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Bersih 2.0: Peguam PKR pula tayang video nafi dakwaan polis

PETALING JAYA, 29 Julai — Peguam-peguam PKR menayangkan rakaman video mereka sendiri, yang dirakamkan ketika 9 Julai lalu di kawasan terowong KL Sentral, sebagai respons kepada dakwaan polis kononnya peserta perhimpunan memprovokasi pasukan keselamatan sehingga memaksa menggunakan gas pemedih mata.

Polis menayangkan rakaman video mereka Khamis lalu dan kemudian disiarkan menerusi RTM sejak itu.

KL Sentral merupakan antara lokasi menjadi fokus pemimpin-pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat berhimpun sebelum cuba bergerak ke kawasan Stadium Merdeka.

Naib Presiden N. Surendran, Ahli Parlimen Subang Sivarasa Rasiah dan anggota Lawyers for Liberty Fadiah Nadwa Fikri menayangkan rakaman yang dirakamkan oleh Free Malaysia Today dan TV Selangor kepada media hari ini sambil menafikan satu demi satu dakwaan pihak polis.

Peguam-peguam itu berkata, dalam satu klip, Ketua Polis Daedah Brickfields Wan Bari Wan Khalid kelihatan menjerit ke arah para peserta agar bersurai dan dalam satu minit kemudian mengarahkan pegawainya melepaskan tembakan dan memekik “bawah” sebanyak tiga kali sebelum 12 tembakan kedengaran.

Sebelum tembakan gas pemedih dilepaskan, kumpulan peserta perhimpunan bersemuka dengan barisan anggota polis dari satu jarak yang agak jauh.

“Persoalan kami, adakah sesuatu yang sah bagi polis melepaskan begitu banyak tembakan ke atas mereka yang menyertai demostrasi? Bukan kumpulan yang besar ketika itu, ia ruang kecil di dalam terowong,” katanya lagi.

Sivarasa menambah, polis juga seharusnya memberi penunjuk perasaan masa selama lima minit untuk bersurai sebelum memberikan amaran kedua dan ketiga.

Satu lagi klip menunjukkan seorang lelaki dihalang oleh polis dan seorang lagi anggota polis pula memukulannya berulang kali menggunakan cota.

Khamis lalu, Pengarah Keselamatan Dalam Negeri dan Ketenteraman Awam Datuk Salleh Mat Rashid berkata, enam pasukan penyiasat polis telah menjalankan siasatan mereka berhubung dakwaan tindakan keras yang digunakan untuk menangani perhimpunan 9 Julai dan tidak menggunakan kekerasan ketika menangani perhimpunan Bersih 2.0.

Hari ini, Ketua cabang Klang Yew Boon memberitahu pemberita bahawa kanister gas pemedih terkena bahagian mata sebelah kiri, sekali gus menyebabkan luka kecil.

“Saya kecewa dengan tindakan polis, tidak berperikemanusiaan dan kejam,” kata beliau.

“Orang ramai tidak berniat dan secara fizikal untuk menyerang, sebaliknya mereka (polis) yang menyerang kami, kami semua warganegara yang mencintai keamanan dan keadilan, tetapi kini nampaknya pihak polis tidak berfikiran begitu dan menggunakan pendekatan melampau, bukan saya seorang yang mengalami kecederaan,” kata beliau.

Sivarasa berkata Yew bukan satu-satunya yang terkena tembakan di bahagian kepala.

Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam Khalid Samad terkena di bahagian belakang kepala dan menerima enam jahitan manakala pengawal peribadi Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Fayyadh Afiq Albakqry, 25, mengalami kecederaan lebih teruk. Kanister terkena di bahagian muka.

“Tidak dapat dinafikan bahawa raifal gas pemedih mata dengan sengaja, bukan sahaja dituju ke arah orang ramai, tetapi juga ke arah kepala mereka dengan niat mahu menyebabkan kecederaan serius.

“Hakikatnya, tiga orang, dalam kumpulan yang anda lihat dalam video, menerima tembakan di bahagian kepala bukan secara kebetulan. Raifal dihalakan terus ke bahagian kepala dengan niat mahu menyebabkan kecederaan serius,” kata beliau.

Beliau juga berkata, Naib Presiden Chua Tian Chang yang turut dikenali sebagai Tian Chua berjalan ke arah kiri, melepasi anggota polis untuk mengelakkan gas pemedih mata, tetapi ditahan oleh anggota polis berpakaian biasa, sekali gus pihak mendakwa dia mencetuskan provokasi.

“Polis ada mengeluarkan beberapa video dan mereka kelihatan memfokus ke atas YB Tian Chua berlari bersama beberapa yang lain, seolah-olah cuba menunjukkan bahawa beliau berlari ke arah polis.

“Video hari ini menunjukkan bahawa ia satu pembohongan sama sekali, satu tindakan memutar belit . . . anda boleh melihat apa yang beliau sebenarnya lakukan,” kata beliau.

Surendran berulang kali menyifatkan agar tindakan polis itu diklasifikasikan sebagai percubaan membunuh. -TMI

Tian was running away from riot police’

PKR's version of the police video is that Tian Chua was running away and the police have twisted it to say he was charging at them.

PETALING JAYA: PKR today came to the defence of its vice-president Tian Chua by saying that he was actually running away from the riot police, and not charging at them, during the July 9 Bersih rally.

Subang MP R Sivarasa explained that Tian Chua was running away from the police rather than attacking them during an incident at an underpass at KL Sentral.

“Police seem to be focusing on Tian Chua running out of the underpass, trying to suggest that he was charging at the police and therefore they fired tear gas. But the videos show that that’s a complete lie,” said Sivarasa.

“What Tian Chua was doing was that he was trying to get out of the space as quickly as possible. When coming out of the tunnel you can see from the video he was running to the right, out of the path of the tear gas.”

Sivarasa said if Tian Chua had any intention to attack the police, he could have come directly face-to-face with the light strike force.

Sivarasa was speaking to the press at the PKR headquarters today where the party showed some video clips taken from the day of the rally, which strengthened its claim that the police acted in a brutal manner in dispersing the protesters.

Last week, the police made public their own video clips to show that they were provoked by the protesters. They also claimed that Tian Chua had charged at them.

Pointing to two video clips today, Sivarasa said these clips showed that Tian Chua had veered to the right and was immediately detained by the police together with others who followed him.

“It was a foolish statement by the police and some bloggers had repeated it. Tian Chua knew the police were going to shoot tear gas and had made a judgment call to get out of the firing line.

“The moment he moved, the shooting started and he was able to escape,” said Sivarasa.

Lies and distortion

PKR vice-president N Surendran, who was also present at the press conference, said that it also does not make sense that police had continued shooting about 10 more canisters when Tian Chua and the charging group had already moved to the side.

“The police’s lie and distortion was spread by others, including bloggers who accepted the lie. Our problem is not with the bloggers but the police who started this false version,” he said.

Yesterday, Bersih 2.0 steering committee member Haris Ibrahim questioned Tian Chua’s alleged aggressive actions during the confrontation with the police in the tunnel.

The blog post entitled, “Confirmed: Tian Chua was a bad, bad boy!” demanded an explanation from the Batu MP as to why he had led a charge of a few protesters towards the police.

Haris had also posted a clip (above) showing Tian Chua counting down from three to one and leading a charge straight at the riot police who then fired at them.

In response, Tian Chua stated in a statement yesterday that the edited video which showed him leading the demonstrators did not give the true picture of what happened at the tunnel that day.

He added “the witch-hunt whether on me or other participants cannot absolve the guilt of brutality on July 9”. -FMT