It is a clever plot to keep the non Malays shackled to their subservient and submissive position to maintain the indefensible dominance of the Malays

First, the British adopted the conventional method of structuring the population Federation of Malay according to its broad racial groupings as Malays, Chinese and Indian and Others.

The Reid Commission provided temporary advantage to the Malays to equalise their economic standing in the community. The Malays wanted this provision of temporary advantage to become permanently entrenched and this is how they went about it cleverly.

First the Malays reinforced the capsulation of Malaysians into their respective racial boundary as Indians, Chinese and Malays. The state recognised individuals not as individuals but as members of racial grouping.

Secondly a system was reinforced to strengthen and fortify these ethnic boundaries (non-Malay communities).

The ethnic communities were tricked to elect their national leaders who will be compliant to the wishes of the domineering Malays.

The Ethnic leaders were bribed with enormous wealth and left unchecked, on condition these ethnic leaders called on the tribal loyalty of the racial grouping to maintain peaceful compliance to the wishes of the Malays for permanency of their privileged unconstitutional status beyond the expiry of the period that was envisaged by the Reid Commission.

The ethnic leaders were happy to assist the Malays to suppress the rights of their non Malay communities, so long as these ethnic leaders continued to receive the state largess, titles, recognition, The masses were fooled into a state of apathy by distraction to cultural activities and temple worship facilities. Their cultural and customary traits were called upon to prevail to maintain tribal loyalty to its leadership which in turn did the bidding of the Malays.

The statutes and the Constitution was amended without protestation to reinforce the dominance of the Malays.

The leaders of the Indians and the Chinese helped to screw their own kind while collecting personal rewards for keeping their own kind suppressed.

This scheme of things began to crack, when HINDRAF emerged to demand their human rights, civil liberties, the fair share of the national wealth and equity in treatment. The Malays with their simple mind could not handle HINDRAF as the new force, so it used brutal force to reign in the leaders of this new socio-economic political force.

HINDRAF has done the right thing to going back to the origin of the problem, the British, to seek relief while the HRP is chipping away at the fortress of racism that was illegally cemented by the Malays.

Surely the fortress will crumble one of these days. The leaders of the ethnic community like Chua and Samy Velu and that of minion race based parties will fade away into oblivion. It now requires of the resilience and determination of the few dedicated HINDRAF members to persist on their human rights as individuals with the collective strength of one voice.

The rights to practice communities’ cultural values and traits are private affairs of the community and the state should not be allowed to intervene for social control. It is our human rights, civil liberties, equitable rights to national wealth that we should demand from the British and the Malays.




By Robert K Chelliah