Category: Detention Camps

Call on every Malaysian who cherish Chinese education to get a copy of the new DAP booklet “ISA detention: Accusation and Rebuttals”

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at a dinner organised by the Batu Gajah DAP Branch to mark the one-year unjustified detention of Sdr. Chian Heng Kai and Sdr. Chan Kok Kit, the dinner being held at Kuan Tai Temple Hall, Batu Gajah on Wednesday, 2nd Nov. 1977 at 7p.m.

Call on every Malaysian who cherish Chinese education to get a copy of the new DAP booklet “ISA detention: Accusation and Rebuttals” to understand the hard and thorny road ahead for mother-tongue education in Malaysia.

Every Malaysian who love and cherish Chinese education, and who wants Chinese schools to enjoy it rightful place in Malaysia society in accordance with the Malaysian Constitutional guarantee of Clause 152, should get a copy of a new DAP book “ISA detention: Accusations and Rebuttals” to understand the nature of the struggle involved. Continue reading Call on every Malaysian who cherish Chinese education to get a copy of the new DAP booklet “ISA detention: Accusation and Rebuttals”

Chian Heng Kai and Chan Kok Kit: Detention under ISA

This is the 20th anniversary of Malaysia since Independence in 1957, but the basic issues of nation building remain unresolved.

The big question, what type of Malaysian nation we are building, has not been answered with satisfaction, assurance or certainty.

There are significant numbers of those who refuse to accept the reality and fact that Malaysia is a multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-religious nation, and that any other basis of nation building can only bring division, disintegration and disaster. Continue reading Chian Heng Kai and Chan Kok Kit: Detention under ISA

Hunger strike by political detainees

During the last Budget session three months ago, I had called for a Commission of Inquiry into the hunger-strike conduction by political detainees at Batu Gajah and Taiping detention camp.

At that time, we were not in position of the full facts. On February 16, 1974, thanks to the Minister of Home Affairs, I visited the Batu Gajah detention camp and met representative of the political detainees.

From the accounts which they told me about the circumstances causing the 47-day hunger by over 200 political detainees from 29th Dec. 1973 to Feb. 12, 1974, the events during the strike, I am more than convinced that there is a prima facie case warranting a commission of inquiry into allegations of physical violence and atrocities perpetrated on the detainees by warders and FRU men. Continue reading Hunger strike by political detainees

Panel of Independent Medical Practitioners should be allowed to visit detainees at Batu Gajah detention Camp

During the last Budget session three months ago, I had called for a Commission of Inquiry into the hunger-strike conduction by political detainees at Batu Gajah and Taiping detention camp.

At that time, we were not in position of the full facts. On February 16, 1974, thanks to the Minister of Home Affairs, I visited the Batu Gajah detention camp and met representative of the political detainees.

From the accounts which they told me about the circumstances causing the 47-day hunger by over 200 political detainees from 29th Dec. 1973 to Feb. 12, 1974, the events during the strike, I am more than convinced that there is a prima facie case warranting a commission of inquiry into allegations of physical violence and atrocities perpetrated on the detainees by warders and FRU men. Continue reading Panel of Independent Medical Practitioners should be allowed to visit detainees at Batu Gajah detention Camp