Thugs disrupted a meeting of Indian NGOs and abused women, claims alleged victim.
GEORGE TOWN: Trespassers at a closed-door forum last month verbally abused a group of women and challenged one of them to a fist fight, according to the alleged victims.
“We really felt degraded and feared for our safety,” said one of the women, S Jothee, as she related the incident during a press conference today.
She was referring to a meeting of NGOs on Nov 30 which discussed issues pertaining to Hindu burial grounds in Penang.
Jothee did not identify the alleged intruders or say how many were in the group, referring to them as “thugs” who appeared drunk.
She said they disrupted the proceedings several times and became dangerously volatile when the forum proposed that a petition be sent to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to complain about faulty crematorium incinerators in Batu Lanchang.
She said a group of women tried to calm them down when they were beating up a person attending the meeting, whom she did not identify.
“One thug used foul language and told one elderly woman to step outside to fight with him,” she said. “The woman was old enough to be his mother.
“Another thug was yelling and using insulting words against us.
“We could smell strong alcohol from both of them and, judging from their unruly behaviour, we believe they were drunk.”
Sothee demanded a public apology from the alleged intruders.
The forum organisers—the Coalition of Indian NGOs and Concerned Citizens Penang—last week lodged a police report on the incident.
Last Friday, a group of men held a press conference saying they were innocent of any wrongdoing at the Nov 30 meeting.
The forum was resumed last Saturday and no untoward incident happened.
GEORGE TOWN: Trespassers at a closed-door forum last month verbally abused a group of women and challenged one of them to a fist fight, according to the alleged victims.“We really felt degraded and feared for our safety,” said one of the women, S Jothee, as she related the incident during a press conference today.
She was referring to a meeting of NGOs on Nov 30 which discussed issues pertaining to Hindu burial grounds in Penang.
Jothee did not identify the alleged intruders or say how many were in the group, referring to them as “thugs” who appeared drunk.
She said they disrupted the proceedings several times and became dangerously volatile when the forum proposed that a petition be sent to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to complain about faulty crematorium incinerators in Batu Lanchang.
She said a group of women tried to calm them down when they were beating up a person attending the meeting, whom she did not identify.
“One thug used foul language and told one elderly woman to step outside to fight with him,” she said. “The woman was old enough to be his mother.
“Another thug was yelling and using insulting words against us.
“We could smell strong alcohol from both of them and, judging from their unruly behaviour, we believe they were drunk.”
Sothee demanded a public apology from the alleged intruders.
The forum organisers—the Coalition of Indian NGOs and Concerned Citizens Penang—last week lodged a police report on the incident.
Last Friday, a group of men held a press conference saying they were innocent of any wrongdoing at the Nov 30 meeting.
The forum was resumed last Saturday and no untoward incident happened.
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