ADUN SPEAKS | Custodial deaths can be due to both class and race

ADUN SPEAKS | The death of an Afro-American George Floyd at the hands of the police has raised questions about the pernicious nature of racism that seems very much embedded in American society.

The cry to end racism articulated by the slogan “black lives matters” has reverberated across the globe in varying ways.

Old monuments and statues that symbolised racism and slavery have been pulled down around the world.

The death of Floyd has brought to fore the question of racism in Malaysia, its political and institutional roots, its manifestation in the form ethnic discrimination of those belonging to the non-dominant communities and other overt manifestations in the form of custodial deaths both in police centres and prisons.

It is argued that the Indian community in Malaysia constituting less than ten percent of the population is overrepresented...