Author: Curator

Pusat Serenti Tampin – Hell on Earth

The DAP welcomes the establishment of a Parliamentary Select Committee on the Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Bill 1984, for we hope that it marks the beginning of a new government attitude which accepts the principle that legislation is not the sole prerogative of the government of the day, but must involve the widest public participation in the deliberation and formulation stage even before they are debated in Parliament.

We hope that the Government would not set up select Committees merely for X-films, divorce laws, and now drug legislation, but also on Bills with wide-ranging constitutional, economic, human rights and political implications, like constitutional amendments, the recent Civil Law Amendment Bill, even the Companies Amendment Bill, so that Parliament will not merely operate as a rubber stamp of the Executive, but participates actively in law-making. Continue reading Pusat Serenti Tampin – Hell on Earth

DAP to announce guidelines on the forms of action which should be taken by the people to defend Bukit China from government forcible development at the 5,000 – People Gathering at Pay Fong on Oct. 30

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Sunday, 14.10.1984 at 111 a.m.

DAP to announce guidelines on the forms of action which should be taken by the people to defend Bukit China from government forcible development at the 5,000 – People Gathering at Pay Fong on Oct. 30

The announcement by the Chairman of the Cheng Hoon Teng Temple Committee, Mr. Ee Yew Lin, on Friday that about 14,500 people and 553 associations and organisations representing over 294,000 people had rejected the Malacca State Government’s proposed development plan for Bukit China, should make the Malacca Chief Minister, Datuk Abdul Rahim Thamby Cik, re – think his whole Bukit China idea. Continue reading DAP to announce guidelines on the forms of action which should be taken by the people to defend Bukit China from government forcible development at the 5,000 – People Gathering at Pay Fong on Oct. 30

Kampong Bercham – Police Brutality Against Squatters

Yesterday was a day of shame for Malaysia, for over a thousand anti-riot police, fully armed with tear gas canisters, wicker and baton, and rifles and Field Force personnel with sub-machine guns were mobilised against 500 squatters, including the old, sick, women and children, as if they were criminals, terrorists or dangerous animals without human rights when all they were seeking was to defend their human right to have a home.

Tear gas were fired indiscriminately against the old, sick, women and children, while the womenfolk were manhandled and forcibly evicted from their homes. Continue reading Kampong Bercham – Police Brutality Against Squatters

DAP calls for release of Ahmad Nordin Committee Interim Report on BMF before the Parliamentary debate on the establishment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into BMF loans on Oct. 18

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 9.10.1984:

DAP calls for release of Ahmad Nordin Committee Interim Report on BMF before the Parliamentary debate on the establishment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into BMF loans on Oct. 18

The failure by the Deputy Finance Minister, Datuk Sabaruddin Chik, to give a satisfactory explanation during question time in Parliament yesterday as to why the Government is sitting on the BMF inquiry committee report and not releasing it to the public is itself a form of ‘cover up’ by the Government in the BMF loans scandal. Continue reading DAP calls for release of Ahmad Nordin Committee Interim Report on BMF before the Parliamentary debate on the establishment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into BMF loans on Oct. 18

The 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone

Speech by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang in Dewan Rakyat on the debate on the Exclusive Economic Zone Bill 1984 on October 9, 1984

On 25th April 1980, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, proclaimed a 200-nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone from the baselines of Malaysia’s territorial waters, with

(a) Sovereign rights, for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the sea-bed and subsoil and the suprajacent waters, and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water currents and winds;
(b) Jurisdiction with regard to:
(i) The establishment and use of artificial islands, installations and structures;
(ii) Marine scientific research;
(iii) The preservation of the marine environment. Continue reading The 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone

DAP to expose Tan Koon Swan MCA faction’s motives in supporting the Malacca Chief Minister’s Bukit China plan

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 8.10.1984

DAP to expose Tan Koon Swan MCA faction’s motives in supporting the Malacca Chief Minister’s Bukit China plan

Last week, I asked Tan Koon Swan to accept full responsibility for the actions and statements of leaders of his MCA faction, including the series of vicious and malicious articles in the Tan Koon Swan – controlled Berita Awam calculated to character – assassinate me over the Bukit China issue, and to apologise for the Berita Awam’s three – month long campaign of vilification against me. Continue reading DAP to expose Tan Koon Swan MCA faction’s motives in supporting the Malacca Chief Minister’s Bukit China plan

Barisan Yes-Men in Parliament

I rise to proposed that the question, ‘That the Bill be now read a second time’ be amended by leaving out the word ‘now’ and add, at the end of the question, ‘six months after this day’.

Under Standing Order 53(4), I need to give at least one day’s notice in writing for this amendment, but I cannot do so as I only saw the Order Paper setting out the Order of Business of parliament last evening. I am sure that many MPs only got to see the Order Paper today.

It has therefore been impossible for any MP who wish to invoke Standing Order 53(4) to comply with it and this is why I have only this morning sent in my notice of my intention to invoke Standing Order 53(4). Continue reading Barisan Yes-Men in Parliament

DAP Central Executive Committee decides to file a legal suit for a test case on whether Petronas had acted ultra vires of its statutory objectives in using $ 2.5 billion of oil money to buy over Bank Bumiputra and the BMF bad debts

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Sunday, Oct. 7, 1984:

DAP Central Executive Committee decides to file a legal suit for a test case on whether Petronas had acted ultra vires of its statutory objectives in using $ 2.5 billion of oil money to buy over Bank Bumiputra and the BMF bad debts

The DAP Central Executive Committee, at its meeting in Petaling Jaya today, decided to take a test case in courts to determine whether Petronas had acted ultra vires of its statutory objectives in using $2.5 billion of oil money to buy over Bank Bumiputra and the BMF bad debts. Continue reading DAP Central Executive Committee decides to file a legal suit for a test case on whether Petronas had acted ultra vires of its statutory objectives in using $ 2.5 billion of oil money to buy over Bank Bumiputra and the BMF bad debts

200,000 signature – mark passed in the 300,000 Save Bukit China Mass signature campaign

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General And MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the planning meeting Of the Save Bukit China Thousand – Mile Marathon Walk Committee Held at DAP PJ Hqrs on Sunday, 7.10.1984 at 11 a.m.

200,000 signature – mark passed in the 300,000 Save Bukit China Mass signature campaign

I am glad to announce that the 300,000 Save Bukit China mass signature campaign has passed the 200,000 – signature mark, making it even now the most successful and memorable signature campaign in Malaysian history. Continue reading 200,000 signature – mark passed in the 300,000 Save Bukit China Mass signature campaign

Lim Kit Siang to seek appointment with Acting Prime Minister,Datuk Musa Hitam, on allocation of parliamentary time forDebate on establishment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into $ 2.5 billion BMF loans scandal

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at DAP PJ Hqrs on Wednesday, 3rd October 1984 at 11 a.m.

Lim Kit Siang to seek appointment with Acting Prime Minister,Datuk Musa Hitam, on allocation of parliamentary time forDebate on establishment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into $ 2.5 billion BMF loans scandal

I have given the Speaker of Dewan Rakyat, Tan Sri Zahir Ismail, notice for the following motion which I would move in the forthcoming budget meeting of Parliament on the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the $2.5 billion BMF loans scandal: Continue reading Lim Kit Siang to seek appointment with Acting Prime Minister,Datuk Musa Hitam, on allocation of parliamentary time forDebate on establishment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into $ 2.5 billion BMF loans scandal