Month: July 1985

Urgent cables to MCA and Gerakan Ministers to raise Sim Kie Chong’s commutation on Wednesday’s Cabinet: If Mochtar Hashim could be pardoned, Sim has greater right to live

Press Conference Statement (3) by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Monday, 29.7.l985.

Urgent cables to MCA and Gerakan Ministers to raise Sim Kie Chong’s commutation on Wednesday’s Cabinet: If Mochtar Hashim could be pardoned, Sim has greater right to live

I have just sent urgent cables to the four MCA Ministers, Datuk Dr. Neo Yee Pan (Housing and Local Government), Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan (Transport), Datuk Mak Hon Kam (Labour) Datuk Chin Hon Ngian (Health) and the Gerakan Minister, Datuk Paul Leong (Primary Industries) to raise the question of Sim Kee Chon’s commutation from death sentence to life imprisonment on Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting. Continue reading Urgent cables to MCA and Gerakan Ministers to raise Sim Kie Chong’s commutation on Wednesday’s Cabinet: If Mochtar Hashim could be pardoned, Sim has greater right to live

DAP calls for suspension of the Attorney-General’s powers to certify cases as security cases which require mandatory death penalty on conviction until a full review of such cases in the last 10 years

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Monday, 29.7.1985 at 11.30 am to launch the Save Condemned Sim Kie Chon Campaign in Penang State.

DAP calls for suspension of the Attorney-General’s powers to certify cases as security cases which require mandatory death penalty on conviction until a full review of such cases in the last 10 years.

I have come to Penang to launch the Save Convict Sim Kie Chong Campaign in the Penang State, to ask the people of Penang to support the public appeal to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to exercise his prerogative of mercy to pardon Sim by commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment. Continue reading DAP calls for suspension of the Attorney-General’s powers to certify cases as security cases which require mandatory death penalty on conviction until a full review of such cases in the last 10 years

Call on Anwar Ibrahim and other UMNO leaders to stand up for justice and equality by securing a pardon for Sim Kie Chon

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, on the occasion of the launching of the Save Condemned Sim Kie Chon Signature Campaign, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 29th July 1985 at 8 pm.

Call on Anwar Ibrahim and other UMNO leaders to stand up for justice and equality by securing a pardon for Sim Kie Chon.

I have cabled to all UMNO Ministers to urge them to bring up the question of Sim Kie Chon’s commutation on Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting. I would call on all UMNO Ministers, in particular the UMNO Youth Leader and Minister for Agriculture, Anwar Ibrahim, who before and after entering politics had emphasised that he was dedicated to justice and equality, to stand up for these ideals by securing a pardon for Sim Kie Chon. Continue reading Call on Anwar Ibrahim and other UMNO leaders to stand up for justice and equality by securing a pardon for Sim Kie Chon

Call on Malaysians of all races to respond to the Save Sim Kie Chon signature campaign in the way the people responded to the DAP’s Save l3-condemned signature campaign in 1968

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Ipoh on Sunday, July 28, 1985.

Call on Malaysians of all races to respond to the Save Sim Kie Chon signature campaign in the way the people responded to the DAP’s Save l3-condemned signature campaign in 1968.

I come to Ipoh today to understand the latest developments in the Kampong Pisang issue; where over 2,000 people who had been staying in the area for over three generations, face the bleak prospect of eviction from their homes, workshops, foundries, losing not only their roof but also their rice-bowls; with the makings of another blow-up as in Kampong Bercham or even Thean Teik estate in Penang. Continue reading Call on Malaysians of all races to respond to the Save Sim Kie Chon signature campaign in the way the people responded to the DAP’s Save l3-condemned signature campaign in 1968

DAP launches Save Sim Kie Chon Campaign, headed by Sdr. Lee Lam Thye, with first activity a nation-wide signature campaign

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday July 27, 1985:

DAP launches Save Sim Kie Chon Campaign, headed by Sdr. Lee Lam Thye, with first activity a nation-wide signature campaign

The DAP has decide to launch a nation-wide Save Sim Kie Chon Campaign, as we believe that it will be manifestly unfair and unjust for Sim Kie Chon to be executed in violation of Article 8 of the Malaysian Constitution which guarantees equality of persons before the law. If ex-Cabinet Minister, Mochtar Hashim, who was convicted of a more serious offence than Sim Kie Chon as he had discharged a firearm and killed the Negeri Sembilan State Assembly Speaker, Datuk Taha, could have his death penalty commuted to life imprisonment, why shouldn’t Sim Kie Chon be spared his life when his offence is very much lighter? Continue reading DAP launches Save Sim Kie Chon Campaign, headed by Sdr. Lee Lam Thye, with first activity a nation-wide signature campaign

Call on MCA and Gerakan Ministers to raise in Cabinet next Wednesday, 31 July, the question of commutation of Sim Kie Chon’s death penalty

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Bentong DAP Branch 19th Anniversary Dinner held in Bentong, on Saturday, July 27 1985.

Call on MCA and Gerakan Ministers to raise in Cabinet next Wednesday, 31 July, the question of commutation of Sim Kie Chon’s death penalty.

The Bentong DAP 19th Anniversary Dinner tonight is very significant, for it not only marks the launching of the Save Sim Kie Chon signature campaign in Pahang State, but together with the DAP 19th Anniversary Dinner being held in Paloh in Johore tonight, marks the first launching of the DAP’s nation-wide signature campaign to save Sim Kie Chon from the gallows. Continue reading Call on MCA and Gerakan Ministers to raise in Cabinet next Wednesday, 31 July, the question of commutation of Sim Kie Chon’s death penalty

Call for a joint committee comprising members of the bench and bar to inquire into the fracas between the Chief Justice and lawyer Karam Singh

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang , in Petaling Jaya on Friday,26.7.1985:

Call for a joint committee comprising members of the bench and bar to inquire into the fracas between the Chief Justice and lawyer Karam Singh

The Malaysian people must be very concerned by the fracas between the Chief Justice, Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Omar, and lawyer Karam Singh, as to whether Karam Singh had been ‘rushed’ into filling the record of appeal to save the life of Death Row condemned, Sim Kie Chon, 28, in three days when he had six weeks to do so under the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1980. Continue reading Call for a joint committee comprising members of the bench and bar to inquire into the fracas between the Chief Justice and lawyer Karam Singh

Ten DAP MPs cable appeal to Pardons Board to commute death sentence of Sim Kie Chon

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Parliament House on Thursday, 25.7.1985:

Ten DAP MPs cable appeal to Pardons Board to commute death sentence of Sim Kie Chon

On behalf of ten Dap Mps, I have sent and urgent cable to the Pardons Board appealing for its review and commutation of the death sentence of Sim Kie Chon, 28, who was convicted and sentenced to death under the Internal Security Act with possession of a firearm for which he had no license. He was convicted by the High Court on 14 June 1983, and the federal court dismissed his appeal on 1983. Continue reading Ten DAP MPs cable appeal to Pardons Board to commute death sentence of Sim Kie Chon

The latest campaign to character-assassinate me is now in full swing

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-general and Mp for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Malacca Dap Three-Thousand People Anniversary Dinner held at Pay Fong Chinese Secondary School on Sunday, 21.7.1985 at 8 pm.

The latest campaign to character-assassinate me is now in full swing. Before every general elections, there would be a campaign to try to destroy the DAP to undermine its election chances, either by formenting party disunity or by trying to destroy the image, reputation and credibility of DAP leaders.

Before the 1978 general elections, I was accused of being a Special Branch agent. The tactics changed before the 1982 general elections, when I was accused in a systematic campaign of being a KGB agent as well as a ‘killer’ of the Chinese educated, to the extent of being condemned as not being fit to be Chinese – ‘that I did not possess the blood of the descendents of Huang Ti’ Continue reading The latest campaign to character-assassinate me is now in full swing

Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Datuk Mahathir Mohamed, to direct the Barisan Nasional MPs to act responsibly to uphold the dignity of Parliament

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Slang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 19th July l985:

Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Datuk Mahathir Mohamed, to direct the Barisan Nasional MPs to act responsibly to uphold the dignity of Parliament.

The Dewan Rakyat spent over one day to debate the one-paragraph amendment to the Federal Roads (Amendment) Bill on Wednesday and Thursday, with, Barisan Nasional MPs clearly wasting away Parliamentary time with irrelevancies with one common objective:
to deny my motion calling for a Parliamentary Select Committee on New Economic Policy inequalities and injustices as a preparation for the Fifth Malaysia Plan formulation from having time for debate. Continue reading Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Datuk Mahathir Mohamed, to direct the Barisan Nasional MPs to act responsibly to uphold the dignity of Parliament