Malaysiakini reports that the crowd was markedly less than previous years, people were surprised at the lack of congestion and the stalls complained about not making money.
Samy was reported as saying, "I have come to Thaipusam since I was 11 years old. I know the crowd. It is the same as before. I don't think religious people who went to pray to Lord Murugan will listen to all the naughty fellows," he said of the SMS campaign. "Who can threaten us? Anyone who threatens us, we can find out where he is. It takes only five hours to find out where he is. They can't run away from us."
Bernama says: "Call to boycott Thaipusam in Batu Caves ignored, One Million turn up".
AP reports that the figure was between 30,000 and 50,000.
An AFP friend told me that it was in the tens of thousands, and in any case, the 1 million figure that's quoted every year is hyper-inflated anyway... here's the AFP story:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gO0B-iJ6VNbvH6dNJcIhkkS_zWqw
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