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By Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 — Utusan Malaysia continued today to demonise Bersih 2.0 and its Saturday rally, featuring stories of traders’ complaints at having lost millions worth of business that day and claims from participants that they had been paid to attend.
The Umno-owned daily dedicated all its news pages and nearly 30 news articles to Bersih 2.0, all condemning the chaotic events that invaded the streets of the capital city on Saturday.
Quoting Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Association (Ikhlas) president Mohd Ridzuan Abdullah, the daily said some 5,000 traders had recorded losses worth up to RM100 million when they were forced to close for the day due to the rally.
Utusan Malaysia also dubbed the rally an “Indonesian-style demonstration”, claiming of revelations from participants that they had been paid to attend.
Citing a police source, the daily said many of the 1,401 arrested on Saturday had revealed to police when giving their statements that between RM150 and RM200 were offered to participants.
“According to the (police) source, many among the participants did not know the purpose of the illegal rally, while others did not even care about its organisers.
“Even more disgusting, said the source, the illegal gathering was planned by certain political parties bent on obstructing the government administration by using participants’ provocation of the authorities in charge of maintaining public safety,” said the daily.
The source had also purportedly told Utusan Malaysia that the participants were offered allowances several days before Saturday by individuals believed to be from the opposition pact due to their “dialects” and tendency to flare up anti-government sentiments.
Utusan Malaysia also front-paged Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s speech from yesterday’s Umno gathering, and published several articles, one quoting the prime minister as saying that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim deserved an “Oscar” award for claiming to have been hurt during the rally.
“Not only that, Najib said Anwar’s skilful acting was just as good as veteran Bollywood star Amitabh Bachan.
“He only got a little bit of tear gas and there’s a neck brace and his face is all contorted as though he got beaten up,” the daily quoted Najib as saying.
Saturday’s Bersih 2.0 rally saw thousands throng the capital city’s streets to march for free and fair elections but close to midday chaos broke out when armed riot police forced back protesters by firing tear gas canisters and water cannons.
written by uxzee, July 12, 2011 02:55:31
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written by descool88, July 12, 2011 00:03:55
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written by Windchime, July 11, 2011 23:55:44
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written by armageddon, July 11, 2011 23:46:10
Aiyoyo... that means on the average EACH TRADER makes a loss of RM 100,000,000 DIVIDED by 5,000 traders = RM 20,000 LOSS IN A DAY. Ini tak IKHLAS lah!
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written by smalluncle, July 11, 2011 21:14:34
read here:
http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/from-around-the-blogs/41917-my-bersih-20-experience
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written by temenggong, July 11, 2011 21:02:51
Its best they take their business to Endau or Jerantut where the rests are cheap and the winds are cooling.
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written by donplaypuks, July 11, 2011 20:35:01
Can I claim my expenses back from Najib? No one paid me or the 50,000-60,000 who turned up for Bersih 2.0. Buntutsan spins lies because that's all it knows how to do, expertly!
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written by Concerned_Citizen, July 11, 2011 20:29:31
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written by mrshah_59, July 11, 2011 19:46:39
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written by Wakeupmsia, July 11, 2011 19:32:31
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written by Nixcloud, July 11, 2011 19:01:31
but you know what mr ugutan, it was the best day of my life....
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written by whlau, July 11, 2011 17:00:08
fuyoh...! RM100 million recorded losses!!! Can you imagine how much these traders make a day...an average of RM20k per trader per day and more than half a million per month! I wonder if they pay any taxes...??? I hope the IRB people are awake and do an audit check on these traders. I think I want to be a trader...
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written by Democrats, July 11, 2011 16:57:11
I was there, and i wasn't paid! I even had nice kopi o and bought dried meat at Petaling street to inject money in the economy, which normally i do not even go to KL on weekends!
Chinese, Indians and Malays, Dayaks all gathered for a common cause. that is better than your Najibs' 1MALAYSIA can ever dream off.
And i saw the UMNO youth crowd. Many Bangla and pakistani wearing the patriot shirt. (Wonder who pay who) and i read Perkasa had like 20 ppl having nasi lemak exposition at titwangsa lake restoran.
Write about that la UTUSAN!
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written by Malaysia Baru, July 11, 2011 16:13:16
TRADERS - Dont sell it in the shops.
Distributors - Dont deliver these papers to homes.
It will teach them a lesson when sales drop.!
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written by NSTPravda, July 11, 2011 16:07:10
1. My heart bleeds for all the losses the poor business lost because of the kotor bersih.
2. But fear not, it is a win win situation as far as 1, your $upreme Cho$en 1One, is concerned.
A. I win if bersih is stopped, by means foul or fair.
B I win if bersih is not stopped and my FRU uses up the old stock of tear gas and chemicalized water. The commission for the replenishment will be split between my good little cou$in and 1Moi your leader and Ro$mak could do with a few millions more to re coordinate her ruined wardrobe.
On the whole it is not a bad day.... dollar akbar!
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written by Angela Ooi, July 11, 2011 16:04:30
dUMNO's organ of massive lies n deception.
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And they can't even do a simple math.
If Najib had given the green light for the demonstration, the march would have gone peacefully in 2 hours. No shops had to be closed. No roads need to be closed all day, except those time when the marchers strolled by. There would be more business for the merchants rather than a big loss as tens of thousands, if not millions, will be attending the rally. So, who caused all these losses? It all UMNO, you shit head!