BERSIH Cleaning Up Malaysia

Malaysia has been gripped by the colour Yellow over the past month, this royal colour of the King is somewhat ridiculed when the organizers of the BERSIH rally calling for a free and fair Elections opted YELLOW as a symbol for their cause. The direct translation of the Malay word BERSIH in English is "clean". It's perplexing how clean do the Organizers of BERSIH want future Elections to be. The present Government under the strong grip of the UMNO Party led by Prime Minister Najib has declared BERSIH as illegal, one reason is that BERSIH has been said to have been sabotaged by the Opposition groups headed by Anwar Ibrahim, a man very much disliked by many in the UMNO Party.

YELLOW has therefore been splashing in most websites, even fb has been swarmed with yellow captions by Malaysians who think that change should be made first by being clean. Clean in this context covers the whole arena of corruption, mismanagement, nepotism etc etc etc of the present government. But is the BN Government that "dirty" to deserve such whipping? That is left to be seen in the Elections due in 2 years time. Like in any democracy, the people will decide for better or for worst.

In the state of Sarawak where the Ibans and Chinese form the majority and where the recently concluded State Elections gave BN (Barisan Nasional Party) another 5 year term in office, matters are quite under control. Or is it? The Police is vigilant in keeping an eye on the opposition groups who are now trying hard to convince the people that BERSIH's cause is a step in the right direction. How well will they succeed? Let's observe.