மலேசிய இந்து பேரணியில் பங்கேற்றவர்கள் மீது கொலைமுயற்சி குற்றச்சாட்டு!

மலேசியாவில் மலேசிய முஸ்லீம் அரசு இந்துக்களுக்கு எதிராக நடத்தும் வன்முறைகளளயும், ஒடுக்குமுறைகளையும் எதிர்த்து போராடிய இந்து தலைவர்கள் மீது மலேசிய அரசாங்கம் மேலும் ஒடுக்குமுறைகளை ஏவுகிறது.

பேரணியில் பங்கேற்ற 24 பேர் மீது கொலைமுயற்சி குற்றச்சாட்டுடன் கைது செய்துள்ளது.

மலேசியா ஒரு நாள் இந்து தர்மத்தை தழுவும். அமைதி வழியில் வாழும்.

Malaysia charges 26 ethnic Indians
Associated Press
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 (Kuala Lumpur)

Twenty-six ethnic Indians have been charged with attempted murder in connection with an anti-discrimination rally in Malaysia last month, a lawyer said on Tuesday.

The defendants pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill a police officer during a clash at a temple compound outside Kuala Lumpur on Nov 25, said lawyer M Manoharan Malayalam.

The rally, involving 10,000 people, was the largest protest in at least a decade involving Indians, the country's second-largest minority population after ethnic Chinese. They had demanded equality and fair treatment in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

''It's very shocking,'' Manoharan told The Associated Press. ''This is a clear victimisation of the Indians by bringing forth a malicious prosecution that is race-based.''

Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail said the policeman received stitches on his head after being attacked with bricks and iron pipes.

''This has nothing to do with race,'' he told the AP. ''We follow the law. It applies to everyone under the sun.''

Manoharan said the 26 Indians were earlier arrested during the rally and about half of them have already been charged for illegal assembly. They were released on bail but police rearrested them at their homes before dawn today in a surprise raid, he said.

They face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty, he added.

Indians, which make up eight per cent of the country's 27 million people, say they suffer discrimination because of an affirmative action policy that favours the majority Malay Muslims in jobs, education, business and government contracts.

Allegations of marginalisation

The Malaysia-based Hindu Rights Action Force (HRAF) on Tuesday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should engage his counterpart in the South East Asian country Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in dialogue to discuss the allegations of ''marginalisation'' of ethnic Indians there.

''Malaysia is economically dependent on India, a fact which India can use to engage them in a dialogue and Singh should talk to his counterpart,'' founder-chairman of HRAF P Wayda Murthy told reporters here.

Referring to the assertions by Malaysian ministers that the agitation launched by ethnic Indians, mainly Tamils, was an internal affair of that country, Murthy, who is camping here for the past few weeks after he was released from detention by Malaysian Police, said there should be international pressure on Kuala Lumpur to respect human rights.

Murthy has already met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and sought his support for their movement.

He said he wanted the countries in the world to ask Malaysia about the ''human rights violations'' as it was a member in the United Nations.

''Malaysia is a member in the UN and therefore answerable to others. We want the international community to ask Malaysia about the human rights violations on the basis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948,'' he said. (With agency inputs)