The supervision should set up the Committee for Citizenship Registration to address the issues of stateless citizens, says Kua Kia Soong.
COMMENT
By Kua Kia Soong As you good know, the governing body of statelessness is tied to the governing body of competition in this country. It is unsuitable which the bugbear which was thrown in to the Independence onslaught to put the anti-colonial forces upon the defensive viz. who have been the 'pribumi' (indigenous people) as well as who have been the 'pendatang' (immigrants) as well as therefore not competent for citizenship continues to establish the domestic agenda in 2012.
We never destroy to be bemused by the antics of the Barisan Nasional supervision which gives out the couple of citizenship certificates to multiform erstwhile stateless Malaysians only before every election.
The media coverage of grateful beneficiaries hugging the good Home Minister usually adds to the parody.
We do not accept such tokenistic attempts to damp the stateless as well as you direct to know once as well as for all only how many stateless persons there have been in this country?
The stateless cannot accept the fate in which they have been doomed to wait in line for an choosing to arrive as well as anticipating for the couple of lucky draws to bear fruit.
Race has played the pass role in Umno's process to revoke the number of non-Muslim electorate as well as during the same time enlarge Muslim electorate in order to say "Malay dominance".
East Malaysian leaders have alleged which 'Project M' was implemented to ! ensure F ilipino Muslims as well as Pakistanis were postulated citizenship's in large numbers to dilute the non-Malay majority of Sabah.
In west Malaysia, Indonesians have for years been obtaining citizenship with relative ease compared with many non-Malays who were born in Malaysia.
Committee needed
PKR as well as Hindraf have claimed which there have been as many as 300,000 stateless Indians in this nation whilst the MIC says which they have usually purebred 9,000 or so. According to the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (DHRRA), Malaysia, 'Southeast Middle East Human Rights Watch' 2011:
"It is estimated which there have been around 40,000 Indian young kids in the state of Selangor alone who do not have their birth certificates. Similarly, based upon the number of cases you received during our 10 community centres from 2003 2006, you estimated which during slightest 20,000 Indian women do not have identity documents. These total could be much aloft if their young kids have been taken in to account. Therefore, they turn 'stateless' in their own nation as well as as the result they been denied of insurance as well as caring as the adult of the nation state, as well as thus exposed to abuse as well as exploitation."
What about the stateless Chinese as well as the stateless indigenous peoples in Sarawak as well as Sabah? We know which there have been considerable numbers of them as well.
We therefore call upon the supervision to set up the credible Committee for Citizenship Registration with enough resources to solve the predicament of the stateless once as well as for all.
This committee must be seen to be eccentric as well as professional. It is too important the charge to be entrusted to any domestic party.
The Department of Statistics as well as the Registration Department should be concerned in this exercise in order to give us the correct numbers of the st! ateless in the country.
The right to the nationality
Every person has the right to the nationality. Yet statelessness continues to be the elemental cause of discrimination, exploitation, as well as even forced displacement.
The stateless have no legal insurance or the right to experience in domestic process; poor employment prospects as well as poverty; little opportunity to own property; transport restrictions, as well as inadequate access to healthcare as well as education.
To date, usually 57 states have turn celebration to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons as well as even fewer states, only 29, have been celebration to the 1961 Convention upon the Reduction of Statelessness.
It is time for Malaysia to take the predicament of the stateless seriously instead of treating them like the domestic football to score the couple of during the time during elections.
Kua Kia Soong is human rights watchdog Suaram's adviser.
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