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HINDRAF members on hunger strike to uplift Malay-Indian community

Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 25 (ANI): Demanding that the Malaysian Government take steps to uplift the Malay-Indian community, a group of 18 Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) members has been on a hunger strike since Tuesday.

The group led by HINDRAF coordinator S. Jeyathas gathered peacefully outside Suria Kuala Lumpur City Centre on Wednesday morning, The Star Online reports.

They were clad in their orange t-shirts bearing the words Makkal Sakti sat in a few rows on the ground outside the entrance of the shopping complex.

Some policemen were also seen keeping watch over the group.

The event is also to mark the second anniversary of the mass gathering on November 25, 2007.

The same group, along with former ISA detainee P. Uthayakumar and his brother Waythamoorthy's daughter Vwaishhnnavi, is expected to deliver a memorandum on the demands to the Prime Minister's Office in Putrajaya this afternoon. (ANI)

Malaysia PM angry over 'Ethnic cleansing' remarks

Singapore, Dec 3: The Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is angry about ''Ethnic Cleansing'' remarks made by some Malaysian Indian leaders of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) who led one of the biggest rallies last Sunday, Kuala Lumpur-based media reported. But yet the popular Premier of 26 million multi-racial Malaysians is withholding the most feared timeless detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which is usually used when the country's peace is threatened. The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) has.....
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