De-facto Law Minister: My expectation

Zaid Ibrahim was dropped from the list of BN candidates although he did well in Kota Bahru parliamentary seat in 2004 GE. He was one of the out spoken back benchers in House of Representatives on human rights issues. Even he was one of the active speakers for the BAR council programmes. He speaks his mind during the "Article 11" seminar all around in peninsular. His out-spokeness create the uneasiness among the autocratic malay's in umno. They feel threaten with his thought's. Finally he was dropped from the umno list but then "GOD" is great, now he is the de-facto law minister.

His first statement as a law minister was "an-open apology" by present government to ex-CJ, 5 judges and their family members who was victimised during the Judiciary-Executive conflict in 1998. TDM and his aide's feel this is threatning signal to silence him but for others they feel this is a good move. For me, public apology is not going to help anyway after 20 years. More need to be done. My expectations as follows:

i. Separations of power between Executive, Legislative, Judiciary. Zaid has to bring in changes to put independency in Judiciary system. Apointment of judges must come from the judiciary community on merit basis not on a political appointment from executive.

ii. Replace ISA with Anti-Terrorism Act. NO political detention and reduced of power for Executive to detain any individual under this new act. Court should be given a full judiciary power to check the validity of detention. Detention should be purely on the terrorism activities only.

iii. Put ACA and EC under parliament responsibility and Executive should not interfere in their daily work.

iv. Review the role of SUHAKAM. Give them the teeth to be a tiger in defending the human rights. The members appointment list must come from Parliament not from Executive.

v. Review the separation of power between the Civil court and Syariah Court. In any situation if it's involves the non-muslims then the Civil court is the right platform to seek for justice. As a citizens of this country "no remedy" is really disgusting.

vi. Anti-Racism Act to stop the discrimination and racism from being practiced by either the political party, government of the day, the private sectors etc. No one should be dicriminated irespective of race or religion.

Mr.Zaid Ibrahim, if you can bring in this reform in next one year, then you will receive my full support otherwise I have to add you in NATO team; no action talk only.

Vetri Vel Muruga

[updated 9:45 / 28 Mac 2008] OCPD Gombak, who terrorised HINDRAF in Batu Caves (24 Nov 2007) is now in lock-up. He was detained by ACA for taking RM75k to close a case. Lord Muruga has teached a lesson to BN, Khir Toyol, Semi Value and now OCPD and more is on waiting list. [Doi-Moi received this text message this morning]

Hindraf Rally in United Nation Plaza San Francisco

Hindraf Rally in United Nation Plaza San Francisco (22 Mar, 08)
Protest in front of United Nation Plaza on the 100th day of unjust and unlawful detention of Hindraf Leaders.

(Thank you Mr.Bhuvan Govindasamy for sending me this clip)

Malaysian Indian minority problems

Press Conference : Malaysian Indian minority problems.

Incarceration of the Five Hindraf leaders

Date : 24-03-2008 [Monday]

Time : 12 pm. Place : Chennai Press Club, Chennai

Addressed By:Mr. P. Weytha Moorthy,

Chairman, HINDRAF, Malaysia.

Mr. Agni Subramaniam, Executive Director, MANITHAM

Subject:Ground Reality of Malaysian Indian minority problems.

Incarceration of the Five Hindraf leaders under the draconian Law Internal Security Act.

Organised By:MANITHAM Human Rights Organisation

Not a major reason

[updated at 17:00 / 26 March 2008] Pak Lah has admitted that BN lost the war -through the cyber world - to the opposition coalition. He had originally assumed that the government will be able to convey their messages through the umno controlled main stream and electronic media. The main reason why people moved to alternative media was due to the extreme bias of the main stream and electronic media. The print and electronic media is completely under the control of umno and they were only willing to air the non sensical propaganda messages of the government rather than news that can develop the Malaysian mentality. The power of internet created an opportunity for Barisan Rakyat to reach the grass roots and they conveyed their message effectively; on what they can do to bring in a new hope for the country. Rational thinkers believed that to discipline umno@bn they needed to take aggressive action by voting out umno@bn in the general elections and that's what happened on March 8 2008. On top of that we must not forget Pak Lah's in-ability to walk his talk which was the major reason for umno@bn's poor performance and not because umno did not run the cyber war. My grandmother used to say that incapable dancers will find ways to blame other components such as the level of stage, so that he/she can hide their own weaknesses. That's exactly what Pak Lah is doing.

Terengganu Oh Terengganu

After 16 day's of general election, until today the only state without officially appointed state level government is Terengganu. Umno dominated BN has an ample seat to form the government yet they couldn't coz Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, who is the titular head of Terengganu as well as the current king of Malaysia, refuse to appoint Pa Lah's man, Idris Jusoh and appointed Ahmad Said, another Umno lawmaker, as the Menteri Besar on Saturday. Umno threaten to boycott the oath taking ceremony and even 22 assembly man has decided to resign if the palace continues their plan to reject Idris Jusoh. On top of that Umno has decided to sack Ahmad Said if he takes oath as a new MB. The surprising matters is, when Lim Kit Siang called his DAP assemblyman to boycott the similar ceremony in Perak, umno jump their gun at him and even went to organise the illegal demonstration in the name of protecting the Perak Monarchy Institution but then when umno it self caught with the similar situation they went against the same institution in the name of constituency and democracy. I do believe, umno will go against the palace in more rude way if the appointment of Idris Jusoh didn't materialise but then why double standard. You didn't walk your talk and what you preach in Perak case. In Perlis case, umno has played his double face role in appointment of new MB. Umno, people are evaluating you, so walk your talk otherwise don't talk nonsense.

100th Day Rally in San Francisco

A group of concerned Malaysian Indians residing in California, held a peaceful rally at the United Nations Plaza, San Francisco, on March 22, 2008 from 10am to 1pm to protest the following issues:

1. To mark and protest the 100^th day unjust and unlawful detention of Mr. Uthayakumar, Mr. Manoharan, Mr. Ganabathirau, Mr. Kengadharan and Mr. Vasanthakumar by the Malaysian government, who have been incarcerated without trial under the draconian Internal Security Act.

2. To demand that the Malaysian government immediately release these five people as the government has failed to provide any evidence nor brought any charges against them

3. To demand that the Prime Minister, Dato' Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, respect the human-rights of these five people, restore their freedom, and, return them to their families immediately, as befits the leader of a civilized nation and an adherent of Islam Hadhari

4. To demand equal rights for the minority Malaysian Indians.

5. To demand the Malaysian government immediately stops the unlawful demolition of Hindu temples.

The rally was a complete success with about 40 people attending. The participants comprised of people from all walks of life, and included Mr. Samir Kalra, from the Hindu American Foundation, who all came together to show solidarity with our Malaysian Indian brothers and sisters. Ms. Sunita Sohrabji from the India-West newspaper was also at hand to cover our rally.

In closing, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the participants of this rally for their kind attendance and enthusiastic support. I also would like to personally thank the Hindu American Foundation and India-West for their strong support of the Malaysian Indian cause. Lastly, I again call upon the Malaysian government to fulfill our five demands immediately.

Sincerely,

Bhuvan Govindasamy

March 23, 2008

101 East Al-Jazeera 22 Mac 2008 - Part 1

101 East in Al-Jazeera on 22 Mac 2008 was talking about DEB@NEP. It was aired at 9.30pm on channel 513 Al-Jazeera. View part 1 and 2 for the full program. (Initial 2 minutes was not included in part 1..... sory)

101 East Al-Jazeera 22 Mac 2008 - Part 2