The United States demanded on Thursday that Malaysia provide fair treatment to five leaders of a rights group held under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for a initial two-year period.Malaysia has told the United States to give fair trials to detainees at its Cuban military prison before criticizing it for holding five Hindraf leaders.
"Can they first of all give a fair trial to the detainees in Guantanamo Bay? We will only respond if they do so," the New Straits Times newspaper quoted deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak as saying.
The ISA is a security law that allows for indefinite detention without trial. There are about 290 detainees at the US camp in Guantanamo, Cuba.
To fight for the rights is nothing wrong but Hindraf is pushing for an end to discrimination of minority ethnic Indians in multi-racial Malaysia, which created the instability, seems to be questionable.
Hindraf enraged the government last month by mustering at least 30,000 people to the streets of Kuala Lumpur to highlight issues facing Indian Malaysians, including a lack of economic opportunities and the destruction of Hindu temples.
The detained leaders are (from left): P. Uthayakumar, M. Manoharan, R. Kengadharan, V. Ganabatirau and K. Vasantha Kumar.
The reactions of Malaysian are complex but acted maturely by demanded the government take tough action against the five from the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf).
The demanding of the United States seems to be unjustified as is it the internal affairs of Malaysian. Further more, the United States also did not give even fair trials to detainees at its Cuban military. United States need to give fair trials to detainees at its Cuban military prison before criticizing it for holding five Hindraf leaders by the Malaysian government.
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It is the internal affair of Malaysia. So it is unwise for American to interfere the Malaysian affairs.
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