Malaysia probes ethnic Indian protest group for alleged terrorist links

: Malayan government are investigating an ethnical Indian protestation grouping for possible golf course to panic networks, including Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger separatists, an functionary said Friday.

The Hindoo Rights Action Force, or Hindraf, denied any terrorist ties, and accused the authorities of trying to stem support for the grouping after it staged a monolithic mass meeting last calendar month to foreground the economical predicament of Malaysia's minority ethnical Indians.

Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail said concerns have got surfaced that Hindraf is trying to set up golf course with organisations like the Tamil Tigers, which have been branded a panic grouping by the United States and European Union.

"Police have got started investigating," Abdul Gani said. "This is not a game. It is a very serious matter. I believe everyone ... is worried if there is a connection" with the Tamil Tigers.

Abdul Gani, speaking to reporters, declined to notice on whether Hindraf leadership might be charged with any terrorism-related offense, saying police force demand to complete their investigation first. Today in Asia - Pacific

Malaysia's national police force chief, Genus Musa Hassan, said late Thursday that "there have got been marks of Hindraf trying to acquire the support and aid of terrorists." He did not elaborate.

Lawyer P. Uthayakumar, a top Hindraf leader, called the claims of panic golf course the government's "desperate effort ... to deviate from the existent issues, which are racism, marginalisation and lasting colonisation of the Indians."

"It's complain and obvious that we have got always pursued legal and peaceful means," Uthayakumar told reporters. "They're running out of ideas."

The Tamil Tigers — banned in the United States as a terrorist grouping since 1997 — have been fighting since 1983 to make a separate fatherland for Sri Lanka's minority Tamils followers decennaries of favoritism by authorities controlled by the Singhalese majority.

Fears of ethnical agitation have got emerged in Malaya after some 20,000 people participated in a Nov. Twenty-Five mass meeting in Kuala Lumpur — the biggest protestation in old age involving Indians, who word form 8 percentage of the population.

Hindraf, which organized the protest, is demanding equality and just treatment for Indians, saying an affirmatory action programme that gives discriminatory treatment to Moslem Malays is as good as to racial discrimination.

Malays do up about 60 percentage of Malaysia's 27 million people and control the government, which denies there is favoritism and states the fruits of economical advancement are shared by all.