{"id":2272,"date":"2008-08-05T23:30:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/08\/05\/hindraf-contacts-commonwealth-parliamentarian-association\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T23:30:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T15:30:40","slug":"hindraf-contacts-commonwealth-parliamentarian-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/08\/05\/hindraf-contacts-commonwealth-parliamentarian-association\/","title":{"rendered":"HINDRAF contacts Commonwealth Parliamentarian Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

From HINDRAF website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After
\nsuccessfully launching Hindraf’s 1st Jalur Gemilang event in
\nBrickfields, Kuala Lumpur attended by more than 3000 people, Hindraf
\ncontinues it tireless struggle on the same day.<\/p>\n

About 100 people had gathered in front of KL Convention Centre about 12.30 pm today.<\/p>\n

They
\nhad a peace protest for more than 2 hours carrying banners and placards
\n(“manila card”) with various slogans. The group whom most dressed in
\ntheir safron color dress were waving their placard to the passby
\npeople. Few foreign and local medias were seen covering the peace
\nprotest.<\/p>\n

The group has managed to deliever the memo letter to more
\nthan 40 delegates whom came to the meeting today during their lunch
\nbreak. Some of the delegates promised to raise the matter and seems to
\nknow about the Hindraf when the Hindraf volunteers explains to the
\ndelegates on the letter.<\/p>\n

It is learnt that CPA ( Commonwealth
\nParliamentarian Association) is having their annual meeting in the
\nconvention centre from 1st August to 10th August. HINDRAF Chairman, Mr
\nP.Waythamoorty whom is self exile in London now had earlier sent a
\nofficial letter dated 15th July 2008 to Dr.William F. Shija, Secretary
\nGeneral of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association address to their
\noffice in London.<\/p>\n

In the letter, HINDRAF has request the CPA
\nSec. General to raise serious Human Rights Issues of affecting
\nMalaysian Indians at the CPA meet in Kuala Lumpur from August 1-10,
\n2008.<\/p>\n

The 4 issues are;<\/p>\n

1. Democratically elected representative
\nat Selangor Legislative assembly Mr.M.Manoharan denied his rights to
\nserve his constituents though he has won his state assembly seat with
\nbig majority while he was still detained under the draconian ISA
\n(Internal Security Law).
but till today he is denied his right to serve his constituents. This is a serious affront to basic principles of human Rights.<\/p>\n

2.
\nHINDRAF 5 leaders and workers detained under draconian Internal
\nSecurity Act (ISA) without trial for raising legitimate issues
\naffecting minority rights.<\/p>\n

3. P.Uthayakumar whom is one of the detainee have been denied right to seek medical attention for heart ailment.<\/p>\n

4. 51 years of neo colonization of ethnic Malaysian Indians by the majority Malay UMNO led Government in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

Mr Waythamoorthy also have stressed in his letter to CPA that Malaysia being one of the materially
\ndeveloped Commonwealth members in every possible way has breached and
\nfailed to uphold its declaration and fundamental principal of the
\nCommonwealth in affirming human rights and good governance for the
\nMalaysian Indians with its practice of continued oppression and
\nsuppression towards their ethnic citizens. Hindraf feels that Malaysia
\nbreached the Harare Commonwealth Declaration, 1991, where the heads of
\ngovernment of the countries of the Commonwealth had reaffirmed their
\npledge that were set out in a Declaration of Commonwealth Principles
\nagreed by their predecessors at their Meeting in Singapore in 1971
\nwhich amongst them being that;<\/p>\n

1. They believe in the liberty of the
\nindividual under the law, in equal rights for all citizens regardless
\nof gender, race, colour, creed or political belief, and in the
\nindividual’s inalienable right to participate by means of free and
\ndemocratic political processes in framing the society in which he or
\nshe lives;<\/p>\n

2. They recognise racial prejudice and intolerance as
\na dangerous sickness and a threat to healthy development, and racial
\ndiscrimination as an unmitigated evil;<\/p>\n

3. They oppose all forms of racial oppression, and they are committed to the principles of human dignity and equality.<\/p>\n

They
\nstressed that Malaysian government continues to undermine human right
\nand civil liberties issues although they had pledged to the Harare
\nConvention and their membership with the United Nations Human Rights
\nCouncil.<\/p>\n

Hindraf Event Coordinator, Mr Kannan whom came for the
\npeace protest at the KL Convention Centre said that this peace protest
\nis to seek CPA attention and urge them to bring up the serious
\nviolation of Human Right and continues marginalization of Malaysian
\nIndians in the their meetings here. “As they are here on the ground
\ntheir should make effort to hear the plight of the marginalized
\nMalaysian Indians”, he said.<\/p>\n

There were several police patrol cars
\nand personnel both in uniform and plain clothes watching the group in
\nbriefand took pictures. The group later dispreased in peace after
\nholding the peace protest outside the KL Convention Centre almost 2
\nhours.<\/p>\n

Mr Kannan also mention that it was success day as the group
\nsuccessfully hand over the memo to several CPA delegates by hand and
\nthe outside peace protest were allowed without any issue. He hope the
\nCPA and Malaysia government will look in to the request urgently.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From HINDRAF website: After successfully launching Hindraf’s 1st Jalur Gemilang event in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur attended by more than 3000 people, Hindraf continues it tireless struggle on the same day. About 100 people had gathered in front of KL Convention Centre about 12.30 pm today. They had a peace protest for more than 2 hours […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-isa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","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=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}