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
Trapped with No immediate way out
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

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