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probably the pressure from tamil nadu MPs  and other political parties caused this reply. anyway, can't see our govt sending a delegation since nazri already set the tone – "don't meddle". India does have the upper hand though, they can use economy\/trade as a tool to pressure or negotiate something, if they want to. <\/div>\n
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India says Hindraf crackdown a 'source of concern' <\/div>\n
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India has voiced its concerns about a crackdown by baton-wielding Malaysian police on ethnic Indians in Kuala Lumpur. <\/p>\n

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said New Delhi was disturbed by reports about the use of force against the protesters in the multicultural Islamic country. <\/p>\n

"This is a matter which does concern us," Singh told a joint news conference with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in New Delhi. <\/p>\n

"Whenever Indian citizens abroad or people of Indian origin living abroad run into difficulties, that obviously is a source of concern to us," he added. <\/p>\n

The prime minister's comments came as a cabinet minister said New Delhi was taking up the issue with Kuala Lampur. <\/p>\n

"The matter is being taken up through diplomatic channels," junior parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Pachouri told India's Parliament, where MPs have accused Malaysia of mistreating ethnic Indians. <\/p>\n

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At least 30,000 protesters including women and young people massed last Sunday near Kuala Lumpur's iconic Petronas Towers – meeting stiff resistance from police, who beat them with batons and used tear gas and water cannon. <\/p>\n

The rally was officially in support of a multi-trillion dollar lawsuit accusing former colonial ruler Britain of being at the root of Indians' economic problems by bringing their ancestors here as indentured labourers in the 1800s. <\/p>\n

But it was more squarely aimed at the ruling Umno, which stands for Malay interests and has ruled the nation since independence a half-century ago. <\/p>\n

While Malays control the political scene and the Chinese population is strong in business, Indians complain they run a distant third in terms of wealth, education and opportunities. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

probably the pressure from tamil nadu MPs  and other political parties caused this reply. anyway, can't see our govt sending a delegation since nazri already set the tone – "don't meddle". India does have the upper hand though, they can use economy\/trade as a tool to pressure or negotiate something, if they want to.   […]<\/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":[115,19,21,24,27,141],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-hindraf","tag-mic","tag-protest","tag-umno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}