POLICE GIVE PERMIT TO THE ORGANISER

BBM gathering moved to PWTC 2-6pm Sunday

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Perhimpunan Melayu BBM tanpa permit: Polis
‘Ein Azmi

6:33pm, Fri: Polis hari ini mengesahkan perhimpunan ‘Melayu Tak Akan Hilang di Dunia’ anjuran Badan Bertindak Melayu (BBM) yang bakal diadakan Ahad ini tidak mempunyai permit.

“Permit itu ditolak atas sebab-sebab keselamatan,” jelas Timbalan Ketua Polis Daerah Dang Wangi, Supt. Mohd Kasni Mohd Nor kepada malaysiakini.

Apabila ditanya langkah polis mengawal perhimpunan itu yang mendapat bantahan beberapa pihak, Mohd Kasni menjelaskan “sewajarnya polis bersiap-sedia setiap masa.”

Sementara Ketua Penerangan BBM, Datuk Haji Jamaludin Abu Bakar menjelaskan polis Dang Wangi memaklumkan kepadanya semalam bahawa permit yang dipohon dua minggu lepas “telah diluluskan.”

Bagaimanapun apabila diberitahu polis tidak meluluskan permit perhimpunan itu yang dijadualkan di Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur, beliau berkata perhimpunan yang tertunda sejak 21 Januari lalu akan tetap diteruskan.

“Persiapan telah dibuat 100 peratus, sekiranya pembangkang boleh mengadakan perhimpunan tanpa permit, mengapa kita tidak (boleh menganjurkan perhimpunan ini),” kata Jamaludin. .

Semalam malaysiakini melaporkan Ketua Bahagian Parti Keadilan Nasional Ampang Jaya, Ahmad Hassan dan timbalannya, Rosli Ibrahim membuat satu laporan polis bagi membantah perhimpunan itu.

Dalam laporan itu, mereka berkata ia bersifat perkauman melampau dan boleh menggugat perpaduan di kalangan penduduk berbilang kaum di negara ini. (Police report against Sunday rally cites ‘racial tension’, 1 Feb)

Naib Presiden Keadilan, Tian Chua hari ini pula menggesa aktivis reformasi dan penyokong Barisan Alternatif agar tidak terlibat dengan acara tersebut.

“Kita menghormati hak ahli Umno untuk berhimpun walaupun tajuk perhimpunan sendiri ada unsur provokatif,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan media.

Beliau berkata, kerajaan Barisan Nasional yang selama ini menafikan hak berkumpul secara aman akhirnya akur bahawa pada masa-masa tertentu perhimpunan diperlukan.

Pemimpin Umno yang terlibat dalam perhimpunan itu diharapkan tidak akan mengeluarkan kenyataan yang boleh menyinggung perasaan kaum bukan Melayu, tambahnya.

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Febuary 02 , 2001 22:59PM

COPS APPROVE PERMIT FOR MALAY AWARENESS GATHERING

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 (Bernama) -- Police today approved the application by a non-governmental organisation, the Malay Action Front (MAF), to hold a gathering in the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) here.

The gathering, themed "Takkan Melayu Hilang Didunia (Malays will not perish from the earth) will be held between 2pm and 6pm on Sunday.

Kuala Lumpur Acting Police Chief Datuk Meor Che Hussein Mahayuddin, said police issued the permit as the PWTC was an enclosed venue.

"The application to hold the rally at Sultan Sulaiman Club in Kampung Baru here was rejected due to security reasons," he said at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters here.

He advised those attending the event not to bring posters or banners displaying provocative and sensitive words.

Meor Che Hussein said stern action would be taken if the police found that the gathering was held at other venue instead of the PWTC.

He advised the public not to gather at the Sultan Sulaiman Club, Kampung Baru Mosque and Kuala Lumpur Hospital as this could create tensions among the people.

Meanwhile the Malaysian Association of Youth clubs (MAYC) will not attend the Sunday gathering, said its president Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.

Syed Hamid said this was so as the MAYC was not involved in politics. "We will not be involved in anything to do with politics," he said when asked to comment on the MAF planned gathering.

Syed Hamid who is also the Foreign Minister reiterated that the MAYC had no political agenda apart from encouraging youths to contribute to the nation's peace and stability. -- BERNAMA