The funeral service will be held at 10:00 am TODAY (23 Oct 2014) at 1 Jalan Jujur 1/2, Taman Bakti, 68000 Ampang, Selangor. The cortege will leave for the crematorium in Cheras at noon.
PETALING
JAYA: Former Parti Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia secretary-general S.
Thaivasigamany died at his home in Ampang on Tuesday morning. He was 84.
He
was better known as “Gamany” to the many detainees and unionists whom
he defended after graduating from the Middle Temple in London in 1963
and admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1964.
“His
demise is a loss to the human rights movement in the country,” said
Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, who had known him since their
student days in Britain.
“Even
though Gamany was a socialist, he always took the middle road and was
very fair and reasonable in his views and actions. He will be sorely
missed by his peers and followers alike.”
Lawyer and former Member of Parliament Datuk Dominic Puthucheary remembers Gamany as a pioneer of human rights cases.
“It
was long before civil rights became fashionable. Every October, he
wrote to the Bar Council to remind them of all these people languishing
in jail.”
Gamany
was about the only lawyer in the 1960s and 1970s defending such cases,
said Sivarasa Rasiah, partner of the law firm, Daim & Gamany, which
Gamany set up with Tun Daim Zainuddin in 1968.
Hai-O
Enterprise Berhad group managing director Tan Kai Hee said Gamany was
“a hero who defended those who were in jail and took care of the
families of the detainees”.
Tan
was deputy secretary-general of the Labour Party when he was detained
under the ISA from 1965 to 1973, and is grateful till today for Gamany’s
visits.
Gamany leaves behind his wife Gan Hwee Hong and sons Kapila, Virata and Ushana.
Kapila remembers his father as “always looking out for other people and putting their needs above his own”.
The
funeral will be held at 10am today at 1 Jalan Jujur 1/2, Taman Bakti,
Ampang, Selangor. The cortege will leave for the crematorium in Cheras
at noon.
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