Re : Malaysian Police S.B,UMNO & MIC mandore axis diffuses Sri Muniandy Muniswarar, Setapak hindu temple demolishment P.C.

 

HUMAN RIGHTS PARTY MALAYSIA

NO.6, Jalan Abdullah, Off Jalan Bangsar, 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

                                    

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Date                        :   10/2/2010

 

YAB. Dato Seri Najib Razak

Prime Minister of Malaysia

Blok Utama Bangunan Perdana Putra,

Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan,                      Fax: 03-88883444

62502 Putrajaya                                               E-Mail: najib@pmo.gov.my

                                                        

Y. B. Senator Dato Raja Nong Chik bin

Dato Raja Zainal Abidin

Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan,

Aras 4, Blok B2,

Menara PJH, Presint 2,

Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan,                Fax:  03-88891411

62100 Putrajaya.                                           Email: datoraja@kwp.gov.my

 

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Dato Bandar Kuala Lumpur                                    Fax : 03-26919664

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Pengarah                                                     

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Re : Malaysian Police S.B,UMNO & MIC mandore axis diffuses Sri Muniandy Muniswarar, Setapak hindu temple demolishment P.C.

 

This hindu temple is scheduled to be demolished tomorrow (11/2/2010) by way of a DBKL notice dated 3/2/2010 (see notice below) to make way for the building of a neighbourhood public park. Why can’t the park be built anywhere else? After all Malaysia is a very big country! Why yet again pick on a hindu temple. Another 3 hindu temples within the vicinity are also scheduled to be demolished. (see photos below). Yesterday (9/2/2010) we had sent out a media event notice for a Press Conference today (10/2/2010) and for an SOS letter to the UMNO Prime Minister, Federal Territories Minister, K.L Mayor and the KL City Hall enforcement director not to demolish this hindu temple on 11/2/2010.

 

We believe the Malaysian police special branch picked up on this our pro active action from our website and/or e-mails sent out today and together with UMNO and their Mandore MIC axis diffused the situation by neutralizing and turning over the temple President and devotees and instructing them not to attend the scheduled Press Conference at our HRP HQ office today as related by the said temple President to us this morning.

 

This UMNO Malay-sian government led by One Malay-sian Prime Minister Najib Razak even has the cheek to offer a 20 feet x 20 feet piece of alternative land for this hindu temple to be relocated. This land would not even be enough to build a toilet. But this is how UMNO continuously insults the minority Malaysian Indians and hindus in Malaysia. As if this is not insulting enough vide the KL City Hall letter dated 10/12/08 (see below) they had stated that this 20 feet x 20 feet piece of land is a temporary relocation meaning it is with the view to be demolished again at a future date. If at all why not a permanent land solution?

 

Why does this demolishment, relocation and/or temporary policy and/or arrangement does not happen to any Islamic mosques or suraus or any other Chinese, Christian, or Buddhist places of worship.

 

In Malay-sia one hindu temple is demolished every week nationwide.

 

Between 2004 to 2007, 96 hindu temples were demolished in the state of Selangor alone at an average of one hindu temple being demolished in every ten days. Based on this we estimate the national Malaysian average is at one hindu temple being demolished in every week. This was the official reply given by the Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Selangor at the Selangor State Assembly in reply to a written State Assembly question by the Kota Alam Shah Elected Representative Mr. Manoharan Malayalam who was then under detention (as a Hindraf legal adviser) without trial at Malay-sia’s very own Guantanamo Bay under the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA) (TN 30/10/08 at page 3).

 

The early indicators are that UMNO is starting on their hindu temple demolishment spree all over again which took a pause after the 100,000 hindraf peaceful aseembly on the 25^th November 2007 and the subsequent detention of in particular Hindraf Legal Adviser P. Uthayakumar.

 

UMNO Prime Minister Najib has no respect for Article 11 of the Federal Constitution which provides for freedom of religion and read with Section 295 (Injuring or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class) 296 ( Disturbing a religious assembly) and Section 298A of the Penal Code ( Causing etc., disharmony, disunity, or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill –will, or prejudicing, etc., the maintenance of harmony or unity, on grounds of religion).

 

The latest hindu temple demolished was the Om Sri Maha Kaliaman Alayam  hindu temple in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 8/2/2010. ( see photos below).

 

This is also despite the Ministerial Statement by the Federal Territories Minister in Parliament last year (NST 11/7/08 page 13) that no more hindu temples would be demolished in Malaysia in particular in the Federal Capital. This is the height of UMNOs’ mockery of Parliamentary democracy in Malay-sia. There are precedents in Britian and other Western Democracies that when a Ministerial statement in Parliament is not complied with the said Minister would resign or would be forced to resign. But this will never happen in One Malay-sia. Unless of course a miracle happens!

 

And even the supposed multi-racial Opposition leaders of PKR, DAP, PAS, their 82 Members of Parliament (MP) in particular their  eleven “mandore” MPs’ would never challenge this Federal Territories Minister’s Ministerial statement in Parliament, let alone championing the same outside Parliament on a needs, merits and seriousness based religious freedom issue as their political calculation may be that they may lose Malay votes by championing a hindu temple and/or a hindu religious rights issue. Further, after all the victims are merely the soft target and politically and economically weak ethnic minority Malaysian Indian hindus. (Note how UMNOs’ racist, religious extremist and supremacist mindset has spilled over to even PKR, DAP and PAS). This Opposition non action has in fact contributed to the hindu temple demolishments spree by UMNO and the critical Indian problems faced by the Malaysian Indians today because of the Opposition PKR, DAP and PAS’ refusal to play a check and balance role when and where it concerns and/or affects the Indians.

 

With UMNOs’ 52 years of continuous rule of Malaysia without a break in the chain (which happens only in some communist and dictatorial countries,) the net effect is this kind of UMNOs’ authoritarian and ruthless racist, religious extremist and supremacist policies goes on unabated and done with impunity.

 

For a permanent, harmonious, co-existing and forward moving solution we hereby call upon the Malaysian Prime Minister to:-

 

1) Retain this Sri Muniandy Muniswarar hindu temple where it is.

2) Grant state land to this and all other hindu temples in Malaysia and

     gazette the same accordingly.

3) Similarly grant land to all hindu cemeteries, tamil schools and Indian    

    settlements and villages and gazette them accordingly.

 

The above will be a permanent and lasting solution opposed to the current piecemeal and temporary solutions especially as the Malaysian Indians are here in Malaysia to stay put permanently and to live and die here and never ever had the intention to be here on a temporary basis at all whatsoever.

 

For further and better particulars kindly access  www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com.

 

Kindly revert to us accordingly.

 

 

 

P. Uthayakumar

Secretary General (pro tem)

c.c     His Excellency Mr. Manmohan Singh

Prime Minister of India,

South Block, Rai Sina Hill,                  Fax No: 0091-11-23019545

New Delhi,

India – 110011

 

Shri S.M. Krishna

Minister of External Affairs

Room No. 169,                                  E-Mail : eam@mea.gov.in

South Block,

New Delhi – 110011

 

Shri Lal Krisha Advani

Opposition Leader,

30 Prithvi Raj Road,                 

New Delhi – 110003                  E-mail: advanilk@sansad.nic.in

India

 

Madam Sushma Suvaraj

Opposition Leader, India

@ Vijay Jolly All India BJP Overseas Cell

Khasra No. 322, Neb Sarai,                 Fax No: 0091-11-29535454

Near Ignou,                                        E-Mail: ewec@del3.vsnl.net.in  

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