KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 – The Bersih 4.0 street rally which organising by the Bersih 2.0 Steering Committee Maria Chin Abdullah are starting this morning which is also the second day of the rally. Most of the participants to make Jalan Tun Perak and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman as a “hotel” for the night. Meanwhile, Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad also claimed that at least 30 percent of the participants were Malays.
Although there were few issues happened by it does not changing the participant mindset to stop the rally. The protesters began to get up from the bed and tidying their beds in the early mormning on 6:35am. As protesters in Kuala Lumpur stir from an incident-free night on the streets, Bersih 4 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah appears set for a deadlock between police and protesters who are determined to go ahead with a 6km democracy walk in the state capital.
The hard work of some protesters during the night is now visible, with roads around Dataran Merdeka drawn in coloured chalk. Protesters had drawn the Malaysian flag, as well as written slogans like “We want change”, “We want clean and fair”, “We want peace” and “Hey Malaysia, is time to wake up!”
Bersih 2.0 chairman Maria Chin Abdullah meets reporters at the protest scene near Dataran Merdeka here said it is not entirely true that Malays are not participating in Bersih 4, in response to news reports that rally participants were overwhelmingly of other races.
Crowd at Dataran Merdeka swells as rally-goers from Dataran Maybank at Pudu make their way to the iconic square. Most are walking, but some have also taken the LRT with making LRT trains are full of people wearing yellow heading to the city centre to join other rally-goers.
In the same time, student activist Adam Adli takes over as vocalist for musical group BangsArt that is entertaining rally-goers at Dataran Merdeka as regular vocalist Amir Abd Hadi is having a sore throat. He said he was expected to be back tonight with a new song.
Kuala Krai MP Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli said he admired young people like student activists Adam Adli and Shukri Razab. “We the people of Malaysia, we suffer. We have been here for two days. Never before in our history that we have gathered for more than five hours.
At least 40,000 participants in Jalan Tun Perak now, with more arriving. There is a sea of yellow at Masjid Jamek as the crowd chants “Jalan, Jalan” to urge the static crowd to move. Besides that, the Bersih 4 rally has officially passed the 24-hour mark. Many of the rally-goers who have been at Dataran Merdeka since yesterday are taking a rest after the Zohor prayers and they look set to stay until midnight when the rally officially ends.
In the same time, MP Ramkarpal Singh addressed at the main stage, saying: “We have passed the 24-hour mark, I’m proud that at least 300,000 to 400,000 have come to show support and disapproval of current regime. 1MDB is our new four letter word, we are not allowed to say it.
Although there were a strong winds, cloud and rain hits Dataran Merdeka, Bersih 4.0 participants were also seek shelter as it starts to rain in Dataran Merdeka and also surrounding of the areas with singing “Terima Kasih Rakyat Malaysia”. (Thank You Malaysians).
Former PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is expected to be at the Masjid Jamek LRT station at 4.30pm which arrived at the Central Market LRT station, surrounded by Bersih participants and shouting ‘Bersih’ as they follow him to Central Market. He hold a press conference at a restaurant in the Pasar Seni said he was down to Kuala Lumpur as expressing support for the people who are protesting against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak.
“We just want to oust Najib only, BN (Barisan Nasional) must remain. The change must come from within Umno itself but added that a lot of them have been bought. Najib will not step down. He has to face the courts and maybe jailed. If a vote of no-confidence against Najib is to be successful, then the Umno MPs who are faithful to the party must support the vote of no-confidence,” he said.
“Only then will Najib’s administration fall and BN can form the government because it still has the majority. I has no plans to join Bersih 4 while expressing support for the thousands of people demonstrating yesterday afternoon,” he added. Meanwhile, yesterday evening he at Dataran Merdeka down briefly without any reality except “go ahead, go ahead.”
