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| \n The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has condemned the manner employed by the authorities to demolish a Hindu temple in Shah Alam yesterday. <\/p>\n ) said the incident showed that the authorities did not have respect for religious and cultural sensitivities. <\/p>\n “The authorities may have state or legal right to carry out the demolition, but the manner in which it was conducted requires far greater consideration,” he told a press conference at the Suhakam headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today. <\/p>\n “Suhakam has been repeating this so many times. But the authorities seem to be deaf. They cannot display simple human decency in responding to a crisis. <\/p>\n “Why make it a crisis when it can be settled amicably?” he said, adding that the demolition was untimely since the Hindu festival of Deepavali was only a week away. <\/p>\n Yesterday, scores of Hindu devotees were injured when they resisted attempts by the Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) enforcement officials to demolish a temple in Rimba Jaya. <\/p>\n Some eye witnesses described the situation as a “near riot” as the two sides clashed. MBSA were backed by the riot police and other enforcement authorities. <\/p>\n The authorities claimed that the demolition was carried out based on a court order. Devotees, on the other hand, claimed that they were never notified of the demolition. <\/p>\n Grace period He said that rightfully, the authorities should have respected the rights of the Hindu devotees to carry out the necessary rituals to safely remove the items. <\/p>\n “These processes take time. What is (the enforcement authorities’) hurry? Can’t they wait two days, three days or one more week? <\/p>\n “If they can cool down emotions, that achieves far more than bulldozing the issue,” he added. <\/p>\n Another Suhakam commissioner N Siva Subramaniam condemned the use of violence by the authorities to subdue the devotees. <\/p>\n “Based on press reporters, the enforcement authorities pelted the devotees with stones. Their actions must be condemned. As enforcers, they should not subject the people to cruelty,” he said. <\/p>\n Public inquiry Numerous press reports today highlighted pictures of head and body injuries sustained by several devotees. <\/p>\n Both commissioners would try to convince Suhakam to hold a public inquiry on the matter. A decision on whether to hold a public inquiry would be made on Nov 12. <\/p>\n Siva added that the problem seemingly stems from the Selangor government’s policy as such occurrences are rare outside the state. <\/p>\n Denison said Suhakam had previously issued guidelines for the authorities on the demolition of places of worship and expressed regret that they had been ignored. <\/p>\n He stressed that the authorities needed to consult political parties and other stakeholders before taking action on places of worship because of the sensitivities involved. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" bila kecil baling batu kat anjingbila besar baling batu kat orang. inilah budaya sifat sopan santun dan lemah lembut. ataupun pekerja – pekerja itu pun merupakan imigren. let me translate for benefit of international readers: when small throw stones at dogs,when big throw stones at people. this is the culture that prides itself with being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[65,24,278,225,147,275],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-festival","tag-mic","tag-ngo","tag-politicians","tag-selangor","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
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Denison said the way the temple and the sacred items within the structure were destroyed by the authorities would be taken as great offence by the Hindu community. <\/p>\n