Unequal rights for Malaysian Chinese and Indians since 1970 - Are these allegations true?

The last post shows that Malays originate from Indonesia and even the language spoken today has similarities. Yet their claim as Bumis is disturbing when true Bumi is likely the Chinese. So why the Chinese let Malays exploit the rights to their advantage? Knowing your rights today.

Wake up, have you suffered enough under BN's rule? YOU can make the difference. The future is in your vote! Find it out yourself...

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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:48:13 -0800
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Subject: Fw: Please forward this article to your friends if you care for the future of Malaysia

This message is to provoke your mind to think whether you want the status quo to be perpetuated. If you want to do your bit to effect a chan ge for the better, think well before you vote at the next general election.

Chances are that the BN will still win but we need to send the proper signal to Pak Lah that enough is enough....

Below is the result of extreme discriminations and marginalization by the BN govt for too many years. Let's keep circulating this esp before the next election.

And today this is what happened in Malaysia racism.

These lists cover a period of about 49 years since Independence Day in Malaysia (1957):

(1) Out of all the 5 major banks in Malaysia, only one bank is own by multi-racial, the rest are controlled by Malays.

(2) 99% of Petronas (the only one petroleum company) directors are Malays, and the former Prime Minister work as Consultant in Petronas.

(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese.

(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by Malays.

(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be "bumi's status" (Malay).

(6) 0% of non-Malays staffs are legally required in Malay's companies. But there must be 30% Malays staffs in Chinese companies and shareholder. Which this mean non-Malays own company needs to give their property to Malays. An d n on-Malays citizen can't really own their business.

(7) 5% of all new intake for government police, nurses, army, is non-Malays.

(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960.

(9) 2% is the percentage of non-Malays government servants in Putrajaya ( Malaysia main government office). But Malays make up 98%.

(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960. Only 2 position for non-Malays in political status.

(11) 95% of government contracts are given to Malays; even it is an open tender. Non-Malays contractors tender the lower price and use better materials can't get the contract that government given.

(12) 100% all business licenses are controlled by Malay government e.g . Taxi permits, Approved permits, etc. and all the license are given to government officer families.

(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah (north of peninsular Malaysia had to be sold to Malay and controlled by Bernas (Government Org.) since 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers.

(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by Malays since 1970's e.g. UTC, UMBC, MISC, etc. This company now is the sole company.

(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia,throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other Malay transport companies due to rejection by Malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses.

(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor (South of Peninsular Malaysia ) Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given.

(17) 0 non-Malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar (city in south peninsular Malaysia ) bus station (November 2004).

(18) 8000 billions ringgit is the total amount the government chan neled to Malays pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatization of government agencies like Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years periods.

(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000

(20) 144 Tamil primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000

(21) 2637 Malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000

(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Tamil schools got only 1%, Malay schools got 96.5%

(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, and a Malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible.

(24) 10 all public universities vice chan cellors are Malays. And politics in universities are held by Malays. If non-Malays want to form a politics parties, there is no way to get approved. (25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-Malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004 with the reason Malaysia Education Ministry give full support for Malays only.

(26) Only 5% is given to non-Malays for government scholarships over 40 years.

(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under "Look East Policy".

(28) 128 STPM (High Study / A Level) Chinese top students coul d n ot get into the course that they aspired i.e. Medicine and doctors (in 2004). Malays with not qualify result can get into the course.

(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% Malays.

(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program since 2003.

(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% since 1957 because government are not support non-Malays like government support Malays.

(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% since 1957.

(33) 2 millions Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago due to unfair politics.

(34) 0.5 million Indians Malaysians had emigrated to overseas.

(35) 3 millions Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became malaysian citizens with bumi's status.

(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indians Malaysians with "red I/C" (a temporary identity card) and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenships compare with the Chinese and Indians

(37) 5% - 15% discount for a Malay to buy a house, regardless whether the Malay is rich or poor

(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what Malays villages got for rural development budget..

(39) 50 roa d n ames (at least) had been chan ge from Chinese names to other names.

(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Le ong (in Malacca) was altered to other name ( e.g.Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government tries to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort.

(41) 0 temples/churches were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate MUST got at least one mosque/surau built.

(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970 with full government support. No temples, no churches are built in housing estates that supported by government.

(43) 1 Catholic Church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by Malay authority that it must look like a factory and can't look like a church. Still not yet approved since 2004.

(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)

(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, and TV3) have directors of non-Malays origin.

(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had Malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less.

(47) 10 times, at least, Malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969.

(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP woul d n ot get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed

(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racist re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s

(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960

(51) 0 elimination of, all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights)is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s

(52) 20 reported cases whereby Malay ambulance attendance treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and Malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200

(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by Malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record

(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down Malays were seriously assaulted or killed by Malays

(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN (Malays Own banks) got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum.


And more cases haven't been discovered.

So, if any Malaysian read this mail and got extra opinion please add into this mail and forward to everyone who feel this is unfair to other race in Malaysia .

Your forward mail will be much appreciated.

FIGHT FOR YOUR OWN RACE....

Thank you,

From,
Malaysian Race Humanity 2006
Malaysian_humanity@yahoo.com

Please comment: Who are the true Bumis in Malaysia?

Subject: All Malaysians should read...an interesting read by any
accounts!!!!!

The Truth Revealed (with evidence) – Origin of Malays

In June 1998, the government of Malaysia had hired a team of
experts from across the continent to be gathered here in Malaysia for
a research project to complement the history studies that we undertook
in our secondary schools.

The objective of the research is simply:

1. To find proof and evidence that shows the Malays are the origins of
Malaysia and they are the first race and religion that land their foot
in Malaysia.

2. To further strengthen their claims, first they need to find the
graveyard of the Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekiu and etc to show the
existent of their pioneer.

3. Batu Bersurat in Terengganu, reveals that the Islamic religion has
landed in Malaysia for a hundred years ago which further strengthen
their claims!

That is why, we are taught with Sejarah (history of Malaysia )!!!!

BEWARE & OPEN YOUR EYES!!! Go ask your brother, sister, niece, nephew
and etc. etc, since the year 1999 (if i'm not mistaken) or year 2000,
do they study about HANG TUAH anymore?

Why is that popular subject GONE? Missing in action or evidence
revealed something different that caused the government to stop the
syllabus and HIDE the TRUTH?

*Here are the Evidences of the findings by the team of scientists,
archaeologist, historians and other technical staff from the United
States, United Kingdom , Germany , Canada , Yemen & Russia . *

*The evidences are: *

1) They finally found the graveyard of Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat etc their
skeleton had been analyzed and samples of DNA had been taken with the
results showing: Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekiu and mates, they are
NOT MALAY!!!!!! They are CHINESE (Islamic) from China !!! and why they
were here in Malacca? because they were in a mission to protect
Parameswara from the potential attack of SIAM ( Thailand )!!!

So Hang Tuah is not Malay hero!!! they are the protector of the
useless and ungrateful Parameswara (who was from INDONESIA) landed in
Malacca and claimed the land belongs to him!!!

Hang Tuah bunch of people were all from China, they were being
assigned to Malacca because Parameswara requested the Ching Dynasty
Emperor for protection!!!

This is why the Hang Tuah series of history is MISSING from SEJARAH!!!!

*2nd. Evidence: *

The researchers hired by the government found the oldest tomb stone
(grave yard) in Kelantan in year 2000. Surprisingly the tomb stone are
at least 900 years old!!!! older than the so-called batu bersurat and
the best thing is, it belong to the CHINESE!!!!!!!!

Being landed first in Malacca doesn't mean Malay is the first in
Malaysia because during that time, the road is too long for them to
see the other side of the coast!!! where the Chinese has landed far
more earlier. If you want the black and white evidence of the truth
reveals please write to The Federal Association of Arc & Research of
Michigan, USA .

Please do not ask the Chinese nor the Indians to go back to their home country!
Because evidence shows that Malays are NOT Malaysian origin either!

Orang Asli in Malaya might be earlier dwellers than Malays. These
orang Asli are small in numbers, staying deep in forest and not
exposed to city facility and education. So they are not fighting for
recognition now.

Your ancestors are all immigrants from INDONESIA !
Let us unite as a nation and not divided by races.

Malaysia's ISA: Limitless Power

 

In a civilised society where democracy is practised, ISA has breached the basic human rights of legal defence before being proven quilty. Under ISA, a person is proven quilty without trial. Who will be detained under ISA? Basically anyone who is anti-government will be qualified for it. This Act has unlimited power to use on any persons who are branded as endangering national security. When there are evidence of armed weapons being used by the offenders, it will truly affect national security. What I see from recent detention of 5 Hindraf leaders are politically motivated. Hindraf leaders are struggling for human rights by peaceful street demonstration and called for international support from India. There is no endanger of national security except loss of reputation that Malaysia is facing racial crisis. Again, the world see Malaysia as a country which is not truly practising democracy but in name only - on the lips of national leaders wanting to dominate the people years after years. Now 50 years have gone-by BN Alliance is still holding to power.  

 

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Malaysia's ISA: No limits

The Internal Security Act (ISA) in Malaysia has taken on the dimensions of the feared bogeyman that mothers threaten unyielding children with. Any opposition to government policies is being seen as a good case for invoking the ISA. The excuses have begun to verge on the whimsical. The implications are ominous.

 

In September 2002, Malaysian Deputy Home Affairs Minister Zainal Abidin Zin suggested the newest possible use of the ISA, one that the Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed would no doubt have prescribed himself. According to Mr. Zainal Abidin Zin the ISA would be used "as a last resort" against "extremists" and "chauvinists" who oppose and give a "racial" twist to the government's new policy of using English to teach Mathematics and Science in schools. He was supplementing Dr Mahathir's statement, warning "extremist groups", ostensibly opposing groups of Chinese educationists against "playing with fire".

 

A Chinese educational association had been at the forefront of protests against the new plan for a variety of reasons; nevertheless, it had also called for public deliberations on the matter, emphasising that the demand was linked to school education in general and should not be classed as an ethnicity-specific issue. The association also objected – quite rightly – to the Prime Minister's use of the word "extremists."

 

Under the ISA, a person may be detained by the police for up to 60 days without trial for an act which "prejudices the security" of the country. After 60 days, the detention can be extended for a period of two years, with the approval of the Minister of Home Affairs. It can then be renewed for successive two-year periods. A detainee can thus expect to remain in detention indefinitely.

 

During the first 60 days of detention, detainees are allowed no family visits and no access to legal counsel. If a further two-year detention is approved, they are taken to the infamous Kamunting Detention Centre, where they are held in isolation in small, poorly ventilated cells.

 

The ISA has certainly covered a lot of ground. Passed in 1960 as a law intended to deal with a perceived communist threat, it has long been used for a host of offences unrelated to 'communist threats' or, for that matter, to internal security. More than four decades later, it continues to trample on the human rights of Malaysians. Those previously detained under the Act include political activists, religious minorities such as Shias, journalists, student leaders, traders, academicians, NGO activists and, most recently, 10 persons accused of spreading "rumours" of bomb attacks via email. The recent ISA arrests of alleged 'rumour-mongers' has led to a heightened fear that the authorities will use this as an excuse to increase police surveillance of the Internet.

 

One of the most recent and high profile cases has been that of six activists, all of whom have been accused of plotting to overthrow the government by "militant" means. Dr Badrulamin Bahron, Mohamed Ezam Mohamed Nor, Tian Chua, Sari Sungib and Lokman Noor Adam, all leaders of the opposition Keadilan party, and Hishamuddin Rais, a columnist and filmmaker, were arrested in April 2001 in a move seen as a politically-motivated attempt to stifle dissent. No evidence to support these allegations was ever made public.

 

On 6 September 2002, the Federal Court heard the habeas corpus application of five ISA detainees – Tian Chua, Hishamuddin Rais, Sari Sungib, Mohamed Ezam Mohamed Nor, and one Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin who had been arrested earlier. The court ruled that their initial 60-day detention made under section 73 of the ISA was unlawful and that the police had acted in bad faith in detaining them. However, the decision did not result in the immediate release of the detainees as the judges further held that a separate habeas corpus application had to be filed since the decision did not affect the two-year detention order made by the Home Minister, even though the latter order was made pursuant to recommendations made by the police.

 

Of these five, Mohamed Ezam Mohamed Nor was convicted of an offence under the Official Secrets Act and is now serving a two-year jail term, while Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin had been released before the expiry of the initial 60-day detention period.

 

In an unashamed display of disregard for the judiciary and the rule of law, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Abdullah Ahmed Badawi said the activists would not be released because the government had ordered their detention on the basis of valid security concerns. "I read the reasons why they must be detained, and I am aware that the questions that were asked during the period were also questions relevant to security matters and not just a case asking about personal questions," Mr Badawi said.

 

This is not borne out by the Federal Court ruling. The judge stated that "clearly, from the affidavits which it highlighted above, the questions that were asked were more on the appellants' political activities and for intelligence gathering." In refusing to revoke the detention order, Mr Badawi clearly demonstrated that he considers himself above the law.

 

Lawless Acts

 

In Dr Mahathir's Malaysia, and particularly with regard to ISA-related cases, the judiciary has in several instances toed the government line. The judicial process was wilfully subverted, for example, in the Anwar Ibrahim case. The trial that eventually led to a six-year prison sentence for the former deputy prime minister was widely seen as unfair to the defendant. The defence lawyers were hounded by arbitrary accusations of contempt of court, and failed to receive protection from the court against intimidation and harassment by the police. The prosecution, at the end of its case, was allowed to amend the charges, denying the defendant the opportunity to refute the original charges of sexual misconduct.

 

The government's contempt for the judiciary is brilliantly captured in the following statement by Dr Mahathir, made in 1988 in the context of amendments that effectively undermined the judiciary's power to review and interpret legislation passed by Parliament. The Prime Minister said the amendments were required because "the courts have decided that in enforcing the law, they are bound by their interpretations and not by the reasons for which Parliament formulated these laws… when a judge feels he has to first prove his independence, then justice takes a back seat."

 

And to prove their independence, judges "often bend over backwards to award decisions in favour of those challenging the government," he added.

 

Fifteen years on, little has changed. In the few cases in which the courts rule in favour of "those challenging the government", all the government has to do is ignore the ruling.

 

But now, Dr Mahathir is unwilling to take even that chance. In an interview with the BBC on 12 November 2002 he stated that decisions to hold suspects under ISA should not be questioned in courts of law. He added that the ISA would be amended to prevent the judiciary from interfering with the executive's decisions on national security matters.

 

Such a move will practically paralyse an already emasculated judiciary. It would also deprive current detainees of any remaining chances of challenging their detention. A drastic increase in the number of detentions under ISA may also be expected.

 

Ghostly Group

 

By way of its contribution to the 'war against terror', the government has detained under the ISA a number of persons allegedly having links to the invisible, but apparently extremely dangerous, Malaysian Mujahidin Group, or KMM. The KMM, the government claims, is an "international terrorist organisation that is attempting to topple the government and establish an Islamic state by force."

 

Since January 2002, about 42 persons have been arrested under the ISA for alleged links with the KMM, bringing the total number of suspected militants arrested since the crackdown against them from last year to 74 persons, out of which only two persons are known to have been released. According to the official Malaysian Human Rights Commission, or SUHAKAM, there are 113 persons being detained under the ISA at the Kamunting Detention Camp. The whereabouts of the more recent arrested persons are unknown, as the police have detained them in secret locations .

 

No evidence has been brought to show that the shadowy KMM actually exists. The government claims it is a secret organisation but refuses to say how it got wind of it. No specific acts or activities have been ascribed to it. No evidence moreover has been brought to show that it has links with Al Qaeda or with other groups in the region. Police claimed some of the detainees had received training at a military camp of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the Southern Philippines. But the Inter Press Service reported that the MILF had denied having links with the 'KMM'. No foreigners were allowed into their camps, the news service quoted the MILF as saying.

 

Many remain in detention for their 'KMM' links. And, with the increasing pressure on countries to demonstrate their willingness to cooperate with the 'war on terror' and the attack in Bali closer home, the Malaysian government is unlikely to allow the 'KMM' to fade away easily.

 

In December 2002 the ISA review board made recommendations for the release of the pro-reform ISA detainees. It also recommended that the government either repeal the ISA or amend it to include international human rights standards, such as the right to a fair trial. Similar recommendations made in the past have gone unheeded. In the post-Bali situation, this latest set of proposals is likely to meet the same fate.

 

- Human Rights Features