Bersih 2.0: A rally against injustice

By Viktor Wong

Bersih 2.0 rally had commenced at 2.00 pm at Kuala Lumpur this afternoon. The large and overcrowded support that the people had given to the Bersih 2.0 was unexpected since there were so many threats issued by the police, the prime minister and his home minister earlier.

The people had decided to stand firm against all acts of injustice, racism, extremism and more importantly, the threat to destroy democracy at large by the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) federal government.

For more than 50 years, the BN government had choose to ignore the plight of our people and built itself around the wall a ruling elite, to take away whatever resources this country has from our people.

Claiming to be the champion of the Malay community, Umno had failed to prove its effectiveness in governance for more than 50 years now as the Malay community is still suffering from hardcore poor, lacking in education, and no rise on the communities equity in the country's economic growth despite tonnes of assistance and financial aids being given out in millions of Ringgit yearly. Do you still believe in Umno with all these failures?

MCA, MIC and Gerakan all claiming to champion the Chinese, Indian communities or Malaysians alike but what have they done to deal with the rising extremism in Umno? None, they just sit on it and say yes, yes all the time.

The scholarships problems which has been raised almost every year by the Chinese and Indian communities, but why only now MCA did manage to come out to say they will handle the repeating issue this year but not so many years ago. Why MCA only came to ask DAP not to interfere now? It is because the MCA leaders has been sleeping for decades on this issue and that is why this issue has been repeating none stop.

Calling for electoral reforms, if Umno, MCA, MIC, Gerakan or PPP were to be principled enough, why would they want to be afraid of the demand tabled by Bersih 2.0, that is to reform the current electoral system?

So, there must be a lots of cover up in the BN government and therefore, they choose to crush the rally by force.

Keep it up, Bersih 2.0! As long as there is no electoral reforms, there shall be another Bersih 3.0 in near future until clear and real electoral reforms are being carried out.