National laureate A Samad Said has called Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's administration 'cruel' for cracking down on last Saturday's Bersih 2.0 rally in Kuala Lumpur. <br /> <br />"If we see what happened (on that day), it's cruel, I have said on my Twitter and Facebook that we are heading towards a police state," he said. <br /> <br />The soft-spoken and usually low-profile septuagenarian was recalling his experience during the July 9 massive rally in which leaders and supporters of electoral reform were sprayed with tear gas and water cannons. <br /> <br />In an exclusive interview with Malaysiakini today, the distinguished 76-year old poet and novelist who is popularly known as Pak Samad said that despite the government's denial of police high-handedness during the four-hour long rally, the world was watching. <br /> <br />"They (the police) have said that there was no brutality inflicted on members of the public, but we can see (what happened) in YouTube, they cannot lie," said Samad. <br /> <br />Full story: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/169937 <br /> <br />Camera/Editing: Tan Jiun Wuu & Shufiyan Shukur
