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| Belajarlah jadi negara bertamadun... Posted: 04 Jul 2011 08:03 PM PDT Rally seperti PERSIH adalah benda biasa di kota-kota besar di negara-negara maju dunia. Kat Malaysia aje heboh...Relax lah bro!! Di bawah ini adalah salah satu contoh perhimpunan aman di Melbourne, Australia pada tahun 2003 di mana rakyat bandar itu membantah penglibatan Australia dalam serangan tentera Amerika ke atas Iraq. Tak ada spesis Ibrahim Ali mahupun Pemuda Umno di sana...tak ada orang pakai baju warna2 tertentu kena tangkap...gas pemedih mata dan water cannon pun tak ada. Jalanraya tak ada road block...polis relax naik kuda just to facilitate the people. Itulah namanya tamadun...Cheh!! Published on Friday, February 14, 2003 by the Associated Press At Least 150,000 Protest in Melbourne Against Possible War with Iraq MELBOURNE, Australia - At least 150,000 people packed the streets of Melbourne on Friday to protest Australia's possible involvement in any U.S.-led attack on Iraq, in the country's biggest peace rally since marches three decades ago against the Vietnam War.  Anti-war marchers take to the streets during a demonstration in Melbourne, February 14, 2003. Over 150,000 people turned out to protest against a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq. REUTERS/Glenn Hunt The protest was the first in a series of demonstrations planned in Australia in the coming days. Similar peace rallies were scheduled across the world over the weekend. Police estimated that 150,000 people participated, while organizers put the crowd at 200,000. Greens Senator Bob Brown said the size of the crowd showed Prime Minister John Howard did not have a mandate to take Australia to war against Iraq. "This is a huge statement by the people of Melbourne, and the people of Australia to John Howard: that he's gone the wrong way and should turn around," Brown told the crowd. "The people of Australia don't see this as our war." Howard is a staunch supporter of U.S. President George W. Bush's tough line against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Howard has already committed 2,000 military personnel to the Persian Gulf to prepare for conflict if fighting breaks out. But he has said he has not yet decided whether Australian troops would actually join a U.S. attack. Howard met Bush and discussed the Iraq crisis in Washington this week. He later met British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London. On Friday, he was in Jakarta to hold talks with Megawati Sukarnoputri, the president of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, where anti-war feelings are also rising. The Melbourne rally started with the eerie sound of mock air raid sirens symbolizing air attacks on Baghdad. Protesters gathered outside the State Library waving placards with slogans including: "No War for Oil" and "Howard's End," a reference to the potentially damaging political fallout for Howard. "It is an amazing scene here with you today in a show of solidarity to send a strong message to Prime Minister Howard and the Australian government that Australians don't want war," Democrat Sen. Natasha Stott Despoja told the huge crowd. The protest, organized by student groups, unions and churches, ended with a music concert in central Melbourne. There were no reports of trouble in the large crowd. There were frequent protests in the 1970s when Australian troops fought alongside U.S. forces in the Vietnam War.  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:22 PM PDT  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2011 06:54 PM PDT Saya ingin menyampaikan ucapan takziah kepada rakan saya Saudara Johari Atli, Pegawai Undang-undang MPAJ yang baru kehilangan anak sulong beliau semalam. Allahyarham meninggal dunia setelah terbabit dalam satu kemalangan jalanraya di AU4 Lembah Keramat. Doa saya semoga saudara sekeluarga sentiasa tabah menghadapi segala dugaan. Alfatihah.  |
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