Cops to probe alleged brutality in Bersih rally

A military officer prepares to detain a lady incapacitated progressing by rip gas, in Kuala Lumpur, July 9, 2011. Reuters pic

KUALA LUMPUR, July eighteen Six teams will be set up to examine alleged incidents of brutality as well as assault by a authorities during a Bersih 2.0 convene upon July 9, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar has said.

He additionally appealed to a open to submit video footage prisoner during a impetus as justification that military used extreme force in dispersing protesters.

We will investigate transparently, in detail, as well as a military will not censor any facts, Khalid pronounced after opening an anti-car theft seminar in Genting Highlands.

Police have already formed 3 teams to investigate a genocide of protester Baharuddin Ahmad, whom authorities pronounced died of a heart attack, as well as claims that military fired rip gas as well as H2O cannon in to Tung Shin Hospital that day.

One group will investigate Baharuddins death, an additional will look in to Tung Shin doctors claims that military fired in to a hospital devalue whilst a third will examine a situation itself, that has been denied by a military as well as a hospitals management.

The Barisan Nasional (BN) bloc has been put upon a defensive over a Bersih convene for a past week as a general media from Singapore to a UK criticised a governments doing of open dissent.

Bersih estimates that 50,000 people showed up for its convene for giveaway as well as satisfactory elections despite efforts to prevent a entertainment from receiving place, whilst military pronounced there were usually 6,000.

The protest turned chaotic when military fired rip gas as well as H2O cannons during thousands of demonstrators, resulting in nearly 1,700 arrests, scores harmed as well as a genocide of ex-military male Baharuddin, 59.

The government has promise! d to inv estigate allegations of military brutality whilst a Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) will hold a separate open inquiry in to military control during a Bersih rally.


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