{"id":737,"date":"2007-11-20T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T05:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/11\/20\/hindraf-meeting-a-journey-of-facts\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T05:12:42","slug":"hindraf-meeting-a-journey-of-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/11\/20\/hindraf-meeting-a-journey-of-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindraf meeting a journey of facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader&#8217;s account of the Hindraf talk at Brickfields on 18th Nov 2007. Thanks to Kannan.<\/p>\n<p>from\tKannan Ramasamy <kannan.ramasamy@xxxxxxxxx><br \/>\nto\tM Poobalan <mpoobalan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,<br \/>\ndate\tNov 20, 2007 10:49 AM<br \/>\nsubject\tHindraf meeting &#8211; a journey of facts<\/p>\n<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>It was abt 3.30 pm yesterday (18th Nov 2007) when I moved from our UMIC<br \/>\nDeepavali gathering for 300 kids in Klang.<\/p>\n<p>I had to move early leaving our UMIC function to be handle by other CC team<br \/>\nto avoid any delay to HINDRAF&#8217;s meeting in Brickfield due to roadblocks.<\/p>\n<p>Pick up few frens in Kelana Jaya and we drive thru Federal Highway.<\/p>\n<p>On the way we called few others to see if there were any blocks ahead near<br \/>\nBrickfileds, the reply was no roadblocks.<\/p>\n<p>By 4.45 pm we were there in front of the hall in Brickfields. It was just 25<br \/>\nmins drive from Kelana Jaya.<\/p>\n<p>There were only a few of them near the gate at that time, so we drive to<br \/>\nhave a small chaya at nearby restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Walked to the hall at 5.45 pm and saw the crowd slowing coming in.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st meeting we are going which organized by HINDRAF to seek more<br \/>\ninfo and as well to show support to them.<\/p>\n<p>There were few people giving away form to pen down support sign for the UK<br \/>\ncase.<\/p>\n<p>The mix crowd of old and young, man and woman soon filled the hall and<br \/>\naround 6.45 pm the hall was almost full.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp at 7.00 pm, the 1st speaker, Mr Mano introduce himself and talked<br \/>\nabout fundamental discrimination of right happening in Malaysia towards<br \/>\nIndians.<\/p>\n<p>This followed by Mr Genga and Mr Wathya on the current situation and support<br \/>\non the suit.<\/p>\n<p>The whole atmosphere in the hall was very vibrating as the crowd claps for<br \/>\nevery point made by the speakers.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd also echoes with high spirit support with clear loud voices.<\/p>\n<p>He even called the people not to worry to the police presence outside as it<br \/>\nis LEGAL and PERMIT APPROVED gathering.<\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of things and facts shares in this gathering which needs to<br \/>\nbe known by all of us.<\/p>\n<p>This is must attend meeting by every Indian in Malaysia regardless of age,<br \/>\nreligion, education or status as long as they are Malaysian Indians.<\/p>\n<p>This group of lawyers from Mr. Mano, Mr Genga, Mr Waytha, Mr Uthaya and Mr<br \/>\nRao has put the community above all to serve them with high dedication.<\/p>\n<p>Their speech full of facts on<\/p>\n<p>* the reason and the way the Indian were brought into Malaysia<br \/>\n* the promises given by the British before independence<br \/>\n* The suffering and pain by the Indians here under British colonial<br \/>\n* the contribution and glory made by our Indian towards British<br \/>\n* the dirty ways of the current government cleaning Indian history and<br \/>\nicons<br \/>\n* the discriminations by umno lead government in last 50 years<br \/>\n* the right that every Malaysia Indian have in law and constitution<br \/>\n* the wrongdoing by the PM as the government leader to save Indian as<br \/>\nwhole.<\/p>\n<p>And the most important thing was the reason why the suit was filed against<br \/>\nthe UK and how the Reid commission failed the Malaysian Indians !!<\/p>\n<p>This information shared was the most crucial and interesting parts.<\/p>\n<p>I have to salute to this team of lawyers whom dedicated so much time and<br \/>\nlife in preparing the findings and filing the suit.<\/p>\n<p>As Mr Watya said, this suit is the bull&#8217;s eye shot that will open the eyes<br \/>\nof world towards the suffering of Indians in Msia.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit sad part to see only abt 2000 plus people came from Klang<br \/>\nVallley to this meting despite Brickfields is well known as Indian hub.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless the HINDRAF gathering at the other parts of Malaysia pulls huge<br \/>\ncrowd in Sban ( ~7000) and Penang (~5000), Butterworth (~4000) and Kulim<br \/>\n(~4000).<\/p>\n<p>As said, may be people are still worried on Bersih gathering reaction<br \/>\nrecently. But this is total is different gathering with NON POLITICAL<br \/>\npurpose.<\/p>\n<p>The other request made in the speech were,<\/p>\n<p>1. The signature support by Malaysian Indian on the suit against UK<\/p>\n<p>a. Each Indian to get at least 10 signatures and make 10 copies<br \/>\nof the form<\/p>\n<p>2. The peaceful gathering to support the memo submission to the UK<br \/>\ncounsel on coming 25th Nov 2007 at 9am in front of British Council, Jln<br \/>\nAmpang KL.<\/p>\n<p>a. Request made if possible to be in &#8220;orange&#8221; to assemble peace<br \/>\nand sacred gathering. ( Amathiyum Thuimaiyum)<br \/>\nb. Be in peace and total calm during the gathering as it<br \/>\nresembles the Indians in Msia to pledge the HRH Queen of England to appoint<br \/>\nHer Queen&#8217;s Counsel to represent us.<br \/>\nc. The international media will be present at the gathering to<br \/>\nrecord this peace wave.<br \/>\nd. It will be a legal peace gathering with police permit.<br \/>\ne. Be there early to avoid traffic jam and possible to take<br \/>\npublic transport like LRT Star to Ampang Park Stn which is only 50m walk to<br \/>\nthe council.<\/p>\n<p>3. Do daily prayers and light up a &#8220;agal villaku&#8221; in front of every<br \/>\nIndians house daily from 7pm &#8211; 8 pm to shown support on the suit against UK.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering came close to end at 10.30 pm with standing recognition to the<br \/>\nbrave hearts that fought their life to save the recent Kg Jawa Amman Temple<br \/>\nfollowed highly motivated song and the IKRAR reading.<\/p>\n<p>It was a stunning and high vibrate gathering that I ever been.<\/p>\n<p>We need more Malaysian Indian to support this team that is fighting for the<br \/>\nrights of all of us whom are poor, oppressed, suppressed and permanently<br \/>\ncolonized.<\/p>\n<p>As your simple contribution, pls pass this info to all the Indian tht u<br \/>\nknew.<\/p>\n<p>Pls seek for the form and pen down your signature of support.<\/p>\n<p>Be there in all the meeting to get to the root of the truth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;KAMI MAHU HAK KAMI&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;KAMI MAHU HAK KAMI&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;KAMI MAHU HAK KAMI&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and seek for support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kannan Ramasamy &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader&#8217;s account of the Hindraf talk at Brickfields on 18th Nov 2007. Thanks to Kannan. from Kannan Ramasamy to M Poobalan , date Nov 20, 2007 10:49 AM subject Hindraf meeting &#8211; a journey of facts Hi all, It was abt 3.30 pm yesterday (18th Nov 2007) when I moved from our UMIC Deepavali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[112,19,21,24,143,302,275,300,141,105,22],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-hindraf","tag-mic","tag-penang","tag-religion","tag-temples","tag-umic","tag-umno","tag-uthaya","tag-waytha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}