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Himpunan May Day - 2015

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Channel: jefferi chang · 2015 · People & Blogs

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KOTA KINABALU: More than 500 people attended the May Day Sabah Gathering regardless it was declared illegal by the police.

People started to build up and wait anxiously near the Padang Merderka KK as the crowd started to build up slowly to see and witness the gathering.

The gathering started with crowd from Suria Sabah passed by the police control along Padang Merdeka KK, chanting and went all the way to Wisma Warisan meeting point.

Then, the attention was diverted when environmental activist SM Muthu tried to negotiate with the police to allow the group to use the Padang Merdeka.

Unfortunately, the negotiation went unsuccessful as the police stick to their ground not to allow it, but agreed that the crowd can gather along the Bandaran road.

With that, the second walk in about 300 people from various organization came and with it the sound of traditional gong by the native as a symbol of peace to the police.

It was then the gathering started with an opening speech by Anne Lasimbang from PACOS whom worried about the future of the people of Sabah.

After that Mary Giun from Save Kaiduan Dam came out experess her disapointed with the government leadership who failed to protect the Kaiduan community.

Various organization and individual then take their turn to talk and the crowd cheers along with it.

Jannie Lasimbang, the organizing spokeperson, told reporter that she happy with the crowd although it not as they hope.

She pointed to the police court order that lead to few people to come but later reported that the court order happen to be expired.

Jannie also said, today gathering proven that the group that join the gathering came in peace and not riot as what police claimed.

The crowd start to dispersed around 4 pm as the police warned that they will take action against the people if not.

The crowd then continued to walk away from the Padang Merdeka and said to head to Taman Rimba at Penampang for a cool down period.

By 5 pm, the crowd almost disperse, OCPD Kota Kinabalu Chandran Muthu during his short press announcement said the crowd has violated some law by gathering without notice.

He also announced that there are no unwanted incident happen today when the crowd come with small pockets of group.

Chandran also express his gratitude to the organizer as they corporate and followed the rules and orders by the police not to go into the restricted padang area.

Regarding the court order, he restate that it still valid and the Padang Merdeka KK area and the line behind the yellow tape is still restricted area.

It was also informed that the police still have to set up their parameter until tomorrow as a precautions.

1 May 2015

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