December 12, 2007...11:43 pm
Speechless
My Gchat, Yahoo, and phone has been going off the hook. Malaysiakini.com is down. The Star isn’t. How ironic.
Ladies and gents,
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/12/13/nation/20071213144228&sec=nation
Five Hindraf leaders detained under ISA (updated)
PETALING JAYA: Police said they have detained all five leaders of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) under Section 8 (1) of the Internal Security Act.
The five are P. Uthayakumar, M. Manoharan, R. Kenghadharan, V. Ganabatirau and T. Vasanthakumar. They were picked up at various locations in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Seremban.
They will be detained for two years, Inspector-General Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said in a statement.
On Wednesday Uthayakumar was released on police bail after having been arrested on Tuesday for a second sedition charge.
He was among three Hindraf leaders who were charged at the Klang Sessions Court on Nov 23 for allegedly making speeches to incite hatred at a gathering in Batang Berjuntai, Selangor, on Nov 16.
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Thursday December 13, 2007
Five Hindraf leaders detained under ISA (2nd update)
PETALING JAYA: Five Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leaders have been arrested and detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
The five are P. Uthayakumar, M. Manoharan, R. Kenghadharan, V. Ganabatirau and T. Vasanthakumar. They were picked up at various locations in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Seremban.
It is learnt they were detained under Section 8 (1) of the ISA after Internal Security Minister Datuk Seri Abdulah Ahmad Badawi signed their detention order.
Their detention is for two years.
Uthayakumar and two others namely Ganabatirau and P. Waythamoorthy were charged under the Sedition Act on Nov 23 in Klang 23 for allegedly making speeches to incite hatred at a gathering in Batang Berjuntai, Selangor, on Nov 16. Waythamoorthy is currently overseas.
Under Section 73 (1) of the ISA, the police can detain any individual for up to 60 days without a warrant, trial and without access to legal counsel if he was suspected to have “acted or is about to act or is likely to act in any manner prejudicial to the security of Malaysia or any part thereof or to maintenance of essential services therein or to the economic life thereof.”
After 60 days, the Minister of Home Affairs can extend the period of detention without trial for up to two years, without submitting any evidence for review by the courts, by issuing a detention order, which is renewable indefinitely.
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To their families and friends and to all Malaysians, it is indeed a dark day when a law like the ISA is used on our Malaysian brothers. From the bottom of my heart, I weep for all of you and for this country. I was hoping in every way possible, that this, would not happen.
I am sorry.
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Nat has the story .
I echo his anger and his sadness, and the song that popped out in iTunes as the messages were pouring in! Ah, how I love little ironies:
THE END OF THE WORLD
Skeeter Davis - 1964
Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
‘Cause you don’t love me any more
Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love
I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything’s the same as it was
I can’t understand, no, I can’t understand
How life goes on the way it does
Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye
Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye
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I am so very, very, very, very, sad.
6 Comments
December 13, 2007 at 12:12 am
Finally…
Finally has this government strike its iron fist on its people.
Finally have seen that this government has no respect for our rights as a democratic free citizens.
Clearly this government sees itself above its ’subjects’, we are slaves unto them. They are the menacing monster overlooking this city, the town folks living in perpetual fear.
How should this end? My God, I mourn for Uthaya and his family, though I do not support his racial-centric approach, I shall reiterate that, neither would I wish upon my own enemy a cruelty that I would not upon myself.
I mourn even more for Malaysians, sipping teh tarik and nibbling roti canai, or bragging at kopitiam, without tad a regard or knowledge of this soft-authoritianism perpetuating its insidious grip on each of us!
December 13, 2007 at 12:24 am
I do too Danyel. To me, this feels like the beginning of the end. But it could be the end of Abdullah’s administration, or it could be the end of this democracy. I don’t know. It’s up to us to choose. Everyone is froclicking in their malls right now. Not a care in the world. La la la la. I don’t support Uthaya either, but Sedition? ISA? Please la. No one deserves this. No human being. Okay, maybe Khairy.
December 13, 2007 at 1:04 am
no mourning.
we fight fight fight!!
December 13, 2007 at 3:53 am
Such questions would we ask ourselves, why why is everybody not care? Don’t they know that it could very well be the end of theirs as well?
i wish, i can rise now, and spit my coffee-tainted saliva on his Mr Nice face.
December 13, 2007 at 8:28 am
Hi Meesh…..I’m duplicating my Facebook request here. Can meet ah? My poor battered soul is crying for company as I try to make sense of what to do now and where to go……Sorry if I sound drama but I display my emotions publicly only when it really matters.
December 13, 2007 at 12:49 pm
anwar for prime minister we all must work with him in the future ,long live malaysia long live all race of malaysia
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