Two witnesses today gave detailed descriptions to the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) of alleged police vandalism on cars and motor vehicles caught in the jam during the 100,000 People's Gathering on Nov 5 on the Kesas highway.

"Vehicles that were left behind had broken front and back windscreens. There were even cars with punctured tyres," said Kamarul Azwan Hashim, 20.

"There were riot policemen that took to the motorcycle lane kicking the motorcycles until they fell, smashing the side view mirrors and denting the accelerators," he added.

Kamarul also related how he tried to assist a white Proton which Keadilan president Dr Wan Azizah Ismail was in, in trying to escape from the riot police.

"She closed her face with a handkerchief trying to fight off the effects of the tear gas," he said.

He also described how a Proton Iswara was smashed into by a police water cannon truck.

"There was another Proton Iswara where the windscreens and the car battery were broken," he said.

Thirty cars

Meanwhile, malaysiakini journalist Susan Loone also told the inquiry of alleged police vandalism.

"There were plainclothes men carrying rotan sticks, pushing the motorcycles down, and I saw them vandalising cars as well. They punctured tyres and broke the windscreens.

"The alarm went off on a blue Proton and a policeman broke the front windscreen, opened the bonnet of the car and pulled out the battery.

Loone said the man later punctured the tyres.

"About 30 cars which were parked at the side of the road were vandalised as well," she said.