Before I go any further, with Jeremy as my witness, I promise we did not go out looking for trouble. We went to Little India so Jeremy could get his final fix of chicken Tikka, which was heavenly. We found a small North Indian place called Jassal and had a feast. The lunch was rather uneventful, until about 30 minutes before we paid. We heard sirens and the owner quickly went over to close the metal shutters. Before we got up and left, Jeremy offhandedly commented that his eyes felt a little uncomfortable. We left the restaurant to a scene of people quickly exiting the area holding cloth over their face. We moved toward crowd, trying to enter KL Sentral train station. To get there we had to go through a covered section of the building. As soon as we started walking through, the unmistakable feeling of tear gas hit us. Our eyes and nose immediately started tingling and running, while our throats tightened up. According to Jeremy, who had been gassed before, he said that was only about 1/10th of the total strength.
After coughing and sniffling our way through the tunnel, we entered KL Sentral to find a large group of people waiting inside to escape the threads of tear gas still lingering in the air. Sadly, to get where we needed to go, we had to go back out into the tunnel and face the gas again.
Reports are showing that there have already been many arrests yet the Bersih crowd has yet to disperse. Should make for an interesting rest of the day.
No comments:
Post a Comment