisanya terhadap kontroversi ini beliau telah menempelak pendirian Persatuan Penulis Nasional (Pena).

“Alasan Pena ialah Interlok edisi murid perlu dikekalkan untuk menjaga maruah Melayu? Apa kena-mengena Interlok dengan menjaga maruah Melayu?,” Chong menimbulkan persoalan.

Pandangan empat Sasterawan Negara yang mempertahankan Interlok atas alasan karya ini membicarakan aspek kemanusiaan turut disangkal sebagai kaedah mengaburkan permasalahan sebenar yang menekankan aspek imigran.

Beliau menambah bahawa Interlok juga merupakan karya bermasalah kerana condong kepada politik Umno-Barisan Nasional dan prejudis terhadap pergerakan nasionalisme kiri.

‘Rasisme wujud dan diinstitusikan’

Sementara itu, pensyarah undang-undang dari Universiti Malaya, Profesor Madya Azmi Sharom berhujah bahawa anugerah Sasterawan Negara tidak bermakna karya yang dihasilkan adalah bagus.

Beliau turut menjelaskan bahawa karya-karya berbaur perkauman boleh diterbitkan di Barat kerana masyarakat di sana menolak perkauman atas alasan bahawa ia adalah salah.

“Masalah kita adalah kita belum sampai ke tahap di mana masyarakat kita mengatakan rasisme adalah salah kerana ia wujud dan telah diinstitusikan.”

Beliau turut menyifatkan negara ini gagal mengambil pendekatan intelek untuk menyelesaikan permasalahan berkaitan Interlok kerana sikap hipokrasi.

Selain mereka, forum ini turut disertai Presiden Persatuan Kavyan, Uthaya Sankar SB dan Pengerusi Badan Bertindak Interlok Kebangsaan (Niat), Dato’ Thasleem Mohamed Ibrahim.

Ketika berhadapan dengan persoalan mengapa kerajaan liat untuk menarik balik Interlok, Azmi berkata, “kerajaan takut berhadapan dengan kumpulan pendesak perkauman Melayu seperti Perkasa.”

Selain daripada Ahli Parlimen Ipoh Barat M Kulasegaran, forum turut dihadiri Ahli Parlimen Bukit Mertajam, Chong Eng dan M Manogaran (Telok Intan). Ketiga-tiga mereka dari parti DAP.

Kira-kira 70 peserta menghadiri forum anjuran Pusat Pembangunan Kebudayaan (LLG), Dewan Perhimpunan Cina Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor, Niat dan pertubuhan hak asasi Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram).

Court throws out ex-ISA detainees’ RM200m suit

Former ISA detainees M Manoharan and P Uthayakumar lose their bid to sue Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and five others.

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here today dismissed a RM200-million suit brought by former Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees M Manoharan and P Uthayakumar against Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and five others.

Judicial Commissioner Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal allowed the application by Najib and the five others to strike out the suit after hearing submissions from Manoharan, who represented himself and Uthayakumar, and senior federal counsel Najib Zakaria and Azizan Md Arshad who appeared for Najib and the others.

The five others are former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan, the Taiping detention centre superintendent and the government.

Azizan told reporters the judge allowed the application with RM5,000 costs.

When asked for the grounds on which the application was granted, Azizan said there was no issue to be tried in the suit filed by the two ISA detainees.

He said he had submitted that the claim and the damages sought by the plaintiff in the suit could not be sustained as the High Court had ruled in their habeas corpus application that their detention was lawful.

Manoharan said he would appeal against today’s outcome.

In the striking-out application, Najib and the five other defendants said the suit filed by Manoharan and Uthayakumar on Dec 9 last year was frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of the court process.

They said the suit was directly related to a case which had been disposed of by the High Court and Federal Court.

In their suit, Manoharan and Uthayakumar had sought RM100 million each in damages and an annual interest of 8% on the grounds that they had been wrongfully detained for 514 days from Dec 13, 2007, to May 9, 2009.

-Bernama

Does it feel like a bunch of gangsters are running this country?

By Naragan,

The most recent act by UMNO to try and kill off Anwar with a lowly sex video moved me to write this article. Because it increasingly feels like we are living in a country run by gangsters.

What characterizes gangsters? Is there any difference between what gangsters do and what UMNO is doing?

Use of force, fear, bribes, threats, violence, deceit, unchallengeable positions, indulgence, and parasitic existence and not worrying about appearances would be a reasonable answer to the first question.

To answer the second question “Is there any difference?” I will examine how UMNO performs in many of these dimensions to answer that question.

1) Force –The Police, the Attorney General’s office, the Courts (I will call them the Unholy Trio from now on) are the instruments of force of UMNO.
You see them figuring prominently in all occasions where UMNO’s lawlessness are questioned. Being involved with Hindraf Makkal Sakthi, I can tell you that, without batting an eyelid– our people are constantly threatened with detention under ISA, or with charges of sedition, or are charged with being involved in an illegal organization after UMNO unconstitutionally and unlawfully outlawed Hindraf. The form of force used and the way it is administered may vary in specifics between the gangsters and UMNO but in essence they are the same – UMNO and the gangsters equally resort to force because that is the sole source of their power. UMNO has lost its moral legitimacy in its claim for power and hangs on to power only because of the control of the instruments of force – the Unholy Trio being the prime instruments. The gangsters never had moral or legitimate basis for claims to power, their claim to power hinges only on one thing – the use of raw and brutal force.

2) Fear – UMNO so readily instills fear just like the local gangsters.
UMNO uses the Unholy Trio along with the Media, and when necessary the underworld members to achieve this. The Police have a special unit the Special Branch just for this – the Malaysian Gestapo. Every so often we see battalions of the Light Strike Force or the Federal Reserve Units to disallow, to disrupt, to frighten off citizen’s gatherings. You should have seen the hundreds at the anti –Interlok forums throughout the country and the thousands at KLCC for Hindraf’s Solidarity March against UMNO’s racism. This is exactly what the local gang boss. Putting in the fear of god they say. What the gang boss does is what UMNO is doing.

3) Threats – The laws enacted by UMNO – ISA, Publishing and Printing Presses Act, Official Secrets Act, Seditions Act, Police Act and even the MACC are all actually devices crafted by UMNO that threaten all those that dare cross the line.
This is the primary purpose of these acts and organizations, though more noble intentions are proffered to legitimize them. But the true intentions of these are to act as a sword over the heads of any that dare. The Media for its part carries statements from time to time from the Ministers, from the IGP, from the Attorney General,from UMNO stalwarts, from Right wing Perkasa or carries images and reports of the Police overpowering any attempts to challenge them or of right wing demonstrations threatening the rest. But the purpose is one – to pre-empt potential trouble makers. The gang bosses just use outright threats, they do not need these more sophisticated devices. As the saying goes, cut the throat of one chicken in front of all the monkeys so the monkeys will behave themselves. In that sense the devices of threatening may be different but both UMNO and Gangsters use threats to remain in power.

4) Violence – What happened in Kampung Medan in 2005 is a clear example of the workings of the Unholy Trio, the Media and the underworld in the meting out violence whenever they see a need.
A little further back we had the May 13th riots and May 13th is still a keyword for violence . Hundreds of police killing and maiming continue till today in UMNO’s Police Stations. The Police in the fore and the Armed Forces at the back are nothing more than UMNO’s killing machines. The threat of violence that UMNO can unleash, should it decide to, is what holds much of the opposition back. Violence is the bread and butter of gangsters and it is the bread and butter of UMNO. UMNO and the gangsters understand this very well.

5) Bribes – When expediency requires and it is wiser, then UMNO bribes to clear their way of trouble makers.
They buy up leaders of groups outside their circle of influence. They make “mafia offers”. They use skeletons in cupboards to assist them, as we see regularly happening in buying up of the opposition members of the legislature. Other forms of bribe, we see at election times. There is a free flow of gifts, goodies and promises. These are tidbits used to corrupt and remove obstacles or create perceptions while UMNO walks away with the loot – to UMNO these bribes are nothing more than the cost of doing business. Gangsters for their part use bribes to share their bounty when attempting to get at very large bounties. It is a cost of doing business for them too.

6) Unchallengeable positions – UMNO’s positions on issues are unchallengeable, just like it is with the local gangster. You challenge at the risk of losing everything. 

When you challenge they fight tooth and nail so you do not get what you seek, on the contrary they make you lose further with intense vindictiveness. Case in point is the Interlok novel. The book remains in the curriculum and the rest who voiced dissatisfaction get beaten up and charged in courts for speaking up, but the book remains in the curriculum.
Another clear case in point is what UMNO is doing to Anwar Ibrahim. He gets all kinds of s*** thrown at him and with increasing frequency just because he dares to challenge the UMNOPutras. Challenge at great personal risk – they will ruin you if they can. Their position must not be challenged. This is very clearly the ways of gangsters too. The hallmark of a gangleader is one who has overcome all those who have challenged him and anyone who challenges the leader must lose or the leader loses his basis to continue
as a leader. Exactly the case with Najib –ala UMNO and UMNO ala the people.

7) Deceit – “Biji setelor, rio sekampung” as the Malay proverb goes. UMNO throws a tid bit here, a tidbit there and the media steps in and creates perceptions of a totally benevolent and caring UMNO.
UMNO holds the reins of the media tight. UMNO is able to manufacture perceptions in people that are so far removed from the truth that the lies are more real the reality itself. You speak the truth and no one listens to you, for they think you distort, for personal advantage. UMNO has established monopoly over their minds and UMNO will do with it what they want. They deceive the people and leave the rest of us biting the mud.

UMNO caught between getting the non-Malay votes and increasing their appeal to the Malays use their outsource vehicle, Perkasa to create a perception of the Malays losing out to the non-Malays because the Malays are split. The reality is both the Malay And non-Malay people are losing out to the UMNO leaders and their Non-Malay elite accomplices as they use this perception to delude the people and walk off with the loot. No one really listens to this truth, they think it is distorted for personal use. This is a very refined deceit-making machine that we are up against.

On this count UMNO has improved over the gangsters, recognizing they have to operate within a community of nations and have to be seen to be in accord with norms of civilization. They worry about how they will be perceived, they need to legitimize their position, the gangster does not have to.

So, except for this last point there is really not much difference between gangsters running this country and UMNO running this country. UMNO is nothing short of being dignified gangsters. This truth may look far- fetched, but you think about what I have said, deeply. Just think about it.

If you agree, then do not be the person UMNO, the gangster wants you to be, the meek and powerless person. Look at what is happening in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen. When all the people get together, the empire crumbles, because the true sovereign is the people united. We have to move out and into the light, to a future based on competence, not on force.

The people have to get out from the grips of gangsters.

'Pariah' dropped from Interlok, says Muhyiddin

The word 'pariah' has been dropped from the secondary school Malay literature textbook 'Interlok', Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said.

He said the word, which sparked a firestorm of protests from the Indian community, is among several references deemed offensive to Indians which have been omitted from the version used in schools.

Muhyiddin said the independent panel set up to study the novel, which included three Indian representatives, have unanimously agreed to replace the word pariah with "golongan yang sama" (the same group).

"With the agreement that was reached, the (Education) Ministry considers this issue solved," he said during question time in Parliament today.

Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said the panel had also gone through a total of 106 amendment proposals to the school version of the novel, presented by the Indian representatives on the panel to the government.

The list however was whittled down to 19 issues that the panel deemed related to the sensitivities of the Indian community.

Of the 19 issues, three were considered solved with the omission of the word 'pariah' from the novel, while the panel ruled that three other issues - the fact that Hindus revere the cow as a holy animal, the safety of Maniam's wife in India and the description of an Indian wedding as tedious - did not touch on Indian sensitivities.

Seven other issues were marked with errata for editing or omission while six more issues raised were solved by changing the word 'tuhan' with 'dewa' and by dropping the phrase 'orang berkulit hitam' (blacked skinned people) from the novel.

“The ministry will include a glossary to explain various phrases and concepts in the novel Interlok, to help students understand the text and context of the novel that presents a harmonious life in our country's multi-racial society,” Muhyiddin said.

'What Indian representatives?'

M Kulasegaran (DAP-Ipoh Barat), however, stood to interject mid-way into the Deputy Prime Minister's answer, accusing the latter of being an agent provocateur for even allowing the controversial book to be used as a school reference.

Launching into a nearly 20-minute tirade, Kulasegaran charged that Muhyiddin was giving in to “racist NGOs” such as Gapena in defending the use of 'Interlok' as a school reference, while also denying that the three Indian representatives were part of the panel.

Kulasegaran's interjection sparked a prolonged war of words between backbenchers and opposition members, even testing the patience of the usually calm deputy speaker Ronald Kiandee - who for the first time hammered the mallet to call for order.

Later, at a press conference in the Parliament lobby, Kulasegaran repeated that it is not true that the three Indian representatives were even on the panel, maintaining the claim that they had quit the panel over its rejection of some 100 recommendations on the book.

He said one of the Indian representatives who withdrew, Uthaya Sankar SB, again confirmed that they quit the panel during a forum on Interlok held at the KL and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall last night.

“What is shocking is that MIC agreed (with the panel). MIC is a double-headed snake, as they can tell the Tamil newspapers that they are against it but tell the government that they support.

“It is astonishing and I am flabbergasted by the whole thing. It shows something is very wrong in this country,” he said.

Kulasegaran stressed that the government needs to come up with a consistent education policy and not allow controversial books such as 'Interlok' to be used as school references.

“If they can use 'Interlok', then why not use 'Shit'? They banned that book, but what is the difference? The Deputy Prime Minister is trying to justify the little napoleons in his ministry who made the decision to use the book,” he said, making a reference to the banned political satire book written by Shahnon Ahmad.

HOW WE GOING TO UNITE .... INDIANS AS ONE COMMUNITY UNDER HINDRAF

By, Johnson Doss

My brother Sara Be My asked just now ( HOW WE ARE GOING TO UNITE) ,,,, so i would like to suggest the followings for our brothers and sisters to read and see how can we do it to create oneness among Indian's.

Indian's are always symbolized with the crab story ,,,, well how far that is true ..no one knows .... but it has been proven that's the case in most places whether it is in our home, business or with out friends and community.

Unity means oneness in thought, feelings, caring, love and sacrifice .... and much more ... Unity can be achieved even-tho it takes a lot of effort, time and sacrifice and it wont be a easy task as it comes from the time we are born and we are fed with the meaning of unity by our parents and their example of self sacrifice. It means we who are working towards unity might not even see it in our life time. That's a fact and reality .... we must accept it ...

1ST AND FOREMOST .... Are we ready to stand to gather, when we are faced with challenges no matter what the issue is all about .... are we able to put our differences and stand to gather when a issue is need to be addressed in public or in private , Are we willing to go to the extend losing our government job or corporate positions when we Indian's are challenged .
Please ask your kind self first these questions before we talk about Unity ,,,as i told u it have many obstacles and challenges and sacrifices before we could even stand united .

ARE WE PREPARED FOR ALL THIS ???????

If we are prepared then to gather we can achieve all that we desire as a community and for the generation of our children in near future. So far, of my observation .... only about 30% or so will dare to stand united ,,,, many will shame away .... Our problem is not new ,,, its have been within us for more then donkey years now. Giving you a example .... THE MAIKA issue ,,,,, when the shares are not been evenly distributed and only a handful took advantage of it ... ( THE MIC leadership made the most of it ) so many poor estate Indian's was cheated ... how would the poor people felt at that moment of time when their Life savings just gone into the think air before them . IF we would stood up for the truth and made pickets like what HINDRAF is doing now with the government ,,,, i am very sure the poor would have got their investment back. We were all minding our own business and our own backyard , not caring for the poor estate Indian's... This includes me ... I was busy talking and shouting about the scam in the mamak shop but whats the use of it .... nothing came out from my shouting ..i was just barking at the mountains ... i tell u today , thinking of that ...make me ashamed of being an Indian for another Indian. My heart burns as i write it down now .... If only i would have a group like this with all of you supporting ...I would dare to fight against the SCAM at that moment . I would also dare to shoot down those culprits if i possess a gun at that moment of time .
TODAY, seeing that even MIC have done that to my fellow poor estate Indians, the UMNO putras have dared to go further. Lets ask ourselves, who gave this UMNO such an opportunity to ridicule and step on our heads . It was us . We would be respected if that day we stand UNITED to fight for poor estate Indian's. They smelled our weakness and they took controlled of it ... NOW we face all this challenges such as Interlok, HINDRAF registration, Tamil schools, temple demolishing, chances for best Indian students and much more to come in future.

To be united ... we have to first prepare ourselves to be the sacrifice lamb. Going In and Out of prison , be battered in a rally , be injured, be prosecuted and jailed. ARE WE PREPARED FOR ALL THIS ??? Ask this questions first please.

I want to get committed Indian's to come forward and lets go all out till our life goes for fighting for INDIAN rights. FIGHTING means dying without violence not killing other people ,,, that's what i meant.

REMEMBER THIS PEOPLE :-

JESUS DIED FOR THE CHRISTIANS
MAHATMA GANDHI DIED FOR INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA
BUDDHA LEFT NAKED FROM THE COURTYARD
NELSON MANDELA SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON

For Indian's unity to take its kingdom, we have to get all this first .

1) I like to start with a fund for HINDRAF first , if only every working Indian could donate RM2 ringgit per month , then we have money to face many challenges. If we have about 500,000 working Indians then we have a monthly collection of RM1 million. The money will able us to fight against court cases and also bail out many poor Indian's who fought during the rally lately .. Just imagine, how many willing to go and fight for Indian's rights knowing that they will be bailed out soon. Within a year we would have a funds of RM12 million without much fuss and problem. Its just a cup of tea that we are going to sacrifice for a month . Isn't that a piratical type of fundings.

2) We need young professionals ( police officers, lawyers, doctors, human rights personnel, professors, academicians) and university students to be in our team too, with them we could do wonders. Just imagine, when a rally is going on and the we are battered , we have doctors treating our Indian fighters, human rights doing their demands, professors and academicians putting up write ups and TV coverage throughout the world. Indian police officers to could give us input on the issue. THAT'S unity my friends.

3) We need friend get friend registration. If a Hindraf supporters could get his classmate, his mother, father, brothers and sisters and his relatives to support HINDRAF, then we have numbers. Just a scenario for example, for PRU 13, we are advice not to exercise our voting rights ...and HINDRAF Leadership says ... INDIAN's don't vote. What will happen then if the whole Indian's in Malaysia stop voting for PRU13 . Imagine , how all this UMNO putra's will be running and begging us for votes so are the PAKATAN group .... Have we thought of that ..
Won't for a change, we control the demands, we all looking for to be
FULFILLED AND HEARD .

4) All this can be achieved, not a problem if every Indian believes in HINDRAF struggles. My questions are ...why Utayakumar , Jayathas and some leaders always be the arrested. WHY NOT ALL OF US TO GATHER BE ARRESTED... WILL THE POLICE LOCK UPS HAVE ENOUGH PLACE FOR ALL OF US TO BE ROUNDED, NO WAY THEY WILL PUT US INSIDE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE WHOLE INDIAN COMMUNITY LOCKED UP. WHAT CAN THEY DO .... I TELL U TODAY, THEY WONT DARE TO DO IT . ONLY WITH THIS KIND OF MASS INDIAN SUPPORT WE COULD DEFEAT ANY OBSTACLES AND CHALLANGES.

SO, my brothers if we want Indian's future generations to be respected and dignified, we have to stand united today, do this starting today and spread the word to all our Indian friends ...we sure will win the fight ... GOD BLESS US Indian's

Attempted murder and arson on 9 Indian houses within 5 days. Zero prosecution by racist UMNO A.G. Gani Patail unlike done on 53 Hindraf activists.

(See Malaysia Nanban headlines 23/3/2011 & Makkal Osai 23/3/2011 at 1st page)
There is the developer of this land who this Indian villagers allege is the prime suspect. The police did not conduct swift investigations and the attorney general has refused to prosecute as swiftly as he did for the 53 Hindraf activist for merely being members of a supposedly minority and human rights NGO ie Hindraf, the world’s only human rights NGO to have been outlawed.
The racist UMNO has been using Attorney General Gani Patail and his predecessors  to keep the Indian poor subservient to UMNO’s racist and religious supremacist  policies inflicted on the Indian poor on a day to day basis.
While the racist UMNO is the real culprit by commission, these atrocities becomes the order of the day because of the omission by the supposed multi-racial PKR, DAP and PAS and their Indian mandore MPs’ and leaders and including the Indian elite.
One may ask ‘why are we fighting every one’,  and our answer is it is because of this “everyone” that the Indian poor are in pain, suffering and mysery has got to this level.
As we are not politicians per se we are forced to fight everybody!

What is plain and obvious here is the PKR Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim has refused to even provide basic infrastructure namely road, electricity and water supply in order for the said 47 poor Indian villagers to relocate to. Where is the change vis a vis the UMNO regime? And we have not forgotten that the Indian poor had in the March 2008 general elections we had unconditionally voted for PKR, DAP and PAS which formed the Selangor State government.
And in return this is how the Malay muslim Yayasan Kebajikan Selangor alone had been alienated 1,000 hectres of land in the very same Hulu Selangor area within three months of pledging during the Hulu Selangor by-elections, but none to displaced Indians, temples, schools and cemeteries.
Karunai  Nithi @ Compassionate Justice

Interlok: Tugas panel bebas selesai

Ini adalah berdasarkan saranan pindaan yang telahpun dikemukakan seperti yang diputuskan pada 4 Mac.

PETALING JAYA: Walaupun terdapat ura-ura bahawa Panel Bebas Mengkaji Pindaan Novel Interlok akan bermesyuarat hari ini, ketiga-tiga wakil kaum India tetap menganggap tugas panel bebas itu sudah selesai.
Berikut kenyataan bersama Dr N. S. Rajendran, G. Krishnabahawan dan Uthaya Sankar SB seperti disiarkan di blog www.uthayasb.blogspot.com hari ini:

1. Pada 4 Mac 2011, Panel Bebas Mengkaji Pindaan Novel Interlok Edisi Murid Karya Sasterawan Negara Datuk Abdullah Hussain sudah menyelesaikan sepenuhnya tugas dan tanggungjawab yang diamanahkan oleh Menteri Pelajaran mengikut terma rujukan yang ditetapkan.
2. Pada 4 Mac 2011, Panel Bebas memperakukan secara konsensus segala cadangan pindaan novel Interlok edisi murid (DBP: 2010).
3. Pada jam 12 tengah hari, 4 Mac lalu, selepas tugas Panel Bebas selesai sepenuhnya, Pengerusi Panel Bebas, Profesor Datuk Shamsul Amri Baharuddin mengisytiharkan Panel Bebas sudah “tamat tugas” secara rasmi.
4. Laporan mengandungi kesemua cadangan pindaan yang diperakukan secara konsensus itu diserahkan oleh Pengerusi Panel Bebas, Profesor  Shamsul Amri kepada Menteri Pelajaran. Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
5. Kini, terserah kepada Menteri Pelajaran dan Kabinet untuk membuat keputusan berdasarkan cadangan pindaan yang diperakukan secara konsensus pada 4 Mac lalu oleh Panel Bebas Mengkaji Pindaan Novel Interlok Edisi Murid.

Uthaya ketika dihubungi FMT petang tadi berkata, beliau tidak perlu memberi apa-apa komen tambahan kerana kenyataan rasmi mewakili mereka bertiga sudah disiarkan di blog berkenaan.
Mesyuarat panel bebas diura-urakan diadakan pada hari ini bertempat di Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) sebagaimana yang tertera di dalam blog Uthaya.