KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 – Although 17 hours after the Bersih 4 rally began on yesterday, the protesters are bracing for another 17 hours to go before the rally officially ends at midnight of Aug 30,2015. The police did not move in at all against the protesters in Kuala Lumpur, although elsewhere, in Malacca, there were also reports of several people being arrested for wearing yellow clothing with “Bersih 4” printed on them.
Day 2 of the 34-hour street demonstration broke after a peaceful night which saw protesters sleeping on the pavements and in the middle of the roads around the historic Dataran Merdeka, which will be the site of the 58th Merdeka Day celebrations tomorrow. Around 200,000 people were estimated to participant at the rally’s peak about 4pm. According to the organiser, it was electoral that the reform group Bersih 2.0 although police put the number at 29,000.
The protesters was wounded down after the midnight while some are bedding down near the barricades erected around Dataran Merdeka where Bersih 2.0 has stationed its security team and put up banners reminding people not to cross the line into the square. Besides that, other were slept in the middle of the road and on the pavements. Smaller groups passed the night holding civic education workshops or listening to talks.
