Suaram - 30 years of defending human rights in M'sia

| Suaram was born under the shadow of the ISA. Detention-without-trial has been the favourite tool of repression used by the Malaysian state to arrest and detain persons indefinitely without trial ever since its legislation in 1960. Under the rule of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad from 1981, authoritarian measures have included detention without trial, restrictions on the mass media, the assault on the judiciary in 1988, and the centralisation of power in the executive.

Suaram actively intervenes to support victims and their families when their basic rights have been violated in such cases of arbitrary arrest and detention, forced evictions and abuse of police powers. While victims of state oppression and police abuse include the broad masses in Malaysia, marginalised communities such as the urban poor, estate workers and indigenous people tend to bear the brunt of human rights violations.

Despite the lack of funds for a coordinator to handle this “Green Desk”, Suaram managed to respond to urgent appeals on environmental issues such as the Bakun dam, the Selangor dam and the destruction of the Bukit Sungai Putih permanent forest and wildlife reserve. Suaram spoke out against the Bakun dam at the World Commission on Dams conference at Hanoi in March 2000 as well as the regional meeting on river management in Thailand in August 2000.

Human rights education and training has been an important part of Suaram work. Our target groups are students, youth, lawyers, journalists, urban settlers, workers, indigenous peoples and community groups. Our education and training programmes include Know Your Rights, Human Rights Workshops, Youth development.

Fighting for race-based schools is defending Chinese Supremacists & not defending human rights.

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