No more British Malaya for Noh Omars

According to Penang Office for Human Development case officer Joachim Xavier, the Indian government should also " haul up" Malaysia's ambassador to India for diplomatic protest against maltreatment of Indian nationals working in Malaysia. (for full story, please subscribe and read malaysiakini).

As one who has privately listened to many conscience-troubling complaints from foreign diplomats from the East as well as West over the last ten years against some law enforcement agencies in Malaysia, I cannot but express my full support to the public call made by Joachim Xavier.

Indeed, all friendly foreign countries who have nationals working, touring, studying or doing business in Malaysia must now firm up their attitude, position and public posture to protect the dignity and safety of their own nationals from being physically maltreated by law enforcement agencies or verbally abused as psy-war stereotypes by politicians and the rogue segment of the official media.

Countries like India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Nepal, Burma and Bengaladesh which have nationals here working as labourers should particularly watch out for not only racism but also imperialism tiruan against their peoples in police or immigration operations.

Smaller countries should form a united front with big countries on this issue. Big countries should also help smaller countries to handle these cases and deal with those rogues and bullies to pre-empt the classical divide-and-rule or pit-one-against-another strategy.

Those SOBs most probably think that they are still running the bygone British Empire in Malaya in the late 19th or early 20th century where the cheap and abundant Chinese and South Asian coolies , enjoying no human rights and dignity and the protection of their national governments, can be imported, hired, fired, imprisoned, insulted and expelled or banished at the whims and fancies of capitalists and law enforcement agencies.

Time has changed. So must be attitude, position and public posture.