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Lim Kit Siang challenges Khir Johari

Speech by DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, to the Perak State Committee meeting in Ipoh DAP Branch premises on Sunday, August 18, 1968 at 10 a.m.

In his speech at the Central Kedah UMNO annual delegates conference last Friday, the UMNO Secretary-General, Inche Khir Johari, repeated the unfounded Alliance charge that the DAP is 100% communal, takes moral and material inspiration from outside the country, and fight for the interest of foreign countries.

This is a downright irresponsible statement, utterly unbecoming of the Minister of Education, who is responsible in instilling in hundreds of thousands of Malaysian children the moral qualities of honesty, integrity, sincerity and truth. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang challenges Khir Johari

Motion to reprieve the death sentence of the 13 condemned

Talk by DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, to members and supporters at Pusing, Perak, on Saturday, August 17, 1968 at 7.30 p.m

Appeal to Tunku to withdraw the whip to allow Alliance MPs to vote according to conscience on the motion to reprieve the death sentence of the 13 condemned.

When the motion seeking a reprieve of the death sentence of the 13 condemned youths is put to a vote in Parliament next week, we urge the Prime Minister to allow MPs to vote according to individual conscience, and not in conformity with any party line.

The issue of commuting the death sentence of life imprisonment is strictly above party politics, and should be treated as such. Continue reading Motion to reprieve the death sentence of the 13 condemned

DAP supports National University idea

The DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, today (16.8.68) issued the following statement:

The Democratic Action Party fully supports the proposal to establish a National University, to provide opportunities for higher education for National secondary schools.

The national school system is the step-child of the government. Its standard is low, teaching poor, and its certificate, the S.P.M., worthless.

This is why there is an exodus of students from national schools to national-type English schools. This is why although Alliance Ministers, including the Education Minister, Inche Khir Johari, warned parents not to send their children away from national schools to English schools, none of their children is studying in any of the national schools. Continue reading DAP supports National University idea

DAP hails stay of execution of the 11 condemned

The DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, today (16.8.68) issued the following statement:

The people of all races in Malaysia, and of all nationalities throughout the world, sighed with relief on the announcement by the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, declaring a stay of execution of the 11 condemned youths.

Malaysia, which has been standing trial at the bar of world opinion for six weeks as to whether we are a nation of mercy, compassion, and humanity, or whether we are an unfeeling, callous and heartless people, has gone some way to redeem her name and image in the world. Continue reading DAP hails stay of execution of the 11 condemned

DAP makes a bid for the Negri Sembilan State Government

Speech by Editor of the Rocket, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, and DAP Organising Secretary, at the Second Anniversary Celebrations of the Rocket journal by the Seremban DAP Branch on Friday, August 16 at 7 p.m.

On June 30, the UMNO Secretary-General, Inche Khir bin Johari, warned UMNO members in Johol that Negri Sembilan is a “danger” state for the Alliance, and that the Democratic Action Party might capture the State Government in the next elections.

This is the measure and extent of the impact the Democratic Action Party, under the dedicated and distinguished leadership of Dr. Chen Man Hin, and support of DAP members and supporters, has made in a short period of slightly over two years. Continue reading DAP makes a bid for the Negri Sembilan State Government

Malaysian conscience on trial at the bar of world opinion

The DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, today (14.8.68) issued the following statement:

Malaysia is now standing trial at the bar of world opinion, as to whether we are a nation of mercy, compassion and humanity, or whether we are an unfeeling, callous and heartless people.

The liberal conscience throughout the world have been agitated by the Malaysian government’s grim and unswerving determination to hang the 13 youths. Never before have the world attention been so focussed on Malaysia, to find out whether Malaysia has a soul and a conscience. Continue reading Malaysian conscience on trial at the bar of world opinion

Dubbing television films

Speech by Editor of Rocket, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, and DAP Organising Secretary, at the Rocket Second Anniversary Celebrations at Lee Wong Kee Café on Wednesday, August 14 at 5 p.m.

Recently, the government dubbed the popular television series, the Samurai, from English to Malay.

The Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, subsequently announced that the experiment was a great success, and that other popular series were being dubbed as well. The next in line are ‘The Man from UNCLE’, ‘The Champions’ and ‘The Thriller’. Continue reading Dubbing television films

Malaysian-Filipino relations take a turn of the better

The DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, today (11.8.68) issued the following statement:

The Democratic Action Party welcomes the “cooling-off” period between Malaysia and the Philippines to allow normal and healthy relations to be re-established after the strain and tension between the two countries generated by the Filipino claim to Sabah.

The clouds of frenzy and hysteria in Manila are giving way to rays of reason and sanity, and stable and rational man who have the foresight to value regional co-operation and prosperity above intra-regional disputes and stagnation are asserting their influence in Filipino public life. Continue reading Malaysian-Filipino relations take a turn of the better

Bukit Rambai DAP Branch protem committee

Speech by DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at the inaugural meeting of the protem committee of the Bukit Rambai DAP Branch, Malacca, on Wednesday, August 8, 1968 at 8 p.m.

The formation of the protem committee of the Bukit Rambai DAP Branch marks yet another milestone in the steady expansion of the democratic socialist movement in Malaysia.

In the short period of slightly over two years since the formation of the Democratic Action Party, we have given new hope to thinking Malaysians that a new political force has emerged on the Malaysian scene, which has the brain power, organisation, stamina and youth to defeat the forces of reaction, inequality, injustice and racialism which has dominated this country since independence. Continue reading Bukit Rambai DAP Branch protem committee

Commission of Inquiry into the activities of the National Land Finance Co-operative Society

The DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, today (6.8.68) issued the following statement:

More than 40 former workers of the Belata River Estate in Kerling, and their families, are picketing outside the offices of the National Land Finance Co-operative Society and the Malaysian Indian Congress in Jalan Brickfields in an effort to get back their old jobs.

The Belata River Estate was bought over from an European management by the National Land Finance Co-operative Society on July 18. Continue reading Commission of Inquiry into the activities of the National Land Finance Co-operative Society