Yup, you read that right. The MIC Youth sent a protest memorandum against the attack, but they were snubbed and even challenged to a fight. Hmm..they should have taken it and bashed those security guards 🙂

The memorandum which was not accepted by the officials:

4th of May 2009

His Excellency the High Commissioner,
The High Commission of India,
Kuala Lumpur.

Your Excellency,

RE : INHUMANE TREATMENT OF MALAYSIAN CIVILIANS AT INDIAN HIGH COMMISSION,MALAYSIA

We, members of Social and Welfare Bureau of Malaysian Indian Congress Youth Wing, hereby submit our memorandum to register our vehement protest against the Indian High Commission’s inhumane treatment towards Mr Arunagiri Nathan and Mrs Gogelavani at Indian High Commision on 30th of April 2009.

For your kind information Your Excellency, Mr and Mrs Arunagiri Nathan Gogelavani has been coming to Indian High Commission two (2) consecutive days prior to the incident for foreign workers application.

On 30th of April 2009, Mrs and Mrs Arunagiri Nathan were stopped at Entrance of the High Commission for a security check by security guard. When Mrs Arunagiri asked the security guards not to use scanning devices on her body due to her pregnancy, the security guards were rude and verbally assaulted her by claiming that the premise was “Indian territory” and Malaysians do not have any rights on them.

When Mr Arunagiri responded to the security guards, he was dragged into the High Commission premise and the gate was locked from within, living his wife stranded outside of the High Commission building. The security guard started to hit Mr Arunagiri with a long stick. He was repeatedly beaten without mercy by the security guards and other unnamed officers from High Commission.

He was strangled, beaten, verbally assaulted and man handled until his shirt was torn. Due to the blunt trauma on his skull and hands, he was rushed to Selayang Hospital for further treatment. As for now, he has been having recurring headaches and his hands were swollen due the beatings. This incident has been reported to Royal Malaysian Police by Mrs Gogelavani (Report Reference Number: SENTUL/005689/09).

We, Social and Welfare Bureau of MIC Youth, most respectfully, request His Excellency to take this incident as a serious breach of basic human rights. We demand the personals involved in this incident to be suspended and handed over to the Royal Malaysian Police immediately for further investigation.

We also demand an official apology by High Commission of India to Mr and Mrs Arunagiri Gogelavani for mental anguish and trauma that they are going through.

We sincerely hope Your Excellency will solve this matter swiftly and diligently. We on our part will forward a copy of this Memorandum to our Foreign Affairs Ministry, Prime Minister’s Department and Prime Minister’s Office of India for their action as this involves Malaysian citizen and the High Commission of India.

Yours truly,

_______________
S.SUBRAMANIAM (019-351 7474)
Chairman
Social and Welfare Bureau
National MIC Youth

So, what’s next? Call for massive protest in front of the embassy? Burn Indian flag? Demand that the high commissioner is sent back to India? Ask big money compensation? Organise campaign to boycott products from India? Fix some thugs to bash the guards and officials? Hmm…so many creative thoughts….

The area inside the perimeter is considered off-limits to local police, if I’m not mistaken. So, one who is patient will wait till the bird leaves the nest. It then becomes fair game.

Actually, if the guard insist on using scanner, the only the husband could have gone in while the wife stayed outside. Maybe they didn’t give the couple a chance to change their mind? Or the husband said some unsavoury words which agitated the guards? Or maybe the guards and officials are actually having mental problems and violent tendencies- which in turn highlights a possible security threat for the High Commissioner himself.