The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) yesterday
filed a legal action against the United Kingdom government for marginalising the
poor Indian community during its colonisation of Malaysia.
The application was re-filed at the High Court of England and Wales yesterday, where among others they sought for the British government to share responsibility to what is happening among the poor Indians in Malaysia after they came to the country in the 19th century.
Hindraf also questioned whether it was part of the UK’s post-colonial imperial design to leave the Malaysian Indians to continuously be exploited, and claimed when the British left, the Indians were continuously entrenched into a two-tiered citizenship by an institutionalised racist regime.
These are among the key issues raised in the legal action filed by Imran Khan and Partners.
Hindraf also claimed that the British were only interested in looking after their strategic and security interests in the South-East Asian region. So to preserve their wealth in Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Brunei, the British would collude with the local new elites to whom they hand over power.
Hindraf in a statement questioned the role of the British colonial government which created the politico-legal system in Malaya after the UK’s departure.
“This is Hindraf’s case in its essence - if you care to
understand it in its depth and with an open mind,” said a statement by its
national adviser N Ganesan (right).
“We are human rights defenders of a different order and we use the little resources that we have the in the best way we can, for the interest of Malaysia and all Malaysians. This case against the UK government is for real. Win or lose, the Malaysian people will win with this case just coming to the fore,” said Ganesan.
Ganesan had previously said that the suit is backed by P Waythamoorthy and his team’s four years of research into historical records of the British colonial governments gained from the British archives in London and other sources in the Indian and Singapore records offices.
“New information is going to surface (to show)... the process of marginalisation of the descendants of indentured Indian labourers... was not an accident of history but was an act of conscious omission by those in power,” he had said.
The application was re-filed at the High Court of England and Wales yesterday, where among others they sought for the British government to share responsibility to what is happening among the poor Indians in Malaysia after they came to the country in the 19th century.
Hindraf also questioned whether it was part of the UK’s post-colonial imperial design to leave the Malaysian Indians to continuously be exploited, and claimed when the British left, the Indians were continuously entrenched into a two-tiered citizenship by an institutionalised racist regime.
These are among the key issues raised in the legal action filed by Imran Khan and Partners.
Hindraf also claimed that the British were only interested in looking after their strategic and security interests in the South-East Asian region. So to preserve their wealth in Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Brunei, the British would collude with the local new elites to whom they hand over power.
Hindraf in a statement questioned the role of the British colonial government which created the politico-legal system in Malaya after the UK’s departure.
“This is Hindraf’s case in its essence - if you care to
understand it in its depth and with an open mind,” said a statement by its
national adviser N Ganesan (right).“We are human rights defenders of a different order and we use the little resources that we have the in the best way we can, for the interest of Malaysia and all Malaysians. This case against the UK government is for real. Win or lose, the Malaysian people will win with this case just coming to the fore,” said Ganesan.
Ganesan had previously said that the suit is backed by P Waythamoorthy and his team’s four years of research into historical records of the British colonial governments gained from the British archives in London and other sources in the Indian and Singapore records offices.
“New information is going to surface (to show)... the process of marginalisation of the descendants of indentured Indian labourers... was not an accident of history but was an act of conscious omission by those in power,” he had said.
Source : http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/202598
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