Month: March 1982

Bintulu-isation of NEP

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Royal Address on March 18, 1982)

We are entering the second decade of the New Economic Policy, and on the threshold of launching the Fourth Malaysia Five Year Plan. Central to the success of the New Economic Policy as the government’s basic strategy to create a united, peaceful and prosperous Malaysia is the strict adherence of the government at all levels to the NEP’s cardinal tenets that “no particular group would experience any loss or feel any sense of deprivation of its rights, privileges, income, job or opportunity” and that there would be no robbing Peter to pay Paul’.

If it gains general currency that these cardinal tenets of the NEP are not respected, then irreparable harm would be done to the entire process of nation building in Malaysia. Continue reading Bintulu-isation of NEP

Call on people of Sarawak to vote for the DAP in the coming general elections to strengthen the Opposition to provide for an effective check against the rising tide of extremism in the 1980s, abuses of power and continued social and economic injustices and inequalities

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Kuching on Friday, 12.3.1982

Call on people of Sarawak to vote for the DAP in the coming general elections to strengthen the Opposition to provide for an effective check against the rising tide of extremism in the 1980s, abuses of power and continued social and economic injustices and inequalities.

The next general elections is now very near at hand, and I expect it to be held on 24th April 1982, or a week before or after, The DAP will be contesting in Sarawak Parliamentary elections for the first time, and I hope that the people of Sarawak will give the DAP their support to strengthen the Opposition to provide for an effective check against the rising tide of extremism in the 1980s, abuses of power and the continued social and economic injustices and inequalities in the country. Continue reading Call on people of Sarawak to vote for the DAP in the coming general elections to strengthen the Opposition to provide for an effective check against the rising tide of extremism in the 1980s, abuses of power and continued social and economic injustices and inequalities

The Dangerous Eighties for Malaysia with the rise of forces of extremism and chauvinism which reject Malaysia as a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Peraling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Royal Address on Tuesday, March 9, 1982

The Dangerous Eighties for Malaysia with the rise of forces of extremism and chauvinism which reject Malaysia as a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation.
As Malaysia completes our first quarter century as an independent and sovereign nation, the people of Malaysia are still seeking a national consensus on which a united Malaysian nation could be founded. Continue reading The Dangerous Eighties for Malaysia with the rise of forces of extremism and chauvinism which reject Malaysia as a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation

Urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister urging immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against soldiers involved in rampage assaulting and molesting tappers at Batu 66, Mengkarak on February 26, 1982

Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Monday, 1st, March, 1982.

Urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister urging immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against soldiers involved in rampage assaulting and molesting tappers at Batu 66, Mengkarak on February 26, 1982

I have today sent an urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, urging an immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against a platoon of soldiers who went on a rampage last Friday at Batu 66, Mengkarak, Pahang, assaulting and molesting rubber tappers in their holdings, including, women and a 13-years-old boy. Continue reading Urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister urging immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against soldiers involved in rampage assaulting and molesting tappers at Batu 66, Mengkarak on February 26, 1982