{"id":715,"date":"2007-11-17T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/11\/17\/hindraf-gathering-to-attract-10000-people\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T02:24:24","slug":"hindraf-gathering-to-attract-10000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/11\/17\/hindraf-gathering-to-attract-10000-people\/","title":{"rendered":"HINDRAF gathering to attract 10000 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10,000 to petition Queen E for support<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/source\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> KUALA LUMPUR: About 10,000 people are expected to converge at the British High Commission on Nov 25 to petition the Queen of England to support a suit they filed recently. <\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" width=\"200\">\n<\/table>\n<p>The group will be led by the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF), which on Aug 30 filed a class-action suit against the British government for bringing Indians to Malaysia as indentured labourers and exploiting them for 150 years and thereafter failing to protect the minority Indians rights in the federal constitution when independence was granted. The sum sought was US$4 trillion (RM14 trillion)  &#8212; or US$1 million for every Indian currently residing in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>P. Waytha Moorthy, the lawyer who filed the suit, said HINDRAF was also seeking an unspecified sum in damages &quot;for all the pain and suffering of generations of Indians in Malaysia over the years&quot;. &quot;The cost of the suit is about RM5 million, as estimated by our British solicitors and barristers.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;Malaysian Indians are poor and cannot afford the cost, so we are appealing to the Queen to appoint her Queen&#39;s Counsel and solicitors to represent the minority Indians,&quot; said Waytha. <\/p>\n<p>He said the suit was not a demonstration or a rally. &quot;We just want to petition the Queen&#39;s help and we want the British to know that Indians here are supporting this suit.&quot;   <\/p>\n<p>  The British High Commission said it was aware of the petition and would consider it. &quot;However, Nov 25 is a Sunday and the commission will be closed. I don&#39;t know whom they will be giving the petition to,&quot; said its political and press affairs adviser Abdul Rashid Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>  HINDRAF representatives met Cheras police yesterday to apply for a permit to hold the gathering. The district police chief, Assistant Commissioner Ahmad Amir Mohd Hashim, said police had not made a decision on the application. &quot;We are studying the situation,&quot; he said. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10,000 to petition Queen E for support source KUALA LUMPUR: About 10,000 people are expected to converge at the British High Commission on Nov 25 to petition the Queen of England to support a suit they filed recently. The group will be led by the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF), which on Aug 30 filed [&hellip;]<\/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":[21,22],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-waytha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}