Ambiga: Explain conflicting orders during Bersih rally

Ambiga remarkable which military initially treated with colour demonstrators with child gloves, before unleashing a barrage of tear gas canisters. File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug sixteen The Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) should compel a Inspector-General of Police as well as a home apportion to insist why dual seemingly disparate sets of orders were since to military as well as which led to a pell-mell break-up of a April twenty-eight criticism for free as well as satisfactory elections, Bersih co-chairwoman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan pronounced today.

It appears there were dual sets of orders since to a police, pronounced Ambiga, adding which primary orders since were to treat participants with care.

There was a second set of orders, it appears, which was a banishment of tear-gas. It unleashed fear upon participants of a rally. We cant assimilate how which happened.

Ambiga was vocalization to reporters when presenting Bersihs memorandum as well as report to a Suhakam row chaired by a commissions vice-chairman, Datuk Dr Khaw Lake Tee, which is questioning accusations of military savagery during a rally.

Ambiga pronounced Bersih longed for to know who gave a orders to a military as well as what orders were given.

She stressed which a Suhakam row should call a IGP as well as a home apportion as witnesses to get a complete picture.

Im certain they would be prepared to come, pronounced a prominent lawyer-activist.

She remarkable which a Suhakam row has powers to compel witnesses to testify.

Yesterday, Khaw told reporters which Suhakam has sent letters to Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), requesting a officers upon duty upon April twenty-eight to come forward to describe their account of events to a panel.

The row will additionally demeanour in to allegations from a National Union of Journalists (NUJ) that, prior to a rally, a lecture was since ! to membe rs of a media by a police.

She additionally pronounced a row will listen to from a Bersih organisers as well as visit a Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) headquarters to take a closer demeanour during a barbed wire block allegedly used during a rally.

The inquiry continues upon September 10.