HRF inform to Washington: Institutional Racism in Malaysia
Written by Human Rights Foundation Malaysia Wednesday, thirty November 2011 13:06
CPI introduction
Below is a senior manager summary done by P. Waytha Moorthy, a owner of Hindraf as good as leader of a Human Rights Foundation Malaysia.
Also uploaded is a paper presented prior to a US House Committee upon unfamiliar affairs as good as a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.
According to a brief, Hindraf is Human Rights Foundation Malaysia is an classification dedicated to a insurance as good as graduation of Human Rights for a marginalised in Malaysia. We request as good as inform all forms of violations, give voice to a oppressed as good as hold a Government underneath obligation for a Human Rights violations. We lobby International await for a marginalised community as good as contention Independent reports as good as justification to International bodies.
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Institutional Racism as good as Religious leisure in Malaysia
Institutional racism is a process by which people from racial minorities have been systematically discriminated opposite by a range of public as good as private bodies. If a outcome or outcome of established laws, customs or practices is racially discriminatory, afterwards institutional racism can be pronounced to have occurred.
Dr.Benjamin Bowling
(Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice as good as Director of Criminological studies in a School of Law, King's College London.)
a) The Federal Constitution entrenched with a extremist sustenance vide Article 153 ( Malaysian code of apartheid)
b) The State sanctions extremist as good as eremite impassioned laws as good as policies
c) State carry out of Government Administration by 1 race/religious group
d) State channel of most supports for economic/education/development programs as good as licenses, permits ect to 1 race
e) State carry out of Religious leisure to disadvantage of non-Muslims, imposition of Muslim eremite laws as good as constrained office of Syaria Courts upon non-Muslims.
f) State sponsored violence/threat of assault both directly as good as outsource to pick groups upon objections by citizens
g) State permit of draconian, punitive laws as good as a vacant cheque since to Police to have arbitrary arrests upon dissent.
h) State declaration which a Malays have been a masters (Malay Supremacy) as good as sons of soil.
Ethnic groups in Malaysia : Malay 53.3%, Chinese 26.0%, indigenous 11.8%, Indian 7.7%, others 1.2%.
Religions: Islam (60.4%), Buddhism (19.2%), Christianity (9.1%), Hinduism (6.3%), other/none (5.0%). - US Department of State 2011
Malaysia is a nation based upon a subtle, pervasive as good as increasingly aggressive form of racism. The conflict which lies just next this synthetic ease state, is so good concealed, which to someone with just a cursory knowledge Malaysia would find it hard to hold as good as this is part of a problem.
Malay leverage or Malay prevalence is a explain which a Malay Muslims have been a tuan (masters) of Malaysia. The Chinese as good as Indians, who form a poignant minority in Malaysia, have been deliberate gratified to a Malays for extenuation them citizenship in return for special privileges as set out in Article 153 of a Malaysian Constitution.
Article 153 is a habitual extremist sustenance in a Constitution which sanctions implementation of all extremist policies in Malaysia to a disadvantage of a minority non-Malay/Muslim population. Questioning any matter, rights, status, payoff ect of Article 153 is deliberate a challenge to a Malay Supremacy, scornful a Royal Institution as good as Islam. It is additionally deemed a hazard to National Security, an corruption underneath a Internal Security Act which gives powers of detain for unlimited duration though hearing as good as underneath a Sedition Act which provides for imprisonment between 3-5 years.
Since a Democratic overthrow of Hindraf in 2007 as good as a successive loss of a 2/3 Parliamentary charge in a March 2008 elections, Government has outsourced a sincere extremist bulletin to NGOs in particular PERKASA. This is an NGO led by a Pro Government Parliamentarian who promotes a Malay Muslim leverage bulletin as good as has a explicit await of tip Government caring together with a former Prime Ministers, ex Army officials as good as ex Inspector General of Police.
All Government projects have been primarily since to Malay Muslim Bumiputra individuals as good as organizations.
All Government contractors have to be protected by a Finance Ministry prior to being since any Government projects.
Malays have been promoted in a Civil make make use of of to assure which a top policy-making positions will be filled by Malays in any b! ox of de sign opening standards.
The FELDA Scheme Federal Land development Authority
There is a a single after an additional as good as indiscriminate ostracism of Non-Malays from this program. Indian camp workers who were being actively replaced during a time of a expansion of this FELDA intrigue in a 1970s as good as 1980s were not deliberate part of a target group, since they were not categorized as being from a farming community. This was available way to exclude. An estimated 800,000 Indian camp workers have been replaced from plantations though any pick programs/compensation.
FELDA, FELCRA, PERDA, KEDA, KETENGAH, KESEDAR, KEJORA as good as a host of pick development agencies make make use of of procedural techniques of a single form or an additional such as this to wholly bar a honourable non-Malays.
FELDA uncover a sum turnover of RM 11.8 Billion. The enlarge prior to taxation alone have been RM804 million5.
A RM 120 million residential propagandize for FELDA young kids - a Maktab Rendah Sains Mara (MRSM) in Trolak, Perak. Compare this with a recent promise of an allocation of RM100 million by a Prime Minister for 523 Tamil schools in a country, for which there is no justification of value anyway. There have been 42 MRSM schools similar to a a single above in a country.
In 1980, a World Bank lifted concerns over a racial disposition in FELDA settler selection by indicating out which if a supervision was critical about augmenting a non-Malay share in agriculture, some enlarge in a non-Malay share of settlers was warranted
The Tekun Nasional intrigue is a intrigue to yield micro credit as good as to develop majority Malay Muslim entrepreneurs.
For a year 2008 alone TEKUN Nasional has p! rovided RM 182 million as loans to 19,000 entrepreneurs.
That is tighten to RM1 Billion -not to mention roughly all those loans went to Malay Muslim entrepreneurs. Participation in a Tekun module of Indians is miniscule - a sum of 93 Indian entrepreneurs received loans amounting to RM761,000 upon Jul 24, 2009 in a ceremony.8 That is less than 0.1% of which disbursed to a Malay Muslim entrepreneurs.
The collusion of a assorted arms of a Government to keep dissent in check
Some of a pass ones have been :
1. Government Linked Companies
2. Government Investment Companies
3. Economic Planning Unit
4. The Federal Cabinet of Ministers
5. The assorted Ministries
6. The Royal Malaysian Police
7. The Attorney generals Office
8. The Judiciary
9. The Government Administrative Services
10. The Government owned Banks
11. The Government controlled media
The Government has used suppressive laws similar to a Internal Security Act, a Official Secrets Act, Printing Presses as good as Publications Act, a Seditions Act during this duration to exercise these terribly racially unilateral development skeleton while allowing a extremist complement to grow
Given a need to maintain a extremist regime, a Police have become a primary instrument of carry out for a majority Malay Muslim celebration in Government UMNO. Police violence, abuse of energy as good as tellurian rights abuses occur really regularly. Cases of genocide in custody, partial handling of criminal disturbances, violent dispersal of! pacific protestors as good as pick form of tellurian rights defilement continue. This has combined a meridian of impunity as good as normalization of violence, abuse of energy as good as defilement of tellurian rights in Malaysia.
More than 77% of a Government administration department department members have been of Malay Muslim ethnicity. About 20% a Indian members as good as about 60% of a Chinese members of a Government administration department department have been teachers in a Government Vernacular schools. If they have been released from a numbers in make make use of of by a Government administration, a design which emerges is about an altogether appearance of 85% Malays in a administration
The Malay Muslim employees of a administration department department go by special programs of precision called National Civics Bureau where they have been all prepared upon how to keep a wealth of a family inside of a family in reduced how to operationalize a extremist policies of a Government. This is a much criticized activity, though a Government continues with impunity as it is a pass approach in recreating which extremist bureaucracy.
The Mainstream media blocks out, demonizes as good as distorts information of any classification which speaks out opposite this extremist complement in a coordinated fashion. The Government uses a Printing Presses as good as Publications Act as good as tying tenure to well known allies to carry out a Media to do this.
There have been an estimated 150,000 200,000 Indian young kids who have been stateless due to a States hostility to recognize them as Malaysians. This is operationalized by a extremist state bureaucracy. As outcome they have been not certified in Schools, enjoy health caring as good as pick benefits a child enjoys.
There have been 42 entirely residential elite Maktab Rendah Sains Mara (MRSM) (Mara youth Science College) (NST 5/4/08) with 12,440 places additionally in a entirely residential schools (BH 21/11/09 during page 7). These schools have been roughly exclusively for Malay Muslim students
Non-Malays have been additionally roughly 100% released in pick elite schools similar to a Royal Military College, Aminuddin Baki Institution, Matriculation courses as good as a Malay College Kuala Kangsar.
Admissions in to public Universities is some-more than 80% reserved for a Malays Muslims. One university with a student race of 170,000 in 2011(UiTM) is for Malay Muslims only. The pick nineteen public Universities with about 170,000 enrolments in all have a 60% Malay Muslim students making it 80% for Malay Muslims in all Public Universities. This does not even talk about a composition in a assorted courses offered.
There have been 62,000 diploma places as good as 60,000 degree places for 2010 during 27 Polytechnics in Malaysia. These have been exclusively for a Malay Muslim students.
There have been 163,779 students studying during a nineteen pick Public Universities national during an annual output price of RM 2.6 Billion15. Our guess is a small 5 % of this output will accumulate to non-Malay students.
RM 2.8 Billion is allocated for a 2010 National Budget for students benefit scholarships. Most of a supports go for scholarships to Malay Muslim Students.
1,266,671 students (estimated 90% Malay Muslims) have benefited from a supervision PTPTN (Government Higher Education Loan Fund) investigate loans till 2009. 147,441 such loans were authorized during RM 17.0 Billion (UM 25/3/08 during page 31).
The constitution provides for leisure of religion; h! owever, a constitution as good as a supervision placed restrictions upon this right. The constitution defines all racial Malays as Muslims during birth as good as stipulates which Islam is a "religion of a Federation."
Civil courts a single after another to concede office to Sharia courts upon cases connected with conversion from Islam as good as certain areas of family law involving disputes between Muslims as good as non-Muslims.
Forced eremite conversions as good as eremite intolerance have been justification of creeping Islamization in Malaysia. Whenever there is a conflict between Muslim as good as non-Muslims, a bent is for Muslim Laws to prevail over a non-Muslim issues in any box of a merits of a case.
The preference of a Court of Appeal upon 21st Aug 2010 in a box of Maniam Moorthy is a unfortunate direction in a role of a Judiciary which has abdicated a powers to a inferior Sharia Courts which was meant to offer a Muslims usually upon counts (personal) regarding to marriage, divorce, property distribution ect.
Lina Joy, 42, who was innate to a Malay Muslim couple, became a Christian when she was 26.
She mislaid her final round of interest when a Federal Court dismissed her interest upon 30th May 2007 opposite a statute which a National Registration Department was right not to concede her to remove a word "Islam" from her identity card.
In Aug 2010 The newspaper of a Catholic Church in Malaysia, The Herald, filed a legal fit during following warnings which a permit could be revoked if it did not stop make make use of of of a word "Allah" in a Malay denunciation territory of a newspaper.
Several Malaysian churches have been attacked as good as glow bombed, withdrawal during slightest a single really bad damaged, in an escalating brawl over a make make use of of of ! a word " Allah" by Christians.
In Aug 2011 The Selangor Religious Department raided a Church cooking function organized by an NGO upon allegation of Christian proselytizing campaign.
According to a government, it allocated 428 million ringgit (approximately $125.9 million) to set up Islamic places of ceremony as good as 8.1 million ringgit ($2.4 million) to set up Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, as good as pick minority religions' places of ceremony between 2005 as good as a end of 2008. (in answer to a Parliamentary question)
Throughout a years since Malaysian independence in 1957, a supervision has been disregardful of a a single after an additional destruction of Hindu places of worship, which formerly stood upon estates as good as state owned estates as good as land. An guess of about 10,000 Hindu places of ceremony have been demolished.
Conclusion
Promoting leisure as good as democracy as good as safeguarding tellurian rights around a universe is executive to U.S. unfamiliar process as good as consistent with a values upon which a United States was founded. The Malaysian minorities prolonged to live with dignity as good as leisure though have been denied dignity as good as leisure by a extremist regime which has grown over a last 50 years in a name of certain movement for a majority. The endless extensions of a certain movement policies have now led to critical Human Rights violations of a minorities in a country. This is unsuitable with developments around a universe as good as with a aspirations of a minorities of Malaysia. It is time for a international community to hold a Malaysian supervision underneath obligation for this performance. The universe has to arise up to these developments in Malaysia, for a future of this trajectory is being told many times over, in what is happening around a universe today.
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