UMNO wipes out traditional Indian farmers from Cameron Highlands

(The Star 8/1/2010 at page N 53)

Hundreds of thousands of acres of land have been given out by UMNO to the Malay Muslims poor in the form of 10 acre land ownership schemes in Felda, Felcra, Risda, Fama and Agropolitan. But only an estimated 1% Indians benefited from these with the last being some 40 years ago and only in the Felda schemes.

To add insult to injury UMNO now wants to take away the TOL land belonging to the 600 traditional Indian farmers in Cameron Highlands who have been planting vegetables and contributing to the country’s economy for the last 52 years since independence. Such things would be unheard of if the farmers happen to be malays.

To UMNO it does not matter if Malaysia imports it’s vegetables from China or Thailand and foreign exchanges flows out the country. What matters to Umno is land is not allocated to the Indians and generally non malays. After South Africa this level of racism and religious extremism and malay muslim supremacy only exists in Malaysia.

P. Uthayakumar.