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Free Malaysia Today

A dare to Hisham: Don’t edit Bersih video

DAP says the Home Minister should release all 73 hours of video available to him if he truly wants the people to judge for themselves what actually happened on April 28.

KUALA LUMPUR: DAP today challenged Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein to release, unedited, all 73 hours of video footage of the April 28 Bersih rally that the police have in their possession.

Party strongman Lim Kit Siang issued the challenge in reaction to reports that the Home Ministry would release an edited clip on its website. Initial reports said the clip would be posted today, but ministry sources subsequently said the upload has been postponed to a date to be announced this afternoon.

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Bersih 3.0 Semangat Bersih, Harapan Negara

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Malaysiakini

Kuek Ser Kuang Keng 2:12PM Jun 6, 2012

Focusing on police brutality, the 15-minute edited video, entitled ‘Bersih 3.0 Semangat Bersih, Harapan Negara’ (Bersih 3.0 Clean Spirit, Hope of the Nation), has Malay subtitles and a narrative.

National publicity secretary Tony Pua, who screened the video at a press conference at DAP headquarters this morning, said the footage proves that the rally was a peaceful and joyous one until the police got involved.

“There was no reason why the police should have acted in such an aggressive fashion against unarmed Malaysians,” he said.

The video, Pua said, also exposes the prime minister’s “clear-cut discrepancy and hypocrisy” on the rally for clean and fair elections.

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KDN’s Bersih video release postponed, reasons unknown

Home Ministry’s release of Bersih 3.0 rally footage today is postponed but reasons for the change of plans remain unknown.

PETALING JAYA: The Home Ministry, originally scheduled to release today a video compilation of ‘the original footage’ of the Bersih 3.0 rally chaos, has postponed its plans.

Ministry sources said that instruction was given by the minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, earlier this morning to hold back the posting of the video on the ministry’s website.

However, no apparent reason has been given for the sudden decision.

“The minister gave an instruction this morning to postpone it, we don’t know the reasons as yet,” a source in the ministry told FMT.

www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/06/06/kdns… – Cached

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Lim Kit Siang says:

The Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has announced that a compilation of videos on the Bersih 3.0 rally would be uploaded on the Home Ministry website today for public viewing to enable people to see the events that occurred during the rally.

He said: “With the video recording, the people can make their own judgement based on facts and not other consideration.”

This is a most deplorable development post-Bersih 3.0, as it is continuation of the vilification and demonization campaign launched by the Barisan Nasional government against Bersih 3.0 and Pakatan Rakyat after April 28, like the 30-minute documentary “Bersih 3.0 itu Kotor” telecast on TV1 on Sunday, 13th May which only antagonised and turned off the hundreds of thousands of Malaysians who had gathered peacefully in Kuala Lumpur in support of the Bersih 3.0 call for a clean election.

The priority duty of Hishammuddin as Home Minister is not to be accused, judge, jury and executioner all in one but to give full support for an independent, impartial and credible investigation into what actually happened at the Bersih 3.0 rally and establish what went wrong which marred a great historic event of peaceful people empowerment uniting Malaysians transcending race, religion, region, class, age or gender for a common national cause with incidents of violence and brutality, regardless of whether the victims were police personnel, media representatives or peaceful protestors.

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Priority duty of Hishammuddin as Home Minister is to give full support to Suhakam inquiry into Bersih 3.0 rally and dissolve the Hanif Panel instead of kicking off a video war to support official version of what happened on “428”

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