In the very same Malaysia Nanban today 16/3/10,  on the front page the 29 year MIC Minister mandore acclaims his success in dishing out Birth Certificates (B.C) for 10 Indian children all in one family, and five others. How is this an achievement for a Minister mandore of 29 years standing? Who is going to solve the maliciously UMNO created problem of 150,000 Indian children being denied Birth Certificates? Going at this rate even assuming every week it would take another 312.3 years to solve all the rest of the 149,900 Indian children being denied Birth Certificate! This is not having taken into consideration the hundreds of Indian children born on a day to day basis but denied their B.C by UMNO.

Karuna Nithi

Just before the March 8th 2008 general elections, the immediate past UMNO Menteri Besar of Selangor announced that 50,000 Indian children in Selangor do not have (have been denied) their birth certificates.

Within one month of coming to power the new PKR Selangor Menteri Besar announced RM 100 million and 1,000 acres of land in Sepang for pig farming. But this PKR Menteri Besar has refused to alienate land to all 98 Tamil schools in Selangor for a start, let alone all Hindu temples, crematoriums, Indian Settlements, land for the poor and landless Indians to rear cows and goats which was never done in UMNOs’ 50 year rule of Selangor, and now two years under the PKR rule. Is PKR saying pig farming gets priority over allocation of land for schools?

Getting to the point, this new PKR Selangor state government have been urged by HRP to set up a special Unit in the Selangor state Secretariat to undertake the task of ensuring Birth Certificates are given to all these 50,000 Indian children within a targeted six month timeframe, using the services of one executive director, five managers for five zones in Selangor, twenty supervisors and 100 full time staff to go full steam to get this job done as scheduled.

Why not this project “Selangor Sifar Dinafi B.C” when there has previously been “Selangor Sifar Setinggan 2010” project?

When Anwar Ibrahim’s PKR led Selangor state government together with DAP and PAS refuses to address this very critical Indian problem, they get their Indian MP, Exco and ADUN mandores to do a one by one Wyang Kulit paper politics in the tamil newspapers, Birth Certificate (B.C) and Identity Cards (I.C) giving ceremonies, to keep themselves “politically alive and afloat” within the Indian community. And in the case this Indian MP mandore advertising nine Indian children and one adult having been given their BC and IC. Wow! Bravo!

But what about the balance of the 49,991 Indian children being denied their Birth Certificates? Even going by this ten B.C. cases assuming even in every week, it would take another 104.1 years to solve the existing B.C being denied by UMNO cases What more the scores of new cases escalating on a day to day basis!

We need a serious, comprehensive and permanent solution to address these injustices which only requires the political will of Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and Hadi Awang. As opposed to the present MIC mandore of UMNO style of politics by these Indian mandore PKR MPs, Excos’ and ADUNs.

If not, how then is PKR, DAP and PAS any different from the 53 year old  fascist UMNO regime vis a vis the critical Malaysian Indian problems, let alone the other problems.?

Karuna Nithi

  UMNO: Kalaivani mula belajar semasa berusia 10 tahun ! 

  Setiawan, Mac 4 – Kalaivani yang merupakan anak bongsu daripada lima anak pasangan P.Mageswaran dan K.Ranjitham akhirnya dapat memasuki alam persekolahan sewaktu usianya melangkah 10 tahun. Hal ini demikian kerana Kalaivani baru sahaja memperoleh sijil kelahirannya. Kelima-lima orang anaknya telah menghadapi masalah untuk mendapatkan sijil kelahiran. Namun akhirnya, kesemua mereka telah mendapat sijil kelahiran masing-masing. 

 Kalaivani telah diterima masuk di Sekolah Tamil Maha Ganesha dengan bantuan daripada Guru Besar sekolah tersebut, N.Periasamy. (Makkal Osai 4/3/2010 di muka surat 3).  

Komen HRP: Kalaivani telah ketinggalan tiga tahun alam persekolahannya dan kini baru memulakan pelajarannya di darjah satu sewaktu usianya 10 tahun. Sepatutnya dia harus berada di darjah empat tahun ini.   Kerajaan pimpinan UMNO harus bertanggungjawab atas situasi yang melanda  Kalaivani.   

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Finally Dharshini readmitted to school

But who puts UMNO in jail for denying Dharsini a place in the first place

Dharsini a/l Ponnuthurai (14) was finally readmitted into her Secondary school today after her father Ponnuthurai Manickam had reported the matter to HRP about one month ago. We do not view this as an achievement at all as Dharsini should not have been denied entry into school in the first place. This is despite our P. Uthayakumar personally speaking to Puan Zaini the headmistress of SMK Taman Tasik, En Abdul Ghafur the Headmaster of Dharsini’s present school and En. Shamsuri Jamil, the Special Officer to the Education Minister in charge of Teachers and pupils and other personell.

This matter was also highlighted at a Press Conference by HRP Information Chief S. Jayathas and publicized by the media.

Despite all these efforts Dharsini was forced out of school for two months.

Dharsini’s 62 year old aged adopted father on his part had to shuttle from one school to another from the District Education Department to the State Education Department to the Federal Education Department on scores of occasions for his daughter’s basic and fundamental right to education.

Article 8 of the Federal Constitution provides for Equality before the law.

But UMNOs’ 1,016.799 graduates of the Biro Tatanegara programmes implements UMNOs’ racist, religious extremist and supremacist policies.

Such a simple straight forward matter deliberately made thus difficult by UMNO.

Even at the Welfare home earlier. Dharsini was believed to have been converted to Islam with the word binti after her name in her birth certificate which may pose a problem as what had happened to Banggarama of Penang. Her citizenship though she and her mother were born in Malaysia is now causing her this problem of being excluded from Form Two in her Secondary school.

But Article 12 (4) read with the Second Schedule of the Federal Constitution states that the religion of a person under the age of eighteen years shall be decided by his parent or guardian and the Second Scheduled 1 (1) (c)  states “every person born within the Federation after September, 1962, of whose parents one at least was at the time of the birth either a citizen or permanently resident in the Federation, or who was not born a citizen of any other country is a citizen by operation of law.

Article 12 provides that there shall be no discrimination against any citizen on the grounds only of religion, race, descent or place of birth.

But all these laws are not abided to by UMNO and are violated with impunity.

Dharsini was forced to miss school by UMNO for almost two months now. The law in Malaysia as in most other countries is a jail sentence for parents who do not send their children to school. But here we have a dedicated pair of adoptive parents who had the heart to adopt baby Dharsini at four years of age from the Welfare Department to give love and life to this young child. But cruel UMNO denies her two months of her precious school life, the unnecessary agony she and her parents had to undergo, the embarrassment, pain, indignity etc.

Citizenship denied without reason for Indians

(refer NST 1/2/2010 at page N 16)

Keep on appealing indefinitely, keep on begging UMNO for what is the ethnic Malaysian Indian  and Chinese minority’s birth right.

An estimated 150,000 Indian children have been denied their birth certificates and another 300,000 Indians have been denied their citizenship by the cruel, racist, religious extremist and supremacist UMNO regime and ably assisted by their 1,016,799 “graduates” of their Biro Tata Negara to implement and give effect to this atrocities.

P. Utahayakumar

PR-status student unable to attend school

Salhan K Ahmad (Malaysiakini)

Unlike other children, 14 year old Darshin Ponnuthurai has been unable to attend school for the past few weeks due to complications with her application to attend school, according to her adoptive parents.

“We submitted the necessary forms on Jan 11. However, the Selangor state education department did not get back to us till today,” said a worried Ponnuthurai Manickam, her adopted father.

He said that his daughter had not encountered any schooling problems thus far, but things changed when she tried to apply for a transfer to SMK Taman Tasik in Ampang.

He added that the matter has also been brought up with the Prime Minister’s Department Public Complaints Bureau, but had later been informed that it was under the deliberation of the Home Affairs Ministry.

Ponnuthurai spoke to reporters today at a press conference organised by the Human Rights Party Malaysia (HRP) in Kuala Lumpur.

He explained that Darshin holds permanent resident status although she was born in Kuala Lumpur, as they could not trace her biological father.

HRP pro-tem information chief S Jayathas urged the National Registration Department to issue Darshin an identity card within two months as she was born in this country after Sept 1962.

He argued that under the federal constitution, Darshin is a citizen and should have an identity card as she was born here.

When contacted today, SMK Taman Tasik headmaster Zaini Mohammad Zain advised the parents to follow the proper procedures set by the Home Affairs Ministry.

See Video:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRQtWLOAvPU

UMNO: Tiada sekolah kerana dinafikan sijil lahir- Masyarakat India

Petaling Jaya, Jan 12- Tiga orang kanak- kanak keturunan minoriti india yang tinggal di asrama swasta NGO India ‘Agathiyan Shelter’ (dan bukannya di asrama kerajaan) tidak diterima masuk di mana-mana sekolah kerana (mereka telah dinafikan sijil kelahiran oleh kerajaan UMNO) kata P.Sivabalan petugas di asrama tersebut. (Makkal Osai 12/1/2010 muka surat 2) Menurut P.Sivabalan, beliau sedih melihat kanak- kanak tersebut Amalraj (13 tahun), Hari (12 tahun), Haran (10 tahun) yang tidak mempunyai ibu bapa menyebabkan mereka sukar untuk mendapatkan sijil kelahiran dan tidak dapat pergi ke sekolah lalu terkandas di asrama tersebut. Tahun ini mereka bertiga sepatutnya belajar di Tingkatan 1, Darjah 6 dan juga Darjah 4. Keinginan mereka untuk belajar tidak tercapai hanya disebabkan mereka dinafikan sijil kelahiran oleh kerajaan UMNO dan tidak diberi peluang untuk belajar di mana- mana sekolah yang lain. Ketiga-tiga kanak-kanak ini sedang berada di bawah penjagaan asrama ini selama 5 tahun.  

HRP: Kanak-kanak ini adalah di antara 150,000 kanak- kanak keturunan India di Malaysia yang telah dinafikan sijil kelahiran dan akan teraniaya di seluruh tahap kehidupan mereka. Kesemua penganiayaan ini adalah disebabkan kerajaan pimpinan UMNO di Malaysia. Mereka- mereka ini juga telah dinafikan peluang untuk belajar di sekolah- sekolah Giat Mara dan lain-lain Sekolah Kemahiran kerajaan yang lain. Kanak-kanak ini meminta bantuan dari Pertubuhan bukan Kerajaan agar dapat membantu mereka. Tetapi hakikatnya hanya UMNO sahaja yang dapat membantu mereka.

By,

S.jayathas

Information chief