{"id":2396,"date":"2012-07-25T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T08:26:03","slug":"hishammuddin-should-compensate-engineer-rendered-blind-by-bersih-teargas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/hishammuddin-should-compensate-engineer-rendered-blind-by-bersih-teargas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hishammuddin should compensate engineer rendered “blind” by Bersih teargas"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Lim Kit Siang<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein should initiate action for the government to compensate mechanical engineer Asrul Wadi Ahmad, 27, for life as a token of personal responsibility, remorse and recompense for police violence and brutality in indiscriminately and wantonly firing tear-gas canisters \u00a0at participants of \u00a0the Bersih 3.0 rally in Kuala Lumpur on April 28, rendering Asrul \u201cclinically\u201d blind and unemployable.<\/p>\n

Asrul, who testified at the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) inquiry into violence at the Bersih rally, gave a most heart-rending account of his plight when he was hit by a tear gas canister during the Bersih 3.0 rally.<\/p>\n

Asrul had perfect 20\/20 vision prior to the injury but visibility in his right eye has now been reduced to 15 percent.\u00a0 As a result, he may become unemployable as a mechanical engineer though he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn in February.<\/p>\n

Asrul has consulted doctors from two private and three government hospitals and been told that the injury to his right eye cannot be reversed via medical procedures.<\/p>\n

Asrul recounted at the Suhakam inquiry his horrendous experience at the Bersih 3.0 rally.<\/p>\n

Moments before the incident, together with his father and younger brother, Asrul fled from the water feature at Jalan Tun Perak, adjacent to Dataran Merdeka.<\/p>\n

He said: “We ran from the location when the tear gas was fired, the three of us took refuge in Masjid Jamek.<\/p>\n

“A little while later we walked out of Masjid Jamek but because it was so crowded and chaotic, my brother and I were separated from our father.<\/p>\n

“That was when I hit by the canister and fell to the ground. It was shot straight at me, I could see it coming.<\/p>\n

“People around me carried me back into Masjid Jamek and then the paramedics came in an ambulance which took my brother and me to Kuala Lumpur Hospital.\u201d (Malaysiakini)<\/p>\n

Asrul’s right eye required nine stitches and he had two more for wounds under his nose.<\/p>\n

If Hishammuddin is not prepared to initiate action for the government to compensate Asrul for life, a nation-wide campaign should be launched to demand that Hishammuddin and the government should assume responsibility for Asrul\u2019s eye injury and be responsible for life-long compensation to Asrul. – The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Lim Kit Siang Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein should initiate action for the government to compensate mechanical engineer Asrul Wadi Ahmad, 27, for life as a token of personal responsibility, remorse and recompense for police violence and brutality in indiscriminately and wantonly firing tear-gas canisters \u00a0at participants of \u00a0the Bersih 3.0 rally in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}