WANGSA MAJU - BERSIH co-chairman Ambiga Sreenevasan slammed Home Minister
Hishammuddin Hussein for not chastising a crowd of mostly Umno youths
who had called for an Opposition politician Tian Chua to be killed.
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"I saw the article where the Home Minister was speaking in Gombak and where the audience retorted 'Kill Tian Chua'
and I think it is one of the most shocking things I have seen. And
what should the Home Minister have done when those comments were made?
Did he keep quiet? Clearly he had kept quiet. He should have put a
stop to it immediately," Ambiga said at a political briefing organized
by Tan Kee Kwong, the PKR candidate for the Wangsa Maju constituency,
on Sunday night.
Exterminate traitors, Kill Tian Chua
Indeed, it looks like Hisham - known more for his political blunders than for his accomplishments - may have stirred up another hornet's nest for himself and his beleaguered Umno party.
At a press conference on Sunday, he admitted a rise in political violence as seen in the unruly mobs who did not hesitate to physically attack Opposition speakers at pre-election rallies held throughout the country. Hisham, however, was quick to pin the blame on Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and his Pakatan Rakyat coalition, saying they brought it upon themselves.
Yet just hours earlier, Hisham himself used violent words urging Malaysian youths at a BN rally to "exterminate traitors" such as Tian Chua, the PKR MP for Batu whom the Minister accused of insulting the Armed Forces over the recent Lahad Datu intrusion.
Not surprisingly, Hisham's provocative words stirred violent response from the crowd who shouted"Kill Tian Chua" after he asked "“Whose hand is it behind the intrusion, is there a third party involved? Who is this person who would forsake his own race and nation just because he wants power?”
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"I saw the article where the Home Minister was speaking in Gombak and where the audience retorted 'Kill Tian Chua'
and I think it is one of the most shocking things I have seen. And
what should the Home Minister have done when those comments were made?
Did he keep quiet? Clearly he had kept quiet. He should have put a
stop to it immediately," Ambiga said at a political briefing organized
by Tan Kee Kwong, the PKR candidate for the Wangsa Maju constituency,
on Sunday night.Exterminate traitors, Kill Tian Chua
Indeed, it looks like Hisham - known more for his political blunders than for his accomplishments - may have stirred up another hornet's nest for himself and his beleaguered Umno party.
At a press conference on Sunday, he admitted a rise in political violence as seen in the unruly mobs who did not hesitate to physically attack Opposition speakers at pre-election rallies held throughout the country. Hisham, however, was quick to pin the blame on Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and his Pakatan Rakyat coalition, saying they brought it upon themselves.
Yet just hours earlier, Hisham himself used violent words urging Malaysian youths at a BN rally to "exterminate traitors" such as Tian Chua, the PKR MP for Batu whom the Minister accused of insulting the Armed Forces over the recent Lahad Datu intrusion.
Not surprisingly, Hisham's provocative words stirred violent response from the crowd who shouted"Kill Tian Chua" after he asked "“Whose hand is it behind the intrusion, is there a third party involved? Who is this person who would forsake his own race and nation just because he wants power?”
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