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Wednesday, 5 May 2010

World Press Freedom Day in Malaysia Wide Coverage for Malays and Chinese victims. Almost zero for Indian victims even by alternative media including Malaysiakini & Bloggers

World Press Freedom Day in Malaysia Wide Coverage for Malays and Chinese victims. Almost zero for Indian victims even by alternative media including Malaysiakini & Bloggers
The world press by a click of the mouse can see for themselves the extent of the wide media coverage rightly received in the case of Teoh Beng Hock and the high profile inquest media coverage on a day to day basis thereafter.
And by the click of the mouse the world could also see the extent of the headlines, front page and day to day coverage of the case Aminurulrasyid Amzah for eight days in a row with the latest being today as follows:-
1) Boy’s version The Star headlines 4/5/10
2) Ajal lepas mimun cerita rakan Aminurulrasyid Berita Harian headlines 4/5/10.
3) IGP : We’ll soldier on New Straits Times 4/5/10 headlines
4) No confidence in police investigations. Royal Commission of Inquiry wanted Tamil Nesan Headlines 4/5/10
5) Pengakuan (Utusan Malaysia front page 4/5/10)
6) Witness to fatal shooting goes public The Sun 4/5/10 front page)
7) Witness breaks silence cops kept shooting as Aminul lay dead (NST 4/5/10 at page 6)
8) Royal Commission required (MO 4/5/10 at page 3)
9) Tubuh Suruhanjaya diraja kes remaja mati ditembak keluarga bantah
cadangan Ketua Polis Negara adakan inkues (BH 4/5/10 at page 6)
10) Buddy: He died in my lap Friend recounts eventful might out with 1
Aminulrasyid (The Star 4/5/10 at page N10).
11) Boy in shooting incident speaks up. The Sun 4/5/10 at page 4).
12)Senate shoots down motion on teen shooting (Malaysiakini 4/5/10)
13)Special panel to call witnesses, review SOP (Malaysiakini 4/5/10)
14)Teen shooting: Police overhaul needed (Malaysiakini 4/5/10)
15)Karpal: Charge Aminul’s killers with murder (Malaysiakini 4/5/10)
16) IGP: Up to government to decide on Royal Commission of Inquiry
(Malaysiakini 4/5/10).
17) IGP Should resign (Malaysiakini 4/5/10)
But just three weeks ago two Indian brothers were shot dead and murdered by the police executionists in a shoot to kill operation. There are at least three eye witnesses.
By the click of the mouse the World Press would know that except for HRP and Hindraf no other members of the Malaysian civil society, PKR, DAP, PAS, NGOs’ Bar Council, Malaysiakini (except one story) Malaysia Today belatedly did cover, Malaysian Insider or bloggers cared (except Haris Ibrahim). Let alone the headlines and day to day basis coverage of Teoh Beng Hock and Aminulrasyid have and are getting. Why?
But when we point out this omission, we instead are accused of being racist by even PKR Supremo Anwar Ibrahim. A cry against racism is deemed racism in no other part of the world except in Malaysia.
This is just the tip of the iceberg scenario. Everyday in scores of other critical problems if the victims are Indians they are almost all ignored and side stepped by both the mainstream and alternative media, and both the BN and PR representatives.
In a peaceful struggle the one and only thing that we can do is to name and shame UMNO’s police force.  But the media including the Tamil media, Tamil Nesan and Malaysia Nanban and also Malaysiakini would not cover simply because the victims were two ethnic minority Malaysian Indians and don’t happen to be a Malay or a Chinese.
And so the atrocities against the Malaysian Indians go on a day to day basis under this 53 year continuous rule by the UMNO regime by commission and by the Malaysian civil society PKR, DAP, PAS and Malaysiakini by omission.
Karunai Nithi
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