By: Robert K Chelliah
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Jewish Nazi-hunting organisation is an active organisation based in the USA that leaves no stone unturned to identify the offenders of German atrocities against the Jews about 70 years ago. For this centre and many Governments lapse of time is no barrier to assist this organisation to seek redress for the atrocities committed Germans under Hitler. Some call it revenge of the Jews as the latest case involves a 80 year Australian citizen of Hungarian birth who was charged for an offence against one, yes one, Jewish person during the in the 1940s. See http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1080158/zentai-ruling-needs-scrutiny-says-smith. The Australian court granted the appeal against extradition and this Simon W Centre want the Australian government to appeal against the acquittal.
I cite this case as a comparison to what HINDRAF, under the Chairmanship of Waythamoorthy has initiated in 2007. Waytha has filed claim for multi trillion dollar damages against the British government for the discriminated and atrocities the British had exposed the ethnic Indians with the complicity of the Malay UMNO dominated Malaysian government over the decades. The British failed to ensure that the Indians during the post independence period did not suffer social deprivation and discrimination to the point of social entropy and placed in abject poverty, denied of life opportunities. The
Indians; inalienable human rights to equitable treatment and life chances under the universally endowed provisions under the various UN charter has been consistently and brutally denied to the Malaysia Indians by the Malay UMNO government over the decades with the compliance of co-opted MIC leaders . I am not talking about the Ananda Krishnans or Nallakaruppans of this world. They are the individual benefactors of the Malay patronage. I am talking about the rubber tappers, the PWD road workers, the orphans and widows of those Indian workers brought by the British to build Malaysia to its present state. Some Indian children have no choice but to eat raw earth for want of what is their basic right and which has been denied to them by the discriminatory policies of the UMNO government. I hold the British and the Malaysian government of present day accountable to this state of entropy the working class Malaysian Indians find themselves in. I too am a product of such historical process when my grandparents were shipped from Southern India to Andaman Island to de fleece them of body bugs and disease and fed to be distributed to various rubber estates to in the northern part of Malaya and my late widowed mother was product of such process, having to work in Kammuning estate for a few cents a day to support three of her children at time when rubber was sold for exorbitant price during the Korean war. 
Hence, the British and the present Malaysian government has lot to account for in the international arena when the claim comes up before the British courts in the very near future. Even if the litigation does not win a single cent, HINDRAF would achieve moral victory on behalf of the thousand of poverty ridden working class Malaysian Indians, when their plight would be exposed to the attention of the International Court of Public Opinion on the plight of the discriminated Malaysian Indians.
We wish HINDRAF all the best in their undertaking in London.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Jewish Nazi-hunting organisation is an active organisation based in the USA that leaves no stone unturned to identify the offenders of German atrocities against the Jews about 70 years ago. For this centre and many Governments lapse of time is no barrier to assist this organisation to seek redress for the atrocities committed Germans under Hitler. Some call it revenge of the Jews as the latest case involves a 80 year Australian citizen of Hungarian birth who was charged for an offence against one, yes one, Jewish person during the in the 1940s. See http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1080158/zentai-ruling-needs-scrutiny-says-smith. The Australian court granted the appeal against extradition and this Simon W Centre want the Australian government to appeal against the acquittal. I cite this case as a comparison to what HINDRAF, under the Chairmanship of Waythamoorthy has initiated in 2007. Waytha has filed claim for multi trillion dollar damages against the British government for the discriminated and atrocities the British had exposed the ethnic Indians with the complicity of the Malay UMNO dominated Malaysian government over the decades. The British failed to ensure that the Indians during the post independence period did not suffer social deprivation and discrimination to the point of social entropy and placed in abject poverty, denied of life opportunities. The
Indians; inalienable human rights to equitable treatment and life chances under the universally endowed provisions under the various UN charter has been consistently and brutally denied to the Malaysia Indians by the Malay UMNO government over the decades with the compliance of co-opted MIC leaders . I am not talking about the Ananda Krishnans or Nallakaruppans of this world. They are the individual benefactors of the Malay patronage. I am talking about the rubber tappers, the PWD road workers, the orphans and widows of those Indian workers brought by the British to build Malaysia to its present state. Some Indian children have no choice but to eat raw earth for want of what is their basic right and which has been denied to them by the discriminatory policies of the UMNO government. I hold the British and the Malaysian government of present day accountable to this state of entropy the working class Malaysian Indians find themselves in. I too am a product of such historical process when my grandparents were shipped from Southern India to Andaman Island to de fleece them of body bugs and disease and fed to be distributed to various rubber estates to in the northern part of Malaya and my late widowed mother was product of such process, having to work in Kammuning estate for a few cents a day to support three of her children at time when rubber was sold for exorbitant price during the Korean war. 
Hence, the British and the present Malaysian government has lot to account for in the international arena when the claim comes up before the British courts in the very near future. Even if the litigation does not win a single cent, HINDRAF would achieve moral victory on behalf of the thousand of poverty ridden working class Malaysian Indians, when their plight would be exposed to the attention of the International Court of Public Opinion on the plight of the discriminated Malaysian Indians.
We wish HINDRAF all the best in their undertaking in London.
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