The campaign which began with NZUSA and a handful of Malaysian students is growing in its intensity, scope and base of support. Khoo Ee Liam is still in a Malaysian jail but more and more people are pressing for his release and are tracing a widening circle of political repression which put him, and many others like him, behind bars. Such trends were most manifest on Thursday night when Robert Pui, a Malaysian law student studying in New Zealand spoke to 300 people in the Union Hall on the matters of the Malay language requirement for malaysian entry into New Zealand universities and of the Internal Security Act of Malaysia.

The meeting was hastily arranged and advertised but nevertheless a large number of Malaysian students turned up to outnumber the New Zealanders by ten to one. This is but one indication of the courage that Malaysian students at Victoria are showing in protesting against the erosion of their right to an education and entry into civil liberties within New Zealand.