Malay Dignity rally

[9] There was a corruption scandal involving a government super fund called 1Malaysia Development Berhad and a series of exposes by online investigative blogs, namely Sarawak Report and major news portal The Wall Street Journal, claiming that money was being siphoned off from the fund into personal accounts of Najib and his close relations.

Suspicion was heightened by the removal of Abdul Gani Patail, the Attorney General of Malaysia who was part of the task force investigating the 1MDB scandal,[10] and reshuffling of second Najib cabinet which involved the dropping of his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin and four other ministers.

[14] It proposed to assemble at five locations (initially seven, which included the Chinese-majority Low Yat Plaza) before joining the United People's Rally at Padang Merbok.

[16] Malay Dignity rally has outlined eight main objectives: Participants were to convene at 11am Wednesday at Bukit Bintang and march to Padang Merbok at 3pm.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar also declared the gathering as legal under the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012.

[17] In the run-up to the “red shirt” rally, Kota Bharu UMNO division chief Mohd Fatmi Che Salleh made a speech and led a group of UMNO members as they burned effigies of DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang and of DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.

It was earlier reported that 773 hawkers and 500 shop owners in Petaling Street had decided to suspend operations on 16 Sep as a precaution, to avoid anything untoward.