Perkasa mob disrupts PAS ceramah

About 100 Perkasa members caused a ruckus when they tried to storm a ceramah attended by Mat Sabu.

SEREMBAN: A ceramah organised by PAS was briefly disrupted last night when about 100 Perkasa supporters tried to storm the site where party deputy president Mohamad Sabu was delivering his speech.

One PAS supporter was hit in the head with a stone and another suffered a broken nose in the scuffle. Both were sent to a nearby clinic for treatment.

The row started when Mat Sabu arrived at Ampangan here for the the ceramah to address a crowd of about 600 people.

The Perkasa supporters started shouting “Anti-Mat Sabu” slogans while carrying banners that expressed their anger towards the PAS leader.

When the crowd turned unruly, PAS security volunteers escorted Mat Sabu to another route to get to the ceramah site.

As he was delivering his speech, a shouting match broke out between the protesters and PAS supporters near a main road.

The Perkasa supporters then rushed across the road in their attempt to meet Mat Sabu but were quickly stopped by PAS supporters.

A scuffle erupted and in the melee stones and mineral water bottles were thrown into the ceramah site, hitting one PAS supporter in the head.

Another PAS member was punched in the nose by a Perkasa supporter when the former tried to restrain the Perkasa mob.

A Perkasa representative told the organisers to call off the ceramah and said they wanted to submit a protest memorandum to Mat Sabu.

But PAS officials turned down his request and Mat Sabu continued with his speech while PAS and PKR volunteers guarded him.

Police later arrived to disperse the Perkasa supporters.

Mat Sabu recently kicked up a storm over his controversial speech which allegedly defamed the dead police personnel and their families who defended themselves during a Communist attack led by Mat Indera on the Bukit Kepong police station.