All the newspapers hereinbelow rightly carried in their headlines today on the 15 year old school boy Aminul rasyid shot dead and killed by police as follows:-
1. Back to cops (NST 1/5/10)
2. Ready for inquest (star 1/5/10)
3. Musa,tinjau lokasi tembakan (UM 1/5/10)
4. Kertas siasatan ditolak (BH 1/5/10)
5. Inkues (SH 1/5/10)
Our condolences to Aminnul rasyid’s family We mean no disrespect to the grieving family.
These print and electronic media including the alternative media Malaysiakini.com, Malaysia today and bloggers should stop being racist and should also cover Indian victims shot dead killed in police lock ups the other atrocities on the Indian victims and the critical indian problems as the Indians too are Malaysians.
Malaysia is about the only country in the world where racism involving even the media takes place to this extent.We can only say that UMNOs’ racism has spilled over to these mainstream and also the alternative media including “our” Malaysiakini.com.Coverage or news worthiness on an injustice has evolved to become race based but which rightly should have been based on the gravity and severity of the injustices or the victimization.
Just three weeks ago two Indian brothers were shot dead by the Police Special Action Force shoot to kill squad in Taiping Perak and there are at least three eye witnesses to this police murder but the pin drop silence both the mainstream and also the alternative media.The Malaysiakini.com reporter was present at the protest funeral a la Gaza but their editors refused to carry the news as the victims were “merely” the indians.
In November 2009,five months ago five Indian youths were similarly shot dead by the police in Klang S elangor.In one family home alone there were three coffins lying side by side.Imagine the parents and families grief .But the mainstream and alternative media did not care to report these injustices let alone giving the same headlines coverage.
The fourth victim’s sister could not bear the pain of the grief and commited suicide by consuming paraquat. Luckily her four young children who were also given paraquat survived but are most likely to suffer kidney failure and other medical complication etc in the near future.But in both these and hundreds of such serious human rights violations concerning the Indian they do not catch even the by lines let alone the headlines.Why?
But again the mainstream media and the so called alternative media including Malaysiakini.com refuse to cover based on the gravity and seriousness basis as the victims are “merely”the Indians.
The western media on the contrary in fact bends backwards to aggressively cover their minorities as the majority would will somehow be taken care of.
Ever noticed the large number of Indian reporters from both side of the local media divide but who also choose”conveniently” to side step atrocities against Indian victims as they too have to play to the Chinese,malay and native “gallery”!
But when we point out all this racism,we in turn get labelled as racist,extremist and ethno centric.While the mainstream media preaches One Malay-sia ,the alternative media claims to be multi racial!
This mainstream and alternative media omission has caused this disproportionate 95% of the police shot dead and being killed in police custody(local) victims to be Indians in the years 2009/2010 when they only form only 8% of the population and the scores of other atrocities against the Indians who are seen as soft targets by the UMNO regime.
The spin off of this media racism is the opposition parties PKR,DAP and PAS top leaders,their MPs’ and ADUNS’ including their Indian Mandores also side step these critical Indian issue as they do not get to play to the majoritarian Malay,Chinese and natives political gallery who form 92% of the voters.
No or very little media coverage they get on even the most serious Indian issues turns out to be “no incentive” for them to champion the critical Indian problems though they otherwise swear to be supposedly multi-racial or one Malay-Sian.They losing Malay votes may be another factor!
Karuna Nithi@compasionate rate justice
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