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Kg Medan: Selangor Dilanda Kemurkaan? By Kapal Berita 11/3/2001 8:46 pm Sun |
TENTERA TIDAK 'BERKERJA' TERLIBAT SAMA
Saya ingin merakamkan kejadian pergaduhan kaum di KL di sini untuk
diambil iktibar oleh semua kaum berbilang bangsa di Malaysia.
Negara kita mengalami beberapa pergaduhan (selain 13 Mei 1969)
sebelum ini tetapi tidak ada yang melibatkan begitu banyak
penduduk (termasuk warga tentera) dan berakhir dengan kehilangan
3 nyawa (atau lebih?) hasil pertembungan konflik budaya.
Yang menariknya polis gagal meredakan keadaan pada awalnya.
Sebanyak 35 orang ditahan, dimana 32 daripada mereka melayu.
Dan tahanan ini termasuk lima warga tentera yang 'tidak berkerja'.
Kaum India pula melaung kata-kata yang tidak enak kepada polis
yang majoritinya melayu. Satu kumpulan warga India mengejar seorang
warga Melayu dan merampas motosikalnya serta membakarnya betul-betul
dihadapan polis. Kejadian tersebut dikatakan bermula bila satu majlis perkahwinan
orang melayu bertembung dengan majlis kematian orang India.
Seorang warga India yang mabuk dikatakan naik minyak dan menendang
kerusi-kerusi di majlis perkahwinan itu. Kita tertunggu-tunggu
apakah kes ini akan berakhir di mahkamah atau didiamkan sahaja.
Cuba titip beberapa kisah lama - kes diperapkan sahaja dengan
alasan tidak ditemui dalangnya atau 'tiada apa-apa'. Tentu kita
masih belum lupa satu kes pasangan suami isteri dibakar
(hidup-hidup?) di dalam satu kontainer tetapi penjenayahnya tidak
polis pula jumpa. Pecahan utama bangsa yang mendiami Malaysia kini adalah:
55% Melayu, 10% Cina dan India 8%. Tetapi anda jangan lupa ada lebih kurang 1.7 juta pendatang
berdaftar di negara ini (7.7%) dan separuh tidak berpermit!
Mereka datang kerana ada yang menjemput dan meraih keuntungan.
Kemudian mereka dinyahkan keluar supaya datang semula untuk
diterima kembali asalkan ada wang. Khir Toyo menyebut perlunya diterangkan kawasan dan suasana dengan
memasang lampu supaya lebih selamat adanya. Inilah malang kedua (atau lebih)
buat negeri di bawah urus-tadbir Khir Toyo. Sebelum ini banjir aneh
melanda Rawang dan kawasan sekitarnya. Jangan lupa banyak kilang elektronik
juga berada di Selangor kini menghadapi masalah memasarkan barangan mereka
ekoran lembabnya permintaan luar negara. Negeri Jepun sendiri sedang tercekik
dengan masalah politik dan ekonomi dan kilang mereka juga ada di Selangor.
Kita mengimbau di negeri ini jugalah banyak 'rumah-haram' yang didiami oleh
kaum Melayu dan India yang dhaif hidup mereka. Malah dua kaum ini jugalah
yang begitu ramai berkerja di kilang-kilang elektronik di negeri Selangor
sebagai buruh kasar atau operator. Teringatlah akan penulis di bumi Selangor ini jugalah seorang mufti dibuang
dan mereka yang melakukan kesalahan ugama diselamatkan. Apakah ini semua
kejadian satu petanda bahawa kita dimurkai tuhan??
Kata orang hati tenang rasa senang. Tetapi hati yang geram akan meluahkan
perasaan. Dan ini berlaku kerana ada yang menekan. Bila sudah tidak tahan
ia akan memberontak dan menghasilkan ledakkan. Tidak guna mengawal keadaan
dengan menutup lubang kerana banyak kenderaan berat meredah jalan. Mereka
lalu-lalang kerana Umnolah yang selama ini memberi permit dan ruang.
Penduduk Kampung Pandan tentu masih belum lupa seorang kanak-kanak mati
digilis lori yang dikatakan ingin membawa satu kemajuan.....
- Kapal Berita- 10 March 07:05PM -- AP http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,28884,00.html?
Source: STS Singapore Straits Times Three dead in Malay-Indian clashes outside KL
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malay Muslims and ethnic Indians insulted
and attacked each other on Saturday in townships on the
outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, where the death toll from three
days of clashes rose to three. Police said the latest fatality, an Indian man, died of
injuries in a hospital on Saturday afternoon. Details were
not immediately available. The government, seeking to calm passions, downplayed
suggestions of a racial conflict but sent in reinforcements
for the 400 officers who so far have been unable to contain
the violence. Mr Jamil Johari, the police deputy inspector-general, said
that since Thursday, three people have been killed, three
seriously injured and 11 hospitalised.
Thirty-five have been arrested, 32 of them Malays, he said.
Those arrested included five off-duty soldiers.
'We will be extra vigilant at night, and I advise people not
to congregate in large numbers,' he said. 'There is no need
for a curfew at the moment.' Many families were moving out of the area, which comprises
five villages and is home to about 2,000 families, mostly
poor labourers or squatters. Police searched vehicles at roadblocks, confiscating
machete-like weapons known as parangs, hockey sticks and
iron staves. They geared up for another night of violence
breaking out. Despite the police presence, Malays and Indians hurled
insults at each other and an Indian group chased a Malay
man, seized his motorcycle and set it on fire.
Indians shouted at the predominantly Malay police, accusing
them of not doing enough to halt the violence. All three
people killed and the majority of injured have been Indians.
Local residents claimed the death toll was higher. 'Five people have died,' claimed an Indian woman who refused
to give her name. 'The police are not doing anything to help
us. They just tell us to wait in the house.'
The woman claimed that she saw a man being slashed and
killed by a parang-wielding gang early on Saturday and that
people screamed futilely for police to help him.
Janakan Pillai, 23, said from his hospital bed on Saturday
that he had been beaten by about 40 Malay youths using
hockey sticks and iron staves. His aunt, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said
Malay youths had threatened to burn down houses.
Malays accused Indians of lying in wait to attack them.
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Abdullah Badawi urged people to
ignore 'rumours'. The media were advised to report only
police accounts. 'People are quick to jump to conclusion that it was a fight
with racial connotations,' Mr Abdullah said. 'It could have
been an altercation between individuals who happen to be of
different races and religions.' Veteran opposition leader Lim Kit Siang urged the Deputy
Premier to go to the area himself to defuse the tensions and
put together economic aid to redress the 'poverty and social
backwardness in the area'. The fighting had origins in a row last weekend between an
Indian funeral procession and Malays celebrating a wedding.
According to stories circulating in the area, a drunken
Indian man kicked over a chair at the Malay party, leading
to the fighting. -- AP http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/mar/10malay.htm
3 Indians killed in clashes in Malaysia
The death toll from three days of clashes between Malay
Muslims and ethnic Indians rose to three, on the outskirts of
Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. Police said an Indian man died of injuries in hospital.
Malaysia's ethnic Indians, who were originally brought as
plantation labourers now comprise about 10 per cent of the
country's 22 million population, but are among its poorest
citizens and politically marginalised, according to political
observers. Malays and Indians insulted each other and an Indian group chased a Malay man,
seized his motorcycle and set it ablaze, despite police presence.
Indians claim the predominantly Malay police are not doing enough to stop the
violence. All the three killed and most of those injured have been Indians.
Agencies http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010310/wl/malaysia_clashes_dc_2.html
Saturday March 10 10:39 AM ET Malaysian Police on Guard After Racial Clashes
By Marty Logan PETALING JAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Hundreds of red-helmeted riot police
guarded housing areas in this Kuala Lumpur suburb late on Saturday after three
people died in racial clashes during the week.
Initial skirmishes broke out last Sunday when members of a Hindu funeral
procession passed through a Malay wedding party instead of following an
agreed-upon alternative route, a leading Hindu leader told Reuters.
The government has played down a racial element in the clashes and asked the
media not to publish ``inaccurate news'' which could worsen the situation.
``I hope no one will take advantage of the prevailing situation to cause further
trouble and make matters worse,'' Bernama quoted Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah
Badawi as saying. Police said three people died after clashes on Thursday night between minority
Indians and majority Malays over a smashed car windshield. After an initial skirmish,
a group armed with machetes, sticks and iron pipes attacked residents of several
blocks of flats in the area. Hundreds were involved in the fighting, police added.
Seventy people have been detained and several injured, the official Bernama news
agency quoted police as saying. Malays total about 55 percent of the country's population, Chinese 10 percent and
ethnic Indians about eight percent. While Indians are well represented in the
professional classes they are also among the poorest and most marginalized in
Malaysian society. The stability of Malaysia's political system rests on a coalition of parties
representing different ethnic groups. Many fear instability could trigger race riots like those which erupted in 1969 when
opposition parties, notably ethnic Chinese, dented the ruling coalition's margin in
elections. ``It is disappointing to note that after 44 years of independence, race-related problems still tend to occur and culminate in violence,'' S. Vijayaratnam, vice-president of Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia, a member of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ruling coalition, said in a statement. |