Posted on 03 February 2010
Indians excluded from 17,300 Pasar tani trading lots in 364 markets worth RM490 Million sales.
This is to be increased by another 100 new pasar tani lots with 5,000 new (Malay Muslim) traders and the business volume to be RM600 Million, says Agriculture and agro based industries Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar who also launched the Konvoi Karavan Pasar Tani. (UM 3/2/2010 at page 2).
But we know of zero Indians who are allowed to do business in these Pasar Tani. The Indians are denied the licences and plots to do business with any of these 17,300 Malay Muslim pasar tani traders.
UMNOs’ excuse is that the Indians are not interested in doing these business. But just look at the thousands of Indian traders and their stalls that sprouted out nationwide especially in the just concluded Thaipusam festival. These UMNOs’ racist, religious extremist and supremacist practices does not happen in any other part of the world except in UMNO Prime Minister’s One Malay-sia.
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3 orphaned Indian dead bodies in Klang. Poverty related & unclaimed.
Posted on 03 February 2010
3 orphaned Indian dead bodies in Klang. Poverty related & unclaimed.
This is again yet another indicator of the height of Indian poverty in Malaysia.
The funeral service may cost at least about RM 2,000.00 each. These families can not afford the RM 2,000.00 and so these three bodies lie unclaimed in the mortuaries. This is just the tip of the iceberg. We estimate that there are thousands of such bodies lying in mortuaries nationwide every year based on the fact that about 70% of the 2.2 Million Indians are in the poor or hardcore poor category. The families of these deceased may earn as low as RM 200.00 per month working as cleaners and cannot afford this RM 2,000.00 funeral service.
We have never heard of this kind of predicament happening to even any poor Malay, Chinese or Orang Asli family. Why is it always the Indians who have to suffer these kind of myseries. The reason is the Indians have been excluded from the national mainstream development of Malay-sia and there is neither care or concern by the Welfare Minsitry. And the BN government is more interested in doling out funds to divorced muslim women.
P. Uthayakumar
P. Uthayakumar