KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) saw the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, out of tens of thousands in a demonstration in which they demanded clean elections, but this event turned into a confrontation in which police arrested 222 people.
The demonstrators marched and the number thirty thousand, according to police and sixty thousand, according to the independent media, to Independence Square in downtown united ban authorities to gather in that place, despite the promises of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to promote public freedoms.
The incidents broke out when hundreds of protesters who want to overcome to reach that stage, barbed wire and removed the barriers set up by the security forces responded by firing the last tear gas and water hoses.
The police spokesman said Joseph Rammell that at least 222 people stopped saying that this number could rise.
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in front of crowds before starting the confrontations that "we address the message to Najib (Abdul Razak) is that we want clean elections."
It is assumed to hold legislative elections at the latest by 2013, but Najib Razak was organized as of June as I expected the Malaysian press.
And leads the governing coalition, Abdul Razak, Malaysia for more than half a century since independence, but today faces more protests.
The Malaysian opposition and the government's promises about more civil liberties to try to win votes lost in the previous legislative elections in 2008 and won by a narrow margin Bressan National Party, which belongs to Abdul Razzaq.
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