Saturday's protests were officially called and led by the Hefazat-e-Islam party - a conservative Muslim party.
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Malaysians are waiting for prime minister Najib Razak to announce elections, which are expected to be closely-fought.
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Forty-five years on, details of an alleged secret plot to destablise the Philippine province remain hard to come by.
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