HINDRAF
Hindu Rights Action Force | |
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Malay name | Barisan Bertindak Hak-Hak Hindu باريسن برتيندق حق-حق هيندو |
Chinese name | 興都維權行動陣綫 兴都维权行动阵线 Xīngdū wéiquán xíngdòng zhènxiàn |
Tamil name | இந்து உரிமைகள் போராட்டக் குழு Intu urimaikaḷ pōrāṭṭak kuḻu |
Abbreviation | HINDRAF |
Leadership | Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy Uthayakumar Ponnusamy Manoharan Malayaram Vasantha Kumar Krishnan Ganabatirau Veraman |
Founded | 19 July 2009 |
Legalised | 8 March 2013 |
Dissolved | 15 July 2019[1] |
Membership | Coalition of Hindu NGOs |
Ideology | Hindu rights Indian interests Human rights |
Political position | Right-wing[2] |
Religion | Hinduism |
National affiliation | Pakatan Harapan (Strategic partner) |
International affiliation | Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh[3] |
Colours | Orange and white |
Slogan | Kuasa Rakyat / People's Power / Makkal Sakti (மக்கள் சக்தி) |
Anthem | N/A |
Dewan Negara: | 0 / 70
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Dewan Rakyat: | 0 / 222
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Dewan Undangan Negeri: | 0 / 587
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Website | |
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Hindu Rights Action Force, better known by its acronym HINDRAF (Malay: Barisan Bertindak Hak-Hak Hindu, Tamil: இந்து உரிமைகள் போராட்டக் குழு, romanized: Intu Urimaikaḷ Pōrāṭṭak Kuḻu); is a Hindu-activism non-governmental organisation (NGO) with its renowned slogan of Kuasa Rakyat or Makkal Sakti (மக்கள் சக்தி) translated as People's Power. This organisation began as a coalition of 30 Hindu NGOs committed to the preservation of Hindu community rights and heritage in a multiracial Malaysia.[4][5]
HINDRAF has had a major impact on the political landscape of Malaysia by staging the infamous 2007 HINDRAF rally. Following an enormous rally organised by HINDRAF in November 2007, several prominent members of the organisation were arrested, some on charges of sedition. The charges were dismissed by the courts. Five people were arrested and detained without trial under the Internal Security Act (ISA).[6] Toward the end of the 2000s, the group developed a broader political program to preserve and to push for equal rights and opportunities for the minority Indians. It has been successful in continuing to focus attention on the racist aspects of Malaysian Government policies.[7]
Background[]
Between April to May 2006, several legal Hindu temples were demolished by city hall authorities in Malaysia.[8] On 21 April 2006, the Malaimel Sri Selva Kaliamman Temple in Kuala Lumpur was reduced to rubble. The city hall sent in bulldozers.[9]
The Hindu Rights Action Force or HINDRAF, a coalition of several NGOs have protested these demolitions by lodging complaints with the Prime Minister of Malaysia but have received no response.[10] Many Hindu advocacy groups have protested what they allege is a systematic plan of temple cleansing in Malaysia. The official reason given by the Malaysian government has been that the temples were built illegally. However, several of the temples are centuries old.[10] According to a lawyer for HINDRAF, a Hindu temple is demolished in Malaysia every three weeks.[11]
Events[]
Arrests in October 2007[]
On 30 October, four HINDRAF Group members, M. Manoharan, P. Uthayakumar, P. Waytha Moorthy and V. Ganabathirau, were arrested and detained for taking part in the 2007 HINDRAF demonstration against the demolition of a Hindu shrine in Kuala Lumpur.[12] However, they were acquitted due to a lack of evidence of incitement and sedition.
Human rights forum[]
A series of peaceful weekend forums were organised throughout Malaysia to increase the awareness of Hindu human rights by HINDRAF. A previous forum held near central Kuala Lumpur was disrupted by the Royal Malaysian Police, according to HINDRAF.[13] Subsequently, HINDRAF appealed directly to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) in an attempt to ensure future forums went on peacefully.[14]
Arrests in November[]
On 23 November 2007, three HINDRAF members, P. Uthayakumar, P. Waytha Moorthy, and V. Ganabathirau, were arrested and charged under the Sedition Act.[15][16] However, in a series of repeated arrests and releases, the courts could not prove that they had incited racial hatred. The only evidence against them were unreliable translations of their Tamil speeches into Bahasa Malaysia presented by the Attorney-General's Chambers, which the courts deemed as unverifiable. Eventually, they were all acquitted due to a shaky prosecution and the lack of evidence of any wrongdoing or crime.[17][18]
Lawsuit, petition and rally[]
On 31 August 2007, the 50th anniversary of Malaysia's Independence, P. Waytha Moorthy, a HINDRAF lawyer filed a class action suit against the Government of the United Kingdom at the Royal Courts of Justice in London for US$4 trillion (US$1 million for every Malaysian Indian) for "withdrawing after granting independence and leaving us (Indians) unprotected and at the mercy of a majority Malay-Muslim government that has violated our rights as minority Indians" as the negligence of the supposedly independent Reid Commission responsible for drafting the Constitution of the Federation Malaya.[19] as guaranteed in the Federal Constitution when independence was granted.[20]
The lawsuit is not only claiming 4 trillion British Pounds as compensation, it is also seeking to strike out Article 153 of the Malaysian Constitution which acknowledges Malay Supremacy and for the court to declare that Malaysia is a secular state and not an Islamic state[21] as declared by former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad who is Malay of Indian-Muslim descent.[22][23]
As the group, which represents mainly working class Malaysian Indians, could not afford the legal fees required, a petition was circulated with 100,000 signatures to be presented to Queen Elizabeth II to appoint a Queen's Counsel to argue the case.[20] The purpose of the rally was to hand over a 100,000 signature memorandum to the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
HINDRAF organised the rally on 25 November 2007 to submit the petition at the British High Commission. Malaysian police refused to grant a permit for the rally,[24] and set up roadblocks in Klang Valley along roads leading up to the rally to screen motorists entering the city centre and identify "troublemakers".[25] They also advised the public not to participate in the rally,[26] and arrested three HINDRAF leaders.[27] Many shops around Kuala Lumpur including Suria KLCC were closed on that day for fear of trouble from the rally.
One day before the rally, police arrested three HINDRAF lawyers; Uthayakumar, Waytha Moorthy and Ganabathirau on sedition charges. Uthayakumar and Ganabathirau posted bail of 800 Malaysian ringgits each, but Waytha Moorthy refused bail as a sign of protest.[28][29][30]
The police roadblocks began the week before the rally to create massive traffic jams across the city and the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.[31] Malaysian Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) pointed out that this high-handed act by the police was unnecessary as it caused major inconvenience to everyone.[32]
On the morning of the rally, an estimated twenty thousand people gathered near the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, carrying life-size portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Mahatma Gandhi, to indicate the nonviolent nature of their protest. Five thousand members riot police dispatched to the scene used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowds. 136 people were arrested.[20][33]
Al-Jazeera's coverage of the event[34] showed police officers using tear gas to disperse the protesters. A few hundred protesters and three police officers were injured.[35][18]
The protest at the Batu Caves resulted in minor property damages,[36] although the Hindu temple itself was not damaged.[37]
HINDRAF later claimed to have faxed the petition to the British High Commission staff. However, as of 28 November, the British Envoy had not yet received any petition from the HINDRAF, though they did say they had received some unspecified information by fax.[38]
Response from the government[]
The Barisan Nasional (BN) government of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had attempted to link terrorism with the HINDRAF rally via the media.[18][39]
As of 11 December 2007, HINDRAF leaders were all acquitted by the judicial courts due to a lack of evidence and a flimsy prosecution case against their allegations. To contain the movement while not being able to charge them according to valid evidence-based legal processes, on 12 December 2007 Abdullah Badawi personally signed the detention letters to imprison the HINDRAF leaders under the ISA for two years. Their detention terms are subject to infinite renewal. The reason given for this arrest was that the HINDRAF leadership has had links with international terrorist organisations such as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)[citation needed] and also organisations like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh[citation needed] in India. The invocation of the ISA to capture the HINDRAF leaders was seen as a strategic move by the BN's United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) government to arrest the momentum generated by HINDRAF.[citation needed]
The UMNO-led Government has threatened the Malaysian Indian community[citation needed] with sweeping arrests under the Emergency Act and ISA (similar to Operasi Lalang of the 1987, which targeted anti-BN elements in Malaysia, mostly of Malaysian Chinese extraction).[citation needed] This hard-line approach is also softened by the MIC reconciliatory approach to blunt HINDRAF's thrust as the champion of the Malaysian Indian community.[citation needed]
Response to the detentions[]
Even as prime minister Abdullah Badawi started threatening to use the ISA against the HINDRAF leaders for bringing Malaysia's racist policies out into the open for all to see, foreign news outlets criticised Abdullah Badawi's lack of initiative to tackle the root cause of the problem.[40][41] The detention without trial of the HINDRAF leaders drew negative comments in the foreign press about Abdullah Badawi's administration and the poor way the BN government was handling the issue.[42][43]
The DAP vowed to challenge the detention of the HINDRAF leaders.[44] Despite the arrests, the opposition and most of the NGOs were unfazed and continued to challenge UMNO's deconstruction of democracy in Malaysia. The United States also voiced their disapproval of this latest round of ISA arrests.[45]
The official HINDRAF website at http://www.policewatchmalaysia.com has been allowed by Malaysian ISPs again, after a brief ban. However, this site is constantly plagued by faults and downtime. In response to the ban, sites such as http://www.hindraf.org, http://www.myhindraf.com were spawned to maintain awareness of this movement, in addition to the many blogs available. The movement started in Malaysia, has grown global and now has following in UK, Australia, Canada and USA.
There have also been candlelight vigils at Hindu temples throughout Malaysia to protest the detention of five leaders of the HINDRAF. This was condemned by Malaysian minister Samy Vellu.[46]
War of the Roses[]
A calm 'Rose to the PM' campaign was mooted to present a humanistic element in HINDRAF's campaign. The central focus of this campaign was the delivery of a rose, as a symbol of love and compassion, to the Prime Minister at the Parliament by Vwaishnavi Wathya Moorthy. This symbolic act was planned on 16 February 2008, but the parliament was dissolved for the general elections on 13 February 2008.
In a dramatic show of force instead, the police fired teargas and targeted water cannon at several hundred ethnic Tamils gather peacefully at the centre of Kuala Lumpur.[47] More than 200 people were detained by the authorities after being attacked by the police near the site of an Indian temple.[48][49]
The impact of HINDRAF on GE12[]
The 2008 Malaysian general election (GE12) showed how HINDRAF had become one of the triggers for a major change in the course of the country. The general dissatisfaction with the regime ruled by UMNO had been brewing for some years and the HINDRAF Rally of 25 November caused what has been called a political tsunami inclined to opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in Malaysian politics then.
The ruling UMNO-led government lost its two-thirds majority in Parliament and came close to getting just over half the seats in Parliament from the west Malaysia. HINDRAF, which had barely existed for three years, and was barely known until August 2007, suddenly caught the mood of a large proportion of Malaysians, not only Indians and Hindus but the Chinese and a sizeable section of the Malays as well, causing a major upset in the process.
Declared illegal and banned[]
After several warnings by the Malaysian government HINDRAF was officially banned on 15 October 2008.[50][51] This was confirmed by the Malaysian Home Minister, Syed Hamid Albar.[52]
In a statement issued by the ministry, Syed Hamid said the decision to declare HINDRAF an illegal organisation was made following the ministry being satisfied with facts and evidence that showed HINDRAF had and was being used for unlawful purposes and posed a threat to public order and morality. "Based on powers vested under Section 5 (1) of the Societies Act, HINDRAF from today is declared an illegal organisation," he said. He said the order was being made as a result of monitoring and investigation of the organisation's activities, since its inception, by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) and the Home Ministry.[53]
More detentions by the government[]
On 23 October 2008, a group comprising eight men, three women, and a child, were arrested by the police after they tried to hand a memorandum to the Prime Minister's office. It called for the release of the five HNDRAF leaders from detention under the ISA.[54][55] The opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim had even condemned the brutality of the police.[56] It was discovered that HINDRAF leader P.Waythamoorthy's six-year-old daughter was amongst the people arrested.[57]
On 27 February 2011, HINDRAF organised a demonstration in Kuala Lumpur protesting the government's decision to include the Malay language novel Interlok in the school curriculum as compulsory reading for the Malay literature subject for students in secondary 5. HINDRAF alleges that Interlok contains disparaging remarks against Malaysian Indians and is deemed racist. The police arrested 109 people for allegedly taking part in an illegal demonstration.[58]
The Malaysia's new Prime Minister Najib Razak warned against the demonstrators that the BN government would invoke the ISA if needs arise and had further criticised the demonstrators, after he made a promise that he would listen to everyone even if they have unpleasant words to say.[56]
Legality allowance and MoU with BN for GE13[]
On 26 January 2013 the ban imposed on HINDRAF was impromtu lifted by the Malaysian Home Ministry and later on 8 March 2013 RoS had approved the registration of this minority rights group.[59][60] On 18 April 2013, just weeks before the 2013 Malaysian general election (GE13), the factions of HINDRAF led by P. Waythamoorthy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Barisan Nasional (BN) whereby they would work together to uplift displaced estate workers, resolve the issue of stateless persons and provide business opportunities thus bringing poor Indians into the mainstream of the country's development.[61][62] Wathya Moorthy was appointed as Senator and deputy minister the Prime Minister's Department of BN government once they were against.[63] Others would spread out to parties within the federal opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR), mostly to DAP or PKR.[60] Waytha Moorthy however resigned from all the positions he held for eight months on 8 February 2014, after BN government failure and breach of trust to reform and uplift the Malaysian Indian community.[64][65]
Collaboration of PH in GE14[]
In 2018, HINDRAF was officially accepted as strategic partner of Pakatan Harapan (PH) in collaboration to face the 2018 Malaysian general election (GE14).[66] PH which successfully topple BN to be the new government and had made Waytha Moorthy a Senator and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of National Unity and Social Wellbeing by new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed.[67][68] He later founded Malaysian Advancement Party (MAP), the HINDRAF-linked new party to be approved by RoS.[69][70]
Deregistration[]
In spite of PH was still the ruling government and not yet fallen in the 2020 Malaysian political crisis, RoS had on 15 July 2019 decided to dissolve HINDRAF after its central committee leadership had failed to hold meetings for at least eight times a year as required under the law.[1] The RoS director-general then sent a letter to HINDRAF on 30 September 2019, informing them that their deregistration. The Ministry of Home Affairs under Muhyiddin Yassin subsequently upheld the deregistration on 8 August 2020. HINDRAF is seeking a legal declaration that the two decisions to deregister the organisation are illegal and thus null and void, as well as an order to temporarily suspend the decisions pending disposal of the judicial review application.[71][72]
See also[]
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- 2007 HINDRAF rally
- P. Waytha Moorthy – Human Rights Lawyer and Former Chairperson of HINDRAF
- Malaysian Advancement Party (MAP)
- Human Rights Party Malaysia (HRP)
- Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party (MMSP)
- Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia – Article 153 of the Constitution of Federal Malaysia
- History of Malaysia – History of Malaysia before and after Independence
- Hinduism in Malaysia – Status of Hinduism in Malaysia
- Malaysian Tamils
Notes[]
- Jawan, Jayum A. (2003). Malaysian Politics & Government, p. 43. Karisma Publications. ISBN 983-195-037-2
- Amnesty International (2005). Amnesty International Report 2006: The State of the World's Human Rights. Amnesty International. ISBN 0-86210-369-X.
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External links[]
- HINDRAF on Facebook
- Official website
- HINDRAF on Blogger
- HINDRAF Support Group on Facebook
- Hindu Rights Party, Malaysia (in English)
- 2009 establishments in Malaysia
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- Hindu nationalists
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- Discrimination in Malaysia
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