Unprecedented judgment against UMNO government in death in police custody
Whenever an Indian issue is raised it is classified as racist, not as a community issue even when it is the truth and reality. Arguments and petty justification such as why only Indians and not other races is a mundane affair if one cannot recognize the reality for the Malaysian Indians in the ground and spelling out those facts would be an insult to the common Malaysian.
By R. Shan (Human Being)
Victim – Mohd Anuar bin Sharip (SI-21-61-2000)
Place & date of death – Police lock up in Rawang – 19.8.1999
Date of Judgment – 20.10.2009
Lawyer for victim – P. Uthayakumar of HINDRAF/HRP
After 10 years of waging a war against this death in police custody, P. Uthayakumar was able to obtain a judgment in favor of a
Malay Malaysian irrespective of what most would brush aside and state that it is a one-off for the much maligned P. Uthayakumar in his cause against deaths in police custody.
Well, let me tell you this is not a one-off, it is unprecedented and it took a good ten years for a lawyer who had been subjected to such criticisms for his battle in highlighting Malaysian Indian issues and dilemmas on the basis of racism. Yet, here he battled for a Malay Malaysian.
Only now, over the last couple of years, everyone has become gung-ho about deaths in custody. Yet it continues to serve only as “kopi kedai” gossip as major deaths at present are of the worthless Malaysian Indians with their branding as gangsters, kaki botol, vagrants and any negative element possible within our purported multicultural society.
Whenever an Indian issue is raised it is classified as racist, not as a community issue even when it is the truth and reality. Arguments and petty justification such as why only Indians and not other races is a mundane affair if one cannot recognize the reality for the Malaysian Indians in the ground and spelling out those facts would be an insult to the common Malaysian.
The tenacity and arduous battle that started over 10 years against an oppressive government is above race, religion or color as seen above but rather depicts that the battle is fought for the truth. Unfortunately, someone has to fight for the poor and poverty stricken Malaysian Indians as there is no one there to fight for them. Not the UMNO government nor the opposition.
