‘Leaders failed to control crowd’
KUALA LUMPUR: Unruly acts, breaching the police barricade and making children a party to an opposition-backed rally reflect a failure on the part of its organisers to abide by the Peaceful Assembly Act 2011.
The act states that children under 15 are not allowed to participate in a rally of such nature.
Those found guilty under the act are liable to a fine of up to RM20,000.
Political observer Che Hamdan Mohamed Razali, from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Dungun campus, Terengganu, said the rally organisers, led by Datuk S. Ambiga and backed by opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Pas president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang and DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang were liable under the law.
"Ambiga and the other opposition leaders drew a crowd but failed to control them."
Che Hamdan, who is also political science lecturer at the campus, said bringing children to the rally was akin to indirectly telling them that it was all right to demonstrate.
The rally did not focus on "clean and fair elections" alone.
Other issues, among them involving Lynas; National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN); Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT); as well as the Felda Global Ventures Holdings (FGVH) listing in the Malaysian stock market were dragged in as well.
As for LGBT, he said Malaysia, as an Islamic country, did not condone such practices which were against the teachings of Islam.
Meanwhile, the rally failed to achieve its 100,000 participation target.
Police said the 20,000 participants at the rally was a small number compared with the city's population of 1.8 million. Bernama
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