Given some recent demos and riots in KL recently by Malaysian Indians the following news story is worthy of highlighting - it refers to an Malaysian Indian politician murdered (shot) in the lift of his local party HQ yesterday. So far the media has played down any possible connection with the riots (it should be pointed out that he was a member of the MIC - the Indian section of the governing coalition - perhaps some people considered him a 'lacky' and 'sold out' Indian interests (that's simply speculation)? I thought his death would have sparked off some 'trouble' - (not realising at the time his party was part of governing coalition) but it seems things are not as simple as that.........Politicians ocassionally get murdered here in mysterious circumstances with no apparent explanations. Of course it could have been over anything - robbery/extortion/gangs ? So far I haven't come across any demos or riots........
http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=20481
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/12/nation/19992206&sec=nation
For background to riots see:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7178709.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7176323.stm
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