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Umno supreme councillor Lokman Noor Adam is charged in court today with causing hurt to student activist Wong Yan Ke.
Describing last week’s assault, Wong told The Malay Mail on March 22 that “the first thing they [Umno supporters] did when they came down was shout at us asking ‘Kenapa semua Cina?’ and then proceeded to walk across the streets towards us and tear up our posters and placards without any provocation from us,” said Wong.
”Why all Chinese?” Indeed there were no non-Chinese among the small group demonstrating against Najib near Universiti Malaya last Friday.
Lokman has since highlighted social media content indicating that Wong and his fellow UM protesters were likely DAP youth cadres.
DAP is synonymous with Chinese. More recently, Chinese have become synonymous with DAP.
When Lokman, Razlan Rafii and others say “bangsa DAP” or “puak DAP”, they mean the Chinese.
BELOW: The T-shirt Wong Yan Ke is wearing says ‘l Am Malaysian’ but he’s seen as “bangsa DAP”, “puak DAP” and “Cina” – all three descriptors being interchangeable.
DAP is afraid of potential violence against Chinese
DAP Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo today chided BN lawmakers for not taking seriously enough the harassment of a Malaysiakini intern – see tweet below – who covered the manhandling of Wong at the demo.
Umno Petaling Jaya chief Abdul Mutalif Abdul Rahim is charged in court today with injuring the thumb of Malaysiakini’s Siti Mariam Mohamad during the aforementioned mini protest.
For the record, some Chinese journos had sustained more grevious injuries in the course of duty back in July 2015.
Sin Chew Daily reporter Chan Woei Loon, Kwong Wah photographer Calvin Foong Yi Kian and China Press photographer Sam Kar Haur were attacked by the mob when covering a Malay riot at Low Yat Plaza. The trio were beaten up, kicked, punched and hit with helmets.
