Maybe we can’t blame them for such an error, since Malaysia only have 2 major street rally in the past 3 2 weeks (I can’t count), and also for the past decade.
They also wrongly called it “Malaysia Riots”. I’ll let them have their peace on that for the spirit of freedom of press.
p.s. Can somebody please inform them?
The Malaysian’s government should take a stern action to these kind of street demos.Its really pain in the ass if the government is to entertain this HINDRAF request.Hi HIDRAF, please ask yourself?? who owns these conglomerate such as ASTRO( the largest cable TV in Malaysia), MAXIS(the largest mobile phone company in Malaysia), AIR ASIA(the largest low cost airline in Malaysia)???Those companies belong to the rich HINDUS. In fact, they should help the poor one like what the HINDRAF claimed???In reality,the MALAYS are being marginalised?? Majority of the Malays live in poverty??? But the Malays always take a ” doesn’t matter” attitude.The Malaysian’s government should strategize in such a way that those marginalised people especially the aborigines and Malays are given special subsidization.
When Malaysians took to the streets expressing their grievances through legitimate democratic rights enshrine by UN Human Rights charter and more importantly Federal Constitution of Malaysia, it is not illegal nor a nuisance.
No doubt the Penal Code and Police Acts allows for arbitrary powers for police to declare ANY assembly of 5 or more to be illegal. But this is against the spirit of law in the Federal Constitution which is the supreme law of the land.
Ownership of conglomerate does not reflect the welfare of the ethnic group which the owners of the conglomerate are from. In fact, by suggesting this it self is no other than racism and communalism.
HINDRAF approach of highlighting the plight of only ethnic indian who are hindus does not mean they deny the fact that there are marginalise malays, chinese, ibans, bidayuh, kelabit, penans, melanau, and many more. Many have express their reservation and even opposition on supporting HINDRAF because of their narrow scope of definition on who has been oppressed. I would not delve into this point on contention as Nat Tan have written clearly about it.
As I said earlier, there’s no denying that all ethnic groups have people living in poverty. And one of the root of poverty is corruption in the government. Corruption is a cancer which eats away the nation.
To have ethnically targeted discrimination (that is basically what affirmative action is) is not just fundamentally flawed, but is open to abuse and corruption such as the case of NEP. It is openly abused to benefit the few UMNO putras.
To help the poor of all Malaysians, all Malaysians have equal rights, regardless of ethnicity and faith by giving them special subsidy is not going to help them elevate from poverty. Teach them how to fish, not give them fish. No doubt, you need to give them fish at the beginning, there are basic needs that need to be dealt with first.
Education, that is the one strong factor which can elevate people from poverty. I have seen first hand what kind of education our aboriginal people’s children is getting in Pengkalan Hulu, Perak. And I have seen how my dad’s emphasis on education brought the all his siblings out from poverty.
We are all Malaysians, lets look beyond the colour of our skin. I dare say, I might have helped more malays than most malays. But that is not the point. We are like many parts of one body. When one part of the body is ill. It effects the whole body.
We are all Malaysians.