During the colonial days the British brought the Indian manpower to man their hill stations amongst others in Frasers Hill, as the locals were complacent in their villages and would not want to work up in these hills. 
And now UMNO as usual wants to “ethnically cleanse” these Indian government quarters to wipe out the history of the earliest Indian presence here. We have seen even a Hindu temple at a sharp bend in Fraser Hill’s mountainous land scape. Our immediate thoughts was that UMNO would someday also destroy this temple.
Why can’t UMNO preserve and recognize as a National Heritage of the early Indian workers homes here, some of whom had died while clearing the jungle with their bare hands and with no machinery as we know today, vis a vis the development of this Frasers’ Hill Resort?
Why can’t UMNO preserve this JKR quarters, their Hindu temples, Tamil school and cemetery as a part and parcel of the history of Frasers Hill? Why can’t UMNO expand and enchance these historical sites as a part of the Malaysian heritage?
Under UMNO’s racist, religious extremist and supremacist agenda they are just waiting to cap and roll back, erase any and every semblance of Indian and Hindu landmarks in Malaysia as the Indians are the softest targets with no or very little political power.
P. Uthayakumar
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