Give us racial equality in Malaysia.
Consider Article 153 of the Malaysian Constitution:
2. – Grants
ethnic Malays preferential access to scholarships, exhibitions and similar
educational/training prvilleges
6. – Allows
an ethnic quota on business permits/licenses for ethnic Malays
8.(c)1.(8A)
– Gives the Yang di-Pertuan Agong the right to reserve places for ethnic Malays
in universities/other educational institutions after the completion of the
Malaysian Certificate of Education (SPM).
News articles which confirm inequality in
“When you set up a company in
Halting aid to Malays courts chaos: Dr M. http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/57983
In addition to this, racist attitudes are openly condoned.
Delay allocation to Chinese only to make them repent:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/4/29/nation/20100429115917&sec=nation
“Vote BN for ‘easy living’”.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/2/13/nation/20308489&sec=nation
Clearly, some of us have had enough:
http://www.suaram.net/node/246
Facing Malaysia's racial issues
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1687973,00.html
It is detrimental to the economic development of Malaysia, and even international sources agree:
Such policies
encourage division in what could otherwise be a far more harmonious society. We
hope not for a society that discriminates on the basis on ethnic grounds – only
one that offers fairness to all regardless of ethnicity, whether one is Malay,
Chinese, Indian or of the various other races that reside in
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this petition.
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