PUISI - RASISKAH ITU ?

I

Bagaimana kalau,
Si Buang melempar Melayunya,
Sebab Melayu itu Rasis,
Rasis tiada tempat untuk maju,
Bagaimana majunya Amerika,
Obama boleh jadi raja.

Bagaimana kalau,
Si Anu tangguhkan Islamnya,
Tangguh lama-lama,
Sebab Islam itu jumud,
Buruk nanti wajah kita,
Lihat majunya Turki,
Bagaimana Erdogan mengurus takhta.

“Perlu apanya tongkat,
Yang menguntung segelintir cuma,
Pribumi merempat,
Ah long tak dapat menambah gunung,
Hindraft tersekat menambah dewa...
Yang kaya,
Hanya dua tiga kerat pemimpin,
Rakyat jelata merana…”

Bagaimana kalau,
Kita lemparkan tongkat itu,
Kerana keparatnya pemimpin,
Kita janjikan,
Habuan untuk semua,
Siapa kuat dia dapat,
Yang pandai, memimpin,
Yang kaya, berkuasa,
Yang rajin, meraja.
Yang cemburu,
Itu rasis namanya.

Mana dia tuan Melayu
Yang pernah mengilap sepatu orang ?
Kalau ada yang sampai kemudian,
Jangan dibilang pendatang,
Itu Rasis namanya,
Langkah mundur,
Macam katak bawah tempurung.

Bagaimana dengan janji bersama,
Bernaung di bawah payung lama,
Balasan kepada yang memberi dan memberi.. ?

Ahh, Itu semua keputusan lama,
Apa perlu diikat sejarah,
Ia bukan bebanan,
Bagi yang lahir kemudian.

“Lihatlah Obama,
Terpilih bukan kerana kaumnya,
Bukan kerana pendatangnya,
Bukan juga Islamnya,
Tapi wibawa,
Kerana upaya,
Kita pun kena ikut begitu,
Sebab mereka kata begitu..”

Tangguhkan harammu,
Batalkan fatwamu,
Allah dalam Bible Melayu?
Peduli apa..
Banyak yang lebih besar,
Rasuah dua tiga kerat pemimpin,
Yang lain semuanya kecil belaka.

II

Anak babi membuak di jelapang?
Suburkan!
Hormati hak mereka,
Yang menghalang itu rasis,
Lagi besar rasuah dua tiga kerat pemimpin!.

Anak bumi kan dirampas tongkatnya?
Biarkan,
Biarkan ia berenang sendiri dilautan,
Biarkan malas membangunkan tubuh dari tidurnya !!


Bersimpang siur petunjuk pelbagai bahasa,
Apa salahnya ?
Selagi yang “baru datang” merasa syurga,
Yang menghalang itu rasis namanya.

Anakmu yang di ambang murtad,
Biarkan,
Itu hak mereka
Yang menghalang itu buta dunia
Anak muda sudah lain bicaranya..


III


Bangsaku,
Mamah lah daging saudaramu,
Leburkan arash sendimu,
Curahkan air dari tempayan
Sebab di langit nampak harapan,
Bukan rasis atau jumud,
Kelam pada warna,
Sama rata, sama rasa..


Tak kan ditanya lagi apa kaummu,
Tak kan ditanya lagi apa agamamu,
Bersainglah,
Kerna itu yang kau minta,
Termakan umpan,
“Keparat dua tiga pemimpin”,
Kau hilang segalanya,
Lebur dalam kegilaan permainan,
Orang gila,
Yang meruntun kuasa.

Wahai bangsaku,
Bangun dari utopia mu,
Jangan sampai keliru,
Melayu itu jasadmu,
Islam itu jiwamu,
Yang terjalin,
Dalam satu badan,
Yang berpisah tiada.

Usah bermain
Gelari bahaya,
Takhta tak kan kembali lagi
Kehilangan yang akan kau rasa,
Kerna tak pandai kau menguruskan,
Keparat dua tiga pemimpin itu.


Temanku,
Bukankah..
Tuhan tidak akan mengubah
Nasib sesuatu kaum,
Melainkan
Kaum itu yang mengubahnya..
Rasis kah itu ???





Fuad Hassan
Kuala Lumpur


7 Disember 2008

IRAN SELEPAS 28 TAHUN

1. Pada tahun 1980 saya pernah dijemput melawat Tehran atas jemputan kedutaan Iran untuk menyaksikan kezaliman dan pencerobohan Iraq terhadap Iran di atas sempadan Shat al Arab, satu sempadan perairan yang seharusnya di kongsi bersama. Saya pergi bersama Dr. Mohamad Sulaiman yang merupakan seorang pensyarah di Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (kini Putra) dan exco ABIM. Waktu itu saya baru berumur 27 tahun, tetapi memegang beberapa jawatan dalam pergerakan mahasiswa dan belia Islam. Saya juga merupakan editor dan pengarang majalah bulanan politik dan sosial, Panji Masyarakat. Penerbitannya sebanyak 30,000 percetakan sebulan.

2. Iran ketika itu baru menghadapi revolusi Islam yang di bawa oleh Ayatullah Ruhullah Khomeini yang berjaya menumbangkan Regim Shah Pahlavi Iran. Saya memang banyak menulis tentang politik Iran dan sebagai aktivis mahasiswa, saya menyokong Iran dan tidak berapa minat dengan Saddam Hussein yang merupakan boneka Amerika. Lantaran itu saya pernah memberanikan diri pergi ke zon perang di Abadan bagi memberikan sokongan moral kepada tentera rakyat Iran dalam perjuangan membebaskan Iran dari serangan Saddam Hussein. Begitulah congak anak muda ketika itu, tak banyak putarbelitnya. Mana yang dilihat sebagai tidak betul kita tentang.

3. Kini selepas 28 tahun peristiwa itu berlalu sekali lagi saya di jemput ke Iran. Kali ini oleh sahabat saya Datuk Ibrahim Ali, yang merupakan ahli parlimen Pasir Mas dan Presiden PERKASA (Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Negara) untuk mengiringi rombongan mantan Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. mahathir mohamad ke Tehran untuk menerima ijazah kehormat perubatan dari Behesti Universiti dan Universiti Tehran. Kami berada di sana selama 5 hari. Bagaimana sambutan hebat rakyat Iran terhadap Tun bolehlah dibaca dalam blogspot sahabat saya kudakepang.

4. Tetapi yang yang menarik minat saya ialah bagaimana Iran menghadapi kehidupan hariannya selepas revolusi. Iran menghadapi pertambahan penduduk yang pesat 75 juta orang. Dengan segala tekanan dan sekatan dari Amerika Syarikat, Iran terus berjaya menghadapi kelangsungan hidup dengan tabah dan tekad. Memang ia tidak semudah seperti yang kita ceritakan. Kadar inflasinya tinggi, harga barang, harga rumah memang sukar dipercayai bagaimana rakyat Iran boleh mengharunginya. Semangat bekerja mereka begitu tinggi walaupun banyak memerlukan pembaikan dari segi mutu perkhidmatan.

5. Pendapat golongan peniaga Iran memang berbelah bagi terutama rakyatnya tidak mempunyai kuasa beli yang tinggi. Mereka mengharapkan keadaan ekonomi mereka akan berubah. Bank tempatan tidak mempunyai hubungan dengan institusi kewangan antarabangsa. Ini menyulitkan para pelabur untuk berurusan dengan Negara itu.

6. Namun dalam sekatan dan tekanan yang diterima telah terbina kekuatan dalaman untuk meneruskan kelangsungan hidup. Mereka terpaksa berkreatif mencipta seuatu yang mereka tidak miliki. Ini dapat dilihat dalam bidang karyawan dan kesenian.

7. Para karyawannya terus berkarya dengan mutu hasil karya yang tinggi. Ini dapat dilihat dari filem-filem yang dihasilkan sangat begitu berkesan dan banyak memenangi anugerah antarabangsa, walaupun para pelakonnya mempunyai batasan dari segi hubungan lelaki perempuan dan menutup aurat. Mereka kelihatan lebih ayu. Walaupun isi ceritanya mengenai kehidupan harian biasa, soal tukang kasut, sakit kronik, rumah tangga dan sebagainya, tetapi lakonan dan jalan ceritanya ada kelas!

8. Demikian juga dengan bidang tenaga nuclear, penyelidikan perubatan, dan yang lain yang berasaskan sains. Di saat hampir seluruh dunia ditimpa dengan kemelesetan ekonomi akibat ketergantungan dengan perdagangan dan dollar Amerika, Iran nampaknya kurang menerima kesan langsung akibat dari ekonominya yang berdikari.

9. Saya sempat berbincang dengan pegawai-pegawai Iran yang mengiringi kami tentang perubahan sosial semenjak zaman permulaan revolusi dahulu. Dari jawapan-jawapan yang diberikan saya amat tertarik bagaimana Iran mempunyai perlindungan terhadap kehidupan peribadi rakyatnya. Dirumah adalah hak dan syurga bagi rakyatnya dan tiada siapa boleh mengganggu. Tetapi di tempat awam mereka mempunyai kawalan sosial terhadap hubungan antara jantina. Ini amat menarik bagi saya yang jarang berlaku ditempat lain di Negara-negara yang berpegang kepada perlembagaan Islam.

Challenges of the Islamic Ummah in Facing Global Financial Crisis

SPEECH BY
TUN DR MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD
AT THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
IN TEHRAN, IRAN
ON 1 DECEMBER 2008
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1. The financial crisis is yet another threat facing the Islamic ummah. Whether we can avoid being dragged down by this crisis or we can minimize the effect will depend much on us. It will also depend on whether the ummah choose to act together or whether each Islamic nation will act individually.

2. In facing any challenge we need to know as much as possible the nature of the challenge and how it will affect us. But more importantly we need to know the causes of the financial crisis itself, and what made it possible.

3. The systems that we see collapsing i.e. the monetary and banking systems have been in place for centuries. Why is it that the collapse is happening now and not before, not when the systems were introduced or shortly after? And why has it happened to the richest and the most powerful countries of the world?

4. The problem with systems and ideas devised by Man is that they always undergo change over time. New ideas would be added to them. The new ideas may not be good for the original system or idea.

5. Thus money began with coins of metal of definite values. But this was replaced with paper money backed by gold. Then gold backing was dispensed with. The value of paper money is vaguely related to the strength of a country’s Government or its economy. Finally it was to be determined by the willingness of the market to accept the paper currency notes.

6. At this stage the currency became open to manipulation by market players. Currency traders find they could easily change the value of a currency in terms of exchange rates by massive selling and buying.

7. Besides making huge profits from currency trading, it was found that the countries whose currency has been devalued would experience political, economic and social turmoil. They and their people can become very poor.

8. The Western powers saw in this an opportunity to hegemonise and control the developing countries. The IMF and the World Bank were used for this purpose. By applying conditions to loans by the IMF/ World Bank, the countries in distress can be forced to surrender political and economic control to the Western powers. The impoverisation of these countries also enabled the Western banks and capitalists to buy up all the businesses of the debtor countries at very cheap prices as they all have been made bankrupt or nearly bankrupt by the devaluation of their currencies.

9. Currency trading is therefore a political weapon to bring all the countries of the world under the control of the Western powers. How far-reaching the control can be is being seen now. The foreign funds which had come in to buy shares and banks during the 1997 – 98 financial crisis in the East are now pulling out, taking their capital with them in order to escape the impending crises. They have done this, this time, in expectation of the world financial crisis affecting the economies of these countries adversely. The withdrawal of their capital will in fact cause the financial crisis to affect these countries sooner and more severely.

10. Currency trading is made possible because of fiat money i.e. money that is not linked to gold or other precious metals.

11. We all use paper money now. Our paper money is also not linked to gold. But we do not indulge in currency trading although we still have to buy foreign currency to pay for imports. To a certain extend the market determines the exchange rate of our money. This causes a certain degree of instability but not sufficient to impoverish us.

12. Still it is best if the exchange rates remained stable. That is why Malaysia decided that Government should fix the exchange rate of the Malaysian Ringgit. All the great experts predicted a collapse of the Malaysian economy because we did not abide by international rules or wisdom. But as you know we recovered faster than the other countries after fixing the exchange rate.

13. Islamic countries should study the possibility of fixing the exchange rates of their currencies as a measure to protect themselves during the current financial crisis.

14. However the fact remains that the monetary system of the world today is open to all kinds of manipulation. The world needs to have a new monetary system that would be less easily manipulated.

15. Perhaps the ummah might push for a return to the gold standard. Another solution could be the use of the gold dinar purely for trade payments. In any case the Islamic ummah can reduce the attacks against them by not using the American Dollars for trade payments, especially for oil.

16. The U.S. Dollar is not backed by reserves as are other currencies. Apart from that the Unites States is bankrupt as it has a debt of 14 trillion dollars and it can never repay this debt. This huge borrowing by the United States is because for many years it has trade and current account deficits which forces it to borrow 1 ½ billion dollars a day to sustain itself.

17. The only reason why the U.S. Dollar has any value at all is because it is used in trade payments. If the gold dinar or other currencies are used for trading then there would be no demand for U.S. Dollars. It would then become worthless and that would have consequences over the United States’ foreign policy.

18. This is something that the Muslim ummah can make use of in protecting themselves from the current financial crisis.

19. The other major cause of the present crisis is the banking system. For most people a bank is a convenient institution for depositing safely their money and withdrawing it when needed. We do not question how banks function. We assume that the money the banks lend us comes from the capital and the deposits with the banks.

20. The present banking system was created some 300 years ago by the Rothschild’s. In that system money is actually made out of thin air, out of nothing. No gold or other assets were necessary. Yet the money borrowed from them has accepted values. Each time money is lent it creates money for the banks.

21. In most countries central banks owned by Government produce coins and print money. The money in circulation is therefore under Government control. But money can also take the form of cheques and how much money issued as cheques is not controlled by the Government.

22. The United States Federal Reserve Bank is not owned by the Government. It is owned by twelve privately owned state reserve banks. Yet the Federal Reserve Bank can actually print and issue currency notes, without any backing. Certainly it can lend money to the Government in the form of cheques.

23. Other banks can borrow from the Federal Reserve Bank when short. But these banks can lend much more than the amount of capital and the deposits from its clients. In the American system the banks can lend 90% of the deposits by its clients. But such is the system in use that the banks can actually lend 10 times the amount that it holds in the form of deposits.

24. Whereas ordinary businesses can only sell what they have in stock, banks can apparently deal in ten times the money held by them.

25. The profits made by ordinary business is hardly ever more than 10% of the total value of the stock sold. But since banks earn a fix interest, and the interest comes from 10 times the money it actually holds, the earnings of the banks are far higher than from ordinary business.

26. Since banks can lend more than the money it has, the tendency is to increase the lending as much as possible.

27. The current crisis began with the sub-prime loans, i.e. loans at high interest to risky borrowers. The total amount of loans to such borrowers runs into hundreds of billions of dollars.

28. Housing loans usually require payment over 30 years. Banks calculate their earning from interest and principle over this period, without taking into account bad debts.

29. To avoid risks these loans were bundled up together with the good loans and insured with insurance companies such as AIG. The banks may also allow for a second mortgage to hedge against possible default.

30. Additionally the houses against which the loans were taken would belong to the bank until the total debt has been paid in 30 years time.

31. It seems that the banks would be making good profits even if the loans carry high risks. So would the insurance companies and the mortgage companies.

32. But when the risky loans defaulted by the millions resulting in debts of hundreds of billions which cannot be repaid, the banks were faced with huge numbers of non-performing loans. At the same time the collateralised houses cannot be sold as banks refused to lend money to buyers and the original banks could not recover any of the money lent through sales of the collaterals.

33. The insurance companies were also unable to pay the banks because the premium they received was far too small for the losses sustained by the banks.

34. The mortgage companies also faced the same problem as payments could not be paid by the borrowers.

35. The result is the spectacular collapse of the banks because most of the loans were not from deposit money but the ten times more than the deposits which banks were allowed to lend.

36. When banks lend much more than the money they have they were actually creating money out of nothing. If the loans are repaid then they would stand to gain far more than if they had limited themselves to their subscribed capital and deposits. However if the borrowers defaulted then their losses could exceed their capital and the deposits they had received. They would become bankrupt.

37. The sub-prime fiasco is due to the failure of the huge loans to high risk borrowers, to yield the interest and the principle expected. The banks concerned have lost far more than whatever capital assets or even deposits they had taken. Obviously they would not be able to return the deposits they had taken. They have by definition become bankrupt. When banks go bankrupt a whole lot of other businesses which depend on the banks for their operating capital will also go bankrupt. Hence, the bankruptcies of the three huge automotive companies of America.

38. The hedge funds are also affected as they depend on loans from the banks to leverage their investments.

39. Why did this crisis happen to the United States and not the other countries? Firstly, it is because the privately owned banks actually issue large amounts of money in America. It should be noted that the money issued need not be in the form of printed currency notes. Cheques can be made out in any amount and effectively the cheques are money. The lending and borrowing are no longer constrained by the amount of currency notes in circulation.

40. The second factor is the faith in the market regulating the value of money. Wall Street and the rich capitalists had persuaded the Government that it should not interfere with the market i.e. with banking and finance and the way money is used to make more money.

41. The market is about making money, making profits regardless of the consequence. When the banks created money out of thin air, when they lend this money to people quite incapable of repaying their loans, when the amounts exceed the capacities of the banks to recover in cash after the loans go bad, when the deals become so big as to be far bigger than money in circulation and total trade in goods and services, the Government did nothing. The Government did not even require accounts to be submitted for tax purposes. Though banks are required to submit accounts and pay taxes, this was easily avoided by having offshore subsidiaries in tax havens where they can borrow huge sums from legitimate banks and do anything they like with the money without having to show accounts to any Government agency.

42. The hedge funds took advantage of the lack of Government supervision to borrow as much as twenty times the amount invested in them. Using these loans the hedge funds made huge investments mainly in the money market, guaranteeing return to investors of 30% or more. This was believed to be possible because the returns would be from twenty times the amount invested in the hedge funds. So huge are the hedge funds that Central Banks cannot hope to protect national currencies by buying the currencies dumped into the market by hedge funds.

43. What can the Muslim ummah do to face the worldwide financial crisis? The first thing would be to continue with Government regulations of the banks and the financial institutions. The free market system should not be adopted, at least not in full. Instead, all financial transaction must be made transparent and subjected to proper regulation. The regulation should be judicious as over-regulation can stifle business, and affect economic growth.

44. The idea of a globalised, borderless world has been promoted by the rich countries especially the United States. Conceived by the rich, we can be sure that it was meant to benefit them.

45. Globalisation is something that cannot be avoided as the ease of communication and travel make isolation of countries impossible. Whether we like it or not whatever happens in other parts of the world will effect us. This involves not only finance and the economy but also political and social ideas.

46. There is more than one way to globalise. Muslims must study the manner and the effect of globalisation in order to devise a system of globalisation which will not destroy the Muslims and their religion.

47. In banking and finance, the principal causes of the current financial crises, there is no need to follow all practices coming out of the West.

48. The ummah can have their own banking and financial system. Already we have Islamic banking and Islamic insurance. They have not been abused the way the Western banking systems and insurance have been abused. It is necessary that the Muslim institutions such as these be scrutinied carefully in order to prevent them from causing the same problems.

49. Muslims must be active in proposing new systems, rules and regulations for banking and finance. We should even propose to go back to gold whether it is in the form of gold dinar or any coin or bullion.

50. To save our currency and economy from being affected by western banking practices and the U.S. Dollar, a new trading currency should be proposed to replace the U.S. Dollar. Such a trading currency should be tied to gold and used only in international trade.

51. This will help stabilise the value of national currencies as gold has intrinsic value in all countries. The local currencies can still be used but the value must be pegged to the international trading currency. There will be fluctuation as gold prices do fluctuate. But this would be minimal, much less than paper money.

52. Truly the Muslim ummah are in the best position to initiate and sustain the monetary and financial systems of the world. This is because they are in possession of more money than they can find use for. They are even in a position to insist that their oil be paid in the local currency or in any currency designated by them. Whatever currency they choose will become strong simply because there will be a demand for it just as today the U.S. Dollar has a value because there is a demand for it in the settlement of trade.

53. What is needed from the ummah is the will to insist on their wishes to be considered. I do not see all the Muslim counties in the world acting together. But it would be enough if a few would coordinate their efforts, would act together and agree to promote the interest of the ummah.

Penipuan HINDRAF Kepada Masyarakat Dunia

HINDRAF
Hindu Rights Action Force
No. 135-3-A, Jalan Toman 7,
Kemayan Square,
70200 Seremban,
Negeri SembilanMalaysia.
Tel : 06-7672995/6Fax: 06-7672997
Email waytha@hotmail. com
15.11.2007


The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown
Prime Minister of the United Kindom10 Downing Street,
Fax: +442079250918London,
URGENTSW1A 2AA

Dear Sirs,

RE: 1. COMMONWEALTH ETHNIC INDIAN PEACE LOVING SUBJECTS IN MALAYSIA PERSECUTED BY GOVERNMENT BACKED ISLAMIC EXTREMIST VIOLENT ARMED TERRORIST WHO LAUNCHED A PRE DAWN VIOLENT ARMED ATTACK AND DESTROYED THE KG JAWA MARIAMAN HINDU TEMPLE AT 4.00 A.M THIS MORNING (15.11.2007) .

2. APPEAL FOR U.K TO MOVE EMERGENCY U.N RESOLUTION CONDEMNING “ETHNIC CLEANSING” IN MALAYSIA.

3. APPEAL TO REFER MALAYSIA TO THE WORLD COURT AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR CRIMES AGAINST IT’S OWN ETHNIC MINORITY INDIANS.

We refer to the above critical matters in Malaysia but which generally gets the least attention locally even by the Opposition parties, NGO’s, the Malaysian Human Rights Commission and the media for this community is generally regarded as politically insignificant, do not draw local or international funding and are deemed not pressworthy. To the contrary the Malaysian government has successfully projected itself to the world as a modern Islamic thinking country which is not true.

The ethnic minority Indians in Malaysia were brought in to Malaysia by the British some 200 over years ago. Since independence in 1957 the Malaysian Indians have been permanently colonialised by the Islamic fundamentalist and Malay chauvinists UMNO led Malaysian government.

Among the recent atrocities committed by this government are as follows:-

1.100 over Indians were slashed and killed by the UMNO controlled Malaysian government in the Kampung Medan mini genocide. Despite numerous appeals, the Malaysian Human Rights Commission has refused to hold a Public Inquiry. The UMNO controlled Malaysian courts struck off a victim’s public interest civil suit for a Public Inquiry to be held without even the said UMNO controlled government having to file in their defence. The UMNO controlled Attorney General and the Inspector General of Police refused to investigate and / or initiate an inquest into the death of at least six Indians in this tragedy despite.

2. Every week one person at average is killed in a shot to kill policy and in every 2 weeks one person is killed in police custody. About 60% of these victims are Indians though they form only 8% of the Malaysian population.

3. In every three weeks one Hindu temple is demolished in Malaysia. The latest being the demolishment of the Mariaman temple in Padang Jawa, Shah Alam, Selangor early this morning (15.11.2007) and the next being the (Mutaiya) Hindu temple in Sungai Petani scheduled for the 29.11.2007.

A violent armed pre down attack at 4.00a.m this morning was launched by the UMNO controlled Malaysian government backed by about 600 police, riot police, Islamic extremist and armed terrorists which completely destroyed this temple.

In an attack two weeks ago, uniformed police, riot police and city Council officers hurled rocks and attacked unarmed Hindu devotees with knives, sticks and iron rods.

At least 20 Hindu devotees were seriously injured and 19 arrested including 4 of their United Kingdom trained lawyers in direct violation of Article 5 (Right to life) Article 8 (Equality) Article 11 (Freedom of Religion) Section 295 (defiling a place of worship), Section 296 (disturbing a religious assembly), 298A(causing racial disharmony) and Section 441(criminal trespass) of the Malaysian Penal Code.

These authorities are plagued by an above the law mindset and in fact liberally take the law into their own hands. These atrocities however does not happen to almost all Islamic places of worship. Please visit www.policewatchmalaysia.com for further and better particulars.

4. State sponsored direct discrimination against the Indians in Public University intakes, Indian (Tamil) Schools, skills training institutes, civil service and private sector job opportunities, business and license opportunities and in almost all other aspects of daily life.

Despite our hundreds of letters, appeals and pleas to the Malaysian King and Sultans, the Prime Minister, Attorney General, Inspector General of Police, Ministers, Chief Ministers and the latest being our letters to the Prime Minister dated 29.10.2007 and 30.10.2007 and to the Attorney General dated 1.11.2007 the Malaysian authorities are only proceeding with greater ferocity and with impunity with very little regard for the Federal Constitution and laws of Malaysia. So please help us.

CONCLUSION

We fear that this peace loving Indian community of Tamil origin having been pushed to the corner and the persecution getting worse by the day may be forced to into terrorism in a matter of time as what has happened to the Sri Lankan Tamils.

APPEAL

On our part we are committed to a peaceful and lawful struggle and pray and appeal that the Government of the United Kingdom:-

1. Moves an emergency United Nations resolution condemning these state sponsored atrocities and persecutions of Malaysian Indians in Malaysia.

2. Refers Malaysia to the World Court and the International Criminal Court for Crimes against it’s own ethnic minority Indians.

Thank You,

Yours Faithfully
P.Uthayakumar

Legal Adviser

PUISI: PAHLAWAN LAMA

Aku ingin menulis
Kisah galur pahlawan lama
Gemilang bintang masyhurnya
Bergenang kasih jelata
Berwarna langkahnya.

Jalannya hampir ke penghujung
Badan penuh calar luka
Kesan juang di medan perang
Memikul beban tak tertanggung
Keris ditangan tak pernah tersarung.

Aku ingin menulis
Pahlawan mashyur keluar gelanggang
Masih berpencak di medan perang
Bergetar tangan yang lemah
Suara lantang dari yang gagah.

Akan ku rakam nafas keluhmu,
Risau malam nan panjang
Entah esok masih ada
Bangsa dirayu pedagang berwang
Menawar nilai sebuah takhta
kan melebur sebuah bangsa.

Ahh, pahlawanku terus gelisah,
Bangsa nan lemah bertempur sesama
Atas garis pilihan warna
Merebut tongkat kesaktian
kelabu membeda
Mana teman mana haruan.

Aku pasti menulis
Tentang pahlawan itu
Berapa kali khilaf langkahnya
Dalam memilih gadingan
Yang megukir sejarah sampingan
Dari laluan sebuah bangsa.

Kan ku terus menulis,
Bangsaku di simpang penentuan
Untuk hidup atau kehilangan
Yang asyik dengan yang asyik
Terasing dalam kepuknya
Itu pun jika ada rasa ‘Melayu’nya.

Anakku,
Bertabur seni tarimu
Gendang siapa di palu
Sehingga terlena
Terjaga dalam keasingan siang.

Ku paksakan terus menulis,
Walau Pahlawan lama kan pulang
Keris terbang mencari tuan.

Hembuskan tunas bangsa keTuhanan
Bangunkan dari dengkur tidur panjang
Dayungkan bahtera ke laut gelombang
Masyhurkan di segala medan
Gempitakan dipersada alam.




Fuad Hassan
Kuala Lumpur