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The Kuala Lumpur Traveler

Archive for the ‘Bersih’ Category

February 23rd, 2008

11th-hour poll rules changes: BN’s dirty trick department at work?

Election Commission (EC) announced on Thursday 21st Feb 2008 that all election candidates must must pay stamp duty on their applications to contest. Election candidates particularly in northern states where Friday and Saturday are holidays, could be disqualified due to the fact that they only have Sunday morning to do that. But the problem is, […]

By CJCM -- 5 comments

January 2nd, 2008

BN already started election campaign?

According to Malaysiakini, the photo shown here is what appears to be a premature election campaign by BN in Seri Kembangan. The BN folks in Seri Kembangan (as well as Bukit Lanjan and Tanjung Sepat) must be very anxious and eager to fight in the next general election…. but any decent party workers should know […]

By CJCM -- 1 comment

November 11th, 2007

Bersih march to Istana Negara: What really happened Part 4

The huge crowds now were on their way towards the Sime Darby LRT station, and then to continue their walks to demand for clean and fair elections to Istana Negara. In this video, you can see, despite there were thousands of marchers on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, the traffic were not blocked at all. […]

By CJCM -- 14 comments

November 11th, 2007

Bersih march to Istana Negara: What really happened Part 3

After the first tear gas and water canon spray were fired towards the crowds in front of the LRT Masjid Jamek, the people had to escape using the back lane leading towards Masjid Jamek. As you can see in this video, everyone was suffering from the effect ot the tear gas and the chemically-laced water […]

By CJCM -- 2 comments

November 11th, 2007

Bersih march to Istana Negara: What really happened Part 2

If you are asking how many people turned up today in the city center of Kuala Lumpur to attend the Bersih rally, you will never get the true number. But there were so many of them. Harakah Daily reported more than 100,000 although Malaysiakini reported just 40,000. I am not sure how many reported by […]

By CJCM -- 1 comment

November 10th, 2007

Bersih march to Istana Negara: What really happened Part 1

Although there were stern warnings by the police and Pak Lah, various pre-cautionary measures taken by the government and the police, thousands of concerned citizens showed up in Kuala Lumpur today. And yes, Kuala Lumpur was painted quite yellow today…. thanks to Bersih for that.

I just came back home from Kuala Lumpur 30 minutes ago. […]

By CJCM -- 7 comments

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