The military assault unleashed upon pacific protesters, journalists, lawyers as well as medical volunteers during final Saturday's historic as well as phenomenally successful Bersih 3.0 convene in Kuala Lumpur is the pointer which Umno is in flourishing risk of losing its grip upon power.
Theworsening military brutalitymust be seen as the magnitude of the domestic elite's increasingly desperate as well as ineffectual efforts to reply to the prospects of losing power.
Similarly, the spike in state assault opposite demonstrators was an unavoidable theatre in the latter stages of recent regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt as well as Libya.
In many revolutions, the viscera of state assault simply cannot help themselves, as well as inevitably review to aggression, when they have been wantonness by their domestic masters.
This will come as cold joy toreported victimsof military violence, such as Bersih steering committee part of Wong Chin Huat, though state assault is mostly part of the birth pangs of momentous chronological as well as domestic change.
Violence was planned
The assault during Bersih 3.0 in the collateral - significantly absent from 85 alternative rallies in 35 countries - was apparently planned in advance.
Men in military uniforms removed their numbers as well as name tags to equivocate identification, as well as carried weapons such as knuckle-dusters.
Many wrapped tatters around their faces to equivocate identification, in the bizarre role annulment of the traditional 'cops as well as robbers' imagery.
In contrast, many protesters seemed ! unapproa chable as well as eager to publicise their participation during the rally, in await of purify as well as satisfactory elections. Thanks in vast part to the two latest Bersih rallies, decades of fear, fuelled by Umnointimidation of dissidentsusing the ISA as well as alternative repressive laws, have right away been mostly swept away.
That the KL assault was intentional was referred to by PKR vice-president N Surendran. He voiced hehad informationthat Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein had educated headlines editors to conceal headlines of military savagery - the day prior to the April twenty-eight rally.
The mainstream media has been predictably obliging to the home apportion as well as to Umno. Astro censored out parts of the BBC inform upon military action during the rally.
One mainstream journal even baldlystatedthatThe Sunjournalist Mohd Radzi Abdul Razak had been assaulted by 15 people after he had attempted to defend the policeman from being knocked about by protesters, nonetheless Radzi hadclearly told journaliststhat he had been "kicked in the gut", then knocked about by seven or eight policemen. No apology has followed.
Let loose by politicians
It might seem judicious which many rank-and-file policemen ought to have dreaded the awaiting of being seen assault up protesters during Saturday's rally.
Their self-confidence as well as public picture have taken the tough hit from widesprea! d defama tion of military savagery during final year's Bersih 2.0 rally, as well as from the snub over the killing of innocent 15-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah as well as of deaths in military detention.
There have additionally been demoralising allegations, made by prominentretired policemensuch as former Commercial Crimes Investigation Department head Ramli Yusuff, of corruption within the highest ranks of the force.
Still, the little policemen appear to have been given giveaway rein during Bersih, as well as were seen to be brazen sufficient to kick up pacific protesters making their approach home.
It can be argued which several policemen might have been enraged by fake rumours which demonstrators had killed policemen, as the single immature detaineereportedon hisFacebookpage.
But the organized savagery - exemplified by the queues of policemen doling out written as well as physical abuse to detainees being led, handcuffed, to the holding area - indicated the assault was not an emotional response, though had been orchestrated.
The go-ahead for the clampdown was certainly issued by top Umno leaders, given which the premier as well as home apportion have been Umno's boss as well as vice-president respectively.
Theworsening military brutalitymust be seen as the magnitude of the domestic elite's increasingly desperate as well as ineffectual efforts to reply to the prospects of losing power.
Similarly, the spike in state assault opposite demonstrators was an unavoidable theatre in the latter stages of recent regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt as well as Libya.
In many revolutions, the viscera of state assault simply cannot help themselves, as well as inevitably review to aggression, when they have been wantonness by their domestic masters.This will come as cold joy toreported victimsof military violence, such as Bersih steering committee part of Wong Chin Huat, though state assault is mostly part of the birth pangs of momentous chronological as well as domestic change.
Violence was planned
The assault during Bersih 3.0 in the collateral - significantly absent from 85 alternative rallies in 35 countries - was apparently planned in advance.
Men in military uniforms removed their numbers as well as name tags to equivocate identification, as well as carried weapons such as knuckle-dusters.
Many wrapped tatters around their faces to equivocate identification, in the bizarre role annulment of the traditional 'cops as well as robbers' imagery.
In contrast, many protesters seemed ! unapproa chable as well as eager to publicise their participation during the rally, in await of purify as well as satisfactory elections. Thanks in vast part to the two latest Bersih rallies, decades of fear, fuelled by Umnointimidation of dissidentsusing the ISA as well as alternative repressive laws, have right away been mostly swept away.
That the KL assault was intentional was referred to by PKR vice-president N Surendran. He voiced hehad informationthat Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein had educated headlines editors to conceal headlines of military savagery - the day prior to the April twenty-eight rally.
The mainstream media has been predictably obliging to the home apportion as well as to Umno. Astro censored out parts of the BBC inform upon military action during the rally.One mainstream journal even baldlystatedthatThe Sunjournalist Mohd Radzi Abdul Razak had been assaulted by 15 people after he had attempted to defend the policeman from being knocked about by protesters, nonetheless Radzi hadclearly told journaliststhat he had been "kicked in the gut", then knocked about by seven or eight policemen. No apology has followed.
Let loose by politicians
It might seem judicious which many rank-and-file policemen ought to have dreaded the awaiting of being seen assault up protesters during Saturday's rally.
Their self-confidence as well as public picture have taken the tough hit from widesprea! d defama tion of military savagery during final year's Bersih 2.0 rally, as well as from the snub over the killing of innocent 15-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah as well as of deaths in military detention.
There have additionally been demoralising allegations, made by prominentretired policemensuch as former Commercial Crimes Investigation Department head Ramli Yusuff, of corruption within the highest ranks of the force.
Still, the little policemen appear to have been given giveaway rein during Bersih, as well as were seen to be brazen sufficient to kick up pacific protesters making their approach home.
It can be argued which several policemen might have been enraged by fake rumours which demonstrators had killed policemen, as the single immature detaineereportedon hisFacebookpage.
But the organized savagery - exemplified by the queues of policemen doling out written as well as physical abuse to detainees being led, handcuffed, to the holding area - indicated the assault was not an emotional response, though had been orchestrated.
The go-ahead for the clampdown was certainly issued by top Umno leaders, given which the premier as well as home apportion have been Umno's boss as well as vice-president respectively.
Without this immature light, the military could not presumably have knocked about demonstrators with such abandon.
Quasi-fascist appeal
Since the racial pogrom of May 13, 1969, Umno's domestic presence has been predicated upon its quasi-fascist interest to ethnic supremacy.
Bersih 2.0 as well as 3.0 have effectively demolished Umno's capability to make use of the terror of ethnic assault to curb dissent.
The multi-ethnic rallies of July 9 final year as well as final Saturday showed Malay ! as well as non-Malay demonstrators sharing camaraderie as well as mutual await when faced with boots as well as batons, rip gas as well as noxious chemicals dismissed from H2O cannons.
This 'social bridging', promote via the social media, has eroded fears of racial assault among the Internet-savvy young. They have no memories of May 13.
Umno has obviously lost the promotion battle. The mainstream media's credit has evaporated, because ofdoctored photosand seemingly unconstrained lies as well as contradictions.
Suggestions in the Umno-dominated media which the Bersih protests were instigated byforeign powers,communists, Christian missionaries, belligerent lesbians as well as gays - or even the little mutant combination of the on top of - have been globally derided.
Implications for GE13
Umno can no longer rely upon the bogeyman of ethnic assault to broach Malaysian Chinese votes to its BN partners MCA as well as Gerakan, given non-Malay participants formed the full of health proportion of all the first-hand witnesses to Bersih 2.0 as well as 3.0.
Misjudged military assault during the Bersih 2.0 as well as 3.0 rallies has proved harmful for Umno's re-election efforts. Bersih protesters, immature as well as old, have returned to each successive convene in ever augmenting numbers, as well as with ever augmenting politically awareness.
The Bersih 3.0 rallies of 3,000 in Johor, as well as over 1,500 each in Sarawak as well as Sabah - all traditional BN strongholds - were peaceful, though several demonstrators in Johor Baru lodged military reports which poison had been splashed over their parked cars.
The shocking KL photos as well as videos of mass military beatings of protesters twisted up upon the ground, as well as the make use of of rip ! gas as c ommon punishment, will right away minister to anti-BN feeling in alternative states.
One Bersih supporterwrote into the Global Bersih 3.0 website, exhorting all Malaysians to vote in the 13th ubiquitous election or GE13.
"I salute all Bersih 3.0 organisers as well as participants worldwide. Although it is heartening to see the level of await (for) Bersih 3.0, the fact remains which this government will never encounter the final of Bersih 3.0, prior to GE13 or beyond... if the government can't change, you should shift the government."
The military have unwittingly brought Umno's worst fear closer: which voters will retaliate Umno for its crimes, as well as its servants', ! in GE13.
No domestic party can stay in power forever, even if the price of rip gas is no object.
Quasi-fascist appeal
Since the racial pogrom of May 13, 1969, Umno's domestic presence has been predicated upon its quasi-fascist interest to ethnic supremacy.
Bersih 2.0 as well as 3.0 have effectively demolished Umno's capability to make use of the terror of ethnic assault to curb dissent.
The multi-ethnic rallies of July 9 final year as well as final Saturday showed Malay ! as well as non-Malay demonstrators sharing camaraderie as well as mutual await when faced with boots as well as batons, rip gas as well as noxious chemicals dismissed from H2O cannons.
This 'social bridging', promote via the social media, has eroded fears of racial assault among the Internet-savvy young. They have no memories of May 13.
Umno has obviously lost the promotion battle. The mainstream media's credit has evaporated, because ofdoctored photosand seemingly unconstrained lies as well as contradictions.
Suggestions in the Umno-dominated media which the Bersih protests were instigated byforeign powers,communists, Christian missionaries, belligerent lesbians as well as gays - or even the little mutant combination of the on top of - have been globally derided.
Implications for GE13
Umno can no longer rely upon the bogeyman of ethnic assault to broach Malaysian Chinese votes to its BN partners MCA as well as Gerakan, given non-Malay participants formed the full of health proportion of all the first-hand witnesses to Bersih 2.0 as well as 3.0.
Misjudged military assault during the Bersih 2.0 as well as 3.0 rallies has proved harmful for Umno's re-election efforts. Bersih protesters, immature as well as old, have returned to each successive convene in ever augmenting numbers, as well as with ever augmenting politically awareness.
The Bersih 3.0 rallies of 3,000 in Johor, as well as over 1,500 each in Sarawak as well as Sabah - all traditional BN strongholds - were peaceful, though several demonstrators in Johor Baru lodged military reports which poison had been splashed over their parked cars.
The shocking KL photos as well as videos of mass military beatings of protesters twisted up upon the ground, as well as the make use of of rip ! gas as c ommon punishment, will right away minister to anti-BN feeling in alternative states.
One Bersih supporterwrote into the Global Bersih 3.0 website, exhorting all Malaysians to vote in the 13th ubiquitous election or GE13.
"I salute all Bersih 3.0 organisers as well as participants worldwide. Although it is heartening to see the level of await (for) Bersih 3.0, the fact remains which this government will never encounter the final of Bersih 3.0, prior to GE13 or beyond... if the government can't change, you should shift the government."
The military have unwittingly brought Umno's worst fear closer: which voters will retaliate Umno for its crimes, as well as its servants', ! in GE13.
No domestic party can stay in power forever, even if the price of rip gas is no object.
KERUAH USIT is the human rights activist - 'anak Sarawak, bangsa Malaysia'. This weekly column is an bid to provide the voice for marginalised Malaysians. Keruah Usit can be contacted atkeruah_usit@yahoo.com
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