Joe Fernandez (Malaysiakini)

Aug 15,

10 8:59am

Human rights movement Hindraf Makkal Sakthi has discovered, after extensive legal research in London, that several thousand so-called stateless people in Malaysia are in fact still British subjects. According to Hindraf, the ’stateless’ are therefore entitled to British citizenship and nationality “if denied citizenship and nationality in Malaysia despite the independence agreements”. This claim by Hindraf is based on declassified colonial and British government documents extensively available at the National Archives of the United Kingdom in London.

He, Mr. Waytha Moorthy, has a dream. His dream is a dream that no one in this country dared to dream before 25 November 2007. His dream is deeply rooted in the Malaysian dream. His dream is ours. We have a dream. Our dream is one. Our dream is racial equality and an end to Indian discrimination in this country.

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By Athi Shankar

GEORGE TOWN: The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) has slammed former premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi of being “naïve and ignorant” for suggesting an end to secular human rights practices.

Hindraf chairman P Waythamoorthy rebuked Abdullah for failing to understand the basic perspective of human rights.

He said it was “shocking and appalling” that Abdullah claimed that secular human rights practices be abandoned because their principles contradicted religious virtues and values.

“The former premier was talking gibberish in criticising secular human rights as hedonistic and comparing it with human rights in the form of Islam,” he told FMT.

By Joe Fernandez

KOTA KINABALU: Hindraf Makkal Sakthi is prepared to help civic action groups in Sarawak to trace, claim and bring back any ill-gotten gains salted away abroad by local politicians. This includes making forensic accountants available from London and other key western financial capitals for the institution of class action suits. The ad hoc apolitical human rights movement made the offer in the wake of a website report last week that shed light on some of the assets allegedly accumulated by Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud in Canada and other countries. The assets, as the accusations go, do not commensurate with Taib’s known sources of lawful income as the chief minister since 1981.

By Athi Shankar

Hindraf supremo P Waythamoorthy briefed the British government recently on alleged serious violations of human rights in Malaysia, especially on minority Indian community.

He highlighted the Malaysian government's alleged deliberate attempts to deny Indian students their right to public university education despite attaining top results in qualifying examinations.

Waythamoorthy said he also submitted a copy of Hindraf’s Human Rights Report to Prime Minister David Cameron’s representatives during a 20-minute deliberation at 10 Downing Street in London.

The report touched on perceived violations of human rights and the marginalisation of the Indian community by the government, especially the Umno-led Putrajaya administration.

Media Statement 9th June 2010 .

HINDRAF CALLS FOR ABOLISHMENT/REPEAL OF THE RACE BASED STPM EXAMINATION

HINDRAF calls upon Prime Minister Najib to fully implement his 1 Malaysia concept by scrapping the STPM exams and let all students irrespective of race and religion sit for the matriculation examinations. We want the UMNO led government to put an immediate stop to this racially segregated examination system and scrap the STPM examination altogether.

HINDRAF to UN: BLATANT DISCRIMINATION OF MALAYSIAN INDIAN DESCENDANTS IN PURSUING EDUCATION BASED ON INSTITUTIONALIZED DISCRIMINATION BY THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT

Mr. Githu MUIGAI
United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
OHCHR – Palais Wilson
United Nations Office at Geneva
CH-1211 Geneva10
Switzerland 7th June 2010
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RE: BLATANT DISCRIMINATION OF MALAYSIAN INDIAN DESCENDANTS IN

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Pengerusi HRP Negeri Sembilan S.Siva dan rombongannya ziarah seorang pelajar cemerlang yang memperoleh 11A dalam Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia telah dinafikan peluang untuk menyambung Pelajarannya dalam bidang yang dicita- sitakannya sejak…

HINDRAF MEETS UNHRC (U.N. Human Rights Council)

P. Waythamoorthy, the chairperson of HINDRAF on May 31, 2010 will be addressing numerous Human Rights representatives and rapporteour working in collaboration along with representatives of UNHRC in Geneva, Switzerland.

Aside from fact finding mission, these organizations regularly assess and verify violation of human rights issues and thereafter investigate, monitor and instigate appropriate solutions directly and indirectly on sovereign and member governments after receiving feedback from such organization that represents the marginalized and discriminated society.

Joe Fernandez
Jun 5, 10
5:03pm

Hindraf will actively lobby several countries to grill Malaysia when its human rights record comes up for review next year at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland.

These countries include Israel and Germany, which reportedly fiercely criticised Malaysia during the last Universal Periodic Review in February 2009.

“The Malaysian government must be held accountable for the unfulfilled promises and pledges it made last year,” said Hindraf chairperson P Waythamoorthy (right). “A little more than six months remains for the next review,” he added.

By Athi Shankar

GEORGE TOWN: Barisan Nasional has upstaged Pakatan Rakyat in wooing the outlawed Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf).

Sources close to the top BN leadership said mediators had met London-based Hindraf chairman P Waythamoorthy to discuss the idea of the movement joining forces with the ruling coalition. The meetings took place recently in London and Singapore.

Helen Ang
May 25, 10
2:54pm

This is my response to the Malaysiakini report BUM 2010: Uthayakumar sparks row. This reply is made in my personal capacity and independent of BUM.

Haris Ibrahim alleges 'communalism' and was quoted as saying he was particularly turned off by Uthaya's e-mail statement on the shooting of Aminulrasyid.
Looking through the Human Rights Party (HRP) website, I found these statements below; Uthaya's article headlines within inverted commas and my comments added in brackets.

It is so heart-wrenching to watch Sugentha Subramaniam’s interview carried on Human Rights Party Malaysia website today. The tears swelling in her mum’s eyes and the pain of discrimination on her face was not unnoticed! Yes! It is that time around again, when we get to hear all the heart breaking stories of Indian students being denied scholarships and university places despite the fact that they are equally bright or far brighter than their Malay counterparts!

What do we gain by picking bones with HINDRAF when we, the public, will be at the losing end with one less party to fight for the community?

By R. Shan (Human Being)

The tool here in a literary sense may confuse some but basically it means that someone out in their own efforts to harness and sharpen the public's awareness on the general state of the nation for the well-being of the public.

It doesn’t take a genius to see the falsity in the article (Hindraf En Bloc: UMNO Wins hands down) by one James Menon in Malaysia Today. To claim that UMNO had neutralized Hindraf even before the game started, aptly defines his futile attempt to foolishly discount a political phenomenon of historical significance. It is obvious he has very scant understanding of historical processes.