Bersih 3.0!
300,000 participants.
Really, with such the turnout, was Dataran Merdeka even necessary, alternative than portion as the convening indicate for participants (rather than rubbing off upon the judgment of 'freedom' it is supposed to symbolize)?
The indicate has again been done in no capricious conditions that Malaysians want, nay, direct 'clean as well as satisfactory elections'.
That we even have to have use of quotation marks to emphasize 'clean as well as satisfactory elections' indicates how alien such the process, namely 'clean as well as satisfactory elections', has become in Malaysia, especially in the last thirty years or so. It could have been something we should during slightest expect, if not take for postulated in the approach voters in alternative countries with genuine democracies do.
It's an complaint upon the deficiency of the supposed impartiality, autonomy as well as firmness in the Election Commission (EC) that we have to have use of those quotation marks to prominence Bersih's raison d'tre for the mammoth sit-in.The EC Chairperson as well as his emissary areUMNO members eh, ptui!
Our approved impost have to become instead the quest by such Bersih campaigns. The dual Dirty Rotten Scoundrels heading the EC contingency resign or be removed.
But alas, Bersih has had the pacific sit-in gnarled by the incident of military tear-gassing the section of the crowd. The men in blue claimed they had to when someone broke by the fenced up Square as well as was afterwards joined by many.
Now, that the tiny group violation by the military barrier has not been disputed. But what Bersih (in the chairman of Ambiga Sreenevasan) hasn't been able to confirm nonetheless has been the identity of that uncontrolled mob, who in ignoring Ambiga's instruction to end the sit-in as well as disperse, has brought about (or set up the excuse for) the violence.
Naturally Ambiga wants to lay her hands fast upon the little facts. She's unquestionably upset that the violence had taken place as well as spoilt the differently perfect form of the pacific sit-in. Ambiga final that the full extent of the law request to those responsible, in any case of who they are.
Who were they?
Inevitably the authority as well as PKR have been indicating fingers during each other.
PKR, as well as we suppose Pakatan, claim that they were UMNO agents provoc! ateur se nt to incite violence to cast aspersions upon the participants, in sold Anwar Ibrahim. we read of this in Bernama that asserted that Anwar gave the sequence for his people to break by as well as take up Dataran Merdeka. But given the headlines outlet's domestic devotion as well as my miss of confidence in the forthrightness we demur to accept the representation indiscriminate yet.
I pronounced we 'hesitated' because, whilst we am not confident of Bernama, it is not all improbable for the unfolding that sees the prohibited head, fired up ! by the u seful arise as well as with adrenalin upon speed, motionless to burst by the military thong in the piece for the single chairman bid for glory. And he could have supporters who as well might have longed for to share that impulse of exuberant glory. When there were 300,000 participants who could unquestionably claim all were in pacific control of themselves?
Muhyiddin naturally put the blame upon Bersih though afterwards he's so low brow we can only ignore that domestic Neanderthal's common mumbling.
Now, we did warn in my progressing postBersih - "Uncle okay?", Auntie is okay!that:
Pakatan leaders, Anwar Ibrahim, Hadi Awang & Lim Kit Siang as well as their comparison lieutenants, must allow Bersih to be seen clearly by the Malaysian public as the non-Pakatan dependent movement for purify as well as satisfactory elections, as well as honourable of support by ALL endangered citizens, thus these Pakat! an leade rs, whilst supporting Bersih, contingency sojourn in the broadside credentials as well as not selfishly hijack the convene for their own domestic interests.
But Anwar only had to have the speech, didn't he? Couldn't he sojourn quietly in the credentials as well as let Ambiga be the main chairman for the day? Why contingency he have to have the speech that constantly would overlay the polite movement with the glaze of domestic parties? Knowing manmanlai's craze for broadside as well as the spotlight, we had not been wrong to predict his incapacity to stay in the background.
And we read that there! were cr ies of 'Hancur Rosmah'. Typical! WTF has that got to do with Bersih?
As we had written:
In the synthesized declarations of Ambiga Sreenevasan as well as Maria Chin Abdullah: "Bersih is the coalition of 84 NGOs as well as not the domestic organization. Civil multitude will lead the convene as well as assembly."The message to Malaysians contingency be unquestionably as well as unambiguously clear that Bersih 3.0 in perfectionist purify as well as satisfactory elections is the debate by unquestionably endangered as well as politically-neutral adults who have been neither pro Pakatan nor anti BN, or clamp versa. Far some-more importantly, Bersih's efforts have been pro public interests as well as anti-corrupt elections. Bersih seeks to prevent nefarious forces from cheating the ! voters o f their choice of representatives.
Alas, that was not to be.
The regrettable observations were the following:
(1) Marina Mahathir done the many striking regard that sent her ballistic she was wont to write in her blog Rantings by MM:
I saw the photos of the military rolling out the spiny handle as well as we saw red. Since when did the police, or whoever is their boss, roll out spiny handle - barbed wire!! - opposite their own people?? Are we thugs? Terrorists? Thieves?
Marina Mahathir during the military razor wired barrierphoto from her blog
(2) Violence opposite the military that compulsory the little cooler hea! ds in th e convene to yield protection for the military driver who had strike multiform participants, as well as where even hispolice automobile was overturned. He subsequently informed Malaysiakini that he had upheld out fromlosing the lot of blood after the "hard object strike his conduct upon the left side"- see MKINI'sDriver: we upheld out prior to crash.
As much as we weep military brutality, as well as indeed the military have the notorious repute for such, we have to worry when members of the public pounded the military as well as military property. This smacked of disturbance or worse, armed revolt.
The last time we heard of military being pounded was from my uncle who revealed that the little thirty years ago, a(Indian)police examiner in Alor Setar, well known for his savagery as well as bullying ways, bashed up the Royal Malay Regiment soldier upon the single of his arrogant kick-a! ss incursion s. Wrong chairman to bash!
The victimmarshalledhis mates from the barracks as well as armed to the teeth surrounded the ! military station where the brute was. Several shots were fired in the air with the soldiers perfectionist the examiner step out to face the music (rat-tat-tat music?). My Uncle heard that the IGP as well as Army Chief had to quickly intervene prior to Fort Apache with the MGR in it were blasted up to shreds.
In the much progressing incident (in the 70's?) the IGP was assassinated in the heart of KL by the CT. And even progressing than that, my granduncle who served in the SB was assassinated, also by the CT.
But such violence opposite the military meant violation the law, as well as this was precisely what DAP's VP, Tunku Abdul Aziz, had been worried about when he refused to behind Bersih. Should the authority's (and Bernama's) allegations opposite Anwar Ibrahim for egging his people to break the military thong of Dataran Merdeka infer to be correct, there's going to be the lot of "I told we so" during DAP HQs.
But in the same token, reports (with photos) of the military bashing the little protestors out of anger since they (the police) heard the law enforcemetn officer was killed (which incited out to be untrue), was sheer sum miss of professionalism as well as discipline. Such the lamentable state of affairs is even worse than anarchy or violent revolt, since we design professionals to behave professionally. But then, the PDRM haven't been exactly remarkable for professionalism as well as discipline! .
Now, in any case of either UMNO had sent the agents provocateur or that the PKR believer motionless to do the expect opposite of what Steve McQueen did in The Great Escape, violation in instead of out, Bersih has been the success, though injured by the incident that saw Malaysians bei! ng pitte d violently opposite Malaysians Malaysian civilians opposite Malaysian military as well as clamp versa.
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