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Conditions of detention

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Development Supplementary Estimates (1979) during the Committee Stage on April 3, 1979)

In the first development supplementary estimates 1979 for the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Government is asking for an addition $1 million for the
building of the Simpang Rengam Detention Camp in Johore. This follows the revision of the original estimates of $7 million to be spent on the project under the Third Malaysia Plan from 1976 – 1980 to $15 million.

Recently, the Bar Council sent a memorandum to the Ministry of Home Affairs on ill-treatment of political detainees in Taiping and Batu Gajah detention camps, on poor medical treatments, prolonged solitary confinements, hand-cuffing of political detainees going to hospital for treatment which is degrading and humiliating; deprivation of correspondence and from home, and others. Although the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Datuk Syed Sheh Shabuddin, immediately denied the Bar Council allegations, the denial is not convincing or satisfactory, as it is self-serving. Continue reading Conditions of detention

AN OPPOSITION-LED ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO THE DETENTION CONDITIONS OF POLITICAL DETAINEES

MALAYSIA – THE DANGEROUS EIGHTIES

AN OPPOSITION-LED ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO THE DETENTION CONDITIONS OF POLITICAL DETAINEES

“If the Government claims that there are no ill-treatment of political detainees, then should welcome such an Opposition-led all-party parliamentary investigative committee, for it would them clear the Government and the country’s name of allegations of ill-treatment of political detainees.”

Speed on the Development Supplementary Estimates (1979) during the Committee Stage on April 3, 1979 Continue reading AN OPPOSITION-LED ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO THE DETENTION CONDITIONS OF POLITICAL DETAINEES

DAP ‘obstacle to national unity’?

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the First 1979 Supplementary Development Estimates on March 29, 1979)

In presenting this first 1979 supplementary development estimates, amounting to $2,954 million, the items which stand out are the proposed increases in expenditures for defence and security purposes. The Government is asking for approval for a hefty $372 million increase for the Ministry of Defence and another $306 million for police, bringing increased expenditures for these two heads to $678 million.

These two items represent 23% of the first development supplementary estimates. This means that out of every dollar that we are spending out of the $2,954 million we are being asked to approve today, 23 cents will be on defence and security. In contrast, education in the first 1979 development estimates is only a paltry $29 million, or 1% of the supplementary development estimates. This means that for every dollar of the supplementary development estimates, only one cent goes to education. Continue reading DAP ‘obstacle to national unity’?

DAP PREPARED TO DISSOLVE ITSELF AND I TO WITHDRAW FROM POLITICS, IF DR. MAHATHIR CAN CONVINCE US AND THE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE THE ‘OBSTACLES’ TO MALAYSIAN NATIONAL UNITY

MALAYSIA – THE EIGHTIES

DAP PREPARED TO DISSOLVE ITSELF AND I TO WITHDRAW FROM POLITICS, IF DR. MAHATHIR CAN CONVINCE US AND THE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE THE ‘OBSTACLES’ TO MALAYSIAN NATIONAL UNITY.

“Dr. Mahathir has distorted my speech in the Mid-Term Review debate and made a baseless accusation in alleging that the DAP is differentiating Malays and non-Malays into first class and second-class citizens.

“He said that patriotic citizens have a right to tell unpatriotic citizens to leave the country. Le me ask Dr. Mahathir, who decides who is patriotic, and ho is unpatriotic? Continue reading DAP PREPARED TO DISSOLVE ITSELF AND I TO WITHDRAW FROM POLITICS, IF DR. MAHATHIR CAN CONVINCE US AND THE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE THE ‘OBSTACLES’ TO MALAYSIAN NATIONAL UNITY

Protest against inadequate time for debate of Mid-Term Review of Third Malaysia Plan

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Lim Kit Siang, in the Parliamentary House on Wednesday,28th March 1979 at 3.30pm.

Protest against inadequate time for debate of Mid-Term Review of Third Malaysia Plan

To protest in the strongest possible terms against the inadequate time allotted for the debate on the Mid-Term Review of The Third Malaysia Plan. When moving the motion on the adoption of the Mid-Term Review in the Dewan Rakyat on 19th March, the Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, promised that six days would be alloted for the debated and the motion and twp days for the Ministers to reply. Continue reading Protest against inadequate time for debate of Mid-Term Review of Third Malaysia Plan

The Meaning of Malaysian Nationality

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Mid-Term Review of the Third Malaysian Plan on March 22, 1979)

Both the Second and Third Malaysia Plans have proclaimed that the over-riding objective of the New Economic Policy is the attainment of national unity in the country.

Both prongs of the New Economic Policy, to eradicate poverty regardless of race and the restructuring of Malaysian society, are aimed at this single overriding objective: the attainment of national unity. Continue reading The Meaning of Malaysian Nationality

A NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO EDUCATE EVERY MALAYSIAN ABOUT THE MEANING OF MALAYSIAN NATIONALITY

MALAYSIA – THE DANGEROUS EIGHTIES

A NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO EDUCATE EVERY MALAYSIAN ABOUT THE MEANING OF MALAYSIAN NATIONALITY

“We do not make secret of the face that we, and the 700,000 voters who voted for the DAP, are not happy with the undemocratic goings-on in the country, and many aspects of the Government’s policies. We want to bring about changes, to educate public opinion and build up pressure by the constitutional and parliamentary process effectchanges. Continue reading A NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO EDUCATE EVERY MALAYSIAN ABOUT THE MEANING OF MALAYSIAN NATIONALITY

The MAS-AEU industrial confrontation

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Prime Minister’s motion on March 20, 1979)

The prolonged and unresolved dispute between Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) and the Airlines Employees’ Union (AEU) together with the events damage to Malaysia’s economy and accompanying it, have caused great international image.

It has caused, and is still causing, disruption and suspension of international air services of MAS entailing multi-million dollar financial losses to both MAS and Malaysia. Continue reading The MAS-AEU industrial confrontation

Dictatorship Rule by State of Permanent Emergency

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on the 1979 Emergency (Essential Powers) Bill in the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday, 17th January 1979)

Dictatorship Rule by State of Permanent Emergency

Parliament has been specially summoned today to do an extraordinary thing: to legalism the illegalities committed by the Government for the last eight years since February 20, 1971 by way of unconstitutional and invalid Emergency Regulations. Continue reading Dictatorship Rule by State of Permanent Emergency