What it was all about...

Petition to Queen Elizabeth II

The planned protest is to support a US$14-trillion lawsuit by the Hindu
Rights Action Force (Hindraf) against Malaysia's former colonial power for
bringing Indians to Malaysia as indentured labourers and exploiting them for
150 years.

Furthermore, the suit sought a declaration that the Reid Commission Report
1957 failed to incorporate the rights of the Indian community when
independence was granted, resulting in discrimination and marginalisation to
this day.

The quantum being sought is about US$2 million for every Indian currently
residing in Malaysia.

Following the filing of the suit, Hindraf held nationwide roadshows
explaining to grassroots about the case.

Coupled with their work to prevent rampant state-sanctioned demolition of
Hindu temples, Hindraf won over a wave of support for their cause.

Today's memorandum was to petition Queen Elizabeth II to appoint a Queen's
counsel to argue the case on their behalf.

I also want USD 2 Million...

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HINDRAF
Hindu Rights Action Force
No. 135-3-A, Jalan Toman 7,
Kemayan Square,
70200 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan
Malaysia. Tel : 06-7672995/6
Fax: 06-7672997 Email waytha@hotmail.com

15.11.2007
The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown
Prime Minister of the United Kindom
10 Downing Street, Fax: +442079250918
London, URGENT
SW1A 2AA

Dear Sirs,

RE: 1. COMMONWEALTH ETHNIC INDIAN PEACE LOVING SUBJECTS IN MALAYSIA PERSECUTED BY GOVERNMENT BACKED ISLAMIC EXTREMIST VIOLENT ARMED TERRORIST WHO LAUNCHED A PRE DAWN VIOLENT ARMED ATTACK AND DESTROYED THE KG JAWA MARIAMAN HINDU TEMPLE AT 4.00 A.M THIS MORNING (15.11.2007).

2. APPEAL FOR U.K TO MOVE EMERGENCY U.N RESOLUTION CONDEMNING “ETHNIC CLEANSING” IN MALAYSIA.

3. APPEAL TO REFER MALAYSIA TO THE WORLD COURT AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR CRIMES AGAINST IT’S OWN ETHNIC MINORITY INDIANS.

We refer to the above critical matters in Malaysia but which generally gets the least attention locally even by the Opposition parties, NGO’s, the Malaysian Human Rights Commission and the media for this community is generally regarded as politically insignificant, do not draw local or international funding and are deemed not pressworthy. To the contrary the Malaysian government has successfully projected itself to the world as a modern Islamic thinking country which is not true.

The ethnic minority Indians in Malaysia were brought in to Malaysia by the British some 200 over years ago. Since independence in 1957 the Malaysian Indians have been permanently colonialised by the Islamic fundamentalist and Malay chauvinists UMNO led Malaysian government.

Among the recent atrocities committed by this government are as follows:-

1.100 over Indians were slashed and killed by the UMNO controlled Malaysian government in the Kampung Medan mini genocide. Despite numerous appeals, the Malaysian Human Rights Commission has refused to hold a Public Inquiry. The UMNO controlled Malaysian courts struck off a victim’s public interest civil suit for a Public Inquiry to be held without even the said UMNO controlled government having to file in their defence. The UMNO controlled Attorney General and the Inspector General of Police refused to investigate and / or initiate an inquest into the death of at least six Indians in this tragedy despite.

2. Every week one person at average is killed in a shot to kill policy and in every 2 weeks one person is killed in police custody. About 60% of these victims are Indians though they form only 8% of the Malaysian population.

3. In every three weeks one Hindu temple is demolished in Malaysia.

The latest being the demolishment of the Mariaman temple in Padang Jawa, Shah Alam, Selangor early this morning (15.11.2007) and the next being the (Mutaiya) Hindu temple in Sungai Petani scheduled for the 29.11.2007.

A violent armed pre down attack at 4.00a.m this morning was launched by the UMNO controlled Malaysian government backed by about 600 police, riot police, Islamic extremist and armed terrorists which completely destroyed this temple.

In an attack two weeks ago, uniformed police, riot police and city Council officers hurled rocks and attacked unarmed Hindu devotees with knives, sticks and iron rods.

At least 20 Hindu devotees were seriously injured and 19 arrested including 4 of their United Kingdom trained lawyers in direct violation of Article 5 (Right to life) Article 8 (Equality) Article 11 (Freedom of Religion) Section 295 (defiling a place of worship), Section 296 (disturbing a religious assembly), 298A(causing racial disharmony) and Section 441(criminal trespass) of the Malaysian Penal Code.

These authorities are plagued by an above the law mindset and in fact liberally take the law into their own hands. These atrocities however does not happen to almost all Islamic places of worship. Please visit www.policewatchmalaysia.com for further and better particulars.

4. State sponsored direct discrimination against the Indians in Public University intakes, Indian (Tamil) Schools, skills training institutes, civil service and private sector job opportunities, business and license opportunities and in almost all other aspects of daily life.

Despite our hundreds of letters, appeals and pleas to the Malaysian King and Sultans, the Prime Minister, Attorney General, Inspector General of Police, Ministers, Chief Ministers and the latest being our letters to the Prime Minister dated 29.10.2007 and 30.10.2007 and to the Attorney General dated 1.11.2007 the Malaysian authorities are only proceeding with greater ferocity and with impunity with very little regard for the Federal Constitution and laws of Malaysia. So please help us.

CONCLUSION

We fear that this peace loving Indian community of Tamil origin having been pushed to the corner and the persecution getting worse by the day may be forced to into terrorism in a matter of time as what has happened to the Sri Lankan Tamils.

APPEAL

On our part we are committed to a peaceful and lawful struggle and pray and appeal that the Government of the United Kingdom:-

1. Moves an emergency United Nations resolution condemning these state sponsored atrocities and persecutions of Malaysian Indians in Malaysia.

2. Refers Malaysia to the World Court and the International Criminal Court for Crimes against it’s own ethnic minority Indians

Thank You,

Yours Faithfully

P.Uthayakumar
Legal Adviser

islamic extremism? islamic fundamentalist? genocide?
talk about being subtle..

Subhanallah.... weird picture of the day..

read further...

pot? kettle? black???

Excerpt from Berita Harian..

“Kita tak pernah takut hadapi pilihan raya, kita sedia hadapi rakyat dengan dada terbuka... biar mereka (rakyat) buat perhitungan dan penilaian. Ini meyakinkan rakyat yang kerajaan kita bukan gila kuasa.

“Bila tiba masanya kita bubarkan Parlimen dan temui rakyat untuk dapat mandat sekali lagi,” katanya yang juga Presiden Umno ketika menggulung perbahasan Perhimpunan Agung Umno 2007.

Katanya, beliau dimaklumkan per himpunan anjuran Bersih, sebuah gabungan NGO dan parti pembangkang di Dataran Merdeka hari ini yang diteruskan, walaupun tidak diberikan permit polis.

“Saya dukacita, apakah ini mereka mencabar kerajaan dan kepemimpinan. Sebenarnya yang mereka cabar dan nak ketepikan ialah undang-undang. Mereka mencabar undang-undang dan peraturan, tetapi rakyat mahu negara ini aman, selamat dan stabil sepanjang masa.

“Itu yang dicabar (undang-undang), bukan saya... tapi saya nak kata saya pantang dicabar,” katanya disambut sorakan tanda sokongan daripada perwakilan.

the full article

Malaysiakini (6/11/2007): “Don’t be like monkeys (beruk) on streets. If you want to fight, fight in the real ring like a man. At the general elections, we (Umno Youth) will fight and we will win!” exclaimed Khairy to roaring chants of approval from delegates.

A numbers game...

what do u think? 4000? or 40000?
seems like 40 to me..
or maybe even 4..

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WTF(pardon the acronym) video of the day..

hadhari what??

Blasts from the past...

renegade and outriders..





king arthur and the knights of justice.. ran for a short while on tv..



conan the adventurer.. still on tv nowadays..



kickers... kakeru and gang..





the turtles.. cowabunga!! turtle power...



G.I. Joe..

Hell?

A man dies and goes to hell. There he finds out that there is
a different hell for each country.

He goes to the German hell and asks,
"what do they do here?"

He is told, " First we put you in an electric chair for an hour.
Then we lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then
a German devil comes and beats you for the rest of the day."

The mean does not like the sound of that at all, so he moves
on and checks out the USA hell as well as the Russian hell and
many other countries. He discovers that they are more or less
the same as the German hell. THen he comes to the Malaysian
hell and finds that there is a long line of people waiting to get in.

Amazed, he asks someone in the line
"what do they do here?"

He is told
"first, they put you in an electric chair for an hour, then they lay
you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the Malaysian
devil comes and beast you for the rest of the day."

"But that is exactly the same as all the other hells, so why are
som many people waiting to get in here?" asks the man

"because the maintenance is so bad, it leaks and the fires goes
out, the electric chair does not work, to extract the metal
someone has stolen all the nails from the bed ; and the
Malaysian devil is a former government servant, so he comes
in late, signs the register and goes to the canteen three times
a day."

Felda Raja Elias...

So basically...

i spent the whole of March - doing my selectives ( internal medicine in HUSM Kubang Kerian)
April was spent doing my electives which was "penternakan kambing Boer" New Zealand.. and also doing my umrah for an unknown period of time..

After returning from Umrah.. i was loafing around in Seremban kacau the people who were preparing for Sem 9 exams..

fast foward to April the 21st.. rahman had asked me whether i would be interested utk buat community project dekat2 area Kuala Pilah under the state health office punya team together with a few of us from IMU..
as at the time i didn't really have anything better to do.. so what the heck.. let's go..
little that i knew.. Felda Raja Elias.. shouldn't really be classed "around" Kuala Pilah.. it took around a 1 and a half hour drive to reach there...

when we reached Felda Raja Elias.. i found a signboard that stated.. the border of Pahang wasn't really that far away... cilakak.. punya la jauh..
tapi ikhlas kan niat *uhuk*claim*uhuk*

what a very loonggggggg journey... not to mention that we were lost..
see the imu van in the distance.. driven by abg asri..

the school.. my jawi is bad.. i think that is Sekolah Kebangsaan Serting..

didn't know that somalia and libya was that way.. ape lagi.. jomla..
for all i know it could just be pointing to the south pole..

seeing that this was around 5months ago.. i can't really recall anything much from the trip..
i just remember i was the one who had to take care of the Snellen Chart for the visual eye test
apparently the .. "nice" organizers were warning us before hand.. katanya they were expecting people in the thousands..
with all the ADUN nak datang le..
the fact that maybe it was just a few hundred people.. maybe tak sampai 200 pun..
and that we were the ones who had to force them to come for health screenings..

suprisingly.. ramai je org2 yg denial..
didn't want to believe that they were myopic...
and in the process i managed to screen one kid.. malay boy.. dalam 8-9 years old who was from one of the orphanages coming for the screening..
he had colour blindness..
SEVERE colour blindness.. if there is such a term..
he couldn't differentiate the colours when i was flipping through the Ishihara chart..

my task for the day..

beribu2 org le... we were bored...
rahman and natalia hard at work.. counselling people

they also had a few other associations doing their displays their..
i remember there were a few people from NADI i think(Diabetes association) and another from Thalassemia rasanya..

and then there was this one couple who were selling something.. they brought the thing for display.. we couldn't really believe what they were selling.. tahu le the FELDA people ramai OKB tapi this is too much.. hahaha.. this is what they were selling...

they were selling a SAUNA.. of all things...

and this are pictures of our way back.. went back at around after Zohor or maybe a bit later than that.. reach Tasek Mewah dekat2 nak masuk asar rasanya.. maybe we stopped to pray on the way back but i can't recall what happened. i just remembered that we were stuck in a jam in Kuala Pilah due to some road construction.. and that the 2 monkeys.. err friends.. were sleeping after just 5 minutes.. nasib rahman ada..

batu kikir pun ada seven eleven wa cakap lu..
batu kikir is a name of a place in between raja elias and kuala pilah..

quite.. hmmm developed?
i was bored waiting in the car.. tunggu rahman beli barang kat seven eleven..
took this picture.. don't know what they were selling..

p/s: post originally drafted on the 12 of September 2007 12.44am