December 10, 2012
Contest for Indian Votes enters a wilful phase
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT Five years after a reverberating Hindraf criticism of Nov 2007, a contest for a Indian opinion during a 13th General Election is headed for a wilful phase upon a signal emanate a numbers of stateless residents as well as what's to be done about their plight.
On Wednesday, a speculative series of a stateless as well as their sympathisers will accumulate during a National Registration Department (NRD) to denote their concerns as well as roar for quick remedy.
Today, a prominent activist for a stateless, PKR Vice-President as well as counsel N Surendran (left), will file an application in a Kuala Lumpur High Court asking for a judicial review of a NRD's warding off to emanate a blue MyKad to Sarojini as well as Mala, dual stateless residents of Kapar, in Selangor.
Sarojini, 32, as well as Mala, 34, conjunction of whom have been to school, have prolonged been denizens of which night before section to which a stateless have been consigned in Malaysia.
Surendran will be asking a court to accede to an sequence of mandamus opposite a NRD as well as a supervision to enforce them to emanate a dual with a blue MyKad as well as additionally an sequence of certiorari to stifle a preference not to accede to them a blue MyKad, in addition to seeking a stipulation which their fundamental rights were breached as well as which this merited damages.
Neither Sarojini nor Mala has been to propagandize because they do not have a bieing born obligation as well as an identity card, a essential accoutrements of citizenship. Sarojini as well as Mala have been Indian ! Malaysia ns but their stateless situation is not disdainful to indigent members of a community.
Though there is no disbelief which a strenuous majority of a stateless have been Indians, in recent months it has come to light which not inconsiderable numbers of Dayak as well as Kadazan have been likewise afflicted.
Whether a statelessness of these people is due to official slight or their own destitution, a emanate is a sign of a extent of a prevalence of dire misery among Malaysia's twenty-eight million people.
The stateless exist in a night before zone. Without bieing born certificates or identity cards, they cannot go to school, hospitals or be gainfully employed. They have been a wretched of a country, to borrow from Third World liberationist Frantz Fanon's radiant phrase, 'The Wretched of The Earth', which is a title of a book he wrote.
Urgent need of remedy
At present, 3 parties espouse a indicate which a situation of a stateless is in urgent need of pill 3 parties, which is, as well as one man.
The 3 parties have been PKR, which claims which a complaint is considerable in magnitude as well as demands surgical remedy; MIC, which says which PKR is grandstanding upon a extent of a complaint that, it claims, is well upon a way to rectification; as well as DAP, which has highlighted a complaint through inhabitant Vice-Chairperson M Kulasegaran (right), but has gone over written espousal to take a step towards alleviation of a problem.
This step was a hiring final month by a Penang supervision of five officers who have been consecrated to seek out out a stateless wherever they have been not only in Penang as well as accumulate a register of their names as well as addresses to embark a task of legitimising th! eir pres ence in a country.
The abovementioned one male who has shown some thoughtfulness for a stateless is Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who to a Indian Malaysian village in recent times has sounded like a regular Dr Marcus Welby, famous from a American TV programme as a ubiquitous practitioner with attractive bedside manners.
Najib, soft dispenser in final dual years of palliatives for a problems of confirmed misery in sections of a Indian Malaysia community, struck a evil note during a MIC convention yesterday when he referred to which a numbers of a stateless were in a four-digit region, distant from a "exaggerated" six-digit levels dramatised by PKR.
This drew an immediate riposte from Surendran who accused a Prime Minister of grossly underestimating a numbers, an effect, a PKR Vice President held, of a ubiquitous trivialisation with which problems to do with a Indian Malaysian village have been regarded by a Barisan Nasional
Last week Surendran was called up by a OCPD in Putrajaya for doubt about a programmed criticism to be staged by stateless people as well as their supporters upon Dec 12.
After being questioned, Surendran told a press which a Police were being earnest about a programmed criticism since a organisers of a demonstrators had done plain their intention to dramatise a predicament of a stateless.
"It's a tellurian rights issue," argued a counsel who has done a name for himself in tellurian rights advocacy in a final decade.By operation of law, these people have been ostensible to have been adults of this country. That they have been not is a crying shame as well as a outrageous injustice."
Dramatisation of a emanate has resulted in Pakatan Rakyat supremo Anwar Ibrahim announcing final Thursday during a public rally in Padang! Serai, Kedah, which once elected, a Pakatan Rakyat supervision will have a stateless adults in a month, virtually by a cadence of a sovereign pen.
The Pakatan leader has opted for a cure-all to a Barisan Nasional chairperson's placebo.
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