KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 (Bernama) -- Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan today made a startling revelation that the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), organiser of the Nov 25 illegal rally in Kuala Lumpur, is trying to solicit help and support from terrorist groups.
In exposing their covert activities, Musa said: "Of late there have been indications that Hindraf is trying to seek support and help from terrorist groups."
Based on police intelligence and monitoring of the Indian activist group's movements since July 28, he said they have been active in fanning racial sentiments among the Indian community by sirring up their anger and arousing hatred against the government.
"Their actions are potentially explosive in sparking racial clashes," he said in a statement.
Musa said the unregistered body had also set up a fund by deceiving the people to fund their activities.
Musa said Hindraf was helmed by six prime movers comprising five lawyers and a senior executive of a private company.
He said Hindraf was persistently inflamming sensitive and dangerous sentiments through forums, distribution of books and leaflets, posting messages on websites and via short messaging service (SMS) to garner support from Indians.
He also said they masterminded the opposition of a group of Indians against a local authority for demolishing Hindu temples built illegally and alleged that the demolition was exploiting the religious freedom in the country.
"They also planned to use gangsters to block demolition of temples by local authorities in future," he said.
Musa said latest developments showed Hindraf leaders are lobbying for international support from India, Britain, the United States and the United Nations and European countries.
"Hindraf is soliciting for external support by portraying a wrong picture on the actual position of Indians in this country to the foreign parties," he said.
For instance, in the e-mail to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Hindraf had claimed there was "ethnic cleansing" in Malaysia. It alleged that Indians are being killed every day by the "Islamic extremist" Malaysian government.
Musa said Hindraf's activities and ploys all these while have been very worrying to multiracial Malaysians.
"The police are concerned over Hindraf's activities and will not hesitate to take harsh action to guarantee the nation's peace and security," he said.
Musa said Hindraf had made false, baseless and slanderous allegations that the government had marginalised the Indians, had deprived them of their rights in the economic and education fields and positions in the government to the extent that the community was backward even after 50 years of independence.
The Inspector-General of Police said Hindraf had defied the law and went ahead to stage the Nov 25 street protests because its real motive was to create chaos in the federal capital.
"But instead they twisted the incident and accused the police of using force on their supporters.
"They also cheated the Indians who attended the illegal gathering when they did not hand in the petition to the British High Commission despite having the opportunity to do so," he said.
Musa advised the people not to be deceived by the ploys and rumours spread through the Internet and SMSes by irresponsible elements to create anxiety and uneasiness to the people to worsen the situation.
He said rumour mongers floating rumours and spreading false information are committing an offence under Section 23 of the Internal Security Act 1960, which carries a fine of not more than RM10,000 or a jail term of not more than three years or both, if convicted.
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