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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Perkasa OK with members joining Bersih 4

Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali says the Malay rights group has no problems with its members wanting to join the Bersih 4 rally this weekend. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, August 26, 2015. Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali says the Malay rights group has no problems with its members wanting to join the Bersih 4 rally this weekend. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, August 26, 2015. 
Malay rights group Perkasa is allowing its members to join the Bersih 4 rally this weekend, although the group's leadership said it wanted to remain neutral.
Its president, Datuk Ibrahim Ali, said people had the right to assemble during the overnight rally from August 29 to 30, and had no problems if its own members wanted to do so.
Ibrahim, however, admitted that Perkasa was unsure about endorsing the rally organised by electoral reform watchdog Bersih 2.0 for fear it could threaten national security.
"As a former student leader in the 1970s, I was among those who demonstrated, to the point of being detained under ISA.
"So I don't want to be a hypocrite or choose sides," he said during a press conference at the Perkasa headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today. 
"It is the right of the individual. Perkasa has many members. How would I know all of them?
"We are not stopping them, but we are not supporting it either. We respect the people's right to march but we are also concerned about national safety.
Perkasa has in the past condemned Bersih rallies, with its youth wing even warning Muslims against joining the Bersih 3 rally in 2012 because it was led by human rights activist and lawyer Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, whom the right-wing group had labelled as being an "anti-Christ for Muslims" and a "traitor" to the nation.
The Bersih 4 rally this time is pressing for institutional reform, the freedom to protest, measures to save the economy and a clean government and political system.
Bersih 2.0 chairman Maria Chin Abdullah also said that this weekend's rally would be akin to a vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, whose is under pressure to account for alleged scandals involving his brainchild 1Malaysia Development Bhd, as well as over RM2.6 billion that went to his personal accounts.
- TMI

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