Cleaning time in Malaysia? BERSIH

For those abroad who are not aware of what happened on the 10th November 2007. Here's what KL looked like.

Photo by jiunpic
More here http://picasaweb.google.com/pemudawp/BersihRally

The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (BERSIH) organized a mass rally to demand for electoral reforms in the country as elections are expected for the country in early 2008. They managed to successfully hand over a memorandum to HM Yang diPertuan Agong at the Royal Palace.

The rally didn't get a green light from the government as fears of riots may breakout.
Here's a scene at Masjid Jamek reported by Al-Jazeera news in English



I am no political analysts and do not have a big interest in politics but reading and watching these news about what's going on Malaysia worries me. Can't believe just leaving Malaysia about 2 months now, something this big is going on.

From one of the news reports that i read, New York-based Human Rights Watch commented that, "If Malaysia wants to count itself a democracy, it can begin by upholding constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. The way the system works now, only the ruling coalition can get its messages out,".

I agree on the comment above. Malaysia has long been under the ruling of one major political party. And what goes behind the government is all biased towards certain parties, groups and even individuals.

Maybe it's time to change?
Kudos to the folks at BERSIH who's trying so hard to make a change for the better of the country and its people.


For more updates of this rally, go to BERSIH's temporary website @ http://tragedibatuburok.blogspot.com/ due to congestion in internet traffic of their original site @ http://bersih.org/

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