HINDRAF PRESS RELEASE 4 TH SEPT 2013 The Indian community is concerned Hindraf calls upon the government to place a moratorium on any further temple evictions, demolitions, burial ground demolitions, estate worker evictions and shoot to kill police actions till the plans in the MOU Agreement of the 18 th of April 2013 between BN and Hindraf get implemented. The most recent temple demolition incident of the 101 year old Jalan P Ramlee temple in KL on the 1 st of September is analogous in essence to the episode of the Police shooting of the 5 Indian youths in Penang a couple of weeks prior to that. These are exactly the kind of violations that we seek to avoid with Waytha Moorthy’s participation in Government and with new solutions to the problems underlying promised in the Agreement. The Prime Minister acknowledged the weaknesses of past policies that had resulted in such incident and vowed to correct them through the Agreement he made with Hindraf on the 18 th of April 2013. However, lately Hindraf has been getting daily calls from the people witnessing all these occurrences as if in negation of the promises, to know if the Prime Minister is now beginning to go back on his words. Matriculation admissions are nowhere the numbers promised, 20 temples have been served with eviction notices now as we speak, just in KL alone and awaiting demolition. Former estate workers are threatened with eviction all across the country. The Police want a freehand to do whatever they feel is right. All this seems to be oblivious to the fact that these situations are exactly the targets for correction by the plans in the BN Hindraf Agreement. The Indian public see that now Waytha Moorthy is not allowed to take public positions on the issues he is in government for on the one hand, and the Government implementation of the Agreement seems to be getting nowhere on the other hand. So, they are all asking “Has the Prime Minister Najib cheated us all? All these were supposed to have been taken care of by the 5 year Blueprint and the Agreement embodying that plan. That was what was promised so loudly before the elections.” Hindraf would also like an answer to the question. In about a week, Waytha Moorthy would have been in Government for a hundred days and Hindraf is planning a report card to be published on that occasion to the public. The way things stand now, that report card will not be a pretty one. But we are hopeful that things will change. We are hopeful that the Prime Minister will be mindful of these going on in the community and will act positively to address the issues and questions being raised. The Prime Minister now must announce unambiguously a formal moratorium on the various evictions, demolitions and police actions on the one hand and provide the needed support to get the implementation of the Agreement moving forward on the other. There should be no repeats of these recent incidents till the permanent solutions planned in the Agreement are implemented. The Prime Minister must move forward positively, if our concerns are to be allayed. N Ganesan Hindraf National Advisor
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:13:07 +0000
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