Hindraf has initiated a global campaign for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim beginning with an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the British Parliament.
Malaysiakini was tipped off on the EDM by Suresh Grover who heads The Monitoring Group, a human rights organisation in Britain and Northern Ireland. Anwar's people, according to Grover, approached Hindraf chair P. Waythamoorthy to do something for him and the latter suggested an EDM filed through an MP.
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour MP for Islington, North London, who will introduce the EDM, said he was approached by Waythamoorthy. "We are 100 per cent for Anwar. He's a good man badly treated by the Malaysian Government," said Corbyn yesterday in a telephone interview with Malaysiakini.
Have Anwar's people not learned from the Hindraf episode? Uthayakumar, once a Hindraf founder but now the head of the yet-to-be-registered Human Rights Party Malaysia (HRP) said this at the 'breaking up ceremony' on Sunday, March 07, 2010:
They made promises and we urged the Indians to vote for Pakatan. Two years later Pakatan is a big zero.
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