Two young Indian women born in Malaysia will file a landmark test
case against embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak's government, which
has come under increasing fire both domestically and internationally for
promulgating policies supportive of racism and racial discrimination."The two girls are from Kapar, Selangor. They are entitled to citizenship and blue I.C.s under the law but the BN government won't even issue them birth certificates," PKR vice president N Surendran told Malaysia Chronicle.
"If they win their case, it will force the federal government to resolve the longstanding problem of stateless persons. And this applies not just to Indians but to all the other minority ethnic groups that have been left out of the economic loop by the BN. Pakatan Rakyat is determined to end the injustice done to all stateless Malaysians due to discriminative policies."
The lawsuit against the JPN or National Registration Department and the Government of Malaysia will be filed at the Kuala Lumpur High Court in Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 11am.
Surendran, who is also a prominent human rights lawyer, along with Subang MP Sivarasa Rasiah and Latheefa Koya will represent the two women.
Denial syndrome: Only 9,000 NOT 300,000
