Outspoken Chinese educationist movement Jiao Zong vice chairperson Loot Ting Yee today called on activists who support Tamil education to organise themselves systematically to defend their mother tongue.

At a book launch organised by the Group of Concerned Citizens and Malaysian Tamil Educational Research and Development Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Loot expressed his desire to see the Indian Malaysian community establish a 'Dong Jiao Zong' of their own to defend Tamil education.

Loot, a well-known defender of Chinese education, criticised Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad for "forgetting that Malaysia is a multiracial country and that Indian and Chinese Malaysians have contributed much in nation-building".