flash: Indian Riots? Yes. In the Maika AGM. MIC = Mafias in Charge
Former MIC deputy president S Subramaniam was assaulted by a group of men at this morning’s annual general meeting of Maika Holdings, the party’s troubled investment arm.
Subra was roughed up several times when he attempted to speak at the meeting. The meeting, which kicked of at 10am, was punctuated with a series of commotion.
According to eye-witnesses, punches were thrown at Subra but the former deputy minister did not suffer any serious injuries.
Eye-witnesses added that Subra was charged by a group of irate men, who are believed to be aligned to rival leader, MIC chief S Samy Vellu. However, Subra’s men stepped in to protect their boss from the attack.
It is also believed that opposition DAP leader and Ipoh Barat member of parliament M Kula Segaran and a few other shareholders were also roughed up.
That’s Samy Vellu’s MIC (Mafias In Charge) for you. This culture of thuggery seems to be steeped so deep there it’s scary - a little Indian fiefdom that is run just the way Malaysia is, through strong-armed fear-mongering and physical intimidation.
Next thing MIC will be more brutal than world famous Malaysian police brutality.
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Update 6pm: Courtesy of Ronnie Liu:
This morning, I helped an injured shareholder of the Maika Holdings to make a police report at the mobile police unit. Shamugam, 60, suffered a cut on his face (above his eye) in an assault taken place outside the meeting hall at the Sime Darby Convention Centre.He could not recognise those who beat him up.Shanmugam is a taxi driver by profession. He was a former journalist with a local Tamil paper. He believed he was assaulted because he was vocal on the issue of the day.
Another shareholder Balakrishnan, 75, a former police inspector, was also bashed up by some thugs the minute he raised a question and mentioned the name of Samy Vellu. He is said to have invested some RM 45,000.
Witnesses told me that the police did not do a good job. They were watching the assault without offering any help. I was wondering why there was no single police in uniform outside the hall.
Update 7pm: Malaysiakini:
(Subramaniam said) “When I asked the chairperson (Abdul Rashid Abdul Manaf) permission to speak, 20 fellows stood up and said, ‘you don’t speak’. And the chairperson just sits there and keeps quiet. Then another 20 fellows would come to hold and push each other.
“I was manhandled, one person put his arm on me and pushed me. He told me ‘you don’t have permission to speak’.
Commenting further on the situation in the hall, the former MIC deputy president said there were some 100 people standing around who did not look like shareholders.
“They were brought there in the name of security,” he said.
“Every time a question is raised, and if the question is not liked by someone in the hall, they will go and stand next to the speaker and hold him. One speaker was physically pushed out,” he added.
Only those who fear the truth stop people from speaking.
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