Malaysian Indian Minority and Human Rights Violations Annual Report 2008
Executive SummaryIntroduction
Overseas Indians worldwide have been granted equal opportunities and leadingprosperous life except in Malaysia. This is because the Malaysian governmentpractices and implements very serious institutional Malay Muslim religiousextremist and supremacist plans, policies and practices to the extend of reducingand segregating many Indians into literally becoming slaves. Even the MalaysianIndian Congress (MIC) President and immediate past Cabinet Minister of 29years standing, Dato’ Seri S. Samy Vellu has conceded as late as March 2008that the Indians in Seberang Kuari (Penang) are living in worst conditions than inAfrica. The Indians in Malaysia are openly discriminated not by the Malay Muslimpeople of Malaysia but the UMNO (United Malay National Organization)controlled government of Malaysia in direct contravention of Article 8 of theFederal Constitution which prohibits discrimination and upholds equality. In shortthe Indians are excluded from the national mainstream development of Malaysiain almost every aspect of live on a day to day basis.But Malaysia’s UMNO controlled government has successfully over the last 51years since independence camouflaged this reality very well by projecting,highlighting and showcasing the cream of the Malaysian Indian as beingsuccessful and prosperous. But this cream only represents a mere 1% of the 2million Indian populations in Malaysia. About 70% of the Malaysian Indians areleft to rot in the hardcore poor and poor category. For raising these very seriousIndian minority and human rights violations four Malaysian Indian Lawyers(P. Uthayakumar, M. Manoharan, R. Kengatharan & V. Ganapathi Rao) havebeen arrested and are currently detained without trial for 2 years, from 13
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Dec2007 and continuing indefinitely thereafter at Malaysia’s very own “GuantanamoBay” (the Kemunting Detention Centre)
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