Friends and supporters of detained Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar has warned that the authorities would be faced with street demonstrations should the latter not be given proper medical attention.
“If anything happens to Uthayakumar, the Malaysian Indians won’t keep quiet. We will fight (for his treatment),” Kapar MP S Manikavasagam told a press conference in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur today.
For a start, Manikavasagam said that should Uthayakumar not be given any proper treatment within a week, “hundreds” of police reports against the authorities would be lodged on Feb 28.
Uthayakumar, a diabetic, has broken several toes on his left foot on Jan 31 while in the Kamunting Detention Camp.
According to his fiancee S Indra Devi, the swelling is worsening by the day and she fears that he may eventually have to amputate his foot.
“His ankle and feet is getting darker and the swelling is now an inch thicker than when he was in court (on Feb 3),” said Indra Devi, who visited Uthayakumar in Kamunting on Feb 14.
Authorities trying to ‘finish off’ Uthaya
She expressed disappointment that despite having visited the Kuala Lumpur and Taiping general hospital, he was not admitted and given proper treatment for dubious reasons.
“In the Kuala Lumpur general hospital, the doctor claimed he could not be admitted because there were no available beds,” she said.
While in the Taiping general hospital, Indra Devi claims that doctors said that Uthayakumar’s condition will “heal by itself” and he would have to return for check-ups in three weeks.
Indra Devi urged the authorities to allow Uthayakumar to seek treatment in a private hospital because she believed that the public hospitals were easily pressured by the police.
Another speaker at the press conference, Teluk Intan MP M Manogaran accused the authorities of knowingly endangering Uthayakumar’s health.
He claimed that Kamunting Detention Camp authorities were including excessive sugar in Uthayakumar’s meals, despite knowing that the latter was diabetic.
“The refusal of the police and prison authorities to provide him proper treatment, and not removing sugar from his diet, shows that the authorities are trying to finish him off in detention,” said Manogaran.
“If anything happens to Uthayakumar, the Malaysian Indians won’t keep quiet. We will fight (for his treatment),” Kapar MP S Manikavasagam told a press conference in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur today.
For a start, Manikavasagam said that should Uthayakumar not be given any proper treatment within a week, “hundreds” of police reports against the authorities would be lodged on Feb 28.
Uthayakumar, a diabetic, has broken several toes on his left foot on Jan 31 while in the Kamunting Detention Camp.
According to his fiancee S Indra Devi, the swelling is worsening by the day and she fears that he may eventually have to amputate his foot.
“His ankle and feet is getting darker and the swelling is now an inch thicker than when he was in court (on Feb 3),” said Indra Devi, who visited Uthayakumar in Kamunting on Feb 14.
Authorities trying to ‘finish off’ Uthaya
She expressed disappointment that despite having visited the Kuala Lumpur and Taiping general hospital, he was not admitted and given proper treatment for dubious reasons.
“In the Kuala Lumpur general hospital, the doctor claimed he could not be admitted because there were no available beds,” she said.
While in the Taiping general hospital, Indra Devi claims that doctors said that Uthayakumar’s condition will “heal by itself” and he would have to return for check-ups in three weeks.
Indra Devi urged the authorities to allow Uthayakumar to seek treatment in a private hospital because she believed that the public hospitals were easily pressured by the police.
Another speaker at the press conference, Teluk Intan MP M Manogaran accused the authorities of knowingly endangering Uthayakumar’s health.
He claimed that Kamunting Detention Camp authorities were including excessive sugar in Uthayakumar’s meals, despite knowing that the latter was diabetic.
“The refusal of the police and prison authorities to provide him proper treatment, and not removing sugar from his diet, shows that the authorities are trying to finish him off in detention,” said Manogaran.
21/02/09
This is indeed barbaric! Further, there have been many cases of detainees who have died in police cells as reported by Amnesty International Report, where 1,531 deaths in custody during imprisonment from 2003 to 2007 in Malaysia (Amnesty International; http://www.amnesty.de/kurzinfo/2008/8/malaysia). Most of the deaths are amongst “the Indian community, small criminals and beggars”.
ReplyDeleteMIC, should be ashamed, for allowing the hatred and discrimination towards the Indian community to go on. But also, please keep in mind that I have observed Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrant workers stiiring up hatred amidst the Malay communities to bear such hatred, especially using Islam.
They must have been trying to break his will power and when they couldn't, destroy him physically. We must save him, and others, and not just by the Indian communities, but by all fair, decent and just Malaysians. I notice that the ptition to the UN is only for the Islamist detaiinee; please form a new petition, by all Malaysian true human rights NGOs, for Uthaya and all ISA detainees, because there's no point writing to Umno leaders including the PM, who are the main culprit of this fascist regime, that has contributed towards Uthaya and all ISA's illegal detention anyway. The Bar Council, would they bother to organize demonstartion, I wonder? They should, especially four of the Hindraf detainees are lawyers!
Katharina Sri (former: Noor Aza Othman)
Germany.
this is what Islam is all about ?
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