[Stoat]

Make no mistake, Al Sharpton and John Conyers, and Maxine Waters are watching this closely.

Even if it goes nowhere, they will be interested in who benefits and how they can make changes in order to launch a more successful effort here in the USA.

[Stoat]

Ping

[XR7]

$4,000,000,000,000.00

[Pontiac]

"It is also to highlight the negligence and failure of the British in not entrenching the rights of the minority Indians in the constitution when they granted Malaysia independence," he said.

Waytha Moorthy is also asking British courts to declare the Malaysian constitution null and void.

If these people made any sense at all they might be dangerous.

On one hand they decry the evils of the British colonial period and on the other blame the British for not imposing their will on the Malaysians when they granted independence.

Had the British imposed forced the Malaysians to grant protections to the minorities in their constitution what would prevent the Malaysians from ignoring those protections or later removing those protections.

By what power is Britain to null the Malaysian Constitution.

[denydenydeny]

Where's the reparations lawsuit against the Muslims who conquered India in a much bloodier manner than the British did?

Why is the Muslim conquest of India (Will Durant calls it "the worst story in history" in Our Oriental Heritage) accepted as a normal course of events, while the British conquest was somehow alien and unjustified?

[Pontiac]

Many Indians were brought to Malaysia from southern India as indentured labour by the British, but their future generations "were left high and dry" when the colonial power left the country, Waytha Moorthy said.

If memory serves me indentured servitude was the practice where an individual contracts with another to trade a period of service to another for money or other considerations.

If that contract of servitude was made with out fraud and with transparency on both sides Britain can not be held liable for the conditions subsequent generations of those who willingly entered in to those contracts.

Even if there were fraud involved those contracts were likely with individual citizens of Great Britain and not with the government.

[sure_fine]

turd world nations follow turd leaders

[nyyankeefan]

UK faces $4-trillion colonial suit (Reparations to compensate alleged atrocities against Indians)

Make no mistake, Al Sharpton and John Conyers, and Maxine Waters are watching this closely.

b. Hussein obama is also monitoring this closely....his platform for ending poverty & racism in america!!!

[muawiyah]

The Indian "indentured laborers" were willing to sign on due to India's poverty and lack of opportunity. It's truly unfortunate that some of them made the mistake of agreeing to go to Malaya, then a semi-disorganized area with numerous Moslem mini-states, wild jungles filled with headhunters, high heat, higher humidity, and generally nasty circumstances ~ albeit, with great food, spices that knock the top off the Scovill Scale, and fantastic white beaches.

Any of the original "indentured laborers" who have a complaint about the conditions should petition "the current Malaysian government". Everybody else is, as it turns out, quite free to leave, and due to the wealth of the nation in general, higher education is widespread and folks can readily moxie up the bucks for the airfare to a different country.