Polis Gempur Konvesyen PR, Rakyat Bertambah Benci Kerajaan UMNO BN

Konvensyen 2 Tahun Pakatan Rakyat gempar apabila polis dan 200 anggota Unit Simpanan Persekutuan dikerah menggempur majlis tersebut.

Dalam kejadian 9.55 malam tadi, ribuan hadirin yang turun untuk mendengar syarahan dari pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat terkejut dengan keganasan mendadak ini.

Wartawan kami di lapangan melaporkan ramai yang menjadi mangsa hayunan belantan, bahkan ada yang turut dipijak selepas terjatuh.

Sasaran mereka adalah pentas utama, yang menempatkan Ketua Umum PKR, Anwar Ibrahim.

Orang-ramai segera memenuhi ruang pentas, mengutuk keganasan ini. Laungan reformasi kembali bergema di padang bersejarah ini, yang pernah menyaksikan kebangkitan rakyat Malaya menentang penjajah.

Ketika kejadian berlaku, Anwar bagaimanapun belum tiba di lokasi. Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng berjaya diselamatkan, manakala Timbalan Presiden Dr Syed Husin Ali, Naib Presiden PKR Azmin Ali, Naib Presiden Pas Mahfuz Omar berundur dan mengekalkan solidariti mereka dari dalam Kelab Sultan Sulaiman.

"Kita tidak akan berundur, ketika menghadapi kuku besi kezaliman," laung seorang aktivis.

Laungan reformasi semakin kuat, dan polis kelihatan berwaspada dengan raifal pelancar gas pemedih mata.

Polis memberi alasan bahawa permit ceramah hanyalah untuk di dalam dewan sahaja. Dua trak meriam air dikerah ke lokasi, mendesak orang-ramai mengosongkan padang Kelab Sultan Sulaiman.

Sebaik sahaja Anwar tiba, polis memberi keizinan untuk meneruskan ceramah.

Orang-ramai kini memenuhi segenap ruang dewan, untuk mendengar amanat dari Ketua Pembangkang Anwar Ibrahim.

Ini adalah kejadian kedua polis menghalang acara Pakatan Rakyat. Polis malam semalam menghentikan makan malam anjuran DAP di Kepong.
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Pada malam ini, dua tahun lalu, Pakatan Rakyat membentuk kerajaan di empat negeri dan merampas 82 kerusi Parlimen dalam satu kemenangan bersejarah yang menafikan majoriti dua-pertiga Umno-BN. -TVS Gambar ehsan MalaysianInsider


Police stop another Pakatan ceramah
Police moving in to stop the ceramah. — Picture by Choo Choy May

By Adib Zalkapli

KUALA LUMPUR, March 7 — The police moved in tonight to stop a Pakatan Rakyat public rally at the Sultan Sulaiman Club here to mark the second anniversary of the coalition’s landmark victory in Election 2008.

PKR vice-president Azmin Ali was stopped by Federal Reserve Unit riot police while delivering his speech to thousands attending the rally.

As the police approached him, Azmin told the crowd that the club belonged to the Selangor state government and was not “Umno property”.

“I call on the policemen to embrace the Pakatan Rakyat struggle,” he said to applause from the crowd.

“If we are given the mandate to take over Putrajaya, we will protect the interest of the policemen,” he added before police stopped his speech.

Among those at the rally were PKR deputy president Senator Dr Syed Husin Ali, Penang Chief Minister and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar.

Police later sent in two water cannon trucks to the venue, prompting Pakatan supporters to leave the club.

But Batu MP and PKR strategist Chua Tian Chang invited crowd to get into the club hall to comply with police ruling forbidding the crowd from gathering on the field.

The police last night stopped a dinner organised by the DAP in Kepong, just outside the city centre.

The Pakatan Rakyat swept through four more states and captured 82 federal seats in a historic win that denied the ruling Barisan Nasional its customary two-thirds parliamentary majority.

However, Pakatan lost Perak when three lawmakers quit to be independents last year and support Barisan as the state government.

Pakatan lynchpin PKR lost three MPs and sacked another over the past month as the leadership anguished over de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy charge, the second after he was sacked as deputy prime minister in September 1998. -MI