HRP briefs U.N Rapporteurs on false Hindraf LTTE link by UMNO to justify ISA arrest of Hindraf lawyers, ASP Vasanthakumar planted to destroy Hindraf under Ops Padam Hindraf.

On 15/6/10 at 1.30p.m after the 13A protest in Parliament, P. Uthayakumar, Hindraf and HRP adviser N. Ganesan and Hindraf National Coordinator W. Sambulingam rushed to the U.N. office at Jalan Dungun, Damansara K.L.

     Here we were met by Mr El Hadji Malick SOW Chairperson – Rapporteur Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, Miguel DE LA LAMA Secretary Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Procedures Divisions, Claudia DE LA FUENETE Associate Human Rights Officer Special Procedures Branch/ Civil and Political Rights Section Office of the United Nations High Commisioner for Human Rights, Roberto GARRETON Member of the working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council all from Geneva, Switzerland. This delegation all from was in Malaysia as a result of the intense UN and International lobby by Hindraf Chairman P. Waytha Moorthy and the persistent Hindraf supporters public lobby.

P. Uthayakumar briefed the U.N Rapportuers on:-

1) The false UMNO/BN allegations linking the Hindraf lawyers to terrorist LTTE to actually justify their detention without trial under the ISA .

2) The above done to divert attention away from the critical Indian problems some of which are as per the Malaysian Indian Minority & Human Rights Violations Annual Report 2009 Malay-sia Truly Racist 7^th – 9^th January 2010.

A copy of this annual report was presented to the aforesaid UN Rappoteurs.

3) The unlawful and unjustified arrest and detention of the four Hindraf lawyers without trial or conviction.

4) The rapporteurs were briefed on how these four lawyers with up to 20 years standing as active legal practitioners running up and about to up to three to four courts in one day could be linked to the LTTE terrorists.

5) That the UMNO led Malaysian government suddenly did an about turn and dropped this LTTE allegation when P. Uthayakumar had filed a civil suit against the (liar) Attorney General and government of Malaysia. In their Statement of Defence they now had the cheek to say that they never referred the LTTE terrorist allegation to P. Uthayakumar despite P. Uthayakumar being the most recognizable face in Hindraf. We had specifically requested UN to independently investigated this Hindraf LTTE link allegation by UMNO and publish their findings in the UN journals and also the U. N. General Assembly.

6) How police operative ASP Vasanthakumar was planted into Hindraf to create Confusion, appearance division and a split in the leadership of Hindraf under Ops Padam Hindraf.

7) About 60% of the inmates detained at the Simpang Renggam Detention Centre without trial are Malaysian Indians. This includes even a 17 year old juvenile who should have been in some corrective home.

That the police find the easy way out short cuts and detain without trial thousands of Malaysian Indians without putting them on trial in a court of law. With no money to pay lawyers these Indians languish in jails for four to six years and/or being banished to a remote town thereafter.

9) Because of this arbitrary detention the real criminals we believe are on the loose with police being partners in crime and with the crime rate escalating so much so that Malaysia has become one hundred times more dangerous to Singapore within a span of the last 20 years.

10) P. Uthayakumar also “tipped off that all the other NGO, Suhakam anti ISA groups, Malaysian civil society groups, Bar Council, Indian elite, PKR, DAP and PAS that were present would never also champion issues when the victims are Malaysian Indians the latest being top and high achieving Malay-sian indian students being denied scholarships in JPA, Petronas, Mara, Khazanah, GLCs’, Shell, Sime Darby, 13 yayasan Negeri’s, PTPTN scholarships, public University and Matriculation places.

And finally that the above organizations never went out of their way to campaign for our freedom from ISA. And if not for the Hindraf supporters relentless public campaigns, the Hindraf lawyers would still be languishing in jail even right up to date.

P. Uthayakumar