M.J. Akbar
Chief Editor India Today
 

Anyone can get angry. But to rise in anger, it helps to be young. The young constitute the heart of any uprising for two good reasons. They have not yet had time to compromise. Their mobility is still unhampered by the usual constraints, otherwise known as the litany of social security that keeps us locked into the conventional, of job, family, property. The second reason is more interesting. The most important stimulant in the complex mix that instigates a mass movement is hope, not anger. Hope is the positive face of anger.

The first two decades of the 21st century will be remembered as the season of volcanic rage across those parts of the world subdued into stagnation in the name of isms [faith, economic philosophy, patriotism] that were often nothing more than pathetic alibis for authoritarian exploitation by local elites. There is a frisson in the air that is reminiscent of the first half of the 20th century, when there was turbulence against colonial power. This time the post-colonial world is challenging those who have usurped authority and denied their people the essence of ferment: freedom. Freedom is not merely independence from foreign rule. It is, equally, freedom from local dictatorship.

Anger, by its nature, is a spur to violence. Remarkably, today’s young, from Africa to Asia, have understood what Gandhi foresaw more than a century ago, when the thought was too novel to be considered credible: that non-violence is far more dangerous to the establishment than violence. Violence is a tantrum, a surge of passion that serves little except an individual appetite during its momentary flare, and denies a lot beyond. Violence is counter-productive. It frightens the bystander and inhibits the breadth of popular embrace. Violence feeds the trap set by government, which seeks to survive discontent by turning the victim into the culprit.

Non-violence challenges a government, but not the state, which is why institutions committed to the state like a national army, are loath to confront it. Gandhi was a steely visionary: he tested the power of non-violence not against a national army but against colonial military officers and bureaucrats who treated Indians as inferior at best, and contemptible at worst. History is witness not only to the superior idea, but also to the astonishing fact that once the terms of change were negotiated between Indians and the British, they became friends. Non-violence heals the wounds of conquest and repression, even as it dismantles an empire.

On Saturday 28 April, spring came to Malaysia, as the young emerged from once-static corners of Kuala Lumpur to take the road ahead. Seasons do not change abruptly. Often, they stutter; sometimes, they deceive. Just as there can be a false dawn, there can be a false spring. But there does come a day when fresh grass pushes up from hidden roots, and when all nature, including human nature, can no longer be imprisoned by soulless rationalisation. A spring can even take its cultivators by surprise.

Anwar Ibrahim’s long winter has included many years lost in the solitary confinement of jail, a campaign of mass-media promoted slander that defies the minimal standards of ethics, and the terrifying exile of seeming hopelessness. As a young Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, he was once the nominated heir of the patriarch, Mahathir. He was punished for breaking rank in the cause of his conscience. Conscience is generally dismissed as naiveté, or even arrogance that disrupts the collective effort of governance. Anwar Ibrahim, and his extraordinary, courageous wife Azzizah, paid a terrifying price for dissidence. The extended power of the state tested them with a fire that would have incinerated those of less commitment. If they had any hope, it was faith in the people, and in the promise of unabridged democracy.

It is exhilarating to see fear evaporate; one minute, it is a hovering fog, and an hour later it has dissipated into receding memory. It was a privilege to witness a seminal moment of change, and to do so alongside a principal author of this metamorphosis. It is easy to theorise that change can be postponed but not prevented, but it requires deep levels of conviction to believe this. As, from morning, the citizen began to congregate; as growing groups gathered the momentum of solidarity; as ethnic differences which had been the reference module of the old politics began to visibly melt; as the space on either side filled from street to roof with Malay Muslims, Chinese Christians, Indian Hindus and Muslims, cheering, urging us on; and even when a ham-handed government tried to incite disarray through teargas and swooping helicopters, you knew that this was a day on which another chapter of history had commenced. The young knew that salvation lay in non-violence. They controlled their anger.

And Anwar Ibrahim became Anwar, no mere leader up above but a brother in the emerging joint family of a democratic Malaysia.

Harakah

Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) bersama 70 NGO di bawah kendalian anak-anak muda dari berbagai-bagai lapisan anak muda Malaysia akan mengadakan pameran bergerak menayangkan video dan mempamirkan pelbagai bentuk gambar-gambar keganasan polis semasa menyuraikan himpunan Bersih 3.0 minggu lalu.

Perkara ini dinyatakan oleh ketua SAMM, Badrul Hisham Sharin atau dikenali dengan Che GuBadr malam tadi dalam majlis ringkas perkisahan beliau dan teman-teman yang menjadi mangsa keganasan dan kedurjanaan polis semasa di rumah Anwar Ibrahim.

Dalam pameran itu orang ramai dapat menyaksikan aksi polis yang membelasah para peserta di mana aksi dan sikap rakus polis ini tidak ditayangkan di media eletronik dan cetak penjilat tahi. Sebaliknya apa yang mainkan oleh media massa mengenai aksi para himpunan yang digambarkan ganas dan bertindak ke atas polis.
Pemeran itu menurut Badrul akan diadakan di seluruh negara, ke kampung-kampung dan desa di mana masyarakatnya hanya menerima akses media penjilat tahi sahaja.

“Kita berharap pameran ini akan memberi gambaran jelas apa yang berlaku pada himpunan Bersih 3.0 lalu mengenai tindakan ganas polis,” katanya.

Dalam pengkisan ringkasan mengenai senario Bersih dan tindakan ganas polis, Badrul mencerita polis telah melakukan para perserta sebagai mangsa mereka tanpa ada belas kesian. Polis akan membelasah mana-mana para peserta secara beramai-ramai. “Keadaanya macam di dalam hutan rimba di mana polis bertindak semacam haiwan liar kelaparan yang menerkam mangsa,” tegasnya.

Beliau sendiri ditendang, ditumbuk beramai-ramai oleh anggota polis, sampai berdarah hidung dan keluar air dari telinga. “Saya tidak dapat bebruat apa-apa dalam keadaan begitu selain diam dan meminta maaf agar jangan diperlakukan demikian…. namun permohonan dan rayuan saya tidak dipedulikan,” ceritanya lagi.

Paling tidak bermoral polis yang dilakukan ke atas Badrul sambil membelasah wang beliau juga RM200 dirampas (curi) polis. “Saya dengar setelah selesai membelasah dan mencuri duit saya mereka gelak beramai-ramai.

Sambil membelasahnya juga polis mengeluar kata-kata kesat dan menghina dirinya dan juga diri Anwar Ibrahim dengan mengatakan, ini orang kuat Anwar bontot. (Cis kepada polis ini).

Malam tadi selain Badrul tiga orang rakannya yang turut menjadi mangsa polis turut mengisahkan nasib pada himpunan itu. Shafik yang pertama kali menyertai Bersih atas kemahuannya sendiri bersumpah dia tidak akan menyokong Umno lagi dan sebaliknya akan menentang parti yang dianggap durjana kerana mengarah polis berlaku sadis.

“Walaupun inilah kali pertima saya menyertai demonstrasi dan saya dibelasah ia tidak akan memeritkan saya, apa yang berlaku itu menjadikan saya akan turun di mana saja demonstrasi untuk menjatuhkan Umno. Umno kena jatuhkan sebab ia sebuah parti jahat,” katanya tanpa menggambarkan kegerunan.

Tegas Badrul lagi himpunan Bersih 3.0 adalah sejarah bagi anak-anak muda. “Saya melihat himpunan Bersih 3.0 menunjukkan kebangkitan anak-anak muda Malaysia untuk merubah kerajaan,”

Malam tadi juga Badrul dan anak-anak muda menyatakan janji dan ikrar mereka, bahawa keganasan polis itu tidak akan mematahkan semangat mereka untuk terus bangkit bagi menghancurkan kezalaiman.

“Insya Allah kami tidak akan gentar bahkan apa yang berlaku itu memberi semangat kepada kami untuk terus bangkit,” ujarnya disambut takbir dan tepukan gemuruh dari kira-kira 100 orang yang hadir pada setiap malam Jumaat di rumah Anwar untuk bertahlil, munajat dan solat hajat.

Anwar pula dalam memberi reaksi kepada kebangkitan anak-anak muda, Badrul dan rakan-rakannya menganggap mereka adalah hero-hero baru yang boleh disandarkan oleh rakyat. Saya ucap syabas dan tahniah atas keberanian mereka kerana menegakkan keadilan dan kebenaran. – http://www.msomelayu.blogspot.com/

Petaling Jaya, Selangor, 4 Mei 2012. Tindakan akhbar Utusan menggunakan kaedah fitnah seks

ke atas YB Azmin Ali Timbalan Presiden KEADILAN yang sedang berlaku sekarang ini adalah
gambaran nyata betapa bengkrapnya tahap moral dan maruah organisasi dan parti yang
didokongnya – UMNO. Ia juga mengesahkan kenyataan Tun Dr Mahathir bahawa UMNO kini
sedang ketandusan ahli bijak pandai dan golongan profesional sebagai penerus kepimpinan dan
perjuangannya.

Apa yang dilakukan ini, hanyalah penerusan kepada budaya tahyul, liar dan lucah yang menjadi
anutan agensi tersebut yang telah diamalkan sekian lama melalui pelbagai penerbitannya.

Strategi yang sama telahpun digunakan kepada Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim dalam beberapa siri
fitnah seksual sejak 1998 lagi, selepas gagal mencari isu lain yang boleh menjatuhkan beliau.
Namun, usaha yang dilakukan untuk memudarkan sinar kepimpinan tokoh ini tetap gagal
berterusan kerana rakyat Malaysia nyata lebih bijaksana dalam menilai hakikat dan kebenaran.

Adalah jelas, UMNO dan semua media pendokongnya tidak mempedulikan apakah implikasinya
kepada generasi muda yang masih bersih dan belum mengerti apa-apa apabila fitnah seperti ini
disebarkan secara terbuka dan berleluasa.

KEADILAN berpendirian bahawa dengan melihat data peningkatan pelbagai gejala keruntuhan
moral yang begitu ketara sejak dekad mutakhir ini – seperti zina, gay, lesbian, pembuangan
bayi dan kelahiran anak luar nikah – nyata sekali ia adalah kesan buruk dari gejala fitnah
seksual yang diamalkan ini. Hakikatnya, UMNO dan Utusan telah melakukan satu jenayah
besar kepada bangsa Melayu dan rakyat Malaysia seluruhnya dalam hal ini dan mereka perlu
bertanggungjawab keatasnya.

KEADILAN juga melihat bahawa tindakan akhbar ini adalah manifestasi dari desperado dan
tekanan tidak terkawal yang dihadapi UMNO dalam menghadapi kebangkitan rakyat melalui
Bersih 3.0 dan letusan isu rasuah RM3 bilion dalam isu pembelian scorpene yang sedang hangat
diperkatakan rakyat sekarang ini.

Dr Muhammad Nur Manuty
Ketua Penerangan

Malaysiakini

Waran tangkap antarabangsa boleh dikeluarkan oleh hakim Perancis jika saksi enggan membantu sesuatu siasatan selepas sepina dikeluarkan.

Menurut peguam Perancis, Joseph Breham (kanan), yang mewakili NGO Malaysia, Suaram, dalam aduan awam berhubung dakwaan
membabitkan sogokan jutaan ringgit dalam urusniaga pembelian senjata, “amaran merah” boleh dihantar kepada Interpol sebagai langkah terakhir.

“Jika saksi itu enggan mematuhi sepina tersebut, mahkamah boleh mengeluarkan notis mandat d’amener, memaksa saksi hadir di mahkamah. Jika saksi (masih) tidak mahu mematuhinya, maka waran tangkap boleh dikeluarkan.

“Waran tangkap berkenaan berkuatkuasa dalam wilayah Perancis, dan mungkin diantarabangsakan, jika hakim merasakannya perlu.”

Bulan lepas, Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi berkata beliau atau sesiapa sahaja dari kementeriannya, tidak akan membantu siasatan di Perancis itu.

Zahid dinamakan dalam senarai tujuh orang saksi yang dicadangkan oleh Suaram, yang telah diterima oleh hakim siasatan Perancis, Roger Le Loire.

Malaysiakini

Mursyidul Am PAS Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat mengutuk keras laporan muka depan akhbar Utusan Malaysia ini yang menyiarkan gambar aksi lucah didakwa memaparkan seorang lelaki yang mirip timbalan presiden PKR Azmin Ali.

“Apa yang mereka lakukan ini menjerumuskan generasi muda kepada keruntuhan akhlak dan budaya seks songsang.

“Kenapa isu-isu seperti ini yang diangkat untuk mendapat keuntungan politik?

“Saya lihat Umno sudah sangat terdesak sehingga tindakan menyiarkan gambar-gambar seperti ini pun sudah menjadi halal,” katanya di Facebook.

Keterangan untuk gambar disiarkan di muka depan itu antara lainnya disebut akhbar milik Umno itu sebagai “aksi panas dengan seorang wanita di dalam tandas.”

Laporan itu juga menyebut, gambar berkenaan merupakan sebahagian daripada sejumlah foto yang dikutip daripada blog pro-Umno 

28 April 2012 akan terpahat dalam sejarah negara sebagai Hari Merdeka Rakyat apabila 300,000 rakyat behimpun menuntut sebuah pilihanraya yang bebas dan adil. Wanita, anak muda serta rakyat Malaysia dari pelbagai peringkat umur hadir kerana cetusan kesedaran untuk menuntut keadilan dari penguasa yang bobrok. Mesej mereka tidak boleh disalahtafsir - mereka mahukan sebuah negara yang bebas tidak boleh diperhambakan lagi. BERSIH3.0 mewakili harapan dan impian semua rakyat Malaysia bahawa kesahehan politik mana-mana kerajaan pada masa hadapan hanya boleh dicapai melalui proses demokrasi yang tulen.

Oleh itu, tindakbalas pihak berkuasa terhadap perhimpunan tersebut, yang diwakili ratusan ribu orang dari seluruh negara sungguh mengecewakan. Ia adalah kaedah klasik sebuah rejim otoritarian menggunakan media kawalan mereka untuk melabelkan orang ramai yang menjadi mangsa penindasan serta kekejaman sebagai penjenayah.

Saya menjadi saksi kepada kebangkitan politik rakyat tatkala saya berarak bersama mereka dari Masjid Negara. Perhimpunan tersebut adalah zahir dari kesedaran, peremajaan dan harapan. Ia sebagai simbolik sebuah perhimpunan aman, sambutan kebebasan dan perpaduan dalam erti kata sebenar. Ini adalah satu pencapaian BERSIH3.0 yang akan kekal sepanjang zaman. 

Rakyat akan menyambut 28 April 2012 sebagai hari Malaysia bangkit dan berarak demi sebuah kebebasan.
Kami tidak akan gentar dengan pembohongan berterusan oleh media kawalan pemerintah. Kami punyai media yang lebih kuat dan efektif iaitu 300.000 rakyat membawa mesej BERSIH3.0 dan keadilan kepada seluruh pelusuk negara.
Biarlah rakyat bersuara dan keadilan ditegakkan.

ANWAR IBRAHIM
KETUA UMUM KeADILan
Ketua Pembangkang Dewan Rakyat
30 April 2012

From Sarawak Report

The BBC in London has issued a statement saying it is urgently seeking explanations over the apparent doctoring of one of its news reports by the Malaysian satellite broadcaster Astro.

A copy of the allegedly censored report has been circulated widely on You Tube since the weekend, showing how what was broadcast to viewers on Astro differed from the original version that was shown elsewhere in the world.

The established BBC reporter Emily Buchanan had produced a two minute report on the Bersih rally, detailing the days events.  This was included in bulletins offered by BBC World, one of the Channels carried by Astro.

However, 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.

The two other sequences that were removed included interviews with demonstrators, explaining why they felt they had to take to the streets to defend the right to fair elections.

Deplorable during the week of World Press Freedom Day!

After Sarawak Report notified the BBC about what had happened yesterday the Corporation responded with a strongly worded statement signalling apparent outrage.

It is an established rule that none of its reports should be tampered with or doctored by channels carrying its News Service and the statement makes plain that this is a potentially deeply serious breach of its contract with Astro:

BBC Statement

“The BBC is carrying out urgent enquiries after it was made aware that output from its BBC World News channel may have been censored in Malaysia.

The broadcast of anti-Government protests in Malaysia was apparently edited before it was re-broadcast on Malaysian satellite television, with sequences removed from the original BBC version.

The BBC is making urgent enquiries to the Malaysian operator, Astro, to establish the facts.

A BBC spokesman said: ”During the week of World Press Freedom Day, it would be deplorable if access to independent and impartial news was being prevented in any way. We would strongly condemn any blocking of the trusted news that we broadcast around the world including via distribution partners.”

Not supposed to tamper with content – but it seems that Al Jazeera’s coverage of Bersih 3.0 may also have been doctored by Astro!

The BBC is believed to still be awaiting a full explanation from Astro as to what could possibly have happened during this case.

The company is apparently taking some time to respond to the urgent questions that have been put and it is believed that there may be further delay over the public holiday.

However, the quality of the editing of the package would indicate that this was indeed a professional and carefully executed attempt to put the authorities in Malaysia in a better light.  If so, the exposure of such manipulation is likely to seriously backfire on both the reputation of Astro and international standing of BN.

Al Jazeera’s reports ‘also tampered with’ by Astro!

“Our camera was kicked to the ground” – it seems Astro did not like Harry Fawcett’s account of police brutality agains protestors and censored Al Jazeera’s report as well!

Astro, the only satellite channel to be licensed by the BN Government is owned by one of the country’s richest entrepreneurs, Ananda Krishnan, known for his close links with the ruling UMNO party.

Astro dishes have even been offered as a free incentive to some longhouses in Sarawak in the run up to the federal elections, presumably in an attempt to both curry favour and to influence their thinking in favour of the government.

The doctoring of the BBC’s report would appear to show just how biased and subservient Astro is to UMNO’s political agenda.

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!

Time for more democracy and press freedom?

Journalists seeking to record scenes like these have complained over mistreatment by police and the destruction of cameras and equipment.

As the BBC pointed out in its statement, Astro channel’s sneaky censoring of these objective news reports came at the very start of the week of World Press Freedom Day, May 3rd.

The action provides a neat example of just the sort of anti-democratic cheating and abuse of power that brought so many thousands onto the streets of KL in the first place on Saturday.

The Bersih movement has started to wake up the rest of the world to the fact that Malaysia’s expensively crafted image as a friendly and democratic country under BN is in fact a PR sham.

What could have better summed up the autocratic and illegal tendencies of BN than this sanctioning of Astro’s censorship against two of the world’s most respected broadcasters, which were trying to bring viewers an objective account of this event.

What better vindication for Bersih and its call for a cleaner Malaysia!

Harakah

Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim) mengucapkan tahniah di atas kejayaan rakyat Malaysia menganjurkan perhimpunan Berrsih 3.0 semalam.

Menilai kepada jumlah kehadiran orang di samping rangkaian protes serupa yang dianjurkan di seluruh dunia, Abim beranggapan ia memberikan isyarat jelas bahawa rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira latar belakang agama dan bangsa yang mahukan sistem pilihanraya yang telus serta tidak diragui integritinya diamalkan di negara yang tercinta ini.

Demikian kata Amidi Abdul Manan, Presiden Abim dalam satu kenyataannya selepas perhimpunan Bersih 3.0 semalam.

Dalam hal ini, katanya, Abim mengimbau semula pelbagai rungutan serta kekhuatiran yang diutarakan oleh rakyat berhubung dengan isu ini, seperti kewujudan nama pengundi yang meragukan (pengundi hantu), integriti saluran undi POS, akses saksama kepada media untuk semua parti politik, dan integriti serta kedudukan institusi-institusi awam selaku badan yang bebas dari pengaruh partisan mana-mana kelompok politik di samping amalan politik kotor dan rasuah yang sering diperkatakan di peringkat akar umbi.

“Semoga penganjuran perhimpunan aman ini akan menggerakkan perubahan drastic serta agresif dan komprehensif terhadap tatacara pengendalian pilihanraya yang telus serta tidak diragui integritinya.

“Sesungguhnya penglibatan serta pandangan yang dikemukakan  oleh rakyat adalah bukti kematangan masyarakat sivil wujud di negara ini, dan sekaligus merupakan bench mark utama terhadap kualiti sumber daya insan yang ada di negara ini,” kata beliau dalam kenyataannya.

Menurut beliau, dari konteks umat Islam selaku teras peneraju politik di negara ini, Islam menganjurkan integriti serta ketelusan merupakan esensi penting yang ditekankan dalam kehidupan seseorang Muslim.

“Islam menganjurkan setiap amalan serta pekerjaan dilaksanakan dengan jujur serta ikhlas untuk imbalan berbentuk keberkatan serta keredhaan dari Allah s.w.t.

“Keberkatan serta keredhaan dari Allah s.w.t hanya boleh dicapai seandainya teras utama ajaran Islam yang menganjurkan amanah, keikhlasan serta kejujuran  diamalkan di pelbagai peringkat,” tegas beliau.

Bagi beliau, kemuafakatan atau konsensus  dalam Islam boleh dirangka melalui kepelbagaian pandangan dan pendapat yang diuruskan dengan hikmah serta harmoni.

Pengendalian pilihanraya yang telus serta tidak diragui integriti tatacara penganjurannya merupakan esensi penting untuk mendapatkan permuafakatan serta konsensus secara berkat serta diredhai Allah yang akan meresap jauh dalam denyut nadi serta amalan rakyat. Natijahnya, pembentukan Negara Barakah yang merangkumi esensi keberkatan dan keredhaan illahi dapat direalisasikan.

“Di akhir kalam ini, Abim ingin merakamkan ucapan tahniah atas partisipasi rakyat Malaysia dalam perhimpunan aman Bersih 3.0 ini,” katanya.

The 6-person mission from six countries after their 4 days of consulting members from both government and opposition, the Bersih organisers, the Election Commission and attending today’s Bersih sit-in protest, will meet the press to present their preliminary findings.

Details of PC:

DATE/TIME: APRIL 29, 2012 at 1PM
VENUE: ORCHID ROOM, LEVEL TWO, INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL (The former Nikko Hotel), JALAN AMPANG, KUALA LUMPUR

Concerned citizens call on Prime Minister Najib Razak to allow Bersih 3.0 to go ahead peacefully at Dataran Merdeka on April 28

We the undersigned wish to express our profound disappointment at the numerous obstacles that have been put in place by government agencies, especially the Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), to prevent the planned peaceful gathering of Bersih 3.0 on 28 April 2012.

We recognise that these agencies are either under the direct control or influence of your government but we are sure that you, as Prime Minister, concur that they should strictly observe and practice administrative neutrality and not be seen to serve the partisan interests of the ruling parties.

It is disheartening and unacceptable to see these agencies behave in a way that is in direct contradiction to your promises of a more open democratic space for Malaysians.
We wish to emphasise that the right to assembly is guaranteed by the Federal Constitution. The only limitation is that such assembly must not be a threat to national security or to public order. There is nothing to suggest that Bersih 3.0 will be such a threat.

We also note with concern that various groups have been making threats against this planned peaceful gathering. Recent events in Dataran Merdeka where students engaged in a peaceful demonstration have been attacked by thugs show that such threats are not to be taken lightly.

You have promised a reformist agenda and we expect you to uphold your pledge. Furthermore due to your power over the bodies mentioned above, we wish to assert here that any untoward incidents instigated by any of these bodies shall be held to be your responsibility.

If you believe in democracy and clean and fair elections, now is the time to prove it. Allow Bersih 3.0 to go ahead peacefully.

Signatories:

A. Bakar Sulaiman
Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa
Datin Marion D’Cruz
Dato Thasleem Ibrahim
Dr Azmi Sharom
Dr. K. J. John
Dr Lim Teck Ghee
Kee Thuan Chye
Malik Imtiaz Sarwar
Prof Zaharom Nain

Malaysiakini

Menjadi kewajipan tanpa kompromi untuk semua rakyat Malaysia hadir ke perhimpunan BERSIH bagi menuntut pilihan raya yang bebas dan adil di Kuala Lumpur esok, kata Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Ini kerana, kata Anwar, kehadiran mereka bertujuan menuntut hak yang dijamin dalam perlembagaan dan bukan menuntut elaun atau ganjaran untuk diri sendiri.

Menurut Anwar, perhimpunan itu juga akan memberitahu perdana menteri dan anggota kabinetnya serta Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) supaya tidak melakukan penipuan dalam pilihan raya.

Bercakap dalam ceramah di hadapan kira-kira 1,000 orang malam tadi, Anwar menyelar pengerusi jawatankuasa pilihan khas parlimen Datuk Seri Maximus Ongkili kerana gagal mengetengahkan isu daftar pemilih di sampai pelbagai cadangan lain.

“Dakwat kekal? Pasti. Tetapi perkara pentung siapa akan mengundi? Hantu, manusia, lembu?” soalnya yang juga anggota Parlimen Permatang Pauh.