To mention majority of Indians are still poor…they make their children study until secondary school…to pursue their higher studies, they highly depend on the government institution as they cant afford private education institutions…This is a known fact..

“Irmila”…What do u know about Indians is m’sia???….Don’t tell me the Malays have any problem in gaining good education… I know a lot of my Indian friends who highly depend on the government university after their STPM…when they list down a list of course they are interested in….Do know what is the result…”They’ll get a course which was the last on their list”..This is what they obtain..This is what normally happens..People who wanted to study acc..Will get some other course which is not at all related…All we need is education to bring up ourselves….when that education is not properly provided what else the Indians can do…A Malay student with lesser mark than a Chinese or Indian can easily enter the university without any doubt…”CAN U SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?”
CAN ANYONE JUSTIFY THIS? WE WANT PROPER RIGHTS FOR GAINING EDUCATION…now only the Indian have been awaken to ask their rights

Thanks to HINDRAF for leading them …hope the government to appropriate action on this…

Next is about the police….How can they do so. Mixing chemical in the water to disperse the crowd… (DONT U HAVE A HEART?)….I don’t think it is necessary for the police to do so….even though it was said that it was an illegal rally….How can the police do so…?? Y no action on the police…

“The most important thing just ask yourselves what’s are your contribution to govt?” This is ur statement irmila…For ur information it’s the governments duty to look after the ‘rakyat’..not the rakyat’s job to look after the government….its the government duty to solve if there’s any problem in any of the community let it be Chinese ,Indian or Malay..

…irmila u don’t know the full story about what’s going on in the Indian community. so I guess u know what im trying to say…

Everything was fine till the recent week when I started getting negative comment that were very racist, very suspicious activity I would say.

Please forgive me because I am forced to turn off comments now on the Hindraf related post.

Sorry guys

From my point of view, i do not see our govt unfair to all of you. Since in my life I’ve never seen any hardcore poor Indian people in Malaysia.

Not only Indians living in the small apartment, but Malays too. Not only Indians working as rubber tapper, but most of the Malays who are living in kampung also working as a rubber tapper. We cannot depend 100% on govt, if you work harder then you will get wealth. For example Kamdar, Mydin etc. Everything is depend on our hard working.

Our government treats us equal between Malay, Chinese and Indian, there is no differences at all. But only Malay people get just a little bit extra 5% privileges. But not all Malays get that special privileges only some of them.Not many Malays can afford to buy expensive cars or bungalow, only a few. Not all Malays got a job in govt sect, you see many Malays also working as lower class job such despatch, driver, farmer, mechanic and so on.

I tell you 80% of Malays are poorer than Indian in Malaysia. That’s why our govt, just give a lit bit extra from other races in order to balance the distribution of wealth. But still Indians are more convenient to compare to Malays. You all should thankful when you having a rubber estate.

Our govt does not discriminate all indians here. If you go to the Bar Council Office you can see indian staffs more than Malay staffs.Also a lot of Indian working in govt sector include teacher, University lecturer, policeman, bomba army and others.

If Indians go the govt klinik or hospital they also have to pay RM1.00 for medicines. In my hometown there are many Indians etnic warded in hospital.Our doctors never discriminate indians.

One more thing I came from a family who are staying in the village, my parents are working as a rubber tapper and we have only poor wooden house. But we as a Malay we do not complain to the government.

Most Indians working in the estate as a rubber tapper, you all should thankful because at least you all have income.

If you all want to have a good life so just struggle like chinese people. Do your own business. The most important thing just ask yourselves whats are your contribution to govt? JUST BEAR IN YOUR MIND NOT ALL BUMIPUTRA HAVE THE SPECIAL PRIVILEGES.

Truth and justice are no longer Malaysian way
Michael Backman

Recent street protests have highlighted the self-serving nature of Malaysia’s Government.

THE Government of Australia will probably change hands this weekend. There will be no arrests, no tear gas and no water cannons. The Government of John Howard will leave office, the Opposition will form a government and everyone will accept the verdict.

For this, every Australian can feel justifiably proud. This playing by the rules is what has made Australia rich and a good place in which to invest. It is a country to which people want to migrate; not leave.

Now consider Malaysia. The weekend before last, up to 40,000 Malaysians took to the streets in Kuala Lumpur to protest peacefully against the judiciary’s lack of independence, electoral fraud, corruption and a controlled media.

In response, they were threatened by the Prime Minister, called monkeys by his powerful son-in-law, and blasted with water cannons and tear gas. And yet the vast majority of Malaysians do not want a change of government. All they want is for their government to govern better.

Both Malaysia and Australia have a rule of law that’s based on the English system. Both started out as colonies of Britain. So why is Malaysia getting it so wrong now?

Malaysia’s Government hates feedback. Dissent is regarded as dangerous, rather than a product of diversity. And like the wicked witch so ugly that she can’t stand mirrors, the Government of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi controls the media so that it doesn’t have to see its own reflection.

Demonstrations are typically banned. But what every Malaysian should know is that in Britain, Australia and other modern countries, when people wish to demonstrate, the police typically clear the way and make sure no one gets hurt. The streets belong to the people. And the police, like the politicians, are their servants. It is not the other way around.

But increasingly in Malaysia, Malaysians are being denied a voice — especially young people.

Section 15 of Malaysia’s Universities and University Colleges Act states that no student shall be a member of or in any manner associate with any society, political party, trade union or any other organisation, body or group of people whatsoever, be it in or outside Malaysia, unless it is approved in advance and in writing by the vice-chancellor.

Nor can any student express or do anything that may be construed as expressing support, sympathy or opposition to any political party or union. Breaking this law can lead to a fine, a jail term or both.

The judiciary as a source of independent viewpoints has been squashed. The previous prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, did many good things for Malaysia, but his firing of the Lord President (chief justice) and two other Supreme Court judges in 1988 was an unmitigated disaster. Since then, what passes for a judiciary in Malaysia has been an utter disgrace and the Government knows it.

Several years ago, Daim Zainuddin, the country’s then powerful finance minister, told me that judges in Malaysia were idiots. Of course we want them to be biased, he told me, but not that biased.

Rarely do government ministers need to telephone a judge and demand this or that verdict because the judges are so in tune with the Government’s desires that they automatically do the Government’s beckoning.

Just how appalling Malaysia’s judiciary has become was made clear in recent weeks with the circulation of a video clip showing a senior lawyer assuring someone by telephone that he will lobby the Government to have him made Lord President of the Supreme Court because he had been loyal to the Government. That someone is believed to have been Ahmad Fairuz Abdul Halim, who did in fact become Lord President.

A protest march organised by the Malaysian Bar Council was staged in response to this, and corruption among the judiciary in general. But the mainstream Malaysian media barely covered the march even though up to 2000 Bar Council members were taking part. Reportedly, the Prime Minister’s office instructed editors to play down the event.

Instead of a free media, independent judges and open public debate, Malaysians are given stunts — the world’s tallest building and most recently, a Malaysian cosmonaut. Essentially, they are given the play things of modernity but not modernity itself.

Many senior Malays are absolutely despairing at the direction of their country today. But with the media tightly controlled they have no way of getting their views out to their fellow countrymen. This means that most Malaysians falsely assume that the Malay elite is unified when it comes to the country’s direction.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, a former finance minister and today still a member of the Government, told me several weeks ago in Kuala Lumpur that he could see no reason why today Malaysia could not have a completely free media, a completely independent judiciary and that corrupt ministers and other officials should be publicly exposed and humiliated.

According to Tengku Razaleigh, all of the institutions designed to make Malaysia’s Government accountable and honest have been dismantled or neutered.

It didn’t need to be like this. Malaysia is not North Korea or Indonesia. It is something quite different. Its legal system is based on British codes. Coupled with traditional Malay culture, which is one of the world’s most hospitable, decent and gentle cultures, Malaysia has the cultural and historical underpinnings to become one of Asia’s most civilised, rules-based, successful societies.

Instead, Malaysia’s Government is incrementally wasting Malaysia’s inheritance.

http://www.michaelbackman.com

Funny how smart kids that are of the wrong race do not get to local university because they are deemed “out of quota”.

Funny how public scholarships are awarded to people who are not even qualified to shine shoes at the roadside, while does who are qualified would have to take up bank loans just to go to school and start their life with a big debt to the bank when they graduate. While those who are awarded government scholarship don’t even have to pay it back.

Funny how companies like Digi who gets screwed over by the government (look up Digi, 3G license) just because they did not have the “right” composition in their company. Forced to sell a large portion of their company to the “right race”-owned company if they want to continue to do business here. Funny how this issue never came up when Digi wasn’t making any money.

Funny how words like “ketuanan Melayu” can still be heard in political debates when the government clearly states that we all have equal rights as Malaysian. How waving a keris around and proclaiming supremacy of a certain race is deemed acceptable.

Funny how peaceful rallies are deemed as riot when noone present was seen brandishing any weapons or explosives. Funny how certain people who have “connections” with the so-called government never even got slap on the wrist for his shameful protest of Condolezza Rice.

Truly funny, indeed.

Malaysia Boleh. I guess what’s “Boleh” is what the government deemed is “Boleh”. Everything is “boleh” as long as noone stirs the pot of racial unity. Everything is “boleh” as long as everyone keeps being complacent and being ignorant of what is happening to our nation right now.

But of course, I don’t really blame the government for this. I blame the people who put these people in power, namely us. Ask yourself, are you a registered voter? If you aren’t, you why aren’t you? If things didn’t happen the way you wanted it to be, it’s your fault. You didn’t take an active role in making sure that your voice is heard.
If you are a registered voter, have you voted before? Are you voting a candidate into office because you know what is their stand on issues that concern you, or are you voting them into power because everyone else is voting for them?

Think about it.

now, those who walk ard freely are also systematically targetted by destruction of places of worship, shady conversions, bias and with-holding of aid or opportunity.

after 50 years perhaps this wheelchair group should have the gumption and self-pride to stand up and walk with the rest but will they? hahaha .. no prizes for correct answers.

they go on n on abt how fair their religion is… so play fair. simple

respect the individuals right to profess their religion. to education. to equal apportunity. simple