Monday, September 10, 2007

TROUBLES IN TERENGANU



Seven people were injured – two with gunshot wounds – when opposition supporters clashed with police trying to disperse an illegal political gathering on Saturday night.

picture courtesy from The Star


The political gathering should be allowed in the country but it must be properly controlled by the police. In my mind this type of gathering should be held in the football stadium. In this way, the police can control the crowd going in and going out. If any one wants to create trouble, the police can nab the person right away. The football stadium can hold say 30,000 people. The organizers of the political parties must be held responsible to control the crowd. The police must be fair in issuing permit for the political gathering. Most of the times the opposition parties can't get permit to hold its political gathering. The BN parties can get it easily. Even without approval, the police won't charge the BN organizers for holding an assembly. I am sure there were cases happened before. All states have football stadiums so why not use these football fields for political gatherings? The parties can rent it from the stadium board then the police can send its force to control for any untoward incidents...yet the police must tell the organizers to be accountable to control the crowd in the gathering. The current methods I think it wont serve a purpose at all. Political gatherings must be away from town or villages. Because these type of gathering are always highly charged assemblies. Every party officials must employ its own guard to control the crowd. It is a normal thing spy will come to create troubles then blame it on the party holding the assembly. My view it should be held in the stadium...............no stadium so no political gathering

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