Shot dead by police Home Ministry panel at work and media headlines. But zero for Indians victims.
The mainstream media and the alternative media led by the New Straits Times for the eight day in a row headlines, front page coverage, prime news and news perhaps in conjunction with the World Press Freedom Day is rightly reporting on the grave injustice involving the unconscionable murder of Aminulrasyid Amzah, 15, by Polis Raja Di Malaysia. A similar high profile inquest and media headlines and reporting for Teoh Beng Hock who was killed in the MACC detention.
But throughtout the history of Malaysia a similar Home Ministry Panel, Royal Commission of Inquiry, White paper in Parliament, emergency or other motions in Parliament or high profile headlines has never been done when the victim is an ethnic minority Malaysian Indian. Why?
These Indians are not human beings enough to deserve this level of care, attention and justice.
Hundreds if not thousands of Indians have been similarly and arbitrarily killed by the police but at best would have got 1% of the care and attention a Malay or Chinese victim gets (The exception being A. Kugan’s case because of the 5,000 strong Hindraf Makkal Sakthi forces at his funeral.)
This level of state sponsored racism, religious extremism supremacy, mainstream and alternative media discriminating against a poor and defenceless minority does not happen in any other part of the world except in Malaysia.
While the UMNO/BN state is guilty of this racism by commission, PKR, DAP, PAS, Malaysiakini.com, Malaysia Today, the elite Indians etc are guilty by ommission.
But when we raise these racist acts and cry racism, we are in turn accused of being racist by both sides of the political divide and both the mainstream and alternative media/bloggers NGOs’ etc with the view to silence us and keep us out of raising this critical level of state sponsored injustices.
Welcome to UMNOs’ “One Malay-sia” and PKR, DAP and PAS’ “multi-racialism”.
P.Uthayakumar.
The mainstream media and the alternative media led by the New Straits Times for the eight day in a row headlines, front page coverage, prime news and news perhaps in conjunction with the World Press Freedom Day is rightly reporting on the grave injustice involving the unconscionable murder of Aminulrasyid Amzah, 15, by Polis Raja Di Malaysia. A similar high profile inquest and media headlines and reporting for Teoh Beng Hock who was killed in the MACC detention.
But throughtout the history of Malaysia a similar Home Ministry Panel, Royal Commission of Inquiry, White paper in Parliament, emergency or other motions in Parliament or high profile headlines has never been done when the victim is an ethnic minority Malaysian Indian. Why?
These Indians are not human beings enough to deserve this level of care, attention and justice.
Hundreds if not thousands of Indians have been similarly and arbitrarily killed by the police but at best would have got 1% of the care and attention a Malay or Chinese victim gets (The exception being A. Kugan’s case because of the 5,000 strong Hindraf Makkal Sakthi forces at his funeral.)
This level of state sponsored racism, religious extremism supremacy, mainstream and alternative media discriminating against a poor and defenceless minority does not happen in any other part of the world except in Malaysia.
While the UMNO/BN state is guilty of this racism by commission, PKR, DAP, PAS, Malaysiakini.com, Malaysia Today, the elite Indians etc are guilty by ommission.
But when we raise these racist acts and cry racism, we are in turn accused of being racist by both sides of the political divide and both the mainstream and alternative media/bloggers NGOs’ etc with the view to silence us and keep us out of raising this critical level of state sponsored injustices.
Welcome to UMNOs’ “One Malay-sia” and PKR, DAP and PAS’ “multi-racialism”.
P.Uthayakumar.
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