Kampung Berembang, Images from Destruction of Surau and other Kampung Remains on 30th November

I’ll post these literally as I upload them from my camera (pls click on the picture for a better image). Updates on the situation here.

* 1am, 1 Dec; that’s it for now. These pictures are best viewed from bottom to top (1-10). Malaysiakini’s video is also out now.
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This was my last view of the day, MPAJ blocking the entrance to the kampung. They were planning to destroy the entry roads, and they may be demolished by the time you read this.

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Casualties; on the left was from an accident when MPAJ was clearing stuff; the other girl needed to be sent to the hospital because she was complaining of pains from the confrontation at the surau.

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This was one of the worst episodes, where MPAJ personnel dragged out a few young girls practising the resistance of Gandhi by refusing to budge. I heard the third MPAJ officer from the left verbally abusing the girls.

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Villagers left to sit amidst rubble in the shadow of luxury.

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Even little shelters with humble mattresses were met with full destructive force, and MPAJ confiscated anything of remote value (MPAJ offices not enough furniture, need to steal from villagers!)
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Beginning, middle, end of surau demolition - Congratulations! Now the government is against all places of worship, regardless of religion :|

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All most could do was watch, cry and pray :(

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This girl had also tried to stay in the surau, and was traumatized by her forced eviction.

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This is MPAJ forcing little girls out of the surau. So macho.

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This was when I first arrived, the police had already ‘neutralised’ a number of activists and villagers, this villager was trying to calm down his child who was crying frantically in the arms of his/her distraught mother. The cops would have none of it.

6 Responses to “Kampung Berembang, Images from Destruction of Surau and other Kampung Remains on 30th November”

  1. This is no other way to ask the people out from Surau? Have to use force even to children ans women? Gentlmen? Inhuman, cruel, uncivilized?

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