Bersih admitted it lost control of the tens of thousands on the streets of the capital today when protesters failed to adhere to strict instructions not to breach the police barricade surrounding Dataran Merdeka.
Steering committee member Wong Chin Huat told The Malaysian Insider that Bersih chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenavasan had ordered the crowd to disperse some time after 2pm but this message did not reach the crowd of thousands gathered outside the square.
“The dismissal was announced but they could not hear. Ambiga could have been at one end and they could not hear it,” he said, adding that the Bersih co-chair had marched from her meeting point at Central Market and reached Jalan Tun Perak near Dataran Merdeka when she told the crowd to disperse.
When the rally continued, said Wong, Bersih leaders and security personnel from PAS’s Unit Amal failed to hold back protesters from proceeding to breach the barricade, which the election watchdog group had earlier promised it would not do today.
Following the breach, the Federal Reserve Unit and hundreds of riot police sprung into action, raining down chemical-laced water and tear gas canisters upon protesters who were running in droves towards the square.
The coalition of 84 civil societies also called for investigations into the violence that took place, pledging to give full co-operation to the police.
Ambiga told a press conference that the some 250,000 to 300,000 protesters who turned up were “extremely well-behaved and excellent,” until “someone” pushed through the barriers in front of Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) leading to Dataran Merdeka.
“The turnout itself was a success as we received so much support. Everything was going fine until someone broke through the barriers — which we do not support at all — and thus provoked the tear gas.
“We want the police to fully investigate all who engaged in violence. This was not what we wanted at all,” the former Bar Council president said.
Police had fired water cannons and tear gas on demonstrators who pushed through the barricade in front of DBKL, resulting in chaos on the streets.alaysian insider
Some of the 15,000-strong crowd, led by PKR deputy president Azmin Ali, broke down the barriers and moved towards the historic square, leading to police firing chemical-laced water and tear gas canisters.
Police fired as far as the DBKL premises, which are across Jalan Parlimen, and the move broke up the crowd at Dataran who fled helter-skelter.
Angry protestors later attacked a police car which then crashed into at least two people while trying to flee.
The angry crowd then surrounded the policemen but volunteers from PKR’s Jingga 13 formed a human shield around the officers, saying “don’t blame them, it’s not their fault.”
After an ambulance took away the injured policemens, the protestors flipped the car over on its side but then fled after tear gas was fired.- malaysian insider
Polis tembak gas pemedih mata, meriam air...
Polis telah melepaskan meriam air serta gas pemedih mata ke atas penunjuk perasaan yang merempuh benteng di depan Dewan Perbandaran Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) menuju ke Dataran Merdeka, mengakibatkan suasana huru-hara.
Beberapa peserta rombongan 15,000 orang dipimpin Azmin Ali telah merempuh benteng untuk bergerak ke arah Dataran bersejarah itu, menyebabkan pihak polis telah menembak air mengandungi bahan kima serta bejana gas pemedih mata.
Air ditembak polis sejauh premis DBKL berhampiran Jalan Parliment, dan dengan tembakan itu, orang ramai di Dataran lari bertempiaran dengan adanya perserta ditahan.
Polis kini terus bergerak melalui Jalan Tun Perak dan menembak gas pemedih mata ke rombongan di Masjid Jamek.
Arahan telah dikeluarkan kepada polis untuk tidak terus menembak meriam air dan gas pemedih mata ke arah orang ramai.
Pemerhati daripada aktivis LoyarBurok berkata, “gas pemedih mata ditembak tanpa memberi amaran, berterusan dan jauh ke dalam khalayak orang ramai”.
Orang ramai di Lebuh Pasar Besar kini telah menolak banteng dan lebih kurang 30 polis yang memegang baton, perisai dan memakai topeng gas telah menghalang pergerakan mereka ke Dataran Merdeka.
FRU kemudian melepaskan meriam air dan gas pemedih mata setelah orang ramai enggan bersurai.
Pemimpin Bersih Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan dan pemimpin pembangkang lain termasuk Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dihalang perjalanan mereka oleh trak polis berhampiran kompleks membeli-belah Sogo.
Trak itu telah berpusing ke arah Dataran Merdeka dan kumpulan itu kini bergerak sepanjang Jalan Raja Laut ke Dataran.-malaysian insider
2 peserta Bersih cedera parah dirawat di HKL
Dua peserta Bersih 3.0 yang cedera parah dimasukkan ke wad kecemasan Hospital Kuala Lumpur petang tadi.
(Haji Habizal [kiri] dan Su Kwang Hong terlantar di wad kecemasan HKL)
Haji Habizal bin Nadzir cedera pada kepalanya akibat terkena tembakan botol gas pemedih mata yang dilepaskan oleh polis.
Beliau dikatakan parah dan ditempatkan ke wad kecemasan HKL.
Seorang lagi, Su Kwang Hong cedera akibat dilanggar oleh kereta polis ketika bersama-sama orang ramai dalam perhimpunan itu.
Beliau juga dilaporkan parah dan sedang dirawat di wad kecemasan HKL.
Menurut sumber, ramai lagi yang cedera semasa perhimpunan kali ini sedang dirawat di HKL.
Mereka ditempatkan di wad bersebelahan dengan wad kecemasan dan tidak dibenarkan orang awam melawatnya.- harakahdaily
Kenapa kereta polis diterbalikkan - Aktivis Terengganu
Ambe petang jadi saksi kejadian polis rempuh pendemo. YA! Memang ade provokasi tapi setelah check-check, rupanya yang start lempar botol air mineral kat kereta polis tu adalah Sahabat Bodoh (SB)...!
Maner tak mengamuk polis tu sampaikan sanggup rempuh dengan laju orang awam di hadapan SOGO. Berita yang menyatakan ada meninggal tidak benar sama sekali, tiga yang dilanggar parah, seorang wanita cina terperosok bawah kereta polis, sebab tu orang ramai terbalikkan kereta polis, sebab nak selamatkan wanita tu. Polis pun tak dak yang meninggal, walaupun dibelasah dengan agak teruk orang ramai yang tidak puas hati mereka langgar pendemo.
Persoalannya sekarang kenapa polis tu sanggup rempuh orang ramai dengan laju, sampai retak dinding tangga SOGO tu. Suasana pilu, tangisan kedengaran melihat insiden itu. Ya, memang ada yang mulakan provokasi, dah kejar orang tu tapi tak sempat sebab dia naik motor lari.
Ambe sempat tengok 10 anggota polis tangkap seorang pendemo dan belasah dia kat tepi SOGO tak lama selepas rempuhan kereta tu. Allah... Malaysiaku....... Ya Rahman ya Rahim, dengarlah rintihan hamba-hambaMU ini.
SUMBER : http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?bid=370450143007314&set=a.146537958731868.38057.100001269934038&type=1&theater
Video Polis langgar orang awam, tengok sebelum dibuang polis
Video Orang ramai mengangkat kereta polis untuk selamatkan mangsa yang terperosok akibat dilanggar kereta polis
Kereta Polis diterbalik.. jahatnya laporan depa...
Spirit of Bersih 3.0 flows abroad
The spirit of the Bersih 3.0 rally in Kuala Lumpur has crossed time zones, with thousands of people pouring onto streets in Australia and New Zealand to march together with up to 100,000 of their brethren in Malaysia.
Malaysians in 35 countries and 85 cities worldwide, have vowed to "stand in solidarity" with the scores of thousands of people who started gathered from morning at various points around Dataran Merdeka for the sit-in slated to being at 2pm today.
According to netizens, more than 1,200 supporters have assembled at the St Paul's Court, Federation Square in Melbourne, while hundreds more are reported to have gathered at Martin's Place in Sydney in eastern Australian by 2pm Malaysian time.
The rally in Melbourne was abuzz with music performances and speeches from left-wing politicians."The Malaysian diaspora is not allowed to vote in the Malaysian elections. Only government officers posted abroad and full-time students and army officers abroad are allowed to vote," Melbourne Global Bersih coordinator David Teoh said in an interview with ABC Radio two days ago.
A concurrent show of force was also seen in Brisbane, Hobart and Canberra in Australia, as well as in Auckland, New Zealand.
The sit-in at Aotea Square in Aukland at 1pm Malaysian time began with supporters singing the national anthem Negara-ku.
In Hong Kong (pictures above), some 400 supporters gathered at the Sogo Department Store at Causeway Bay and began making their way to the Malaysian consulate office.
However, Malaysians in Singapore took their protest to the seafront off Johor Baru Waterfront City at 1.30pm, as the Singaporean authorities have denied them a police permit for the rally at the republic's Hong Lim Park.
Picnic-style gatherings are scheduled to take place in the United States and Canada later today.
200 march to embassy in Bangkok.
In Thailand, more than 200 supporters marched to the Malaysian Embassy in Bangkok, joining groups of Malaysians in Vietnam, Philippines an.d Indonesia in voicing their dissatisfaction over the election system.
Bersih supporters, some of them students, also gathered in small groups in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Jordan, Korea and China, armed with placards and posters in support of the cause for electoral reform.
More protests are scheduled to take place in the United States, Canada and Russia, as well as across 16 cities in Europe later today.
In Kuala Lumpur, about 100,000 people took to the streets from monring and in the afternoon marched to gather around Dataran Merdeka.
Despite repeated warnings urging the crowd to disperse, the protesters stood their ground, causing the riot police to fire numerous rounds of tear gas canisters and chemical-laced water at them.- malaysiakini
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