"Every major town on the west coast, I am sure has several gangs and probably as many members as in Penang. That is a large and disturbing number.
"Is anyone suggesting we shoot off all these wayward youngsters to clean the streets of crime?" said Waythamoorthy (left) in a statement today.He was responding to criticism of his earlier statement against the recent shooting of five youths in in Sungei Nibong, Penang.
"That particular episode may have taken the five off the streets in the way it did, but will it really solve the problem of crime?" he asked.
He acknowledged the police's remark on Saturday that the Indian community was facing a serious threat in rising gansterism."At the funeral procession of one of those who died that day, the newspapers reported about 800 Indian (Malaysian) youths many purportedly 04 gang members in the procession.
"Yesterday it was reported that the director of criminal investigations (CID) Bukit Aman Hadi Ho Abdullah (left) said the police records of known gang members revealed that 71 percent were Indian.
"There is a crisis within the Indian community. We need urgent and positive intervention to stop the slide," said Waythamoorthy.
Told off twice
Last week Waythamoorthy, who is also Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia (PHM) chief, was told off by Home Minister Zahid Hamidi for criticising the Nibong Tebal shootings.
“If you like to criticise the police, if you like to give negative comments to the police, please resign and lead your own NGO. Be the NGO leader," the home minister said on Saturday alluding to the PHM leader.
Today Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein backed Zahid's call saying the latter was "101 per cent correct".Waythamoorthy defended himself saying the problem of gangsterism was "multi faceted" and only symptomatic of a larger problem, the socio-economic malaise affecting the Indian community
"Shooting these youths is shooting at the most visible portion jutting above the water, but which is only a very small fraction of the problem," he said.
"30 years ago the statistics would have read very differently – there were nowhere near these numbers of Indian youth involved in crime.
"They have come about as a direct result of the massive forced displacement of estate workers into the urban areas beginning circa 1980s."
He repeated his call for the home minister to work with him to find a "holistic" solution by implementing the blueprint that PHM signed with Prime Minister Najib Razak before the general election.
2 comments:
gangster itu lambang apa ada bawa kebaikan atau keburukan.kalau yang sudah melampau tak kira apa bangsa pun gangster perlu diambil tindakan.kenapa tak buat banyak program untuk mendidik moral mereka jangan suka buat program ho ha ho ha
sudah ada jawatan buatlah cadangan yang membina untuk bantu mereka jangan cakap saja. budak kecil pun pandai cakap
inilah legasi sami vellu, nallakaruppan dan sewaktu dengannya. Masalah gangsterisma pemuda India telah lama deketahui dan kalau tiada tindakan drastik diambil, masalah lebih besar akan berlaku.
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