A small group of NGOs want the King to revoke Bersih leader S.Ambiga's citizenship “to teach her a lesson”.
KUALA LUMPUR: A small band of mostly unknown NGOs want Bersih chairperson S Ambiga’s citizenship to be revoked for going ahead with the plan to organise a mass rally on July 9.
The group of 10 NGOs led by Alternative Action Team submitted a memorandum the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin through a palace official this morning.
The memorandum is asking the King to revoke Ambiga’s citizenship.
“We want to teach her a lesson, we can’t let these people claiming to ask for clean elections when they are actually controlled by foreign elements,” said Alternative Action Team president B Kalai Vanar, who led the group.
“After May 13 (1969), we don’t want yet another incident of bloodshed in Malaysia,” he told reporters at the national palace gates.
He said the group could have brought 500 supporters and had at first planned to but “on the advise of IGP, we didn’t want any chaos”.
Only 10 supporters turned up chanting “Retreat Bersih! Destroy Racists! Take away Ambiga’s citizenship!”, while holding up a banner in front of curious tourists.
When asked, Kalai said his movement was backed by Kelab Perpaduan Insan Selangor, Kelab Penyokong BN, Pusat Penyelidikan Tamil Malaysia, but could not name the rest.
Kalai claimed the electoral system handled by the Election Commission was much better compared to Thailand, Philippines and Taiwan.
“They say they want clean elections but they just want to look for trouble and confront the government,” he charged.
Last week, Malacca chief minister Ali Rustam had also called for Ambiga’s citizenship to be stripped or exiled.
“Better to just lose one person than to lose a lot of lives,” Ali was quoted to have said.
Indian Muslim organisation Kimma had also asked the Sultan of Perak to strip Ambiga of her datukship.
Ambiga has consistently maintained that she would not respond to personal attacks as Bersih “is not about me, but the rakyat”.
She had also SMS death threats but remained undeterred over the July 9 rally to call for free and fair elections
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