Kuala Lumpur, November 24
The ethnic Indians in Malaysia today rejected Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi’s appeal not to go ahead with their planned protest tomorrow which has been declared “illegal” by the government.
The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), an influential non-governmental group of ethnic Indians, said it will go ahead with its gathering aimed at airing their economic grievances to the British Government and asked the authorities to allow them to hand over a
petition to the UK High Commission here.
Authorities yesterday arrested and charged three ethnic Indians with sedition after the government declared the rally “illegal”.
The rally is meant to support a $ 4 trillion lawsuit filed by the Hindraf in London in August, demanding that Britain compensate Malaysian Indians for bringing their ancestors here as “indentured labourers” and exploiting them.
— PTI
