November 6, 2012
Ambiga: No to Arab Spring in Malaysia
By Clara Chooi
Assistant News Editor, The Malaysian Insider
The BERSIH2.0 movement does not wish to means an Arab Spring in Malaysia, Datuk Ambiga Sreenavasan told CNN in the singular talk upon general radio aired here this morning.
She stressed which the choosing watchdog organisation she heads only wants the purify polls routine to ensure the democratically-elected government.
Ambiga told CNN's Christiane Amanpour (left) during the New York talk which BERSIH 2.0 is not against to the probability of the benefaction supervision returning to energy after the subsequent polls, provided which its leaders have been inaugurated fairly.
"Well, let me discuss it we where we're coming from. We do not wish an Arab Spring," the romantic pronounced to the eminent CNN chief general correspondent.
Ambiga was being interviewed to one side another pro-reform fighter, Ukraine's Eugenia Tymoshenko, the daughter of the locked up former Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko, upon "Amanpour", the nightly unfamiliar affairs programme which Amanpour anchors upon CNN International,
Both were described by Amanpour as "brave women" as well as "brave voices for democracy".
"We wish to choose the leaders by purify as well as satisfactory elections. We wish to
do it by the list box, which is why the supervision really, if they wish peaceful transition of any sort it can be the same government," Ambiga said, according to the twin of the talk accessible upon CNN.com. Amanpour had asked Ambiga (right) ! if she f elt which Malaysia would declare the same uprising seen over the past two years in the Middle East, pointing to the string of pro-democracy protests which the distinguished lawyer has led since 2007.
"To be honest, as distant as the movement is concerned, we're not we're not disturbed about who wins. We're disturbed about the process."--Ambiga
"The routine is important since what it needs to simulate is the will of the people. It's about legitimacy. It's about honouring the right of the voter to vote," she said.
The Arab Spring or the Arab series has seen rulers forced from energy in multiform countries across the Arab world including Egypt, Tunisia, Libya as well as Yemen, in the call of anti-government travel demonstrations.
"It can be the same people coming in," insisted Ambiga, stressing again which BERSIH 2.0 does not wish the Malaysian chronicle of the Arab Spring.
"They have to allow it to happen by purify as well as satisfactory elections. That's what we're asking for. We wish to move shift by the list box, if there is to be shift during all," she said.
Ambiga has so distant led 3 BERSIH demonstrations in the capital city, aggregation the throng of thousands in the impetus for giveaway as well as satisfactory elections.
The first convene in 2007 was partly credited for the colossal waste suffered by the ruling Barisan Nasional supervision during Elections 2008, where it unsuccessful to recapture its desired two-thirds parliamentary infancy as well as even ceded four states as well as Kelantan to the opposition.
But every BERSIH protest had resulted in scenes of disharmony as the supervision deployed riot military to stop protestors from marching upon the streets of the capital by the make use of of rip gas as well as chemical-laced water.
Since the protests, Ambiga as well as her fellow BERSIH2.0 steering cabinet members have been the aim of attacks by pro-BN hardliners, some of whom hav! e even h old mini protests outward her home as well as hurled threats as well as racial slurs during her.
But asked if she was afraid, Ambiga told Amanpour which she had little preference in the matter."I mean, the choices have been this: we possibly give in to the intimidation, which means we criticise the total movement, or we mount up to it."
She pointed out which such "oppressive conduct" by those in energy was the transparent denote which the supervision saw the Bersih movement as well as the throng of thousands it had thick with for the convene as "a threat".
Ambiga additionally made it the point to scold Amanpour upon the distance of the throng during the final BERSIH convene in Kuala Lumpur upon April 28, observant some 200,000 had attended, instead of the 20,000 which the match had progressing suggested.
"Malaysians do not take to the travel easily. So if they have to, there is the great reason for it."
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