source <\/a><\/p>\nBy SHAHANAAZ HABIB<\/p>\n
KUALA LUMPUR: The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) will go ahead with its gathering on Sunday and asks to be given "one hour maximum" to hand over its petition to the British High Commission. <\/p>\n
A. Sivanesan, one of the lawyers representing the three Hindraf members who had been charged with sedition in the Klang Sessions Court on Friday, said Sunday's gathering would go ahead as planned. <\/p>\n
\n Sivanesan said Sunday's planned gathering outside the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur would be peaceful and orderly. <\/p>\n
"It is away from the city and 60% of the shops in that area are closed on Sunday. We are not going to be a nuisance to the people," he added. <\/p>\n
The police had said it would not issue a permit for the gathering and warned people against attending it. Sivanesan pointed out that the British High Commission had already said there would be someone at the commission to accept Hindraf's petition. <\/p>\n
"Just give us a chance. It will be an hour maximum. We will hand over the petition to the British High Commission, speak to the crowd, then we will go back," he said. <\/p>\n
The Hindraf gathering is to hand over a petition to the British Commission asking for Queen Elizabeth II to appoint a Queen's counsel to represent the Indian community in a class action suit against the British Government for bringing Indians as indentured labourers to then Malaya and exploiting them. <\/p>\n
The group has filed a US$4 trillion (RM13.5 trillion) suit at the Royal Courts of Justice in London in August claiming that the British were to blame for the marginalisation of Indians in Malaysia. <\/p>\n
\n The suit is equivalent to US$1mil (RM3.4mil) for every Indian in Malaysia. <\/p>\n
On Friday, three Hindraf members – lawyers P. Uthayakumar, his brother Waythamoorthy and V.S Ganapathi Rao – were charged in the Klang Sessions Court under the Sedition Act for allegedly uttering seditious words to incite hate in their speeches at a gathering in Batang Berjuntai on Nov 16. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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