UPSI demo: Cop say scuffles happened in heat of moment



By Lisa J. Ariffin
January 01, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, January 1 A Perak military military military officer defended currently a force's rough treatment as well as subsequent arrest of tyro activists, who refused to sunder in a pre-dawn campus rally, observant scuffles happened in a feverishness of a impulse as well as were not planned.
Police (left) move in upon protesters during a Sultan Idris University of Education (UPSI) campus this morning. Picture courtesy of Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia
The boys in blue have come underneath glow from antithesis parties following complaints from about 60 undergraduate demonstrators who took partial in a midnight sit-down protest opposite a Universities as well as University Colleges Act (UUCA) during a Sultan Idris University of Education (UPSI) campus in Tanjung Malim, Perak.
"During confrontations, scuffles can happen. These have been random as well as during a feverishness of a moment, things can occur as well as get out of control," a policeman toldThe Malaysian Insider, playing down a allegations of attack that have emerged.
He identified himself as an investigating military military officer (IO) as well as only gave his name as Fazli.
"This is an aged issue, people always similar to to fool around it up, only similar to Bersih," a IO said, referring to a electoral remodel coalition's large July 9 convene in a national capital last year.
The undergraduates from assorted open universities here claim they were beaten, punched as well as kicked by both uniformed as well as plainclothes policemen after refusing to mind orders to disperse.
One university tyro Muhammad Safwan Anang, who is president of undergraduate transformation Gerakan Menuntut Kebebasan Akademic (Bebas), was warded during a Slim River H! ospital after losing consciousness.
He is believed to have additionally lost a couple of teeth as well as suffered fractured skeleton in a 2.30am incident.
Up to seventeen people were arrested by a military as well as taken to a Tanjung Malim military station this morning.
News as well as cinema of a situation were shared through Twitter as well as Facebook, triggering condemnations opposite a military force for brutality.
Several lawyers who rushed to a Tanjung Malim military station claimed they were barred from vocalization to a incarcerated undergraduates.
Fazli denied a allegation.
"The lawyers were never prevented from meeting with a students as well as have been with them now. N. Surendran is inside," a military military military officer said, referring to a prominent lawyer who is additionally PKR vice-president.
Fazli pronounced he could not criticism serve as his colleagues were still in a midst of recording statements from those arrested.
"I will let my superiors decide once we finish taking statements from a students," he said.
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