'Then there was Hang Tuah, now Hang Samseng'



During a stately days of a Malacca sultanate, a mythological warrior Hang Tuah, heading his 4 other 'Hang' companions, stood out as a symbol of pride for a Malay kingdom.

NONEBut in modern Malacca, 'Hang Samseng' (gangster) have emerged, lamented Bersih co-chairperson A Samad Said, in anxiety to a assault targeting his colleague Ambiga Sreenevasan in Merlimau, Malacca, final Saturday.

"When Ambiga was going to Merlimau... There were around 200 gangsters watchful there. Ambiga was invited by PAS to insist Bersih's struggle. This is democracy.

"But prior to she could arrive, a friends there called as well as asked her not to come because there already were gangsters in a land of Hang Tuah.
"Think about it, in a land of Hang Tuah, there is 'Hang Samseng'," added a national laureate, fondly well known as Pak Samad.

While Hang Tuah is rarely regarded in Malay culture, Pak Samad, 77, described a 'Hang Samseng' as an "embarrassment".

"I feel ashamed. This is not a way we strengthen a democracy, some-more than 50 years after we completed independence... (they should) choose a improved way" he said in an interview yesterday.

NONELast Saturday, a hi-tea event that was supposed to feature Ambiga was blocked by protesters as well as two DAP state assemblypersons, Khoo Poay Tiong as well as Tey Kok Kiew, were pelted with eggs as well as stones as they were leaving.

The incidentdamaged several vehicles, together with Tey's, that was left with serious denting, a punctured tyre as well as a damaged side mirro! r.

Perkasa
andUmnohave certified to being part of a criticism though have both denied that they were obliged for a successive violence.

'Is jolt butts a culture?'

The Merlimau assault was preceded by a array of weird protests outward Ambiga's house in Kuala Lumpur, together with a 'butt exercise' that done a international news headlines.

NONEThis, Pak Samad sarcastically suggested, appears to have turn a new culture.

"We have completed independence for some-more than 50 years, as well as a enlightenment as well as manners crop up to be butts. And afterwards they hired gangsters to paint outward people's house. Is this a culture?" he asked.

Last Tuesday, a organisation of army veterans shook theirposteriorin front of Ambiga's house in criticism opposite what they said was a staining of a country's name by Ambiga, who they described as an "enemy of a nation".

Five days prior to that, a organisation of traders set up stalls as well as servedfree burgers, together with beef burgers, outward a house of Ambiga, who is a Hindu as well as vegetarian.

NONEOn Monday, a organisation of traders paintedyellow lotsfor trading along a highway outward Ambiga's house in preparation of a 'mini market' they devise to set up tomorrow as well as Friday.

The discord outward her house comes as a array of counter-protest! s by tra ders claiming they had suffered losses during a Bersih 3.0 criticism in Kuala Lumpur final month.
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