Updates as of 3rd May 2012

Al Jazeera in response to Astro censorship of its news: “Our news report was a factual account of events that day, and intrusion in our editorial process is unwarranted. We have not been censored in this way by another distribution platform anywhere in the world.”

 

In a terse demand note to Astro, BBC “strongly” condemned “any blocking of the trusted news that we broadcast around the world including via distribution partners”.

 

Astro, meanwhile, simply said they had to “comply with local content regulations”

 

Minister Rais Yatim defended Astro’s right, saying it was the satellite television’s prerogative to air the “best parts”

 

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/03/al-jazeera-to-bersih-explain-the-breaches/

 

 

 

Umno-controlled New Straits Times (NST) has been accused of fabricating words in a three-year-old speech by Australian Senator Nick Xenophon

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/nst-replaces-word-paints-anwars-aussie-senator-friend-as-anti-islam

 

 

 

 

Malaysiahas been found to be one of the worst countries inAsiawhen it comes to press freedom, according to the US-based Freedom House’s “Freedom of the Press 2012” report

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/03/us-report-press-in-msia-not-free/

 

 

 

 

Hundreds of journalists and photographers showed up at press conferences and their offices dressed in black in a show of solidarity in conjunction with the World Press Freedom Day on Thursday

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/5/3/nation/20120503122954&sec=nation

 

 

 

 

Several Chinese newspapers “went black” to mark World Press Freedom Day today as a protest against the violence showed towards pressmen during Bersih 3.0.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/5/3/nation/11222619&sec=nation

 

 

 

In Malacca, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam called on state Wanita MCA chief Datuk Kian Sit Har to step down for expressing her support for the Bersih rally

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/5/3/nation/11219453&sec=nation

 

 

The video, which runs for about six minutes, shows PKR deputy president Azmin Ali telling the crowd to keep calm and that the leaders are discussing with the police to allow the demonstrators to enter Dataran Merdeka.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/03/video-azmin-tells-crowd-to-keep-calm/

 

 

 

 

Protesters did not breach court order

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/03/protesters-did-not-breach-court-oder/

 

 

 

 

Victims include personnel from Sin Chew Daily, Guang Ming Daily, The Star, Oriental News Daily, The Sun, Malay Mail, China Press, Nanyang Business Daily, Al Jazeera, Malaysiakini, online news website Merdeka Review and AL Hijrah TV.

Many were injured, with some receiving injuries serious enough to require stitches and hospitalisation.

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=32998:intl-fed-of-journalists-condemn-brutal-police-attack-on-media-staff-in-msia&Itemid=2

 

 

 

 

He said the Bar’s interim report on the Bersih 3.0 rally had found that:

1. The rally was peaceful until around 3pm when the police unleashed water cannon and tear gas on the crowd;

2. The use of force by the police without any obvious provocation or cause, was far worse, indiscriminate, disproportionate and excessive;

3. Police brutality was more widespread;

4. There was a concerted effort by the police to prevent and stop any recording of their actions and conduct;

5. Police fired tear gas directly at the crowd and their firing pattern was to box in the participants rather than allow them to disperse quickly

6. After which pockets of retaliatory behaviour was exhibited by some participants of the rally to the wrongful use of force by the police;

7. The police were observed taunting and mocking the crowd;

8. When items were thrown by some of the participants at the police, the police stooped to return like for like; and

9. Not all police personnel were wearing and displaying their police identification number on their uniforms.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/police-brutality-more-widespread-during-bersih-3.0-says-bar-council/

 

 

 

 

The United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials states that, “Law enforcement officials, in carrying out their duty, shall, as far as possible, apply non-violent means before resorting to the use of force and firearms. They may use force only if other means remain ineffective or without any promise of achieving the intended result” and whenever the lawful use of force and firearms is unavoidable, law enforcement officials shall:

(a) Exercise restraint in such use and act in proportion to the seriousness of the offence and the legitimate objective to be achieved;

(b) Minimize damage and injury, and respect and preserve human life;

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=32989:the-malaysian-government-must-investigate-police-violence-at-bersih-rally-and-take-major-steps-to-overhaul-a-policing-system-that-facilitates-and-perpetrates-human-rights-violations&Itemid=2

 

 

 

 

Lim Guan Eng today suggested that a panel of international experts investigate the violent attacks against pressmen during last Saturday’s rally, claiming the public would not trust any probe conducted by the police on their own colleagues.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/guan-eng-foreign-panel-should-probe-violence-against-press

 

 

 

 

“…the police dropped tear gas canisters from the top into the crowd,”

http://www.thesundaily.my/news/364640

 

 

 

 

What kind of regime is afraid of cameras?

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/196576

 

 

The police force has been spending a lot of resources to improve its image and get close to the people, including launching the High Profile Policing programme. However, the efforts have been wasted after the Bersih 3.0 rally.

http://www.mysinchew.com/node/73086

 

 

 

 

Bersih 3.0 rally a truly 1Malaysia event

http://www.mmail.com.my/story/bersih-30-rally-truly-1malaysia-event

 

 

 

 

Sabah- much of the credit goes to KK police and DBKK for keeping an open mind

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/opinion/article/i-was-surrounded-by-30-policemen

 

 

Laboring for Bersih 1 May 2012

Global Bersih 3.0 from 72 Countries

Mobile phones jammed & No exits Out

I saw some police personnel in a truck placing on the lamp posts, what I later learned were possibly the radio jammers used to block mobile phones and Internet access during the rally.

There was no way we could have left the area. The trains were not running, and we could see the water cannons targeting the very places where people had been trapped. The police gave no quarter, and if the people had to fight back, then it is because they had no place to escape.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/01/watching-helplessly-as-citizens-get-abused/

Mr Prime Minister, really it was through Bersih 3.0 we truly experienced, and saw your 1 Malaysia in practice. 

We met with Malaysians, from Pahang, Kelantan, Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya and as far as East Malaysia. These Malaysians were Malay, Indian, Chinese and others.  These Malaysians were young and old, male and female or any other.   These Malaysians were college students, lecturers, working professionals, business men, lawyers, housewives, NGOs, retirees, truly everyone who was anyone was represented here.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/why-would-a-mother-attend-bersihs-duduk-bantah-on-28.4/

Psychological Warfare Tactics Used

Clear strategy was in place to create confusion (police retreating from barrier … giving false sense of passive permission for crowd to continue breaching barrier) –> chaos (shots directly fired into the masses beyond the barrier) so as to create panic and as much harm as possible. The step-by-step execution of this deliberate plan where there was clearly disregard for human life and casualties. Only people higher up could have approved of such a plan. Who?

BBC Signals Outrage Over Malaysian ‘Censorship’ Of Bersih 3.0 Coverage

Thirty seconds appears to have been cut out of the doctored version on Astro, after the removal of three separate sequences, one of which showed a policeman on a motorbike apparently firing at demonstrators.

http://www.sarawakreport.org/2012/04/bbc-signals-outrage-over-malaysian-censorship-of-bersih-3-0-coverage-exclusive/

And in the past hours more information has started to emerge that the channel carried out a similar tampering exercise with the Al Jazeera report on the march by the reporter Harry Fawcett!

 

“The minute [Mr.] Najib called the police the ‘victims,’ it was the nail in the coffin of his ability to call himself a reformer,” Welsh, a professor at the Singapore Management University. Government officials have played down the severity and extent of the violence involved in Saturday’s protest.

http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2012/04/30/malaysia-split-over-violence-at-bersih-rally/?mod=google_news_blog

 

 

Trapped with No where to hide

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/04/30/%E2%80%98i-was-scared-for-my-life%E2%80%99/

Trapped with No immediate way out

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/04/30/one-saturday-in-the-heart-of-kl/

Refocusing on the main objective of BERSIH 3.0 rally

A Rasah PKR deputy divisional leader was arrested at midnight for what is believed to be an offence related to the Bersih 3.0 rally

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/01/rasah-pkr-leader-arrested/

71-yr old beaten by PoliceWoman

(What she says towards the end of the interview is touching)

A legal assistant who went to the aid of a Chinese couple being assaulted by police during Bersih 3.0, ended with broken ribs and head injuries.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/01/good-samaritan-gets-a-beating-of-his-life/

Heroes And More Heroes

But amidst the canned-sardine situation, the searing pain on our cheeks, eyes and throat, the tears and the mucus, an aged man urged my crying friend to keep calm and gave her a mask. My friend gave the mask to a girl who didn’t have a towel. People were passing water around and offering each other salt. My friend fell and people picked her up. Some people braved the tear gas and rushed to form a circle around a fallen person instead of stampeding over her, and they later carried her to safety.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/01/bright-and-yellow-dawn-dark-and-stormy-dusk/

Immediately after the first round of tear gas, we saw a girl walking around picking up rubbish. We asked her for some bags, which we later used to pick up rubbish as well.

Down the road, we saw many policemen ambushing a man and punching him together, kicking him when he fell. They also roughly grabbed other men down the road. They were forcibly making people remove their yellow T-shirts and arresting them.

My friend and another girl started scolding the police for hitting a man until he bled although he was already shirtless. The police just yelled at us to go home. Any male person spotted was treated with much more force and aggression.

We saw all these and we couldn’t document anything. The police were acting like gangsters, ganging up and beating up single men, forcing them to strip.

Auntie Bersih Crying ” We Love, We Save, We Clean”

We felt sad that the police were under the orders of masters who are so like the South Africans elites who hated Desmond Tutu

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/when-will-we-stop-being-a-police-state-rama-ramanathan/

Victims of Police Violence

Police storm restaurants where people sitting peacefully

The government might possibly offer up the Election Commission chief and deputy, discovered to be members of UMNO, as sacrificial lambs, but that’s probably it.  Forget about cleaning up the electoral roll or reforming postal ballots — obviously that’s where their safety votes are coming from

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/analysing-bersih-3.0-malaysian-in-the-us/

Horror stories of police aggression

http://www.freemalaysiakini2.com/?p=27408

News as of 30 April 2012

The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) has condemned the Malaysian government for its heavy-handed reaction to the BERSIH 3.0 rally

“Time and again, the Malaysian government has demonstrated its total disregard for international human rights standards on peaceful assemblies. FORUM-ASIA also slammed the government for shirking its responsibility over the violence that occurred at the rally. “It is wholly irresponsible for the Prime Minister to claim that the police was victimised by the protestors and was thus prompted to act”

http://www.forum-asia.org/?p=12525

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak appeared on Monday to have weathered the weekend’s violent electoral reform protest and may still call elections as early as June.

http://www.euronews.com/newswires/1499982-malaysias-najib-weathers-protest-may-still-call-early-poll/

No man can be trusted with unchecked power 

In the end of Bersih 3.0 showed that the line between good and evil runs not across party lines or those for/against a cause. The writer C.S. Lewis said that democracy was necessary because “no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows”.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/bersih-3.0-two-visions-for-democracy/

117 demonstrators had received medical treatment

Displaying bruises and scrapes, participants in a weekend protest said Sunday that the police used brutal tactics to shut down their rally for fair elections

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/world/asia/malaysian-protesters-accuse-police-of-brutality.html?_r=1

There were over 150,000 members of the public who wanted to be at the field which happened to be empty at that time.

The police say they were protecting public interest. What public interest existed at 2pm April 28, 2012? Who were the members of the public the police are referring to? They knew that the organisers would not be able to control the angry crowds once it was sent helter-skelter by the tear gas and water-cannons

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/bersih-428-a-personal-perspective-goh-chee-leong

For a nation that has been prominently divided according to race for more than 50 years, the demographics and turnout of the rally has set new benchmarks for the country’s political landscape. 

Yet, it is likely that Najib and his administration is unperturbed by the massive rally, as it does not view the rally as a game-changer in the upcoming elections. …….At least, not yet.

http://asiancorrespondent.com/81453/larger-turnout-at-bersih-3-0-may-not-be-a-game-changer-in-upcoming-msian-elections/

Anwar Ibrahim  insisted he had asked the deputy president to negotiate with police.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/anwar-azmin-say-signals-meant-negotiate-with-police/

Videos of More Police Brutality keep streaming in

As a policeman, isn’t it your job to protect us citizens but instead I was fearing for my life when I looked at you coming towards me?

All mobile phone lines seemed to be blocked as none of us could call out.

Bus operators threatened by the transport andtTourism ministries that their licence would be revoked.

http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2012/04/29/my-bersih-3-0-experience-the-day-the-police-became-hooligans/

In the aftermath of BERSIH 3.0, however you look at it, the police and the government must take full responsibility on whatever damage that happened.

http://links.org.au/node/2844

Why were they so trigger-happy and straight away shot tear gas into the crowd?

Worse, if there had been a stampede, people could have died. And why did the police shoot tear gas from the non-barricaded areas in Jalan Pudu and Petaling Street as well?

http://malaysiandigest.com/opinion/43511-lets-tell-the-main-story-of-bersih-30.html

BERSIH 3.0 – Tears of Malaysia

CNN I-Report

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-782887?ref=feeds%2Foncnn

471 arrested have been freed

http://www.news24.com/World/News/Malaysia-frees-471-protesters-20120429

Not all cops are bad, not my Malacca cops, anyway

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/cowardice-is-the-mother-of-cruelty/

Slow Motion of what actually happened in the Police Car accident – The real gangsters identified. Bersih participants try to save the victims and police man 

News & Videos Posted as of 3pm (M’sia) 29 Apr 2012

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Ambiga’s Speech at the Rally

A cameraman repeatedly hit by a mob of policemen

BBC News censored by Astro

Marina Mahathir’s daughter tear-gassed

“Then I saw the photos of the police rolling out the barbed wire and I saw red. Since when did our police, or whoever is their boss, roll out barbed wire – barbed wire!! – against their own people?? Are we thugs? Terrorists? Thieves?”

http://www.globalbersih.org/2012/04/29/bersihstories-my-bersih-3-0-experience-behind-the-barbed-wire-barricades-marina-mahathir-kuala-lumpur-malaysia/

AlJazeera attacked by police, and participants injured

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/04/20124286221449574.html

Photojournalists from Malaysiakini, Guang Ming newspaper and a Malay Mail journalist arrested. Journalists from Nanyang, Channel News Asia, Al Jazeera, Makkal Osai and Merdeka Review assaulted / had their cameras damaged or memory cards confiscated.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/pkr-bn-responsible-for-attacks-on-journalists-during-bersih-3.0/

The foreign press – contempt for its people’s basic rights and freedoms

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/bersih-dampens-najibs-reform-credentials-say-foreign-press/

Bersih3.0 police beat protestor cruelly

People being kicked and punched repeatedly by police even as they lay on the ground injured

Cornered protesters assaulted by police

Police taking turns to kick a fallen participant

 

Even the Traffic Police are in for the “Kill”

 

 

Beaten & Families arrested

Barrier broken, PKR Security tried to stop a break-away group from entering Dataran Merdeka, Police fired on crowd without warning, Hundreds arrested

Tourist hit by policemen

A tide of thousands seen walking for freedom

Crowd gathers and police prepare

Pro-oppposition websites surpressed

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=32972:bersih-30-a-huge-success-police-attack-aimed-to-dampen-the-peoples-spirit&Itemid=2

Updates as of 12am 29 Apr 2012

(Photo from Malaysian Insider)

222 people were arrested

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hgzoCzql8H1y5jZ1cv9LTdNwIdfA?docId=61db160eb1844635ace9dc1f6e8ea916

Earlier Video from AlJazeerah showing police violence.

AlJazeerah’s camera was busted by police. Injured Bersih participants seen in video

The Aftermath

http://www.demotix.com/news/1179249/aftermath-bersih-30-rally-malaysia?destination=search/context

Senator Nick Xenophon has had teargas fired in his direction during a demonstration for electoral reforms in central Kuala Lumpur.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/australian-senator-nick-xenophon-caught-in-a-protest-in-kuala-lumpur-malaysia-where-police-fired-teargas/story-fn7x8me2-1226341625422

Riot police fired teargas and water cannons repeatedly and chased people until 7pm

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/litee/sideviews/article/who-caused-bersih-3.0-chaos-muhammad-farouk/

5.50pm: Batu MP Tian Chua and Prof Dr Abdul Aziz Bari, former law lecturer, have been arrested.

“Now I’m arrested, police hit us as we were dragged thru rows of rowdy officers – many got beaten up after being arrested,” reads Chua’s tweet.

5.45pm: Masjid Jamek – Some protesters still want to push into Dataran Merdeka, but the police return and give chase. A number of protesters are arrested. Some of the protesters throw shoes and bottles at the police.

5.30pm: KL Sentral – Bersih at a press conference the organisers claims the event is a success with 250,000 turnout. They however express regret with the incidents that have taken place, and suspect sabotage saying the behaviour reported is “unusual”.

5.26pm: Jalan TAR, in front of Sogo – Police are seen to be checking the overturned car.

5.15pm: Intersection of Jalan Tun HS Lee and Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, near CIMB Bank – PAS Unit Amal (security unit) is making its rounds urging the remaining protesters to disperse.

Meanwhile in thousands are still gathered in front of Masjid Jamek. They gather along Jalan Tun Perak, facing off a few police trucks.

They shout “Bersih, Bersih”, but the police trucks suddenly make a U-turn and head back to Dataran Merdeka. The crowd claims victory.

5:13pm: Jalan TAR – The situation in Jalan TAR appears to be calm after a FRU truck retreated. There is no police presence along the road from Maju Junction to Pertama Complex.

Some of the protesters could be seen heading back towards Dataran Merdeka.

The area in front of Bar Council building is now deserted as most of the protesters have dispersed.

But there are still protesters in two main areas – from Masjid Jamek to Dataran Maybank and those in Jalan TAR.

5.12pm: Jalan Pudu, near Dataran Maybank – The back window of a car was shattered, with the protesters saying that it was caused by a tear gas canister fired by FRU.

5:01pm: Jln TAR – Four police trucks head towards Jln Chow Kit while protestors shout “Hancur FRU” and “Hidup Bersih”. The protestors show no sign of dispersing

5.00pm: Detainees are being held at the Police Training Centre (Pulapol) in Kuala Lumpur.

4.55pm: Masjid Jamek – Hundreds of people are trapped inside the Masjid Jamek mosque. Police have blocked the entrance to the mosque compound.

http://video.couriermail.com.au/2228168170/Clashes-erupt-at-Malaysia-rally

4.42pm Jalan Raja Laut: Malay Mail editor Terence Fernandez says the daily’s pixman Arif Kartono assaulted by six cops. camera smashed.

Clashes at Malaysia mass protest (From The Telegraph, Australia)

Clashes-at-Malaysia-mass-protest

‘By launching a crackdown on peaceful protesters on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian government is once again showing its contempt for its people’s basic rights and freedoms,’ said Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch’s deputy director for Asia.

http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=744628&vId=

Malaysian police fired teargas and chemical-laced water on Saturday at thousands of demonstrators

http://www.news24.com/World/News/Cops-use-chemical-laced-water-in-Malaysia-rally-20120428

The police said they had been forced to react after protesters tried to force their way through barriers and enter the square.

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/28/11440926-tear-gas-fired-at-malaysia-reform-protesters?lite

Organizers declared the event a success and asked people to head home. But just as some were walking away, a small group appeared to suddenly breach the police barriers, prompting authorities to fire tear gas and water laced with stinging chemicals at portions of the crowd.

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/28/151579061/thousands-rally-in-malaysia-for-electoral-changes

Acid Attack by Police

Tear Gas Attack by Police

Malaysian authorities quell anti-government protests in Kuala Lumpur

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/9233299/Malaysian-authorities-quell-anti-government-protests-in-Kuala-Lumpur.html

Swarms of people gathered in front of them, breaking into chants of “Bersih” and “Long live the people.” They stood and sang the Malaysian national anthem, their voices competing with the sound of a police helicopter flying overhead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/world/asia/malaysian-capital-braces-for-rally-by-democracy-activists.html

BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17878603

Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/28/malaysia-election-reforms-thousands-march?newsfeed=true

Updates as of 4.30pm 28 Apr 2012

4.30 KJ Line Update : Dang Wangi station is now re-opened. Remaining Masjid Jamek & Pasar Seni stations closed.

4.20pm Petaling Street: Police continue to fire water cannons at protestors at Petaling Street and Jalan Tun HS Lee. #bersih

4.20pm: Petaling Street – Police fire water cannons in the direction of protestors at Jln Petaling and Jln HS Lee. The protestors run helter skelter but continue shouting “Bersih” at the cops near them.

4.19pm Jalan TAR: Two protestors are injured after being hit by a police car in front of Sogo. Other protestors flip over the car. #bersih

POLICE HIT PEOPLE

4.14pm: Polis menembak gas pemedih mata ke arah peserta #Bersih di depan bangunan KWSP. #Bersih #BersihReport

4.13pm – ITIS removed JALAN RAJA LAUT camera from its website

4:10pm – Jalan TAR – A group of protesters sit along the closed Jalan TAR road. An ice-cream seller is doing a roaring business as protesters seek to quench their thirst.

FRU fire chemical-laced water at them in front of Kamdar department store along Jalan TAR.

4.04pm: Earlier, a number of reporters standing behind the FRU get pushed by the police towards the protestors while tear gas is being fired, exposing them to the acrid gas.

4.01pm: Peserta #Bersih dari Dataran berhimpun di hadapan Pudu Raya seperti Bersih 2.0. #BersihReport

See Page “Additional Updates” for news between 12 – 4pm

Bersih 3.0 -3:30PM Water Canon and Gas Canisters

BERSIH 3.0 – Singing Malaysia’s National Anthem Proudly

AlJazeerah 3.30pm

1st attack! Bersih 3.0

Bersih 3.0: Barriers broken

http://switchup.tv/View.aspx?vid=8342&cid=1

Aljazeerah 3pm

Bersih 3.0: The Last Leg – Sit In 2.30pm

Bersih 3.0 – Rakyat Singing Negaraku

Bersih 3.0: Leaders head towards Dataran Merdeka

Updates as of 12pm 28 Apr 2012

On the six locations which Bersih 3.0 had planned to gather, Mohmad said there were no rules prohibiting them from gathering but marching was not allowed and police would not hesitate to act.

He did not rule out the possibility of using tear gas and water cannon if the situation got out of hand. He advised parents not to bring their children to the gathering.

“The court order has been issued and we intend to enforce it. We will not hesitate to act.”

http://www.nst.com.my/mobile/top-news/no-entry-to-dataran-merdeka-for-4-days-1.78526

preparations for the rally tomorrow will include security personnel from PAS Unit Amal, PKR youth wing, non-governmental organizations (ngo) Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) and the DAP youth brigade.

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=32937:bersih-30-to-be-held-in-organised-manner-ambiga&Itemid=2

Bersih 3 : Central Market 10.15AM

Bersih 3.0: Carnival atmosphere

Bersih 3 : Jalan Sultan at 9.30am

Dataran Merdeka at 8.27am 28 April 2012

Kuala Lumpur 8.20am 28 April 2012

Kuala Lumpur at 8am 28 April 2012

AlJazeera Stream

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/malaysia-prepares-bersih-30-0022193

MSN News – 24 hours before 428: PHOTOS of DBKL occupying Dataran Merdeka

photoviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=6203922#image=1

Bersih Sabah to go ahead with rally at Padang Merdeka
http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/04/28/bersih-sabah-to-go-ahead-with-rally-at-padang-merdeka/#ixzz1tIBnT6Ap

In Ipoh, supporters are expected to gather at the Sultan Abdul Aziz Recreational Park (Polo Ground).

In Seremban, participants have been told to be at Dataran Seremban from 2pm to 5pm.

In Malacca, supporters have insisted on holding a gathering at Dataran Pahlawan in Bandar Hilir despite the state government offering two alternative venues Fatimah Stadium in the city and the Hang Jebat Stadium in Kerubong.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Malaysia/Story/A1Story20120428-342584.html

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the neighbourhood of Dataran Merdeka last night in an early warning that the crowd at Bersih’s third rally may match or exceed that of the previous assembly for free and fair elections held on July 9 last year.

http://my.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/thousands-gather-eve-of-bersih-3-0-235539890.html

Some portals seem to be under attack and are no longer working e.g. The Malaysian Insider. I guess one way to put the blanket on the news.

AFP — Malaysia braced for a confrontation Saturday between authorities and thousands of protesters vowing to face down curbs on a rally demanding wholesale electoral reforms.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gSz-XiyTXNPsk2AiZaLELQ_2cyCA?docId=CNG.30828f19d0f68d372537aa01d2487b8d.81

Bersih 3.0, 3am @ Dataran Merdeka

Dataran Merdeka pre-Bersih 3.0 gathering : Speeches 3

Malaysian Students to Gather at New York Times Square

International Condemnation Of Malaysia’s Intimidation Of Its Own Students!

Sarawak Report has obtained copies of a highly intimidating email that has been sent out by an official from Malaysia’s Education Department in Washington to all Malaysian students receiving grants in the United States.

http://www.sarawakreport.org/2012/04/international-condemnation-of-malaysias-intimidation-of-its-own-students/

The New York Times – Malaysian Democracy Activists Prepare for Showdown

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/world/asia/malaysian-democracy-activists-prepare-for-showdown.html

Malaysia cracks down ahead of mass rally

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1-105449-Malaysia-cracks-down-ahead-of-mass-rally

Bersih has even penned lyrics of its marching song, and urged protesters to sing it to the tune of “Inilah Barisan Kita”

http://en.harakahdaily.net/index.php/berita-utama/4863-bersih-to-sing-its-way-to-dataran-as-crowds-began-to-gather.html

The sit-in rally is not about flexing power or disobeying the authorities. Rather, it is about the misuse and abuse of trust and faith that the rakyat had in the authorities that has been pawned to serve the ill-begotten interests of the corrupted politicians.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2012/04/27/bersih-3-0-has-to-happen/

Crowds gather in KL from 9.30pm 27 April 2012

ADUN Tronoh V. Sivakumar Turun Padang

 

 

Channel News Asia – Malaysia cracks down ahead of planned mass rally – 27Apr2012