New Delhi, Jan 11 : The RSS has demanded the Government’s immediate intervention to address the sufferings of the people of Indian origin living in Malaysia and opening of a special wing in the Ministry of External Affairs to register and follow up on Human Rights violations and religious freedom of Indians abroad.
‘The Government was enthusiastically organising Bharatiya Pravasi Diwas annually to canvass for increased investment from the powerful NRIs, but was failing the less-privileged overseas Indians,” the Sangh said in the latest edition of its mouthpiece Organiser.
It accused the Government of ”taking little or no interest” in addressing the problems of Indian community living abroad.
The RSS said for the last many years, group of Indian origin people from Malaysia had been petitioning the Indian Government about the serious racial discrimination going on in that country and a delegation of oppressed Indian community in Malaysia, led by Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy, attended the Bharatiya Pravsai Diwas held here last week and narrated their sufferings to the participants in a memorandum.
The victims were third, fourth and fifth generation of Malaysians of Indian origin and were descendant of migrants from India taken as as labourers, there by the British.
The memorandum says the eight per cent strong Indian origin community in Malaysia was facing religious persecution and their basic human rights and rights as citizens of the land of their forefathers were being violated by the Malaysian regime.
For raising these issues and organising a massive protest, a number of Malaysian lawyers including Mr P Uday (Uthaya) Kumar and Mr M Manoharan were arrested and detained without trial under the draconian Internal Security Act for 514 days, and these two lawyers who were released recently attended the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to plead their case before a large audience, drawn from all over the world, the RSS said.
Underlining that India, traditionally has cordial relations with Malaysia and has large area of mutual cooperation and trade relations with that country, the Sangh urged the Government to play a proactive role in redressing the situation.
It should convince them to be mindful of the UN Declaration of Human Rights which in itself goes a long way in helping the Indian community lead a life of dignity.
The Government can also open a special wing in the Ministry of External Affairs to register and follow up on Human Rights violations and religious freedom of Indians living abroad.
”This is the least the Government can do as it hosts such self-serving jamborees year after year in the name of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas,” it said.
–UNI
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