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Malaysian sues UK over ethnic Indians’ concerns KUALA LUMPUR -- An ethnic Indian in Malaysia is using an audacious strategy to highlight the plight of his mostly impoverished community by suing Britain, the country’s former colonial ruler, for US$4 trillion. The Malaysian government dismisses the case as baseless, but lawyer Waytha Moorthy is determined to pursue it, even vowing to appeal to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth to appoint lawyers for the Indian community, which he says is too poor to find its own. Moorthy wants Britain to pay damages of 1 million sterling (US$2.06 million) to each of Malaysia’s 2 million ethnic Indians for rights abuses he traces to colonial-era labour schemes that brought their ancestors to Malaysia as indentured workers. |
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