Kuala Lumpur military arch Mohmad Salleh has testified before to a government-initiated eccentric row upon military procedures in handling a Bersih 3.0 rally upon April 28.
He told a panel, headed by former military arch Hanif Omar, which a military had been ordered to maintain "maximum restraint".
Protesters were not stopped from marching upon a streets of a city, as a military were usually to act to defend a court sequence declaring Dataran Merdeka as well as roads around it a limited area.
"And they (had) made sure which we know which is a limit, as well as they put (up) barricades. Three lines of barricades. So if we mangle through, it means we positively want to mangle through," Hanif told reporters after a initial day of a hearing in Putrajaya today.
Hanif additionally explained when asked which a barricades were placed 50 metres away from a court-ordered limited area because of a Peaceful Assembly Act requires it.
He pronounced a demonstration police's standing orders if it were dispersing a sit-in protest were to initial emanate 3 warnings, each ten mins apart.
"But it does contend which if a incident changes, afterwards we do what needs to be done," he pronounced though elaborating further.
When asked whether there was an sequence to follow protesters to areas distant from a Dataran Merdeka, he said, it is not in a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), though a subject would be referred to military offic! ers upon t he ground upon future hearings.
Hanif additionally quoted Mohmad saying which a little 8,000 military officers from opposite a peninsula were concerned in policing a pro-electoral remodel rally, as well as he had privately briefed them upon a SOPs during a Police Training Centre (Pulapol) in Kuala Lumpu! r before to a rally.
"What we have been meddlesome to see is which a SOPs heed with a law as well as UN standards," he said, adding which Mohmad (left) had been told to check whether it incorporates a Medellin Declaration upon a protection of media.
Also scheduled to attest currently weretheSuneditor R Nadeswaran as well as former Kuala Lumpur CID arch Mat Zain Ibrahim, though a latter was abroad as well as did not show up.
Reporters invited to testify
Instead, dual reporters assigned to cover a row sitting were invited to testify.
"I was supposed to cover Nadeswaran, though afterwards we found out it was a closed-door session. Suddenly a secretariat asked me if we wanted to testify, so we thought 'why not' as well as contacted my boss," saidtheSunreporter Pauline Wong.
The other contributor wasThe Malaysian Insiderassistant editor Clara Chooi.
Hanif additionally pronounced as an "administrative panel" shaped by theHome Ministry, it does not have a power to enforce witnesses to testify, nor could it offer authorised shield to witnesses.
Therefore, he pronounced a row is dependent upon people's willingness to come forth, as well as has authorised advisers to safeguard which witnesses do not put themselves during risk.
"We will call for a assign sheets of those who have been charged so we can know how close we can move," he pronounced of a panel's concerns of underling judice.
On a vacancies in a row after dual members haddropped out, Hanif pronounced one had been taken up by former Federal Court Judge Nik Hashim Nik Abdul Rahman, while a Home Ministry is still perplexing to fill a other vacancy.
He told a panel, headed by former military arch Hanif Omar, which a military had been ordered to maintain "maximum restraint".
Protesters were not stopped from marching upon a streets of a city, as a military were usually to act to defend a court sequence declaring Dataran Merdeka as well as roads around it a limited area.
"And they (had) made sure which we know which is a limit, as well as they put (up) barricades. Three lines of barricades. So if we mangle through, it means we positively want to mangle through," Hanif told reporters after a initial day of a hearing in Putrajaya today.Hanif additionally explained when asked which a barricades were placed 50 metres away from a court-ordered limited area because of a Peaceful Assembly Act requires it.
He pronounced a demonstration police's standing orders if it were dispersing a sit-in protest were to initial emanate 3 warnings, each ten mins apart.
"But it does contend which if a incident changes, afterwards we do what needs to be done," he pronounced though elaborating further.
When asked whether there was an sequence to follow protesters to areas distant from a Dataran Merdeka, he said, it is not in a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), though a subject would be referred to military offic! ers upon t he ground upon future hearings.
Hanif additionally quoted Mohmad saying which a little 8,000 military officers from opposite a peninsula were concerned in policing a pro-electoral remodel rally, as well as he had privately briefed them upon a SOPs during a Police Training Centre (Pulapol) in Kuala Lumpu! r before to a rally.
"What we have been meddlesome to see is which a SOPs heed with a law as well as UN standards," he said, adding which Mohmad (left) had been told to check whether it incorporates a Medellin Declaration upon a protection of media.Also scheduled to attest currently weretheSuneditor R Nadeswaran as well as former Kuala Lumpur CID arch Mat Zain Ibrahim, though a latter was abroad as well as did not show up.
Reporters invited to testify
Instead, dual reporters assigned to cover a row sitting were invited to testify.
"I was supposed to cover Nadeswaran, though afterwards we found out it was a closed-door session. Suddenly a secretariat asked me if we wanted to testify, so we thought 'why not' as well as contacted my boss," saidtheSunreporter Pauline Wong.
The other contributor wasThe Malaysian Insiderassistant editor Clara Chooi.
Hanif additionally pronounced as an "administrative panel" shaped by theHome Ministry, it does not have a power to enforce witnesses to testify, nor could it offer authorised shield to witnesses.
Therefore, he pronounced a row is dependent upon people's willingness to come forth, as well as has authorised advisers to safeguard which witnesses do not put themselves during risk.
"We will call for a assign sheets of those who have been charged so we can know how close we can move," he pronounced of a panel's concerns of underling judice.
On a vacancies in a row after dual members haddropped out, Hanif pronounced one had been taken up by former Federal Court Judge Nik Hashim Nik Abdul Rahman, while a Home Ministry is still perplexing to fill a other vacancy.
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