{"id":7344,"date":"2016-11-20T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/?p=7344"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T04:27:12","slug":"malaysia-protesters-demand-pm-najib-razak-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/malaysia-protesters-demand-pm-najib-razak-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia protesters demand PM Najib Razak step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/92559309_mediaitem92559305.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/92559309_mediaitem92559305-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"_92559309_mediaitem92559305\" width=\"698\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/92559309_mediaitem92559305-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/92559309_mediaitem92559305-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/92559309_mediaitem92559305.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a>The rally was organised by electoral reform group Bersih<\/h6>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thousands of yellow-shirted protesters have gathered in Malaysia&#8217;s capital, Kuala Lumpur, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The demonstrators want Mr Najib to face charges over allegations that billions were looted from his brainchild investment fund, 1MDB.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were undeterred by a police ban and the arrest of a number of activists ahead of the planned action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Najib has denied any wrongdoing and says he will not be cowed by protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement on his blog, Mr Najib called Bersih &#8211; the electoral reformist group which organised the protest &#8211; &#8220;deceitful&#8221;. He said the group had become a tool for opposition parties to unseat a democratically elected government.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a class=\"story-body__link\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-33447456\">1MDB: The case that has riveted Malaysia<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a class=\"story-body__link\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-37241725\">PM Najib named as &#8216;Malaysia Official 1&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But his accusations were dismissed by Bersih deputy chair Shahrul Aman Shaari, who told the crowds gathered at the National Mosque: &#8220;We are not here to bring down the country. We love this country. We are not here to tear down the government, we&#8217;re here to strengthen it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the second rally organised by Bersih, which means &#8220;clean&#8221; in the Malay language, to demand Mr Najib&#8217;s resignation in 15 months, and comes after weeks of rising tension between the &#8220;yellow shirts&#8221; and pro-government &#8220;red shirts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/92559304_91597c2a-d2fd-4226-bfe7-b3df1080eaef.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/92559304_91597c2a-d2fd-4226-bfe7-b3df1080eaef-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"_92559304_91597c2a-d2fd-4226-bfe7-b3df1080eaef\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a>It is the second time in 15 months people have gathered to demand PM Najib Razak resign<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7341 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"3500-1\" width=\"747\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1-696x418.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1-1068x641.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1-699x420.jpg 699w, https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/3500-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tension has risen between the &#8220;yellow shirts&#8221; and pro-government &#8220;red shirts&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The leaders of both sides, as well as a number of other Bersih activists, were arrested in the hours leading up to the rally &#8211; a move which was immediately condemned by human rights group Amnesty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It demanded their immediate release, describing the activists as prisoners of conscience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arrests did not deter the protesters, however, some of whom chanted &#8220;save democracy&#8221; and &#8220;Bersih, Bersih&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We want a clean government. We want fair elections,&#8221; Derek Wong, 38, a real estate agent, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A small group of red shirts gathered for an opposition protest.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-38037060?ocid=socialflow_twitter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rally was organised by electoral reform group Bersih Thousands of yellow-shirted protesters have gathered in Malaysia&#8217;s capital, Kuala Lumpur, to demand the resignation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1876],"tags":[1954,1750,1955],"class_list":{"0":"post-7344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-antarabangsa","8":"tag-bersih5","9":"tag-1mdb","10":"tag-mo1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}