(MENAFN) Tens of thousands of Malaysian Muslims are striking in Kuala Lumpur against any attempt to take away the privileges of the ethnic Malay majority.
The rally on Saturday is the first massive street gathering since Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's alliance won a historic vote in May.
Backed by the country's two largest opposition Malay parties, the rally was at first aimed at protesting a government plan to approve a UN treaty against racial discrimination.
Critics say that approving the treaty would end Malay privileges under a decades-old affirmative action policy, however, the plan was eventually abandoned, but organizers decided to proceed with what they called a "thanksgiving" rally.
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