Sunday, September 06, 2009

What Malaysia is obviously & severely lacking now.

The police should come up with a standard procedure or guideline to deal with demonstrations and protests to show that it is consistent and fair in all its actions, said minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon....


... “The police must not give an impression that they only take action against certain parties. We must be consistently fair and they must be fairly consistent in handling of demonstrations,” he stressed....

credits: Choo Choy May


... He pointed out that the people have started questioning why the cow head protesters were not arrested on the spot during the demonstration but 16 people were arrested at Dataran Merdeka on Saturday for carrying out a candlelight vigil.


“People who carry out candlelight vigils and people who are sitting in mamak shops wearing black clothes are arrested. I think that is not correct,” he said, drawing laughter from the delegates....



points highlighted & quoted from : http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/9/6/nation/20090906161506&sec=nation