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Undilah PAS : MENENTANG KEZALIMAN & MENEGAKKAN KEADILAN
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Riot police protest against negative public portrayal
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 - In an emotionally charged public protest today, brutal, violent
Federal Reserve Unit (FRU)
officers expressed frustration over the stereotyping in the independent media of riot
policemen as brutal, violent psychopaths.
The demonstration by some 500 FRU riot police was violently broken up by another 500
FRU riot police.
"As a brutal, violent riot policeman, I feel hurt by the negative portrayal of my
profession in some of the media," Ahmad
Terajang, 31, told reporters at the demonstration in Dataran Merdeka. "None of us
should have to live with stereotyping and
ignorance."
He then began screaming and firing tear gas into a small crowd of civilian
by-standers nearby.
"It hurts that in this supposedly enlightened day and age, people still make
assumptions about other people," Bantai said, as he
slowly twisted the neck of a nearby pensioner. "We should not rely on simple
generalizations. Each crazed riot policeman is an
individual."
Another demonstrating FRU officer, A Pukulsamy, 29, said that he himself has often
been unfairly stereotyped. "Any time I
approach a small crowd with fully loaded tear gas guns and batons swinging, people
just assume I'm going to harm them," he
said. "That really hurts."
"Yes, I sometimes do crack their skulls in the name of law and order," he noted.
"But there is so much more to me."
"I walk into a supermarket in full riot gear and people immediately jump to
conclusions on the basis of the colour of my helmet
and uniform," officer Lim Ban Tai. "We are victims of prejudice ,and this can be
very hurtful and frustrating," he said weeping
from the tear gas.
FRU officers had last week pleaded their case and brought their grievances to human
rights group SUARAM. A subsequent
peaceful demo organised by SUARAM, "Freedom for the FRU Day", was violently broken
up by FRU.
"People forget that we are professionals and take great pride in our work," said Ali
Sepak, 32. Ali gained worldwide fame
when international news agencies filmed him dragging a sixty-year old woman by the
hair along Jalan TAR and beamed the
pictures to every cable news channel in the world. "We have brought international
recognition to Malaysia. And what do we
get? Bad PR."
According to Ali, stereotypes against brutal, violent riot policemen don't work
because they don't take into account the vast
diversity of professional experience and variety of cultures among them.
"There are so many different kinds of brutal, violent riot policemen. Each of us has
our own unique reasons and motivations for
beating the crap out of people. Some like the brisk exercise. Others like to see the
sight of blood. I personally like the to hear
the gurgle in their throats as I ram my baton down their windpipes."
Pukulsamy also stressed the importance of understanding and celebrating the
cultural differences between brutal, violent riot
policemen and non-brutal, non-violent civilians. "All the different peoples of the
world have something special to offer each
other," he said. "Our diversity is our greatest strength. Let's not make a weakness
out of that strength."
To emphasize his point, Pukulsamy fired into a nearby crowd with his automatic
rifle, killing nine.
"I'm proud to be a brutal, violent riot policeman, obviously," he said in between
loading ammunition. "But I'm a professional
first. Eat lead, you Reformasi bastards!" he declared, as he fired another clip into
a passing schoolbus.
~ By a Special Correspondent of 'Not The New Straits Times'
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Sabri Zain
REFORMASI DIARY at http://reformdiary.cjb.net
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