Cops caused violence at Bersih rally, Suhakam inquiry told


KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 5 Riot military fired rip gas as well as water cannons during a Apr twenty-eight Bersih rally, leading to violent clashes with protesters, as well as a situation was done worse by a use of spiny handle around Dataran Merdeka as it led to injuries to scores of demonstrators, a Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) inquiry was told today.
One declare told a inquiry which a spiny handle used by a authorities during Dataran Merdeka was usually used in fight zones.
"According to my experience, it is a many dangerous spiny wire," retired soldier Khairul Anuar Pawanchik told a inquiry.
He also told a Suhakam row which he saw a man with his ear swinging from his head, as well as which he was sure it had been caused by a spiny handle used to sela off Dataran Merdeka.
Another witness, Kunabalan Rahagopal, told a inquiry which a military did not give any warning prior to firing rip gas into a throng of thousands of protesters.
"I am sure which there were no warnings given prior to a policemen changed in, he said.
Suhakam kickstarted currently a open inquiry into a assault in a national capital which erupted final Apr twenty-eight over Bersih's third demonstration for purify elections given 2007.
The inquiry row led by Suhakam vice-chairman Datuk Dr Khaw Lake Lee as well as aided by commissioners Professor Datuk Dr Mahmood Zuhdi Abdul Majid as well as Detta Samenwill be interviewing some twenty-two witnesses over a duration of twenty-two days.
Apart from Khairul Anuar, 60, as well as 58-year-old Kunabalan, retiree Baharudin Hisham, 53, from Puchong was a third declare who testified currently prior to observers from a Malaysian Bar, a military as well as multiform other independent monitors.
Tens of thousands of Malaysians converged upon a streets of a capital city upon Apr twenty-eight to participate in Bersih 3.0, a polls wat! chdog's third convene for free as well as fair elections.
Despite a peaceful start, chaos erupted shortly prior to 3pm when multiform protesters breached a barricades surrounding Dataran Merdeka, call military to glow rip gas canisters as well as water cannons to disperse them.
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