Post BERSIH3.0: A Time for Healing

May 7, 2012

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"It is time for recovering a wounds of a increasingly polarised as well as fractured society. Only then can a forces of disharmony as well as disruption be defeated. Only then can we take joy in a believe which a GE thirteen will not usually be giveaway as well as fair, though giveaway of misunderstanding as well as dispute."Dato' Azlina Aziz

Post BERSIH3.0: A Time for Healing

by Dato' Azlina Aziz

On a eve of BERSIH3.0, my father Nazir as well as we visited a vicinity of Dataran Merdeka to see for ourselves preparations for a rally. Although it was usually 10.30pm upon Friday night, a vast throng of protestors was rapidly building up, with Police officers backing up around Dataran. We were shocked, to contend a least, by a area of spiny wire encircling a square. The prophesy of protestors upon a single side as well as a Police upon a other, distant by barricades as well as pointy steel, seems to symbolize division, confrontation, aggression. We both went home which evening with a deep sense of foreboding as well as unease.

The events which unfolded a next day have been as well informed now to recount. But either we attended a convene or observed from a sidelines; either we upheld a means or condemned it; either we countenanced open assemblies or disapproved of them altogether; we consider it's satisfactory to contend which most of us have been deeply disturbed by a events which played out in a capital which Saturday. The scenes of mayhem attacks upon Police motor vehicles, protestors confronting tear gas, a pistol allegedly being drawn in a crowded area, earthy assaults upon members of a public, Police force as well as press have been not ones informed nor savoury to us Malaysians who value confidence as well as order.

It is a sad state of affairs when a actions of a couple of who review to assault as well as charg! e outcom e in pang as well as mishap for scores of people, as well as a aftershocks of a eventuality go upon to roll on. In coffee shops, offices, newspapers, web forums as well as blogs have been heated debates upon a "rights" as well as "wrongs" as well as repercussions of what happened which day.

Many have been angry. Some have been fearful, as well as annoy mostly goes palm in palm with fear. Others have been eager to find someone to censure for a spin of events. The assault as well as confrontation which played out which day have strong a gulf as well as fissures in a society. A prophesy of togetherness for Malaysia seems serve away than ever. Sadly, new open statements by amicable as well as domestic leaders have usually accentuated multiplication as well as dissent.

In a censure diversion as well as recriminations which have followed, we adhere to a belief that maintaining togetherness contingency be foremost upon a minds, as a most effective opposite to disruptive elements of assault as well as chaos.

To do this, we contingency begin by recovering a gaping wound which opened up which day as well as it is my goal which dual vital concerns will be addressed.

Firstly, assault cannot as well as will not be tolerated in a civilised society. All those who resorted to assault upon which day contingency be brought to justice whoever they are, as well as whichever side of a order they mount on. The authority of BERSIH has condemned a actions of aroused protestors as "wholly unacceptable". The IGP has made a rare interest for help from members of a open in identifying rogue Police officers.

For a consequence of togetherness as well as promoting a recovering process, is it as well most to ask for a authorities, open as well as organisers o! f a conv ene to set in reserve their differences as well as work together in identifying as well as acting against a couple of who resorted to violence?

Secondly, we fervently goal which a authorities will engage with a many thousands who incited out en masse which fateful Saturday, a satisfactory series of whom were typical Malaysians who felt compelled to give earthy presence to their concerns upon a accumulation of issues, of which electoral reform is just one. Grievances as well as resentments should not be allowed to fester. Those which have been more notice than being require improved rendezvous as well as explanation. Those which have been substantive require courtesy as well as action.

Healing a wounds of BERSIH 3.0 is imperative prior to we enter upon upon what will presumably be a country's defining domestic eventuality in decades to come: a GE 13. Public confidence in a electoral process is necessary if we have been to avoid an aftermath of anger, gainsay as well as disorder which a unfolding of BERSIH 3.0 seems to suggest.

As it stands, a stage is set for a results of GE thirteen to be contested even prior to a single vote is cast. It is a slippery slope thereafter, a single which we have witnessed in alternative countries, with hugely unpropitious goods upon a amicable fabric as well as economy.

Much has been pronounced about a progress of a Parliamentary Select Committee as well as a officials of a EC, as well as we will not touch upon this here. But certainly a quick as well as effective step to urge open confidence would be a appointment of a couple of upstanding Malaysians, who authority a apply oneself of all parties, to be entrusted with overseeing a ubiquitous election.

BERSIH 3.0 was a dire eventuality for Malaysia. we goal we can strike a mishap as well as learn from a mistakes. we goal we can come together in togetherness as well as contend "No" to assault in whatever shape or form. It is time for engagement, for listening, for slicing a invisible spiny wires which separate "them" as well as "us" as well as fluctuating a palm over a order to those who may remonstrate with your views though have as most of a interest as well as destiny in a country as we do.

It is time for recovering a wounds of a increasingly polarised as well as fractured society. Only then can a forces of disharmony as well as disruption be defeated. Only then can we take joy in a believe which a GE thirteen will not usually be giveaway as well as fair, though giveaway of misunderstanding as well as dispute.

*Dato Azlina Aziz was formerly in use as Associate Director of Barings Securities Research responsible for industry analysis as well as domestic commentary. She binds a master's grade in women's studies from Oxford University. She lives in Kuala Lumpur with her dual young kids as well as father Datuk Seri Nazir Razak.

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