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Another Country, Another Election |
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 23:44 |
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by Farish A. Noor TUAN Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat looked a little grey and fuzzy on the videocam screen of the Special Branch (SB) officer who stood watching the spectacle before him with an air of bored disinterest. The officer himself was not all that inconspicuous, standing as he was in the middle of the crowd with a jacket which had the word “Polis” spelled out in bold.
Around him sat and stood more than 4,000 of the faithful; PAS members and supporters who had come from out of Kota Bharu to listen to the Tok Guru speak. Apparently a rather large and visible contingent of the police and intelligence community were there as well, their close-cropped hair and rather muscular build making them stand out in bold contrast to the elderly men, grandmothers and kids who were sitting in the Dataran Stadium Sultan Muhammad car park on one of the hotter evenings of the new month. The cop was not too pleased with me peering over his shoulder to look at who and what he was filming during the March 3 ceramah [rally], puffing smoke into my face so that I would stand further away. READ MORE HERE
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