Indians undergoing indirect ethnic-cleansing

Being a Muslim and from a favored ethnic community of the present day government, a question doodles on our Muslim brothers' minds constantly and that is whether Indian Malaysians do indeed suffer subtle genocide/ethnic cleansing in Malaysia. As a Muslim and more so as a Malaysian, one would find a plentitude of historical facts about the Indian community but however the contribution of these Indian Malaysians are being slowly eradicated depicting them as the new underclass society that is not worth their existence in Malaysia.


We argue on the predicament of the Indian Malaysians without admitting the reality that they face. Rather than looking at the intention and the perpetrators, most would look for a structured conflict based on historical cases and individual conception.But whichever way you look at it, when violations or crimes against humanity are undertaken by the state in any form, genocide and cleansing will occur - only that we tend to measure it by our own conceptions.Now looking at the 'Malaysian Indian Minority and Human Rights Violations Annual Report 2009: Malaysia Truly Racist' by the Human Rights Party, I feel there is a concerted effort by the government in exercising genocide against the Indian Malaysians. Most of the details entailed in this report are factual as they are procured through the major, government-controlled newspapers and clearly indicate the deprivation of the Indian Malaysian in the socio-economic development of Malaysia due to oppressive government policies.

For example, how does it make sense that in Malaysia, UiTM only allows Malay Muslims to enroll in this university but nevertheless allocates 10% of its placement to Muslim foreign students - this when deserving Malaysian students from other faiths are deprived even if they qualify Is '1Malaysia' religious-based? Even if the Indian Malaysians were to pursue their education elsewhere, for instance in the field of medicine in various other countries through their own efforts, the government then steps in to not recognise these universities just because the students are of Indian Malaysian origin. If this is not indirect ethnic cleansing, then what is it?

There are many similar instances. Look at the agricultural field. Felda is a giant and the Indian Malaysians were the initial contributors. Yet there is a systematic exclusion of these Malaysians in the participation of Felda's programmes.The Biro Tata Negara (BTN) modules and the latest brazen torching of the churches only further indicates the state of affairs that is being conducted by the government. Whether it is an indirect genocide or ethnic cleansing, every Malaysian should take heed and protect each other from this modern-day government that we have created.

Saying all this, nothing is going to change the status quo for the preferred Malay Muslim but that is not what they would desire as for them, being Malaysian is a confluence of their ethnicity, culture and belief all which do not infringe infringing on the rights of others to be part of a better Malaysia. The government has been the forerunner in these various blatant provocations based on its own volition but it is up to us as individuals to recognise these flaws and to create and make a change for society. At present, the Indian Malaysians do face a dilemma in an indirect form of genocide and ethnic cleansing and we as Malaysian need to hold the fort and forge together to help them participate in the socio-economic development of Malaysia.

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