The ball is now in PM Najib's court . Should he crack down on the rally as he did with Bersih 3.0 , listening to his advisors. Which completely stunk up his attempts to be seen as a moderate , or should he let things slide and regain some of the lost credibilty of the reconciliation he had inferred.. But problem may be the unpredictability of what course of events the rallies may take...Stuck between a used diaper and a sanitary napkin,either side will still reek of wasteful discharge.
Just change Brazil into Malaysia and you swear it is like reading about our country apart from the world cup thingy and olympics ..except for the fact that thankfully no rubber bullets were used during the Bersih crackdowns..Just the same teargassing and chemical water spraying..
Just change Brazil into Malaysia and you swear it is like reading about our country apart from the world cup thingy and olympics ..except for the fact that thankfully no rubber bullets were used during the Bersih crackdowns..Just the same teargassing and chemical water spraying..
What happened in Brazil !
It began with smaller-scale protests over rises in fares for public transport in various Brazilian cities.
But within weeks, it had galvanised tens of thousands of people, many of them young, to take their anger onto the streets.
The focus of all this discontent seems to be spread across a wide range of issues: the costs of hosting the World Cup and the Olympics sat alongside demands to invest more in education and health.
Political corruption, as always, loomed large, with politicians accused of giving themselves high salaries and appointing relatives to phoney jobs in the capital, Brasilia. (sound familiar)
For some, evictions to facilitate the big sporting events are part of a wider injustice.
In the capital, demonstrators chanted: "I give up on the World Cup. I want money for education and health."
To further humiliate the country's political leaders, the demonstrators breached security at the iconic Oscar Niemeyer-designed National Congress building, clambering onto the roof.
In a night of protest - some of it violent, much of it peaceful - it was the most visually striking image of the gap between many Brazilians and the politicians for whom they often hold nothing but contempt.
In Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, there was another incentive to protest: anger over police tactics at earlier demonstrations, most notably last Thursday.
The police were widely accused by witnesses of firing rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, with many officers hiding their name-tags to conceal their identities.
Among the more than 100 people injured in the unrest were journalists from national news organisations who said they had been deliberately targeted.
The authorities denied wrongdoing, promised to investigate the allegations, and ruled out the use of rubber bullets at the latest protest.
But for people watching, the images of a young couple being clubbed to the ground by a snarling policeman that appeared on the front of many magazines and papers was all too much.(Read More here)
