The Borneo Post (Sabah)

PM drives around to inspect KL after anti-ICERD rally

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KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad reportedly drove himself around the city yesterday after a rally against a United Nations convention on racial equality.

Blogger Firdaus Abdullah, who uploaded a video of the drive, said the Prime Minister wanted to check conditions in the city centre after the demonstrat­ion against the Internatio­nal Convention on the Eliminatio­n of All Forms of Racial Discrimina­tion (ICERD) ended peacefully.

The rally of over 100,000 people that was organised by Malay-Muslim groups, Umno, and PAS went without incident, despite the inflammato­ry rhetoric running up to the demonstrat­ion.

Even though the Pakatan Harapan government announced it would not ratify ICERD, organisers went ahead with the protest.

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