your say 'Bravo Orang Asli, you are following in the footsteps of Hindraf. I like the slogan carried by some of them: ‘ Kita bukan Melayu, kita tetap Orang Asli .'

 

Cops halt Orang Asli advance on Putrajaya

Dinish K: "If they are unhappy, they can submit their views on it and the department concerned will scrutinise it. If there is any proposition which is reasonable, we will do what is necessary," said Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

Muhyiddin, I am sure they have done this in past 52 years and but no one gave two hoots about it. Most of these people were left in the jungles and never taken care of. Secondly, your comments are the same standard explanation that have been issued over, and over, and over again.

Sheila Dowle: At last, the true people of this land speak. All this Ketuanan Melayu talk is rubbish if those so-called tuan cannot treat other human beings with compassion and respect.

In the end, as loudly as they claim superiority, it is through action, not words, that they can prove themselves. If you are truly tuan , then rise above your pettiness and give everyone their rights. Otherwise, shut up.

SusahKes: PM Najib Abdul Razak, I thought you said in Parliament yesterday that the majority of Malaysians are very happy with 1Malaysia . Looks like Umno has ignored the real bumiputera of this country. Now where's the king of frogs Ibrahim Ali? I would love to hear his Vincent Tan-inspired comment on this matter.

Putra: Bravo Orang Asli, you are following in the footsteps of Hindraf. Join them to highlight the issue internationally. I like the slogan carried by some of them: ‘ Kita bukan Melayu, kita tetap Orang Asli .' (We are not Malays, we will always be Orang Asli)

Lvbala: This is one of the many untold stories from the natives. There are many more. We need many more people like Dr KP Selvaa Vathany and Pakatan Rakyat to put a stop to all this nonsense created by the so-called bumi of this land.

Vigilante: At last... it took one whistleblower in the form of a brave female doctor at an Orang Asli hospital to awaken the sleeping lions among the Orang Asli. Take what is rightfully yours in the first place. The rakyat are with you.

Azmil Tayeb: The Orang Asli have finally awakened! If they don't highlight their plight Umno will rob their land. When will it stop? This action is an added point for those fence-sitters to vote in Pakatan.

Brij Jayaram Kathiravelu: The momentum is slowly gaining among the different section of Malaysians. This is a welcome sign for our democracy.

Dianne A Simon: The government shouldn't take the land even for development. It should save and protect Orang Asli's land from being intruded. In my opinion, the government is not only facing this problem with land in Sabah and Sarawak, but they are facing similar protests from Orang Asli.

Truth Seeker: They demand what is rightfully theirs. BN can't cheat them forever. Give them back their land for they are the sons of soil of this country. What will Perkasa and Umno do now? Threaten them also?

Victor Johan: The Orang Asli are the actual bumiputera. The rest are pendatangs (immigrants) from Celebes, Patani, Siam, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, Yunan and the rest of China, Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East. The pendatangs came at differing times in history, but Malaysia is the Orang Asli's original habitat.

So pendatangs , especially the bumiputera- celup (dipped), please give due legitimate rights to the Orang Asli. Otherwise, you will be deemed as pirates, just like your forefathers, snatching away the bumiputera's rights and properties.

Bumi rights to stay in New Economic Model: Nazri

Urban Sarawakian: Nazri Aziz, don't patronise us Sarawakians! The Federal Constituition definitely needs to be streamlined so that all the natives of Sarawak are on par with Semenanjung Malays.

You know jolly well after your recent visit that in Sarawak, only children with both parents native are classified native, whereas for Malays, if either of the parents are Malay, then their children will get to be classified bumiputera.

Billy Abit Joo (BN-Hulu Rajang), and all Sarawak BN parliamentarians, you all need to demand that the Federal Constitution be amended so that - just like for the Malays - if either parent of a child is a native, then that child must be classified native.

If you don't, Sarawak BN is doing a great injustice to the natives and they will disappear from the earth. Intermarriages are very, very common in Sarawak.

Disgusted: Malaysia will not be united until the words bumiputera and non-bumiputera are abolished. Say what you like, but it was PM Najib's father who divided this nation. It is unlikely that Najib will dismantle what his father had done.

This divide does not do any favours for Malays, for they are sneered and derided as a handicapped race when they can't stand shoulder to shoulder and compete with others. They also make Islam seem weak and that it needs them to protect Islam, when Islam is universal and is bigger than the Umnoputras.

They should instead concentrate in practising the true edicts of Islam - love, tolerance, righteousness and friendship with all other religions. The Umnoputras, however, bring disgrace to Islam and Malays by their behaviour.

Kgen: The constitution does not contain the terms ‘bumiputera' or ‘Malay special rights'. They were invented by Umno politicians in the 1990s to support their race-based policies.

What the constitution says is that Malays should be given preference for scholarships and civil service employment but this has been expanded to encompass all aspects of society until the non-Malays feel second class.

Paul Warren: Let us not kid ourselves. The Malays will forever be like cry babies anyway. To be sure, it is not really the Malays. It is the Umnoputras, to be exact. After all, the rest of the Malays are not exactly targeted for benefits other than syok sendiri (self-pleasing) rhetoric.

Just say it out, bumiputera rights will remain there (in the laws) forever in perpetuity. If anyone does not like that, well, just get out of the country.

BTN: When will the Umno government stop sabotaging their own race and country by insisting on this bumiputera stuff? This policy make the Malays so dependant on the government that there in no chance of them catching up with the other races in this country.

Do not forget that this country is situated in a very challenging continent, and for this country to move forward, all citizens have to move forward together. In the global environment, there is no such policy that will favour the weak.

The Umno government survived through racial politics and it is almost impossible for them to project themselves as having done otherwise. 1Malaysia will be the laughing stock of the world community as long as the bumiputera policy still exist.

It's just like telling citizens here that they are all Malaysians, but when it comes to something simple like buying a house, the price for some 'citizens' differs because they get a discount.

Wira: Nazri said, "To ensure this, every action taken will be based on the constitution and the laws."

Does Nazri mean the New Economic Policy will be abolished under the NEM, since the constitution makes no mention of NEP in any of its articles or clauses?

 

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