It was just yesterday that we had done a posting that some Indians are so poor that they even cannot afford the cost of a funeral that cost only about as low as RM 500.
This is their one to two months earnings in UMNO Prime Minister Najib Razak’s One Malay-sia. These Indians may be earning daily wages and living hand to mouth.
The latest and the tip of the iceberg case is involving the “abandoned” body of Rajendran of Klang, who is only 33 but looks twenty years older. We believe poverty has taken a toll on him (see photo below). His family does not claim his body as they may not be able to afford the RM 500 in funeral expenses. His ‘orphaned’ body has been lying the Klang Mortuary for over two months now (MO 19/5/10 at page 10).
How come this level poverty does not happen to the Malays, Orang Asli, Kadazan, Iban or Chinese? Even for a poor foreign worker in Malaysia his embassy would take charge.
So who speaks for Indians? PKR? DAP? PAS? Indian Elite? NGOs? Bloggers?
Or not speak at all? Racism by omission!
But when we lend voice for these levels of neglect and poverty we instead are accused of being racist, ethnocentric or having a racist agenda even by the PKR Supremo Anwar Ibrahim.
P. Uthayakumar
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