Congratulations BERSIH 2.0 on your successful rally

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The Bersih 2.0 Rally in Kuala Lumpur is now on. Congratulations to the Bersih 2.0 steering committee, leaders of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), leaders of Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM), leaders of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), leaders of Pakatan Rakyat who had all came together as a team to ensure the success of this afternoon's rally.
In the rally, we also saw prominent leaders of the Bersih 2.0 steering committee, NGOs, PKR, DAP, PAS, PSM, PRM arrested and dispatched to the police training centre (Pulapol). Despite these mass arrests, our supporters managed to carry on the march to call for a free and fairer electoral system.

And when the Bersih 2.0 Rally was ongoing, the nation's dictator who is also the Umno president Najib Razak got fed up with the situation and immediately took a trip down to Kuala Trengganu where is now believed to be residing at a well known holiday resort there.

Najib had left the BN fort this morning to his Umno deputy president Muhyiddin Yassin to defend and it sound like he wants his deputy to take charge and should anything unpleasant were to take place, he may as well put all the blame on Muhyiddin for his incapability.

Earlier about a week ago, Najib had informed Bersih 2.0 organizers to opt for a stadium instead of doing it on the streets and after the Bersih 2.0 steering committee members had met with the King they had agreed to have their rally in the stadium but the Najib and his home minister Hishammuddin Hussein then later retracted their offer reasoning it as a "mistake" by the government.

The Bersih 2.0 Rally had also saw a BN-Umno deputy minister Saifuddin Abdullah breaking ranks with his BN and Umno colleagues blaming his government for not giving Bersih 2.0 and the opposition parties sufficient space to voice their concerns on the country's faulty electoral system.

Saifuddin also commended the Bersih 2.0 Rally participants for their peaceful movements on the streets around Kuala Lumpur and he had also admitted that by blocking such event from taking place would eventually hurt the BN coalition itself.

Meanwhile, Malaysians across the globe had also took to the streets of their host countries in front of Malaysian embassies and high commission offices joining their Bersih 2.0 counterparts here in support to the call for electoral reform.

Scores of overseas Malaysians had came out in full force in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Sweden, England, Scotland, France, Ireland, Canada and the United States in support of the Bersih 2.0 Rally and our call for electoral reforms to be carried out here.

At the same time, Malaysians working in Singapore had also came out in thousands at Hong Lim Park in the island republic since 2.00 pm there to voice their support and solidarity for Bersih 2.0 Rally and the call for free and fair elections.

And one question for Umno and their BN coalition partners, if you are all so principled as claimed by yourselves, why fear of a proposed freer and fairer electoral system? Not only you are afraid of our proposal but you are also dispatching armed regiments of police force and military police personnel to harm the people who are merely walking together peacefully in the city demanding something which are humane and justice.

This means, both Umno and BN are covering up some whole lots of dirty work in their backyard where a just system would not allow all these to happen. Umno and BN are afraid of accepting nor implementing a freer and fairer electoral system for fear of losing their governing powers in the next general elections.

Once again, Congratulations Bersih 2.0 for their successful rally not only around Kuala Lumpur but also all around the globe. Long Live Bersih 2.0!

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