A group of senior medical officers have issued a statement condemning the authorities over the police' attack on participants in the Bersih 2.0 rally last Saturday that had violated universal recognition of hospitals as a place of sanctuary.
In a statement issued to PAS organ Harakahdaily today, the doctors - among whom were a number who were on duty at the Tung Shin and Chinese Maternity hospitals on Jalan Pudu when these were set upon by the police - said they are ready to issue affidavits to back their assertions.
Saying hospitals should be "safe sanctuaries for all" and "consecrated places of refuge" even during war time, Harakahdailysaid the eleven doctors and surgeons also condemned the police for entering the hospital buildings in search of some protesters fleeing from the police attacks.
"What was most frightening and witnessed by many was the unprovoked violent assault within the hospital compounds and apprehension of several protesters who had merely ran into the hospitals to seek shelter from the tear gas and the water cannons!" the doctors said in the jointly-issued statement Harakahdaily.
This is the first public reaction by medical doctors following the police denial that its men had shot tear gas into hospital compounds on July 9.
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In a statement issued to PAS organ Harakahdaily today, the doctors - among whom were a number who were on duty at the Tung Shin and Chinese Maternity hospitals on Jalan Pudu when these were set upon by the police - said they are ready to issue affidavits to back their assertions.
Saying hospitals should be "safe sanctuaries for all" and "consecrated places of refuge" even during war time, Harakahdailysaid the eleven doctors and surgeons also condemned the police for entering the hospital buildings in search of some protesters fleeing from the police attacks.
"What was most frightening and witnessed by many was the unprovoked violent assault within the hospital compounds and apprehension of several protesters who had merely ran into the hospitals to seek shelter from the tear gas and the water cannons!" the doctors said in the jointly-issued statement Harakahdaily.
This is the first public reaction by medical doctors following the police denial that its men had shot tear gas into hospital compounds on July 9.
[More to follow]
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