by Thamilan
P.Uthayakumar’s six year old niece P.W. Vwaishhnnavi , sister-in-law K..Nageswari@ Shanti, sister P.Waytha Nayagi, brother P. Taramaraju, Police Watch and Human Rights Committee coordinator S Jayathas , R.Kanan, Poobalan, Rajah Sekhar, Lourdes Mary (Shanti), P. Suntheram , Sivakumar and Balakrishnan were all arrested outside the Prime Ministers office at Putrajaya on 23/10/08 when they went there to deliver a Deepavalli card asking for the release of the Hindraf lawyers detained under the ISA before Deepavalli and to extend a Deepavalli invitation.
They went to the PM’s office as citizens accompanying a little girl to give a letter of appeal but were detained for illegal assembly and later, they were investigated under the Societies Act instead..
They should not have been arrested in the first place, since when do members of the public who submit a document get arrested. Further the remand application was defective from the onset and the entire episode is evident of the flaw in our criminal justice system.
There were no grounds for the arrest and the following detention that took place. UMNO has got so desperate in curtailing Hindraf that they have resorted to stoop so low as to arresting the 6 year old daughter of Hindraf chairman, family and friends for asking the release of their brother P.Uthayakumar currently detained without trial in Kemta prison. UMNO is going for the whole of the Uthaya’s family and Hindraf supporters. UMNO wanted to see them all in a police lock up this Deepavalli. 
Deepavalli means nothing to the present government. They broke temples last Deepavalli and conducted the UMNO AGM on Deepavalli day without a care for the Indians at heart. After all it is the same police and government that attacked the Indians and pregnant women with water cannons when they gathered peacefully to voice their grievances, so what would they care?
1 comment:
It eschews constructive criticism and encourages cult worship of its imprisoned leaders who by one stroke of luck or genius, the Barisan government, like them or not, put away to render the organisation a headless serpent.
Its claim to the High Court in London is embarassing, fails to particularise the facts it relies on, does not sufficiently disclose a cause of action and is embarassing.
If Hindraf and its core members will only allow all Indians to participate instead of those who are sychophants to the leadership, it can be more effective than it already is.
Unfortunately the path it chooses is strewn with missed opportunities and lost causes.
By now an effective leadership instead of organising ineffective self defeating marches and demonstrations could have organised the most effective of all pressure tactics no nation in the current economic climate can affford to ignore.
Stop paying taxes and nominate the 14th of April the birthdate of economist and anti class caste crusader Dr. Ambedekar as the starting date for acts of civil disobedience.
No nation can afford to be without even a fraction of the taxes it collects. Indians do not receive the benefits every citizen is entitled to from government funded by their taxes. Indians in Malaysia are not an insignificant minority. The elections of 8 march 2008 proved that. A bit of skewing can achieve miracles. It is time to ride the bucking horse of the Barisan a self proclaaimed friend and champion of the rights of all Malaysians. It is not the Malays to blame but a Malay Chinese and Indian led government that exploits Malay fears and pits them against Indians in this case.
Open your doors Hindraf to the diaspora. We have the talent, the monetary resources, the organisaitonal abilities, networks and the intellect to garner all the support you need.
Many amonsgt us are Malaysians working abroad for the same reasons many of you in Malaysia are not working. Prejudices, divisive politics and corruption at the highest levels.
Call for a general boycott of the income tax laws and stop paying taxes. They give you nothing for it. They kill your children with impunity, they torture and rape, snatch bodies in an act of defilement of the dead and act in a most unislamic fashion.
Unless you are ready to accept a broader body of membership yo will end up like the Samy Velu's of this world.
Stop paying taxes and any other state impost till a public independent inquiry into the death of Kugan and other Indians in custody or at the hands of the police is agreed to with an independent international panel, let Malaysia go back to the days when people lived like we live today. Without full rights.
Such a move will compel others to force the issues out into the open because at this juncure in its development Malaysia cannot afford a drop in its economic performance. These are trying times. They have the guns and the forces of arms, we can show a force of intellectual dimensions capable of peacefully overcomming their guns and killings.
The Anwars and Kit Sinags of this world conveniently take credit for your sacrifices and efforts. They have to be jettisoned as time wasters and opportunists. Leanr the art of negotiation. Negotiate with those progressives within government, they too are embarassed and outraged by what Barisan is doing in their name.
You must be positive and not insular and cult like at the top. Lets all work towards now embarassing Britaain into action, into being responsible for the trouble Hindraf and all Indians in Malaysia face and use them as the unwilling bullwark against the Barisan government of Badawi and Razak. Act now.
14th April 2009.
Gopal Raj Kumar
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