Kg Medan “ethnic cleansing” 9th year black anniversary-HINDRAF

Kg Medan “ethnic cleansing” 9th year black anniversary on 8/3/2010.Memorial by PKR Selangor govt. Nine years ago today, out of the blues and all of a sudden and withouteven provocation any and every Indian in Kg. Medan was attacked, slashed,arson committed etc by a malay muslim mob from outside Kg. Medan. Onehundred over Indians were caused grievous bodily injuries and at leastfive Indians were murdered in broad daylight or night. The Malay-sian UMNO government announced that it was racial clashesbetween the Indians and Malays. But almost all the victims thereto wereIndians. The UMNO government even to this day has:- 1. fefused to hold a Royal Commission of Inquiry despite this tragedybeing the worst case of Human Rights violations in Malaysia. 2. refused to present the promised White Paper in Parliament . 3. the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) refused to hold anInquiry. 4. the Malay-sian Court of Appeal and the High Court struck out a classaction brought by Subramaniam without even the government of the dayhaving to reply to the very allegations of state sponsored violenceagainst it’s ethnic minority Indians.5. the Attorney General and the Chief Justice had refused to hold anInquest in the murders of the five Indians. 6. the Attorney General had refused to seriously prosecute the criminalsthereto for the murder of the five Indians and the grievous bodily harmcaused to the one hundred over victims. Instead token number of peoplewere prosecuted for rioting and lawful assembly. One criminal wassupposedly “prosecuted” for murder but the prosecution just “disappeared”in thin air (See gory photographs and write up by P. Uthayakumar dated2002). 7. zero compensation by UMNO, only a token RM 2,000.00 to RM 3,000.00 wasgiven by the MIC and a RM 25,000.00 low cost house for the murderedfamily. This is how cheap an Indian life cost! Despite all the aforesaid atrocities even PKR, DAP, PAS, NGOs’, BarCouncil, the Malaysian civil society, etc., maintained almost pin dropsilence because the victims there were “merely” the Indians. And becauseof this there was a “chain” silence by the International community. This was when we realized that there were no takers for the criticalIndian problems just because the victims and affected parties were merelyMalaysian Indians. And this state of affairs continues right up to thisday and time. In fact it was because of this blatant atrocities which was committed withimpunity and which was accompanied by the aforesaid almost pin dropsilence in particular PKR, DAP and PAS that was the turning point that hadmoved us to take a strong position that the Malaysian Indian problem wasour “baby” and if we do not take a strong position nobody else would care. But there would be the continuous political rhetoric by PKR, DAP, PAS,NGOs’, etc that they are all “multi racial”. When a memorial could be built for the Tanjong Kupang, Johor Jet Crashvictims (UM 2/3/2010 at page 11), the scores of war memorials for theBritish, Australians, etc., why not a Memorial for the Kg. Medan victimsby the PKR led Selangor State government in sympathy and in solidaritywith the Kg. Medan victims and that this racial attack should be the lastin Malaysia! As this tragedy occurred in Selangor which is now ruled by the PKR ledstate government along with DAP and PAS, to undo the injustices by UMNO,PKR Paramount Leader, Opposition Leader and Selangor Economic Advisercould direct the grant of a compensation of RM 200,000.00 per victim andRM 400,000.00 for the deceased family. But PKR, DAP and PAS won’t becausethey probably think they will lose Malay votes. But for Teoh Beng Hock’sfamily RM 400,000.00 plus was granted because they will gain Chinesevotes. P. Uthayakumar