KUALA LUMPUR – Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Thursday, protested outside a building where Prime Minister Najib Razak was attending a Chinese New Year’s party in Kuala Lumpur.
An official report from Kuala Lumpur, noted that the group of about 21 relatives was stopped by the police from entering the building where Najib and top Malaysian-Chinese officials were celebrating the start of the year of the goat.
It said the protesters were calling on Malaysian government to retract its declaration that the aircraft was lost and all those aboard were officially dead.
The police on duty said the group stood outside the building, some were crying and some fainted.
“They carried banners with the Chinese characters for “peace, justice and hope,’’ they said.
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“We allowed them to join the party after Najib and other officials left,’’ they said.
It said late Wednesday, the group gathered outside the Prime Minister’s office in the federal government center of Putrajaya, but Najib was not around.
He said the Chinese calligraphy scrolls they wanted to give to the Malaysian leader was later received by his aide received.
Meanwhile, the relatives arrived in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month to seek answers about the disappearance of the aircraft.
They were able to meet with the chief of Malaysia Airlines.
Last month, Malaysia declared the disappearance of MH370 to be an accident and said all 239 people aboard are presumed dead, saying that available data indicated the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Beijing-bound flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it left Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8. And more than two-thirds of those aboard were Chinese nationals. (dpa/NAN)
