{"id":1050,"date":"2008-01-07T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/01\/07\/pm-to-be-given-valentine-roses-by-indians\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T05:21:08","slug":"pm-to-be-given-valentine-roses-by-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/01\/07\/pm-to-be-given-valentine-roses-by-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"PM to be given Valentine roses by Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got it from a forwarded email:<\/p>\n<p>HINDRAF<br \/>\n135-3 Jalan Toman 7<br \/>\nKemayan Square 70200<br \/>\nSeremban N.Sembilan<br \/>\n7th January 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Press Statement<\/p>\n<p>Re: HINDRAF LAUNCHES   VALENTINE ROSES CAMPAIGN TO FREE ISA DETAINEES AND ASSERT RIGHTS OF MINORITY MALAYSIAN INDIANS WHO HAVE BEEN OPPRESSED SUPPRESSED MARGINALISED AND REMAINED PERMANENTLY COLONIZED COMMUNIY.<\/p>\n<p>HINDRAF REQUESTS PRIME MINISTER TO MAKE HIMSELF AVAILABLE TO ACCEPT ROSES FROM AND ON BEHALF OF 70% POOR AND UNDERCLASS INDIANS.<\/p>\n<p>On the 16th February 2008 (Saturday) a minimum of 10,000 Malaysian Indians representing 70% of the poor oppressed  suppressed and marginalized community would make themselves available to hand over red and yellow roses to the Honourable Prime Minister Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi  in conjunction with Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Red Roses would signify  HINDRAF\u2019s Love and Peaceful Struggle whilst yellow roses would signify the Demand for Justice for the 5 HINDRAF leaders held under the draconian laws and for the rights of the minority Indian community who have been neglected for the last 50 years since Independence by the Government. <\/p>\n<p>The minimum of 10,000 Minority Indians would make themselves available as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Date \t : 16th February 2008 (Saturday)<\/p>\n<p>Time \t : 11.00 am<\/p>\n<p>Venue\t : Parliament House Kuala Lumpur<\/p>\n<p>HINDRAF wishes to assert that this is purely a peaceful gathering with the view to present our beloved Prime Minister with Roses to enlighten him on the predicament and  Cry for Justice of the Minority Indian community. The heart of the Indian community bleeds on the incarceration of their leaders under the ISA. It is hoped by accepting the roses the Prime Minister would be  compassionate and understand to the needs of the Indian community.<\/p>\n<p>HINDRAF  requests  the Prime Minister to attend personally to accept the roses or alternatively  make his personal representative available to accept the same. We are amenable to change the venue if it is inconvenient with the Honourable Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>We trust the Government would perfectly understand the peaceful gesture of Malaysian Indians and allow these poor oppressed and underclass  to express their feelings through presentation of the Roses.<\/p>\n<p>HINDRAF wishes the Honourable Prime Minister (an advance)  \u201cHAPPY VALENTINE\u2019S DAY.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> P.Waytha Moorthy<br \/>\nChairman<br \/>\nCurrently in London<br \/>\nwaytha@hotmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got it from a forwarded email: HINDRAF 135-3 Jalan Toman 7 Kemayan Square 70200 Seremban N.Sembilan 7th January 2008. Press Statement Re: HINDRAF LAUNCHES VALENTINE ROSES CAMPAIGN TO FREE ISA DETAINEES AND ASSERT RIGHTS OF MINORITY MALAYSIAN INDIANS WHO HAVE BEEN OPPRESSED SUPPRESSED MARGINALISED AND REMAINED PERMANENTLY COLONIZED COMMUNIY. HINDRAF REQUESTS PRIME MINISTER TO MAKE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21,133,225,22],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-isa","tag-politicians","tag-waytha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}