Activists torch effigy of ‘traitor’ Zaid
By Stephanie Sta Maria, Free Malaysia Today
PETALING JAYA: Some 30 activists from Perkasa and other Malay rights societies staged a protest outside PKR headquarters in Tropicana here this afternoon, setting alight a wooden effigy of Zaid Ibrahim, PKR supreme council member.
The effigy was a parody photograph of Zaid flexing his muscles and holding a bottle of Carlsberg beer, with the words “Hero of Traitors” emblazoned across the figure. (SEE MORE PICS HERE).
PKR official Radin Shamsulkamar said the protesters, who carried banners and placards, hurled obscenities and harassed the staff as well.
They also chanted slogans such as “Zaid kaki botol” (alcoholic) and “Chase him away from Selangor”. Zaid was PKR’s election candidate in Hulu Selangor last month, where he became the subject of a similar character assassination campaign.
The protesters then read out a memorandum before handing it over to a PKR representative.
Radin said PKR was tipped off about a protest to be held tomorrow, leading him to file a report with the Tropicana police station. On returning from the police station at about 4.30pm, he was shocked to discover that the protest was already under way.
“I rushed back to the police station but the police told me that they did not receive instructions to take any action. No policeman showed up during or after the protest,” he added.
