Yellow victims tell blue and black tales


Victims of military savagery during a Apr twenty-eight Bersih convene relate their distress of being upon a reception finish of 'karate chops' as good as 'flying kicks'.
KUALA LUMPUR: Mohd. Saufi Othman, 29, was attempting to leave a city upon a evening of Apr twenty-eight when he was confronted by a organisation of policemen who began raining blows upon him.
In a surrounded by of a assault, he felt a barrel of a gun shoved in to his chest. The bruise is usually just commencement to fade.
Satesh Kumar, 29, was recording a events receiving place around a Masjib Jamek LRT hire when an additional organisation of policemen dragged him away from his mom as good as girlfriend.
He was kicked as good as stepped upon prior to being hauled to Dataran Merdeka where a other Bersih detainees were grouped.
Along a way, a trade policemen stopped him as good as glanced around prior to delivering a swift punch to his gut. Satesh was expelled from Pulapol during 3am a next day.
These were dual of a testimonies from a nineteen victims of military savagery during a Bersih 3.0 convene last month. Two of a nineteen were reporters who decried being beaten up for carrying out their work.
At a press conference here today, a victims spoke of being beaten by unclear policemen for walking upon a streets, recording a on-goings, assisting an additional plant or for simply catching their exhale upon a sidewalk.
'Karate chops' as good as 'flying kicks'
"I tried to assistance my friend who was lying upon a road though a policemen who were kicking as good as punching him incited upon me," pronounced Hanafi Ahmad Zubidin in his 30s. "I had no choice though to run."
"The military saw me recording them assault people in a Masjib Jamek hire as good as they set upon me too," removed Daniel, 39. "I was pushed down a staircase as good as have 5 stitches during a behind of my right ear," he added.
But Daniel was luckier than Asrul Wadi, 26, who wound up with 9 stitches nearby his right eye as good as dual some-more nearby his left. He has consulted 3 eye specialists as good as is facing a possibility of blindness.
Many of those detained had identical stories of being hauled through Dataran Merdeka past dual lines of policemen who dealt out punches, "karate chops" as good as "flying kicks". Members of PAS' Unit Amal team who were arrested were reportedly made to walk past a military line twice.
Those who were already in a Black Maria remembered military literally throwing a harmed in to a trucks as good as kicking them inside. Some were sealed up in behind of a trucks for dual hours with usually a tiny opening above them for ventilation.
Bersih: Organised pattern
Bersih 3.0 personality Hishamuddin Rais highlighted what he pronounced was an "organised pattern" in a acts of military savagery upon which day.
"All a cops who were assault up people wore no name tags or numbers," he stated. "Groups of them assaulted a singular person as good as they additionally targetted those with recording devices."
"There was an organized settlement which day which equates to which there was a methodology to a brutality. And which equate! s to whi ch there were instructions from a top."
Bersih co-chairperson A Samad Said combined which a bulk of assaults had taken place after a rally's finish time of 4pm.
"I am certain there were specific orders for this," he said, echoing Hishammudin's allegation. "And you cannot allow such a thing to happen."
Lack of transparency
The national laureate additionally read out a press matter by Bersih expressing deep concern over a miss of clarity as good as information upon a status of investigations in to a military force as good as a Home Ministry's disaster to provide a press recover of a 100 people who have yet to obey to a authorities.
"Every singular day since a Bersih 3.0 rally, uninformed allegations of military abuse have surfaced," Samad read. "Disappointingly to date there has been no estimable movement taken by a supervision to bring to book those responsible for a assault perpetrated by law enforcement officials."
"Instead military have expelled images of 141 people who have been wanted for violation a law upon which day. There appears to be a magician hunt for these people instead of seeking out policepersonnel who committed assault opposite convene goers."
On May 9, a military released a seven-day deadline to a 141 people though usually twenty-six have surrendered so far.
Two policemen were charged yesterday for assaulting Guang Ming every day photograper, Wong Kin Onn, though have since pleaded not guilty.
Physical, mental abuse
Samad additionally pointed out which those who have surrende! red to a military had been subjected to physical as good as mental abuse.
These include Mohd Safuan Mamat 24, who claimed which he had been hit with a steel pipe when he was held overnight after turning up during a military station.
Fadiah Nadwa Fikri of Lawyers for Liberty meanwhile advised those upon a list not to go to a military hire alone for reserve purposes.
"We will accompany you there," she said. "People have been afraid to cooperate with a military after Safuan's case as good as a military must give declaration which they will provide people humanely."
Suaram's E Nalini combined which a military danger is not restricted to Peninsular Malaysia though additionally East Malaysia where students have been being threatened by a universities.
"This shows which a issue isn't over as you have been still reception reports of danger to this day," she said.
Bersih 2.0 has set up a hotline (012-3496013) as good as an email address (info@bersih.org) for a open to board reports of incidents of military savagery upon Apr 28.
The Bersih convene saw some 80,000 people, mostly clad in yellow, receiving to a streets perfectionist giveaway as good as satisfactory elections.
The peaceful criticism incited aroused when a barricades during Dataran Merdeka were breached, prompting a military to glow tear gas as good as water cannons.
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