Najib hit by 'mild brain attack' in UK, he calls police action “quite mild"

It appears that the Prime Minister has suffered a mild “brain attack” whilst on an official visit to UK.

He experienced sudden trouble speaking or understanding speech, dizziness, lightheadedness loss of “balance or coordination”, “spinning” sensations, and “brain seizures”.

It happened when Najib was telling CNN in an interview conducted in London that police action on those who took part in the Bersih 2.0 march on July 9, was “quite mild”.

There was no “undue use of force”. It was of course not as mild as his initial response when he even initially claimed there was "no physical contact between police and protesters”!

On the arrests of more than 1,600 protesters, well, “…(t)hey were released after eight hours and they were treated very well… the demonstrators were dispersed using minimum force.”

Bolehland

Meanwhile, back in Bolehland, a group of brave Bersih marchers handed over a memorandum urging Suhakam (Malaysian Human Rights Commission) to probe the Najib-ordered crackdown.

Four of them recalled their terrifying and traumatic experience of police aggression and assault on that day. One alleged that a policeman threatened to kill him when arresting him.

There have also been countless first-person accounts of having been pounced on, pushed, punched, pinned down and pulverized by the police! They have been confirmed by witnesses.

Pictures and video clips revealed that it was no walk in the park as the PM has suggested. They pointed to the brutal truth that the police action was far from “mild” but mean and menacing!

This was further confirmed in a detailed report by a team of 100 people of the Malaysian Bar Council who openly monitored the rally.

Their conclusion: “Police used excessive and unnecessary force against Bersih rally participants while arrests were made randomly and arbitrarily.”

All-round condemnation from 1st world

Officials from the UN, US and UK have expressed their concern and criticism and castigated the authorities for their heavy and high-handedness and strong-arm tactics.

The influential Guardian called the Malaysian government gormless and said Najib will face global backlash for his “characteristic heavy-handedness” in handling the Bersih rally.

The signed statement by 11 doctors revealing that “police had fired tear gas and chemical-laced water into the compounds of the Tung Shin and Chinese Maternity Hospitals” reduces Najib’s “mild police action” to sheer nonsense! (Please refer to my article on: Liow’s Tongue Lies!)

“It is repulsive that the authorities entrusted with policing the nation and protecting the weak and needy, have shamelessly denied publicly, the occurrence of these incidents in spite of countless photo/video and eyewitness accounts of what was evident to all independent observers,” they said.

During the CNN interview Najib desperately argued:“It will come up to see that we are all for fair and clean elections. And as you know, the last general election, you know, the ruling party lost five states. And we were deprived of two-thirds majority.”

To put it very mildly, dear Najib, if the last elections were truly fair and clean, you probably would not be PM today!

Is the Prime Minister’s visit to the Pope going to be a “mild” one too?

- Martin Jalleh is a reader of Malaysia Chronicle