Month: August 1983

Malaysians must be realists and not escapists if they are to effect changes in government policy, as the building of a multi-cultural as distinct from a mono-cultural Malaysian national culture

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Kuantan Branch reception at Kuantan Town Hall to celebrate the DAP Raub by-election victory held on Saturday, 27th August 1983 at 8 p.m.

Malaysians must be realists and not escapists if they are to effect changes in government policy, as the building of a multi-cultural as distinct from a mono-cultural Malaysian national culture

Malaysians must be realists and not escapists if they are to have any success to affect changes in government nation building policy, whether in the political, economic, education, social and cultural spheres. Continue reading Malaysians must be realists and not escapists if they are to effect changes in government policy, as the building of a multi-cultural as distinct from a mono-cultural Malaysian national culture

Call on Dr.Mahathir Mohamed to intervene and end the unseemly Ministerial squabble over the Selancar Empat ‘Hell Estate’

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, August 26, 1983:

Call on Dr.Mahathir Mohamed to intervene and end the unseemly Ministerial squabble over the Selancar Empat ‘Hell Estate’

The Prime Minister, Dr.Mahathir Mohamed, should intervene and end the most unseemly Ministerial squabble over the Selancar Empat ‘Helda Hell Estate’, where contract workers had been subjected to illegal detention, criminal assault and various forms of labour exploitation and human indignities. Continue reading Call on Dr.Mahathir Mohamed to intervene and end the unseemly Ministerial squabble over the Selancar Empat ‘Hell Estate’

DAP Proposal that Parliament forms a Constitution Committee to consider and make recommendations with regard to proposed Constitutional amendments before a full Parliamentary debate

Speech by parliamentary opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Sri Jaya DAP Branch Anniversary Dinner at Sri Jaya, Pahang, on Friday, 26th August 1983 at 8 p.m.

DAP Proposal that Parliament forms a Constitution Committee to consider and make recommendations with regard to proposed Constitutional amendments before a full Parliamentary debate

The Malaysian Constitution is one of the most amended Constitutions in the world. Since Merdeka in 1957, the Malaysian Constitution has been amended on nearly thirty separate occasions, involving some 1,000 parts of the Constitution. This make an average of at least one Constitutipnal amendment a year in the 26-year history of Malaysian nationhood. Continue reading DAP Proposal that Parliament forms a Constitution Committee to consider and make recommendations with regard to proposed Constitutional amendments before a full Parliamentary debate

DAP calls on all Malaysians to make an open commitment to support the culture policy of integration and to oppose any assimilation approach or policy

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Dinner held at Kuala Sipatang, Taiping, on Saturday, 20th August 1983 at 8p.m.

DAP calls on all Malaysians to make an open commitment to support the culture policy of integration and to oppose any assimilation approach or policy

Malaysia has entered a very important political era after the April 1982 General Elections, with far-reaching political, economic, education, cultural and nation-building repercussions. Continue reading DAP calls on all Malaysians to make an open commitment to support the culture policy of integration and to oppose any assimilation approach or policy

DAP calls on IGP to direct to all police investigations into complaints against police brutality and atrocities should be completed within one month to gain public confidence that the police would be objective arid impartial in cases.

by Par1iamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary—General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 19th August l983:

DAP calls on IGP to direct to all police investigations into complaints against police brutality and atrocities should be completed within one month to gain public confidence that the police would be objective arid impartial in cases.

At the recently—concluded Parliamentary meeting, I had tabled an oral question to ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs, Datuk Musa Hitam, the result of police investigations into the police shooting incident in Batu Pahat on 15th May 1983 where a fisherman, Gan Kim Guan, 19, was killed when on a motor—cycle carrying a pillion at about 3.50 a.m. after a night’s vigil at a funeral parlour for a friend’s father who passed away. Continue reading DAP calls on IGP to direct to all police investigations into complaints against police brutality and atrocities should be completed within one month to gain public confidence that the police would be objective arid impartial in cases.

DAP to censure Minister of Labour, Datuk Mak Hon Kam, in the budget session of Parliament for his multiple failures to protect contract workers from the abuses and evils of exploitation

Speech by Par1iamtntary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the inugural meeting of the DAP Nationa1 Estates Committee held in DAP Headquarters, Petaling Java on Sunday, 14th August 1983 at 2.30 p.m.

DAP to censure Minister of Labour, Datuk Mak Hon Kam, in the budget session of Parliament for his multiple failures to protect contract workers from the abuses and evils of exploitation

The Selancar Empat Felda ‘Hell Estate’, where contract workers were subject to wrongful confinement, illegal detention, forced labour, criminal assault arid denial of wages for four long years, is merely the tip of on iceberg of the widespread abuse and evil of contract labour system Malaysia. Continue reading DAP to censure Minister of Labour, Datuk Mak Hon Kam, in the budget session of Parliament for his multiple failures to protect contract workers from the abuses and evils of exploitation

Anwar Ibrahim’s Senate statement yesterday should banish whatever doubts the 15 Chinese national organisations and Tung/Chiau Chung

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Me1aka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Bentong, DAP Anniversary Dinner held in Bentong, Pahang, on Saturday, 13th August 1983 at 8 p.m.

Anwar Ibrahim’s Senate statement yesterday should banish whatever doubts the 15 Chinese national organisations and Tung/Chiau Chung should have that the Penang Cultural Memorandum has been rejected by the Ministry of Culture, and should spur them into action to reaffirm support for the Memorandum.

On July 29 in Parliament, the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Anwar Ibrahim, made an important statement in reply to questions by DAP Members of Parliament, making clear, without stating directly, that the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports rejected the Penang Cultural Memorandum of the 15 Chinese national organisations and Tung/Chiau Chung adopted in Penang at the Malaysian Chinese Cultural Congress on March 27. Continue reading Anwar Ibrahim’s Senate statement yesterday should banish whatever doubts the 15 Chinese national organisations and Tung/Chiau Chung

Datuk Dr. Neo Yee Pan should explain why MCA wants the political per of the Malaysian Chinese, which is already grossly under-represented, to be further diluted in the 1980s and 1990s

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary— General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Temerloh DAP Branch Anniversary Dinner held at Temer1oh, Pahang on 12th August 1983 at 8 pm.

Datuk Dr. Neo Yee Pan should explain why MCA wants the political per of the Malaysian Chinese, which is already grossly under-represented, to be further diluted in the 1980s and 1990s

The MCA had claimed, especially after the April 1982 General Elections, that it is the only political party which could speak for the Ma1aysia Chinese. In fact, many MCA leaders had gone the country urging Malaysian Chinese to support the MCA to the extent that ‘Chinese is MCA, and MCA is Chinese’ in the way that ‘Malay is UMNO, and UMNO is Malay’. Continue reading Datuk Dr. Neo Yee Pan should explain why MCA wants the political per of the Malaysian Chinese, which is already grossly under-represented, to be further diluted in the 1980s and 1990s

Executive control over Parliament being tightened to the detriment of the principle of Par1iamentary supremacy

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lirn Kit Siang, at the Official Opening of the Penang State DAP Convention 1983 in Penang on Sunday, 7.8.1933 at 10 a.m

Executive control over Parliament being tightened to the detriment of the principle of Par1iamentary supremacy

The recently- concluded two-week Parliamentary meeting shows the ever—tightening gontrol of the Executive over Parliament to the great detriment of the principle of Parliamentary supremacy. Continue reading Executive control over Parliament being tightened to the detriment of the principle of Par1iamentary supremacy

DAP calls on the 15 Chinese National Organisations and Tung/ Chiau Chung to convene another national Cultural Congress following the rejection of their Cultural Memorandum adopted in Penang in March 1983

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Tanjong Anniversary Dinner held in Penang on Saturday, 6th August 1983 at 8 p.m.

DAP calls on the 15 Chinese National Organisations and Tung/ Chiau Chung to convene another national Cultural Congress following the rejection of their Cultural Memorandum adopted in Penang in March 1983, and to decide on steps to oppose a ‘one language, one culture’ policy.

In March this year, the Malaysian Chinese Cultural Congress was held in Penang which adopted a Cultural Memorandum endorsed by 15 Chinese National Organisations and Tung/ Chiau Chung to urge the Barisan Nasional Government to adopt a multi- cultural policy based on the integration of the various cultures in the country, and for the rejection of the policy of the assimilation of other cultures as advocated by the 1971 National Cultural Congress. Continue reading DAP calls on the 15 Chinese National Organisations and Tung/ Chiau Chung to convene another national Cultural Congress following the rejection of their Cultural Memorandum adopted in Penang in March 1983