First Class Honour With A Body of A Soldier: Bersih 3.0

I decided to spend the whole day doing revision for my chemistry paper on next Monday but I cant help to write this because Bersih 3.0 is going to be held nationwide in Malaysia at 2pm. Well, in case if you dun know, bersih is a Malay word which means Clean. It is citizen's campaign to have a 'cleaner' election for this coming Election. In case if you do not get what i mean by cleaner election, Malaysians think that there were conspiracies in the previous elections. Which is why citizens want to have a democratic country by organizing this street rally, not riot. Previously, Bersih 2.0 had been held last year and the number of people turning up for this campaign was huge! Hence, i bet Malaysians turning up for this Bersih 3.0 is even more because more of us are conscious about the current nation-issues.
Well, I would like to blog a bit about Bersih campaign. It is hard to deny the fact that all Malaysians must have heard of this towards-better-future move. Even I myself who seldom read paper and just love to log into Facebook know about the campaign. This Bersih thing was started by Datuk Ambiga, an Indian woman who happened to have reach a high status in the community-the title as Datuk, equivalent to Datuk Michelle Yeoh, our famous Hollywood star. A prestigious person who started this campaign shows how seriously bad is Malaysia. For your information, this campaign is NOT a riot...it is just a street rally where public unarmed citizens walk the street, demanding for cleaner elections. They do not hold any dangerous weapons and they rally with peace. Malaysians are very civilized, we have never cause any riots during rally.
Lets see how the government reacted. During Bersih 2.0, troops of police were sent to guard the place where citizens rallied and they demanded the citizens to dismiss. Knowing of their rights, the citizens refuse to leave and stayed for greater good. When the polices' order is disobeyed, they used water canon to shoot the citizens, making them wet and ran. Some of them are even children. Water canon is not enough by the way, they used eye-irritating smoke to dismiss the crowd. What are we? Terrorists? We paid the tax and we support these government officials indirectly and this is what we get in return? We are being treated as terrorists. Malaysian polices are pro-government.
During last year campaign, there were people claiming that polices threw smoke bomb into the Tung Shin Hospital in KL. However, the force denied the fact. Several medical experts who happened to be prominent doctors( there were 8 of them) stood out to clarify the denial. They told the press that the force threw the smoke bomb into the hospital compound. These professionals are not of any political parties, they are just am. Neutral and said what is right and what's not. When the force was accused by these professionals, government promised to probe the accusation but in the end, nothing comes out. It is a norm that in Malaysia, when an issue was constantly debated and becomes hot, the government said they will probe the issue but in the end, it fades and vanishes into thin air.
This time, Bersih 3.0 is a bigger campaign because it is held nationwide in major cities like KL, Ipoh, Penang, Johore etc. Those who are pro-Bersih will be wearing yellow to support the campaign. The government reaction this time is even more exaggerated. They blocked the roads in KL for 4 days until the Labour Day next Tuesday so that citizens will not able to march to the Independence Square (Dataran Merdeka). This kind of act makes Independence Square to have its genuine meaning lost where people have their rights to change have been restricted and stripped off. Since last night, people had already started to gather for today's campaign showing how desperate we are to have a cleaner elections. Isn't it clear that we are having peace rally but not riots? Riots happen when the citizens fight with the force, starting fire, throwing bombs, killing each other and so much more. I cant see anything like this happening here. Get to know the difference between peace street rally and riots. Furthermore, this time we are not even walking the street, we will be sitting on the ground to rally. Lets see if the government will use smoke bombs or water canons to disperse the sitting crowd or not. If they do, Im speechless because we are totally harmless and they are treating us like terrorists. Use them when you fight for the country, not against your own people. Lets stay tuned for today's news. Once again, Bersih 3.0 is gonna be held at 2pm nationwide.