Laws were made to deny this community jobs and any economic benefits which were exclusively reserved for Muslims.
Malaysia had formerly been under the Hindu rule of the Sri Vijay Empire until the 14th century, when the rule of the Muslim Mughals took over, only to be subsequently conquered by the British.
The Muslim majority in Malaysia has been regularly demolishing Hindu temples in order to make the lives of the Hindu minority miserable and deny them the right to freedom of worship.
Over 70 temples have thus far been demolished, including the destruction a few weeks ago of the over 100- years old MAHA MARIAMAN temple at Pendang Java.
The Malaysian government has been violating Hindu human and religious rights as accorded under article 2 of the United Nations charter of universal human rights.
According to an opposition leader, M. Kulasgaran: “Indians have been treated as third class citizens and the community has been suffering in silence for decades”.
Having suffered continuous persecution, the Hindu Rights Action Force was formed to raise the voice of the persecuted minority against the human injustice meted out to them.
On 25 November 2007 a peaceful protest was participated in by over 100,000 persons, as claimed by the Hindu Rights Action Group, carrying Malaysian and white flags to the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, where a petition demanding compensation for bringing Hindus as indentured labour and forgoing to secure their minority rights at the time of granting independence was handed in.
To stop the protesters the Malaysian authorities had fired tear-gas and water cannons and beat them with batons.
They had arrested a large number of demonstrators, but then released them after the international media published the atrocities.
But the authorities have now again arrested the leader of the protest, Sri Ganpathy Rao. Hindu Council UK (HCUK) severely condemns the inhuman treatment of the Hindu minority by the Malaysian government and demands:
That all leaders of the Hindu Rights Action Force should be released without charge and adequate compensation be paid to the persons suffered by the above-mentioned atrocities.
That the international community should urgently intervene and help Hindus in securing their legitimate human and civil rights.
That the UK government should take active steps to restore equal minority rights and compensate the indentured Hindu labour whose rights had not been secured by it at the time of the independence of Malaysia.
Suraj Sehgal
Director for Defence and Security
Hindu Council UK
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