新闻报报看 | 吉隆坡市区有一间130年历史的印度庙被通知，发展商下周要在原地办动土礼建清真寺引起争议，等于是要强拆印度庙。对此，吉隆坡市长保证在完成搬迁前不会拆庙，发展商也说会等庙搬迁后才会动工。（主播：庄文杰、林晓倩）
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00:04In the past few days, there was a 130-year-old Indian temple dedicated to Sripat Lakhariyaman,
00:10the goddess of India, near the Qingzhen Temple in Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, India.
00:14It was forced to move, and the original site would be covered by the Qingzhen Temple.
00:17This caused a strong dissatisfaction in the Indian society.
00:19In fact, they even opened fire on the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Administration and related land developers.
00:24In other words, the Indian temple that existed long before the independence of Myanmar
00:28was actually moved to this address under the instructions of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Administration in 2008.
00:33But the dispute is that the Indian temple committee complained to the Municipal Administration
00:37that in 2014, and when the temple did not know at all,
00:41the entire area including the Indian temple land was sold to a private developer.
00:47Then, from 2016, the government and that private developer tried many times to move the 100-year-old Indian temple.
00:55However, the temple did not agree and has been negotiating with the government and the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Administration
00:59until now, ten years later.
01:01And earlier, the Indian temple said that they received a notice that
01:04it was equivalent to forcing them to move, or even to remove the original site.
01:09The government planned to hold a land movement ceremony
01:13at the original site of this Indian temple next Wednesday, March 27,
01:16to build a new Qingzhen Temple.
01:19The notice mentioned that the new Qingzhen Temple plan was named Changning Qingzhen Temple.
01:24It is said that the day will also invite Prime Minister Anhua to host the land movement ceremony.
01:28So, the 100-year-old Indian temple was forcibly demolished and moved.
01:31Is there no way back?
01:33Today, the Indian temple committee held a press conference with human rights lawyers
01:37to ask the government to pay attention and save this crisis.
01:40Former Chairman of the Lawyers' Association, Amit Jha, said that
01:42this Indian temple has a history of 100 years.
01:44Compared with existing developers, it appeared earlier in that area.
01:48He questioned that when the government sold the land to the developers,
01:52they did not inform the temple.
01:54Is this reasonable?
01:55And when the developers bought the land,
01:57they should also know that there is an Indian temple there.
01:59Even legally, the developers must admit that
02:03the temple has a right to this land.
02:06At the same press conference,
02:08the Indian temple committee chairman, Raz Mohanty, complained that
02:12the government has repeatedly forced the temple to move since 2016,
02:16and even sent the municipal government officials to negotiate
02:19and suggest that the temple be moved elsewhere.
02:22But the problem is that the temple previously said that
02:24the government's new land area is only half of the current temple,
02:28and the location is too far away.
02:30It is not suitable for building a temple at all.
02:32In addition, the temple was informed that
02:34this place now needs to be used to build a new Jinzhen Temple.
02:37This is very unfair to the Indian community and the Indian believers,
02:41and will erase the identity recognition of the multi-ethnic community.
02:45In addition to this press conference,
02:47the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Government also explained in a statement this morning
02:50that some people questioned that it was because the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Government
02:53did not deal with the issue of the rights of the developers and the Indian temple land
02:57that led to today's situation.
03:00The Kuala Lumpur Municipal Government emphasized in their statement
03:03that it was not the government's plan to build a new Jinzhen Temple
03:07in the original place of the Indian temple for a hundred years,
03:09but the developers who legally owned the land, their idea.
03:12It sounds like DBKL seems to want to give the ball to the developers
03:16and say that they want to build a new Jinzhen Temple.
03:18This has nothing to do with the government.
03:20This is the statement in this article.
03:22To this day, the mayor of Kuala Lumpur,
03:24Maimunah, still personally visits the controversial Indian temple.
03:28When he was interviewed, he promised that
03:30the hundred-year-old Indian temple would not undertake any demolition work
03:33and would operate normally until the relocation was completed.
03:36DBKL guarantees that every measure they take
03:40is in accordance with the religious freedom principles guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.
03:44And this promise is not just what the mayor said.
03:47Maimunah also wrote it down in black and white
03:50and handed the letter of commitment to the temple.
03:53Immediately after the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Government,
03:55the developers who owned the land,
03:57DBKL, also came forward to guarantee
03:59that they would not forcibly demolish the hundred-year-old Indian temple.
04:02The promise will continue to negotiate with the temple to solve the problem
04:05and wait for all the problems to be solved.
04:07And after the Indian temple moved to the new location agreed by the temple,
04:11they started to work on the site.
04:14So they didn't want to forcibly demolish the Indian temple.
04:17They said it was never a problem.
04:19And later, the Best Development also confirmed that
04:21they would indeed hold a cemetery in the local area next Thursday.
04:26But they clarified that this was just a symbolic ceremony.
04:29Only after the Indian temple is moved,
04:32they will start to build the Qingzhen Temple
04:35to fulfill the group founder's last wish.
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