pakatan HarApan: 12/02/13

Monday, 2 December 2013

Rakaman dari DRONE: Penunjuk perasaan Thailand cuba utk memecahkan tambak-menembak, POLIS menjawab dengan meriam air . . .

SitiWanMahani - Courtesy: TheCyberJom - Polis menggunakan Gas pemedih mata dan meriam air di Bangkok pada 1 Disember dalam usaha untuk menyuraikan orang ramai penunjuk perasaan yang berkumpul di ibu pejabat Polis Diraja Thailand dan di ‘Government House’. Ia berkata orang ramai juga telah dikelilingi 3 stesen televisyen.

Video ini menunjukkan rakaman DRONE penunjuk perasaan dan pertempuran pasukan keselamatan di ‘Government House’ di Bangkok, di mana sekatan polis dapat dilihat dgn jelas.

Drone footage: Thailand protesters try to break barricades,

police Answer with Water Cannons . . .

Courtesy: TheCyberJom - Police used tear gas and water cannons in Bangkok on December 1 in an effort to disperse crowds of protesters who had gathered at the headquarters of the Royal Thai Police and at Government House. It said crowds had also surrounded three television stations.

These videos show drone footage of protesters and security force clashes at the Government House in Bangkok, where police barricades can be seen.

Tindakan KERAS POLIS Thai ke atas penunjuk perasaan kerana KERAJAAN menolak tuntutan mereka (PHOTOS) . . .

Penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan Thailand melemparkan kanister gas pemedih mata kembali kepada polis semasa perhimpunan yang berterusan di luar ‘Government House’ di Bangkok pada 2 Disember 2013. (A Thai anti-government protester throws a tear gas canister back to the police during an ongoing rally outside Government House in Bangkok on December 2, 2013. (AFP Photo/Christophe Archambault – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)

SitiWanMahani - 56 orang telah cedera, Polis Thailand menggunakan gas pemedih mata, meriam air dan peluru getah terhadap penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan, yang menuntut perdana menteri dan meletak jawatan. Perdana Menteri berkata tuntutan mereka adalah tidak mengikut perlembagaan.

“Kami seli antara penggunaan meriam air, gas pemedih mata dan peluru getah. Peluru getah yang digunakan dalam satu kawasan sahaja, dan itu adalah jambatan berhampiran ‘Government House,” polis kepada Reuters.

Penunjuk perasaan berkumpul semula di luar kawasan pejabat Perdana Menteri banyak mengurung pada hari Isnin dan berulang kali bertempur dengan perkhidmatan kesela-matan.

Thai police Crackdown on protesters As Government rejects

their demands (PHOTOS)

56 people have been injured as Thai police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets against anti-government protesters, who are demanding the premier and government step down. The premier says their demands are unconstitutional.

"We are alternating between the use of water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets. Rubber bullets are being used in one area only, and that is the bridge near Government House," the police told Reuters.

Protesters regrouped outside the heavily barricaded prime minister's office compound on Monday and repeatedly clashed with security services.

Penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan bertembung dengan polis rusuhan di luar ibu pejabat polis semasa perhimpunan berterusan di Bangkok pada 2 Disember 2013. (Anti-government protesters clash with riot police outside the police headquarters during an ongoing rally in Bangkok on December 2, 2013. (AFP Photo/Nicolas Asfouri – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)

Mereka membaling batu pada polis merobohkan wayar dan halangan konkrit. Keganasan Isnin terjadi kira-kira institusi utama: ‘Government House’ dan Parlimen dan Ibu Pejabat Polis Metropolitan pada suku bersejarah di ibu negara, yang merupakan destinasi pelancongan yang sangat popular.

Ia mengikuti hujung minggu maut kekacauan di Bangkok, dengan 3 orang terbunuh dan lebih 100 cedera.

They threw rocks at policemen and tore down wire and concrete barriers. Monday's violence took place around major institutions: Government House and Parliament and Metropolitan Police Headquarters in the historic quarter of the capital, which is very popular tourist destination.

It follows a deadly weekend of chaos in Bangkok, with three people killed and over 100 injured.

Satu guni basah membantu menutup gas pemedih mata yang telah dipecat dari dataran (News Network @news1005fm – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)

Perdana Menteri Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra telah menolak panggilan penunjuk perasaan ‘untuk tidak dilantik “Majlis rakyat” untuk memilih pemimpin baru untuk negara. Perdana Menteri berkata “majlis rakyat” adalah sebuah badan yang tidak dipilih “orang baik” yang hampir akan menggantung sistem demokrasi di negara ini.

“Kami tidak tahu bagaimana untuk menjadikannya satu kenyataan. Sekarang kita tidak melihat apa-apa cara untuk menyelesaikan masalah di bawah perlembagaan,” katanya dalam 12 minit sidang akhbar televisyen.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has rejected protesters’ calls for an unelected "people's council" to pick a new leader for the country. The PM said a “people’s council” is an unelected body of “good people” that would virtually suspend the country’s democratic system.

“We don't know how to make it happen. Right now we don't see any way to resolve the problem under the constitution,” she said in a 12-minute televised news conference.

Sukarelawan membawa cedera penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan semasa demonstrasi di ‘Government House’ di Bangkok pada 2 Disember 2013. (Volunteers carry an injured anti-government protester during a demonstration at the Government House in Bangkok on December 2, 2013. (AFP Photo/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)

Walau bagaimanapun, Perdana Menteri berkata kerajaan bersedia untuk “membuka setiap pintu” untuk rundingan. Yang datang selepas pemimpin bantahan, Suthep Thaugsuban, menyatakan beliau tidak akan berpuas hati dengan peletakan jawatan Yingluck atau pilihan raya baru.

“Jika ada apa-apa cara saya boleh mengembalikan keamanan Saya bersedia untuk melakukannya. Kerajaan tidak perlu berpegang kepada kuasa, kami hanya mahukan keamanan,” kata Shinawatra. Beliau juga memberitahu persidangan berita bahawa polis tidak akan menggunakan kekerasan terhadap penunjuk perasaan, yang nampaknya terbukti palsu kemudian.

Diambil secara keseluruhan, penyata penunjuk perasaan ‘dan kata-kata perdana menteri muncul untuk menunjukkan bahawa rundingan tidak akan berlaku bila-bila masa tidak lama lagi. Penunjuk perasaan yang kebanyakannya golongan pertengahan Bangkok penyokong pembangkang Parti Demokrat, mendesak peletakan jawatan Perdana Menteri, dengan mendakwa beliau adalah seorang proksi untuk abangnya: bekas Perdana Menteri Thaksin Shinawatra. Beliau yang telah digulingkan dalam rampasan kuasa tentera2006, dituduh rasuah yang berleluasa dan penyalahgunaan kuasa.

However, the premier said the government was willing to “open every door” for negotiation. That came after protest leader, Suthep Thaugsuban, indicated he wouldn’t be satisfied with Yingluck's resignation or new elections.

"If there is any way I can restore peace I am willing to do it. The government does not have to hold on to power, we only want peace," Shinawatra said. She also told the news conference that police would not use force against the protesters, which apparently proved false later.

Taken as a whole, the demonstrators’ statements and the premier’s words appear to indicate that negotiations aren’t going to take place any time soon. The protesters, mostly middle-class Bangkok supporters of the opposition Democrat Party, are demanding the prime minister’s resignation, claiming she is a proxy for her brother: former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. He was deposed in a 2006 military coup, accused of widespread corruption and abuse of power.

Penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan berdiri di belakang garis penunjuk perasaan lain (tidak kelihatan) bertempur dengan polis rusuhan di luar ibu pejabat polis semasa perhimpunan berterusan di Bangkok pada 2 Disember 2013. (Anti-government protesters stand behind a line of other protesters (not seen) clashing with riot police outside the police headquarters during an ongoing rally in Bangkok on December 2, 2013. (AFP Photo/Nicolas Asfouri – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)

Pergolakan di Thailand telah membawa kepada acara utama sukan antarabangsa dibatalkan di sana. Ia telah mengumumkan bahawa Race 2013 Juara-Juara tidak akan berlaku seperti yang dirancang pada 14-15 Disember di Bangkok. “Fikiran kita dengan orang-orang Thai dalam tempoh yang sukar ini dan kami ingin bahawa penyelesaian damai tidak lama lagi akan ditemui,” laman web rasmi acara itu bunyinya.

The unrest in Thailand has already led to a major international sport event being canceled there. It’s been announced that the 2013 Race of Champions would not take place as planned on December 14-15 in Bangkok. “Our thoughts are with the Thai people during this difficult period and we wish that a peaceful solution will soon be found,” the event’s official webpage reads.

Perdana Menteri Thai panggilan utk mengadakan perbincangan sebagai polis menggunakan peluru getah ke atas penunjuk perasaan . . .

SitiWanMahani - Perdana Menteri Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra berkata pada hari Isnin dia akan “membuka setiap pintu” untuk mencari penyelesaian secara aman kepada krisis politik semasa, beribu-ribu penunjuk perasaan mengambil jalan-jalan di ibu negara yang mahu menjatuhkan kerajaan beliau.

Beliau memberitahu sidang media bahawa polis tidak akan menggunakan kekerasan terhadap penunjuk perasaan. Tetapi kemudian, ketua keselamatan negara berkata peluru getah telah digunakan sebagai penunjuk perasaan mengancam untuk maju ke pejabat Yingluck, tumpuan utama demonstrasi sejak hujung minggu.

Keganasan adalah twist yang terbaru dalam konflik kelas pertengahan bopeng di Bangkok dan elit pendukung raja terhadap kebanyakannya yang miskin, penyokong luar bandar Yingluck dan abangnya, Thaksin Shinawatra, Perdana bekas menteri populis yang digu-lingkan dalam rampasan kuasa tentera pada tahun 2006 dan tinggal diri – dlm buangan.

Seorang wartawan Reuters berkata penunjuk perasaan telah berjaya mengambil turun sekurang-kurangnya satu lapisan luar halangan konkrit yang telah diambil oleh pihak berkuasa untuk mempertahankan ‘Government House’, pejabat Yingluck di tengah-tengah Bangkok.

Selepas menggunakan pusingan apabila pusingan gas pemedih mata pada hari Ahad untuk menghalau penunjuk perasaan, polis meningkatkan respons mereka pada hari Isnin. “Kami seli antara penggunaan meriam air, gas pemedih mata dan peluru getah. Peluru getah yang digunakan dalam satu kawasan sahaja dan adalah jambatan berhampiran ‘Government House,” Paradorn Pattanathabutr, ketua Majlis Keselamatan Negara, kepada Reuters.

Gas pemedih mata juga digunakan terhadap penunjuk perasaan di ibu pejabat Bangkok polis metropolitan. Ketua penunjuk perasaan Suthep Thaugsuban bertemu Yingluck lewat semalam tetapi menegaskan tiada rundingan untuk menamatkan krisis politik yang paling teruk sejak pergolakan berdarah pada tahun 2010.

“Saya memberitahu Yingluck jika polis meletakkan senjata mereka, kita akan mengalu-alukan mereka kerana mereka juga Thailand,” katanya kepada penyokong kemudian. “Saya memberitahu Yingluck bahawa ini akan menjadi mesyuarat hanya kita dan kita tidak akan berjumpa lagi sehingga rakyat menang.”

Mesyuarat itu, katanya, telah diatur oleh tentera, sebuah institusi yang kuat yang telah mengambil-dua pihak terhadap kerajaan Thaksin - bersekutu dalam krisis sebelum ini dan meletakkan gerakan pro-Thaksin pada 2010. Kemudian lebih daripada 90 orang mati.

Kali ini, tentera telah mengambil tempat duduk belakang. “Pihak tentera telah meletakkan dirinya sebagai neutral dan ia mahu melihat cara yang aman di luar,” Yingluck mem-beritahu sidang akhbar itu.

Pasaran kewangan Thailand lemah pada hari Isnin, dengan mata wang baht ke bawah berbanding dolar walaupun Bank of Thailand campur tangan untuk menyokongnya. Walau bagaimanapun, ia pulih sedikit selepas komen Yingluck mengenai protes. Baht telah jatuh 3% peratus sejak awal November dan indeks saham penanda aras telah kehilangan 5.8% peratus pada bulan yang lalu.

Kos menginsuranskan pendedahan kepada hutang kerajaan Thailand melalui swap kemungkiran kredit (CDS) juga telah merangkak sehingga dalam beberapa minggu kebelakangan ini.

Thaksin, yang memenangi lebih pengundi luar bandar dan golongan miskin di bandar dengan dasar-dasar populis , didapati bersalah tanpa hadir rasuah pada 2008 tetapi dia menolak tuduhan sebagai bermotifkan politik. Beliau dilihat sebagai kuasa di sebalik kerajaan Yingluck, kadang-kadang mengadakan mesyuarat dengan kabinet dengan webcam.

Bantahan telah disertai oleh Demokrat pembangkang, parti politik tertua di Thailand. Ia tidak memenangi pilihan raya di lebih daripada dua dekad dan telah hilang setiap undi kebangsaan selama 13 tahun yang lalu untuk Thaksin atau sekutu-sekutunya.

Suthep , 64, adalah seorang timbalan perdana menteri dalam kerajaan Demokrat yang diterajui yang kehilangan kuasa untuk Yingluck dalam pilihan raya 2011. Dia mahu yang samar-samar ditakrifkan “majlis rakyat” untuk menggantikan kerajaan beliau dan parlimen yang terdiri daripada layak dahulu yang dinamakan.

“Tuntutan Penunjuk perasaan ‘adalah mustahil untuk bertemu di bawah rangka kerja perlembagaan,” Yingluck memberitahu sidang akhbar itu.

Thai Prime Minister Calls for talks As police use rubber bullets

on protesters . . .

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Monday she would "open every door" to find a peaceful solution to the current political crisis, as thousands of protesters took to the streets of the capital seeking to topple her government.

She told a news conference that police would not use force against the protesters. But later, the national security chief said rubber bullets were being used as protesters threatened to advance to Yingluck's office, the focal point of the demonstrations since the weekend.

The violence is the latest twist in a conflict pitting Bangkok's middle class and royalist elite against the mostly poor, rural supporters of Yingluck and her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist former prime minister who was ousted in a military coup in 2006 and lives in self-imposed exile. A Reuters reporter said demonstrators had succeeded in taking down at least one outer layer of the concrete barriers set up by the authorities to defend Government House, Yingluck's office in the heart of Bangkok.

After using round upon round of teargas on Sunday to repel the protesters, police stepped up their response on Monday. "We are alternating between the use of water cannons, teargas and rubber bullets. Rubber bullets are being used in one area only and that is the bridge near Government House," Paradorn Pattanathabutr, the head of the National Security Council, told Reuters.

Teargas was also used against protesters at the headquarters of the Bangkok metropolitan police. Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban met Yingluck late on Sunday but insisted there were no negotiations to end the worst political crisis since bloody unrest in 2010. "I told Yingluck that if police put down their weapons, we will welcome them as they are also Thai," he told supporters later. "I told Yingluck that this will be our only meeting and we will not meet again until the people win."

The meeting, he said, was arranged by the military, a powerful institution that has taken sides against Thaksin-allied governments in previous crises and put down a pro-Thaksin movement in 2010. More than 90 people died then. This time, the military has taken a back seat. "The military has positioned itself as neutral and it wants to see a peaceful way out," Yingluck told the news conference.

Thai financial markets were weak on Monday, with the baht currency down against the dollar despite Bank of Thailand intervention to support it. However, it recovered slightly after Yingluck's comments on the protests. The baht has fallen 3 percent since early November and the benchmark stock index has lost 5.8 percent in the past month. The cost of insuring exposure to Thai government debt via credit default swaps (CDS) has also crept up in recent weeks.

Thaksin, who won over poor rural and urban voters with populist policies, was convicted in absentia of graft in 2008 but he dismissed the charges as politically motivated. He is widely seen as the power behind Yingluck's government, sometimes holding meetings with the cabinet by webcam. The protests have been joined by the opposition Democrats, Thailand's oldest political party. It has not won an election in more than two decades and has lost every national vote for the past 13 years to Thaksin or his allies.

Suthep, 64, was a deputy prime minister in the Democrat-led government that lost power to Yingluck in a 2011 election. He wants a vaguely defined "people's council" to replace her government and for a parliament made up of nominated worthies.

"The protesters' demands are impossible to meet under the framework of the constitution," Yingluck told the news conference.

Ribuan membantah Serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat di PAKISTAN . . .

Ct1Mahani | SitiWanMahani - Beribu-ribu orang mengambil jalan-raya di bandar timur Pakistan, Lahore bagi membantah serangan berterusan Drone Amerika Syarikat, di tengah-tengah peningkatan dalam protes tempatan terhadap taktik Amerika Syarikat.

Sekitar 5,000 penunjuk perasaan menyeru Amerika Syarikat untuk segera menghentikan serangan Drone di negara ini. Acara itu dianjurkan oleh Majlis Pertahanan Pakistan, yang terdiri daripada 40 kumpulan agama dan politik, AFP melaporkan.

Penunjuk perasaan melaungkan slogan untuk menyekat bekalan NATO sedang diangkut ke Afghanistan melalui Pakistan.

Baru-baru ini, penduduk tempatan telah menjadi lebih lantang terhadap taktik Amerika Syarikat, menganjurkan peningkatan jumlah perhimpunan. Hanya lebih seminggu lalu, ribuan penunjuk perasaan membantah serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat di Pakistan disekat jalan utama di wilayah utara Peshawar, digunakan untuk mengangkut bekalan NATO ke dan dari Afghanistan.

Kerajaan Pakistan sering bercakap menentang serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat, banyak mengkritik taktik itu dan menghendaki ia melanggar kedaulatan Pakistan tetapi pengkritik menuduh kerajaan tidak aktif melakukan cukup untuk menghentikan serangan.

Amerika Syarikat juga telah menghadapi tekanan antarabangsa yang penting disebabkan serangan ke . Amnesty International mengeluarkan satu laporan pada bulan Oktober, dengan alasan bahawa pegawai-pegawai Amerika Syarikat, yang bertanggungjawab bagi menjalankan serangan Drone, mungkin perlu dibicarakan kerana jenayah perang. Ia juga disenaraikan korban awam yang luas dalam Pakistan. Human Rights Watch telah mengeluarkan laporan yang sama pada Yemen.

Walaupun kritikan, Amerika Syarikat telah menjalankan beratus-ratus serangan Drone sejak tahun 2004. Pada bulan Oktober, Pelapor Khas PBB mengenai Hak Asasi Manusia dan Counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, berkata serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat telah membunuh 2,200 dalam dekad yang lalu, 400 daripada mereka adalah orang awam.

Pakistan mengesahkan bahawa “sekurang-kurangnya 400 orang awam telah mati terkorban akibat serangan pesawat jauh pandu dan 200 individu telah dianggap sebagai kemungkinan tidak bersenjata,” kata Emmerson dalam laporan interim kepada Perhimpunan Agung PBB.

Dalam minggu lepas, salah satu parti politik utama Pakistan yang diterbitkan (published) nama apa yang dipercayai menjadi ketua operatif CIA di Islamabad, selepas serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat membunuh 5 orang minggu sebelumnya. Kumpulan itu menuntut supaya ketua pengintip muka tuduhan membunuh.

Pakistani supporters of the Defence of Pakistan coalition shout slogans as they hold up an effigy of US President Barack Obama at an anti-US rally in Lahore on December 1, 2013 (AFP Photo/Arif Ali - think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)

THOUSANDS protest US Drone Strikes in Pakistan

Thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore to protest against ongoing US drone strikes, amid a rise in local protests against US tactics.

Around 5,000 demonstrators called on the US to immediately stop the drone assaults on the country. The event was organized by the Defence of Pakistan Council, which is comprised of 40 religious and political groups, AFP reported.

Protesters chanted slogans to block NATO supplies being transported to Afghanistan through Pakistan.

Recently, local residents have become more vocal against the US tactics, organizing increasing numbers of rallies. Just over one week ago, thousands of demonstrators protesting US drone strikes in Pakistan blocked a main road in the northern Peshawar province, used to transport NATO supplies to and from Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s government often speaks out against US drone strikes, heavily criticizing the tactic and calling it a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty but critics accuse the government of not actively doing enough to stop the strikes.

The US has also faced significant international pressures on account of its attacks. Amnesty International released a report in October, arguing that the US officials, who are responsible for carrying out the drone strikes, may have to stand trial for war crimes. It also listed extensive civilian casualties in Pakistan. Human Rights Watch has issued a similar report on Yemen.

Despite criticism, the US has carried out hundreds of drone strikes since 2004. In October, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, said that US drone strikes have killed 2,200 in the past decade, 400 of whom were civilians.

Pakistan confirmed that “at least 400 civilians had died as a result of remotely piloted aircraft strikes and a further 200 individuals were regarded as probable non-combatants,” Emmerson said in an interim report to the UN General Assembly.

Within the last week, one of Pakistan’s major political parties published the name of what it believed to be the CIA’s chief operative in Islamabad, after a US drone strike killed five people the previous week. The group was demanding that the spy chief face murder charges.