Bersih 2.0: Pemuda PAS gesa siasat polis ganas

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Julai: Dewan Pemuda PAS Pusat (DPPP) menuntut agar satu siasatan dibuat kepada beberapa insiden keganasan pihak polis ketika cuba menghalang Himpunan Aman Bersih 2.0 9 Julai lepas.

Ketua penerangannya, Riduan Mohd Nor berkata, pihak polis harus mengambil tanggungjwab di atas kematian Allahyarham Baharudin Ahmad serta menjelaskan dua rakaman klip video dari Malaysiakini dan Al-Jazeera yang disebar di Youtube yang jelas membuktikan keganasan anggota polis.

Katanya, Allahyarham Baharudin Ahmad, 58, yang berada di KLCC meninggal dunia selepas terhidu asap bom pemedih mata yang ditembak oleh FRU.

Beliau menambah, bahan kimia 2-Chlorobenzalmalononitrile (CS) yang menjadi bahan utama bom berkenaan menjadi punca mangsa mengalami trauma, sesak nafas dan kegagalan fungsi jantung hingga menyebabkan kematiannya.

“31 Disember 2010 yang lalu, perkara yang sama berlaku kepada seorang wanita Palestin berumur 36 tahun, Jawaher Abu Rahmah yang mati selepas terhidu gas pemedih jenis yang sama digunakan oleh rejim Israel di Tebing Barat,” ujarnya dalam kenyataan kepada Harakahdaily.

Menurutnya lagi, Dr. Mohammed Aideh, Pengarah Perkhidmatan Perubatan Kecemasan, Kementerian Kesihatan Palestin telah mengesahkan perkara itu walaupun Israel enggan bertanggungjawab.

Kini, ujarnya perkara itu berlaku di Malaysia, dan polis mengulangi sikap Israel itu.

Justeru, katanya DPPP berharap agar satu siasatan dibuat bagi memberi keadilan kepada mangsa dan keluarganya.

Pemuda PAS juga, ujarnya mahu penjelasan polis berhubung klip video Malaysiakini bertajuk Police beating yang dirakamkan di Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman yang memaparkan beberapa anggota polis berpakaian reman menumbuk, menendang, memijak serta memaki hamun seorang peserta bersih yang telah dibaringkan diatas jalan raya. http://youtu.be/ZqCmcF7pZZI

Katanya, klip Video Al-Jazeera bertajuk [BERSIH 2011] RIOT BY POLICE - Live Footage From Al-Jazeera yang dirakamkan di Jalan Pudu pula menunjukkan keganasan anggota Polis beruniform menembak gas pemedih mata dan kemudiannya meluru untuk menendang dan memukul peserta Bersih yang duduk. http://youtu.be/uqegLG8wfxc

Beliau berkata, beberapa insiden lain termasuk Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan pengawalnya yang dipukul polis hingga tercedera, begitu juga kepada seorang lelaki lain di Pudu yang pecah kepala diserang polis serta banyak lagi bukti-bukti keganasan polis menuntut pertanggungjwaban Ketua Polis Negara dan organisasinya.

“DPPP akan memastikan isu ini menjadi kes utama untuk pihak Suhakam serta disiasat secara lebih terperinci.

“DPPP yakin rakyat mahukan jawapan di atas ketidakjujuran Ketua Polis Negara yang menutup mata dan menafikan keganasan ini,” ujarnya.

http://bm.harakahdaily.net/index.php/berita-utama/4291-bersih-20-pemuda-pas-gesa-siasat-polis-ganas

In Pictures: Protests suppressed in Malaysia

Police fired tear-gas and arrested hundreds of protesters in Kuala Lumpur who were calling for electoral reforms.

More than 20,000 people demonstrated for electoral reforms across Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, on Saturday in a rare protest that was declared illegal by police. The protest was called for by opposition groups, including the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections, Bersih (Clean). Police fired tear-gas and water cannons at demonstrators and arrested more than 1,400 people, including top opposition leaders, according to protest organisers. The activists' demands include an overhaul of voter registration lists, tougher measures to curb fraud and fairer opportunities for opposition politicians to campaign in government-linked media. Malaysia's next general election is planned due in 2013.

1) With Kuala Lumpur under police lockdown since the morning, protesters tried to gather and seek refuge inside a railway station before being led outside by police where many were detained and put into police vans. [Saeed Khan/AFP]

2) Protesters display the yellow shirts of the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections, or Bersih (Clean}, during a rally calling for electoral reforms in Kuala Lumpur [Ahmad Yusni/EPA]

3) Riot police stand making a cordon in front of Malaysia's iconic twin towers before demonstrators gather [Saeed Khan/AFP]

4) A Bersih supporter shouts at police during clashes in downtown Kuala Lumpur [Shahir Omar/Reuters]

5) Police use a water cannon to spray Bersih supporters in downtown Kuala Lumpur [Samsul Said/Reuters]

6) A Bersih supporter throws a water bottle at a police water-cannon truck [Mohd Rasfan/AFP]

7) Police face off against thousands of Bersih supporters [Saeed Khan/AFP]

8) A Bersih supporter holds the Malaysian flag in front of a police water cannon [Damir Sagolj/Reuters])

9) Police in riot gear march under heavy rain toward protesters calling for electoral reforms [Saeed Khan/AFP

10) Police face off against thousands of protesters in a scene shrouded by tear gas [Saeed Khan/AFP]

11) A Bersih supporter is detained by police during protests in downtown Kuala Lumpur [Damir Sagolj/Reuters]

12) A Bersih supporter is detained by police during protests in downtown Kuala Lumpur [Saedd Khan/AFP]

13) Bersih supporters are detained by police during protests in downtown Kuala Lumpur [Damir Sagolj/Reuters]

14) Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (C) is surrounded by supporters, one of whom is injured, after a protest in Kuala Lumpur calling for electoral reforms [AFP]

Source: ies es 15) Bersih supporters chant slogans during a protest calling for electoral reforms in downtown Kuala Lumpur [Damir Sagolj/Reuters] Source : Agencies http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/inpictures/2011/07/201179124249763194.html

Al-Jazeera saw the Arab revolutions coming

Wadah Khanfar

On February 11, the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of Egypt, Al Jazeera faced a welcome dilemma: Scenes of elation were playing out not just in Cairo but throughout the region, and even with our vast network of journalists, we found it difficult to be everywhere at once. From North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, Arabs were celebrating the reclamation of their self-confidence, dignity and hope.

The popular revolutions now sweeping the region are long overdue. Yet in some ways, they could not have come before now. These are uprisings whose sons and daughters are well educated and idealistic enough to envision a better future, yet realistic enough to work for it without falling into despair. These revolutions are led by the Internet generation, for whom equality of voice and influence is the norm. Their leaders' influence is the product of their own effort, determination and skill, unconstrained by rigid ideologies and extremism.

It is now clear to all that the modern, post-colonial Arab state has failed miserably, even in what it believed it was best at: Maintaining security and stability. Over the decades, Arab interior ministers and police chiefs devoted enormous resources and expertise to monitoring and spying on their own people. Yet now, the security machineries in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have disintegrated in short order, while the rest of the authoritarian and repressive regimes in the region can see the writing on the wall.

These revolutions have exposed not just the failure of traditional politicians but also the moral, political and economic bankruptcy of the old Arab elites. Those elites not only attempted to control their own people, but also sought to shape and taint the views of news media in the region and across the world.

Indeed, it should surprise no one that so many Western analysts, researchers, journalists and government experts failed to recognise the obvious signs of Arab youth movements that would soon erupt into revolutions capable of bringing down some of the most pro-Western regimes in the Middle East. That failure has exposed a profound lack of understanding in the West of Arab reality.

US and European allies, supporters and business partners of the Arab regimes persistently preferred to deal with leaders who were entirely unrepresentative of the new generation. They were detached from the emerging reality and had no way to engage with the social forces that now matter. It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying centre - that is shaping the future of the region.

These unfolding transformations have been less of a surprise for us at Al Jazeera. Since our launch nearly 15 years ago, we have chosen to keep close to the Arab street, gauging its pulse and reflecting its aspirations. It was clear to us that a revolution was in the making, and it was happening far from the gaze of a tame and superficial establishment media that allied itself with the powerful centre - on the assumption that the centre is always safer and more important. Many media outlets in the region failed to recognise what was happening among the Arab grass roots. Keen to conduct interviews with high-level officials and ever willing to cover repetitious news conferences, they remained oblivious to what was happening on the ground.

At Al Jazeera we have spared no effort to search for the real actors, wherever they happen to be: Whether in the cities, in the countryside, in camps, in prisons or in the blogosphere. We have been guided by a firm belief that the future of the Arab world will be shaped by people from outside the aging elites and debilitated political structures featured so disproportionately by most other news outlets.

The real actors did not appear on most television screens or magazine covers, whether in the Arab world or in Western media. Cameras were not attracted to them; columnists rarely mentioned them. Yet that did not deter them.

Al Jazeera swam against that dominant current. We gave all the players the avenues they needed to communicate, providing diverse viewpoints on the issues. During the recent uprisings we were inundated with videos, pictures and writings from the new generation. We opened our screens to them; it is their voices that viewers found so compelling in our coverage.

We refused to compromise on our editorial policy, which gives priority to the grievances and aspirations of ordinary people. Neither threats of punishment nor promises of rewards from information ministers, intelligence agencies or royal courts persuaded us to ignore or betray the oppressed and persecuted who demand nothing but freedom, dignity and democracy.

As I tweeted during the Egyptian uprising and as our reporters were being detained in Cairo: "When opinions crowd and confusion prevails, set your sight on the route taken by the masses, for that is where the future lies."

Wadah Khanfar is director general of the Al Jazeera network. This article first appeared in The Washington Post.

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Wartawan Al-Jazeera Dihalang Bertugas, Pihak Berkuasa Mesir Arah Pejabat Ditutup

Ribuan rakyat Mesir berkumpul Dataran Tharir di Kaherah, Mesir bagi meneruskan bantahan dan mendesak Presiden Hosni Mubarak berundur pada Isnin. Penunjuk-penunjuk perasaan ketika ini berusaha menganjurkan 'perarakan sejuta orang' yang dirancang Selasa bertujuan mengguling rejim Hosni, menurut Al-Jazeera. - EPA/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE

Published: Isnin Januari 31, 2011 MYT 10:03:00 PM

DUBAI, Emiriah Arab Bersatu: Stesen televisyen berpengaruh Arab, Al-Jazeera pada Isnin menjelaskan bahawa enam wartawannya dihalang daripada meninggalkan hotel masing-masing selepas kerajaan Mesir mengarahkan pejabat stesen itu di Kaherah ditutup.

Rangkaian televisyen yang berpangkalan di Qatar itu pada laporan awalnya menyatakan kakitangan terbabit ditahan.

Bagaimanapun jurucakap Al-Jazeera memberitahu, kesemua wartawan tersebut terpaksa berdepan dengan pihak berkuasa yang kemudiannya tidak membenarkan mereka meninggalkan hotel.

Katanya, namun beitu mereka tidak diarahkan meninggalkan negara yang sedang bergolak itu.

Wartawan-wartawan terbabit merupakan petugas bagi saluran bahasa Inggeris yang merupakan rangkaian utama dalam perkhidmatan Al-Jazeera.

Larangan berkenaan berlaku selepas sehari pihak berkuasa Mesir mengarahkan pejabat stesen televisyen itu ditutup kerana didakwa menyebelahi penunjuk perasaan yang mahukan Presiden Hosni Mubarak berundur selain menggalakkan kacau-bilau.

Al-Jazeera mendakwa tindakan berkenaan adalah bagi menghalang laporan sebenar keadaan di Mesir, namun berjaya meneruskan laporan-laporan terkini mereka melalui kamera pegun dan telefon.

http://mstar.com.my/berita/luar_negara/cerita.asp?file=/2011/1/31/mstar_luar_negara/20110131214942&sec=mstar_luar_negara