Tree of Democracy (Part II)

So, what happened to the tree after the historic State Assembly emergency meeting on 3rd March 2009?...here are the following events...

About five days after the historic event of the Perak State Assembly under the shed of a tree after the elected-state assemblymen / representatives and State Assembly speaker were denied access to the State Assembly building (The act of denying access to the rightful people itself is a contempt to the State Assembly, State Consituition and the Federal Constituition of Malaysia), a democracy plaque was installed in commeration of the historic event on 8th March 2009.

Less than 72 days after the Democracy plaque were installed, vandalism has done damage on the plaque, reducing it to a Democracy relic.

Less than 48 hours after the Democracy plaque was reduced to a Democracy relic, further physical damage was done on the plaque and black paint were poured on the words recording the historic event that took place under the tree. Now, the democracy relic has been further reduced into a black tainted democracy relics.

Less than 24 hours after the black paint incident, the local council issued a warning that the plaque ia to be removed by the next morning. Indeed, the Democracy plaque was barely one week old, it was vandalised, painted and literally vanished from the site. The Democracy tree now is in a real threat to be cut down.

Finally, I would like to end my blog by a statement made by a prominent Malaysian Opposition leader...

Joshua

A quote from Opposition DAP Parliamentary Leader, Lim Kit Siang:

~In the small hours of this morning, like thieves in the night, the vandals went to work again, pouring black paint to erase the wordings of the Democracy Relic immortalizing the historic “Tree Perak State Assembly” on March 3, 2009, which has entered the folklore of the human struggle for democracy, attracting national and international interest and attention.

The enemies of democracy are in mortal fear of the Democracy Tree, Democracy Plaque and the Democratic Relic.

They should be more afraid of the Democratic Spirit and learn the lessons of history that no force on earth can suppress the quest for freedom and justice when the time has come for human beings to stand up for their fundamental birthrights to freedom and dignity.
Shame to the masterminds who sent out the vandals to desecrate the Democracy Plaque and Democracy Relic. Freedom and truth will prevail in the end.~ Lim Kit Siang.

Photos from http://blog.limkitsiang.com and http://anilnetto.com