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Wednesday 5 May 2010

Do better Raja Petra! Shout out louder on social issues!

Raja Petra must start reading www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com and report the critical Indian problems on needs basis and not race basis. Better late than never!

I hear that Raja Petra like Anwar Ibrahim is labeling Hindraf and HRP as racist.

I do not read the Malaysia Today because Raja Petra sidelines and sidesteps the critical Indian problems. Raja Petra is not dumb not to know the extent of the critical Indian problems. But like PKR, DAP and PAS he chooses to largely keep mum as the victims are merely the soft target Indians. Take the latest and today’s news article where the Escot Tamil school was only today given water after 50 years of independence. Water after 50 years! Think about that!

Hulu S’gor: Tamil school denied water and electricity for 50 years. UMNO’s racism by commission and PKR, DAP and PAS’ by omission.

Neither Raja Petra nor the tuans and towkays in PKR, DAP and PAS had ever raised sufficiently enough why this very basic necessity had been denied for fifty years. No they would not bother because the victims are merely the soft target Indians.

Raja Petra PKR, DAP and PAS leaders must start reading the www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com website on a day basis. They may not have read enough to also be in the know about the critical and mostly basic necessity Indian problems on a day basis. Better late than never! Then and only then will they realise the extent of UMNO's racism, religious extremism and supremacist policies, and excluding in particular the Indians, from the national mainstream development of Malaysia.

One can search the whole of Malaysia Today and they cover these critical Indian issues only 0.1% to 1% at the most? Why can’t his coverage be multiracial to also include the basic necessity and critical Indian problems?

So Raja Petra like PKR, DAP and PAS and Malaysiakini.com cannot claim to be multi-racial and pretend that the critical Indian problems (that does not happen to the Malays and Chinese) does not exist or is not grave enough to merit more attention. Giving coverage once or twice a year is not enough, it is playing down the gravity of the issues.

To us as it stands MT may only be marginally better off than UMNO. Coverage of political issues is not enough. The social problems must also be equally highlighted, especially to the elite Indians who are too embarrassed to raise Indian issues.

Do better Raja Petra! Shout out louder on social issues!

P. Uthayakumar

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