Hindraf alledges Hamid misled the nation by lying to Parliament

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 - Hindraf sympathisers today handed over a document to the Opposition coalition which they claimed to be evidence of a senior minister providing false information in the Dewan Rakyat.

The group of 20, led by R.S. Thanenthiran, who was the national coordinator for the recently outlawed Indian rights movement, met up with several Pakatan Rakyat MPs including senior DAP MP for Ipoh Timur Lim Kit Siang and PKR MP for Subang R. Sivarasa at Parliament House today.

In a press conference, Thanenthiran told reporters that Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar had"misled Parliament and misled the nation" when he announced in July this year in the House that he had not revoked the international passport of Hindraf's self-exiled leader P. Waytha Moorthy who is now in London.

"We have solid evidence he lied," Thanenthiran claimed, referring to Syed Hamid.

Distributing copies of a letter to the MPs as well as to the press, Thanenthiran said they were part of an email commucation dated September 23 2008 that Waytha Moorthy's lawyers had received purportedly from the "UK Border Agency" in response to their client's queries.

Thanenthiran pointed out that the what the letter said was contrary to what Syed Hamid had said.

He also said Waytha Moorthy's sympathisers had lodged 42 police reports against Syed Hamid to date.

They want the authorities to detain the Home Minister and to investigate him for statements linking Hindraf to international terrorist groups.

They called on the government to return Waytha Moorthy's passport to him as it is his personal property and to lift the Home Minister's ban on Hindraf.

"Hindraf is one organisation that really wants progress," Thanenthiran said.

"Return to Waytha Moorthy his rights as a Malaysian citizen," he added.

The Hindraf sympathisers had arrived in four vehicles including a taxi at about 11.30am. They left without much untoward incident about one hour later.

However, upon their exit from the Parliament compound, they were stopped by police who took down their MyKad details and inspected their vehicles.

They were not arrested.

Earlier upon arrival, the group had freed several pigeons in the Parliament compound in a symbolic gesture asking the government to release the five Hindraf members detained under the Internal Security Act. (The Malaysianinsider)

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Hindraf call to PM to revoke illegal order by Home Minister

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 — Banning Hindraf will not banish the groundswell of emotion, says its chairman P. Waytha Moorthy.

In a press statement, the organisation’s leader-in-exile said that “declaring Hindraf as an illegal organisation will in any case not banish the spirit that created Hindraf” and called on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi “to advise his Home Minister to revoke the order.”

“Hindraf represents a very deep feeling experienced in the hearts and souls of millions of Indians both locally and internationally,” he claimed.

Yesterday, Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar announced the outlawing of the movement, saying Hindraf would continue to pose a threat to public order, the security and sovereignty of the country as well as the prevailing racial harmony.

“The decision to declare Hindraf an illegal organisation is not based on one or two of its activities that are in contravention of the law but covers all the actions it has taken since being formed,” he said.

Waytha Moorthy, who has been in exile in Britain since his fellow leaders, the “Hindraf 5”, were detained under the Internal Security Act, called the decision “dastardly and ludicrous”.

He added it showed the government is at its wit’s end and that “Malaysia is indeed a police state under the pretext of democracy" as it has used the ISA, Sedition Act and now the Societies Act to silence a “legitimate voice of democracy”.

“The Umno-led government enjoys demonising and bullying us on the pretext of law, public order and national security when all we are fighting for is to address the true and real condition of the downtrodden Malaysian Indians who have been systematically marginalised, suppressed and oppressed,” he stated in the e-mail.

“Hindraf represents the Indian commoner, the hard working oily-faced man who is made fun of in the streets, the man who people step on, the man who walks past you yet you notice him not.”

This current saga has developed against the background of Hindraf’s presence at the Cabinet Hari Raya open house, where over 200 supporters attended to beseech Abdullah to free the Hindraf 5.

On Tuesday, three other Hindraf leaders — S. Jayathas, K. Selvam and K. Shanti, Waytha Moorthy’s wife — were requested to present themselves at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to have their statements on the incident recorded.

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