(25 Nov 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Various of police line and ethnic Indian protesters gathered
2. Mid of protesters
3. Protesters walking up to police barricade, tilt up as tear gas is fired
4. Mid of police firing tear gas
5. Various of protesters in street with tear gas smoke rising
6. Zoom out from woman holding handkerchief to nose
7. Protesters carrying woman
8. Various of protesters as tear gas, water canons are used
9. Policeman ringing fire bell
10. Wide of protesters being soaked with water
11.Various of protesters running as police fire tear gas
12. Wide of protesters walking
13. Wide of protesters being soaked with water
14. Various of water canon
15. Protesters holding sign reading (English) "Your Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth, Please save our Indian poor community in Malaysia"
STORYLINE
Malaysian police fired tear gas and water cannons on Sunday to disperse more than 10-thousand ethnic Indians who tried to stage a rally that had been banned amid government fears it would stir racial hatred.
Protesters shouting angry slogans hurled water bottles at police, who chased them through streets surrounding the famous Petronas Twin Towers and doused them repeatedly with tear gas and chemical-laced water.
Witnesses saw people being beaten and dragged into trucks by police.
Shoes and broken flower pots littered the scene after protesters scattered to hide in hotels and shops.
Organisers said hundreds of people were detained.
The rally, an attempt by ethnic Indians to highlight complaints that they are economically marginalised by the ethnic Malay Muslim-dominated government, was the second such street protest in Kuala Lumpur this month.
A November 10 rally that drew thousands of people demanding electoral reforms was also broken up with similar force.
Street demonstrations are extremely rare in multiethnic Malaysia, which prides itself on communal stability.
The two protests, however, indicate that Malaysians are becoming bolder about venting their frustrations publicly against a political system that concentrates power and influence in the hands of the ruling elite, dominated by Malay Muslims.
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