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See the thugs attacking media personnel and residents:
Those two incidents were unanticipated, and I suspect jolted the authorities. First the presence of some thugs (looked like Mat Rempits) who brazenly attacked residents while the police were less than few hundred metres away. Now, it does not take a PhD in rocket science to see who could have hired these thugs. Second incident was the attack on the driver of the car alleged to have hit (or nearly hit) a policeman. The guy ended up in hospital, with broken teeth, facial injuries. The passengers in the car were his sister and bosses. Now exactly gangsters or troublemakers, are they?
This two incident is surely making the residents blood boil. Chinese media and blogs are awash with anger it seems.
CHINDRAF power on the rise.
these incident, i guess finally brokered a temporary solution for the residents! Works Minister announced that no barricade will be put up until court makes decision on Narajaya versus Grand Saga case.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Cabinet has decided the Bandar Mahkota Cheras access road will remain open for now. Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed said that the road will remain open until the court decision on a lawsuit filed by developer Narajaya Sdn Bhd against Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire Grand Saga and the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) in 2007. The matter was discussed at the Cabinet meeting on Friday morning.
Mohd Zin said the Government has taken into consideration the inconvenience caused to Bandar Mahkota Cheras residents because of the barricade placed on the access road there. To avoid controversy and any untoward incidents the Cabinet had decided that the access road remain open. Mohd Zin added that the residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras could now use the access road and there would no longer be congestion there.
He urged residents to calm down and hoped that they wouldn’t take the law into their own hands.
sourceBMC folks were happy. Yeah, they thanked the minister, the menteri besar, and everyone else. Yeah, they carried the MPs around. But the success happened because the residents stuck together. The politicians know that they cannot play the fool any more. The heat is picking up.
BMC residents start to visit parliament already.
Bandar Mahkota Cheras residents brought their case to Parliament yesterday. They failed to meet Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohammed, and handed their memorandum instead to DAP central policy and strategic planning commission chairman Lim Kit Siang, who met them outside Parliament House.
Lim described the violence as a “deplorable incident” and urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar to give their personal attention to the issue.
The residents’ delegation was led by Tan Boon Wah.
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Pakatan Rakyat is not spared either. They are being questioned why not doing anything. Police and FRU are being labelled as public enemies instead of protectors. Who doesn’t when 20 people bash up one youth. 20 batons and shields against one skinny looking fellow. That’s a fair fight for you!
Home Minister says that if anyone have problem about police, make a report. Yesterday’s news said at least three reports had been made. Media employees who were attacked made the reports. Guess it will be forgotten soon.
Later, Syed Hamid told reporters it was not true police stood by and watched when residents were assaulted.”If anyone has a problem, lodge a report.”
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MCA is also in deep shit. The deputy home minister is being “kaari thupperan” (virtually spit at) for his cruel comments following the attack by FRU on the youth. MCA’s never ending problem is getting worse.
Anyway, seeing Works Minister standing next to DAP lady, Tan Sri Khalil and others, hands clasped and up in the air is proof that people power works. They answer to the residents.
Worse still, the guy who was bashed up and his 3 passengers are being charged with rioting and attempted murder.
Four onlookers caught unawares in the Bandar Mahkota Cheras (BMC) scuffle on the night of May 27, are being investigated for attempted murder and rioting, said Kajang police chief ACP Shakaruddin Che Mood.
“We are still probing the incident and we will forward our findings to the deputy public prosecutor as soon as we complete the investigations,” added Shakaruddin when contacted today.
According to the police chief, the four can be charged under Section 148 (for riot) and Section 307 (attempted murder) of the Penal Code. No mention was made on when investigations will be completed.
The four are being probed for allegedly attempting to cause injuries to several police personnel near the barricaded toll-free access road in Bandar Mahkota Cheras.
http://malaysiakini.com/news/83697
SUHAKAM does its routine job of condemning the attack.The officers visited the victim, tried to visit the culprits, called for public inquiry.
The Human Rights Commission did not mince its words today in condemning the “excessive force” being used by the police against residents during the fracas at the Bandar Mahkota Cheras on Tuesday night. The commission also demanded the police to explain the alleged beating of a 21-year-old man during the incident where about 200 BMC residents were ordered to disperse by the police.”In doing their duties, they have to be more human-rights friendly and the degree of brutality used did not justify it (their action),” Suhakam commissioner N Siva Subramaniam told a press conference today. He said while the police had the authority to take action against the residents, this had to be in accordance with human rights.
Chang Jiun Haur (left), who was with his sister and two other men in a car, was allegedly dragged out of his Proton Wira and repeatedly kicked and beaten by 20 Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) personnel armed with shields and batons.
Another Suhakam commissioner, Denison Jayasooria, also questioned the use of extraordinary force by the police. “There’s no logic that (the victims are a threat) but suddenly everybody was beating the driver (Chang) and no one had bothered to question him first,” he said. Chang was subsequently hospitalised for injuries to his face and other parts of his body.
FRU must show proof
The two Suhakam commissioners, who visited Chang in Teluk Kemang Hospital, Port Dickson yesterday, said the victim had informed them how he and his friends felt “terrorised” in their car. “They also did not have the opportunity to explain themselves (to the police),” said Subramaniam. According to Subramaniam, it was “absurd” for a team of well-trained FRU men to “feel threatened” by four unarmed youths. “If they (FRU) have proof that they were hit by the car (as claimed), then they have to provide the names of the officers who were injured,” he said.
Jayasooria also explained that those in the vehicle – three males and one female – did not look like they are “gangsters”. “There were no signs of weapons, sticks or even parang (with them),” he said. “If the police had asked them to stop, they would have stopped.”
Recalling the incident, Jayasooria said the teenagers had used the toll-free road on their way home. “And according to them, there were no visible signs of a police road block.”
Deputy Home Minister Chor Chee Heung told Parliament yesterday that according to a report given to him from the police, two police officers were hurt – one on the hand and another on the thigh – from falling down after being knocked by the said car.
Subramaniam added that the affected officers should state which hospital they had gone to for treatment and the doctors who had attended to their injuries.
Chang was first treated at Teluk Kemang Hospital in Port Dickson, which is his hometown. He went home soon after but Suhakam advised him to get further treatment in Seremban Hospital, where he now is warded.
Call for inquiry
Subramaniam also revealed that Suhakam went to the Kajang police station yesterday but failed to meet with the police officers. “Due to short notice, most of the officers were out on other appointments,” he said.
But both commisioners had a chance to view the vehicle in question and examine the extent of damage to Chang’s car. “The driver’s window was broken, the backlights were also broken mostly due to being hit by the shields of the FRU men,” said Denison.
The Suhakam commissioners will be proposing a public inquiry into the matter at the commission’s meeting on June 9.
Subramaniam added that he was disappointed with the police violence despite “countless inquiries” launched into the excessive use of force.
