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Malaysian PM issues fresh warning to Indians
Hindraf seeks Indian help
KUALA LUMPUR: Claiming to have exhausted all legal avenues and other
channels against alleged marginalisation, Hindraf, spearheading the
protests by ethnic Indians in Malaysia, has appealed to New Delhi to
stop the "ethnic cleansing" in the Muslim-dominated nation. Hindraf
had exhausted all legal avenues and all channels.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has
warned the ethnic Indians that they could be held under the Internal
Security Act if their actions threatened national interest and asked
the police to monitor their movements.
Abdullah's warning came following allegations by authorities that
the members of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), which is
spearheading the anti-government agitation against the alleged
marginalisation of ethnic Indians, arelinked with "terrorists"
groups including LTTE. "My instructions to the police is that the
group should be monitored. Internal Security Act is an option. I
will decide when the time is right. If they are deemed (as a threat
to national security) we will know what to do," the New Straits
Times quoted Abdullah as saying.
ISA allows for years of detention without trial. Abdullah, who is
also the internal security minister, said he was aware of Hindraf
canvassing for support and help from terrorist groups and local
gangsters. Meanwhile, a senior leader in the prime minister's
department has said the Malaysian government had Sri Lanka's LTTE
and India's RSS as the overseas groups linked to Hindraf. Mohamed
Nazri Aziz was quoted by another newspaper as saying that this was
deduced from statements of Hindraf leaders, who went abroad to
garner support, that they would meet LTTE leaders. "As we know, the
LTTE has been declared a terrorist group by the United Nations and
the United States. If it is true that Hindraf leaders have links
with them, Hindraf is also a terrorist group," he said.
12 December, 2007
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