Friday, January 30, 2009

Indians in Malaysia

What else does the Indian community in Malaysia is waiting for to be more united? We are witnessing how the community is constantly stereotyped by the authorities and the media to have criminal tendencies and the government is continuously neglecting their needs.
Those arrested by the police will either disappear mysteriously from the lock-up and later found floating in the river or being poured hot water on or even been beaten to death while in custody. These seem to be the treatment received by the Indian Malaysians for the past 52 years of independence.
Is the Indian community paying the price for their Nov 2007 marching in Kuala Lumpur to voice the grievances against the government whereby they being paid handsomely by both the authorities and the government on that day?
If not for this gathering the rest of Malaysia would not have woken up from their long slumber and caused the hard hitting tsunami on the ruling BN coalition.
The ethnic Indians have been on the receiving end way before the Hindraf syndrome took place by the slow victimisation and negligence in policy by the government way too long. Indians need to wake up and stand united as there are still some running dogs of the BN government who are belittling the effort and cry of the majority Indians of this country. One such individual is Datuk Kenneth Eswaran,the President of Malaysian Chambers of Commerce mentioned that he was fed up with all the lies spoken against the government by some individuals overseas. More so he claimed that he was self made man without any favours from the government. He is claiming that there are proper avenues to bring forward issues and marching down the street is not one of the ways that will solve any problem? We need to bring proper working paper to the right authorities, so he said to a Malaysiakini interview. Please tell us what avenues are available to bring forth the issues related to the Indian community? Numerous discussions were held with the various Ministers and nothing was done until makkal sakthi took matters in its own hand to march down the streets in KL. The so called one and only Indian leader condemned all Indians who participated in the marching and the minister in the prime minister department even called them as rogues and mind you Kenneth he was one of the minister with whom a meeting was held and memorandum submitted! Please enlighten us of the avenues that you claim existed? By the way we know of your history of how self-made you are from a humble beginning into a businessman!
To add salt our honorable Home Minister who happens to be lawyer by training, (wonder which University he read law) recently said the Kugan is a criminal when the deceased was not even brought to court and charged. He must have been gifted with some supernatural power that allows him to see the truth that others do not posses. While speaking to reporters, the IGP was noticed busy playing with his handphone and giggling at the remarks made by Hamid as broadcasted by TV3 on their 8pm news. I truly hope the rest of the non-committal Indians to sit up and take notice on how they handle Indian issues. Even a criminal does not deserve to die while in custody and it does not matter if they are Indian, Chinese or Malay.
Until and unless there is change in our own mindset in totality by the community all the effort by some to bring change may be not futile. For this barbarism to stop and in ensuring good governance the entire government needs to be changed and only then there is hope for the Indians in this country!

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