Indians form 21,600 (60%) of 36,000 prisoners in Malaysian jails, arising out of poverty and denied equal opportunities

The Star 16/3/2010 at page N40 reported that 48% of prisoners in the 24 prisons in Malaysia are Indians. In 2006 a Suhakam Commissoners said that 60% of the prison occupants are Indians.

This is a disproportionately high crime rate among the Indians in Malaysia who form only a mere 8% of the population, is as a direct result of UMNOs’ 53 years of racist, religious extremist and supremacist social engineering, by specifically excluding the Indians from the National Mainstream Development of Malaysia.

Million of deserving Indians in these 53 years have been denied equal opportunities in jobs, business, education, licences, permits, projects tenders, etc,and gain upward mobility opportunities. Thus the high crime rate among the Indians in Malaysia. Very few Indians would want to be in a world of crime if they were given the due business opportunities for example. The crime rate is due to frustration in the community of being left out of mainstream development and opportunity. In some ways they are saying, ‘we don’t care anymore about this racist nation’!

P. Uthayakumar