Category: FELDA

DAP has referred to our lawyers Anwar Ibrahim’s speech in Kangar on Sunday and the Utusan Malaysia and Utusan Melayu editorials today which are not only most seditious and inflammatory but also highly communal and defamatory

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang,in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 24th January, 1995:

DAP has referred to our lawyers Anwar Ibrahim’s speech in Kangar on Sunday and the Utusan Malaysia and Utusan Melayu editorials today which are not only most seditious and inflammatory but also highly communal and defamatory

DAP takes the strongest objection to the speech by the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in Kangar on Sunday and the Utusan Malaysia and Utusan Melayu editorials today. Continue reading DAP has referred to our lawyers Anwar Ibrahim’s speech in Kangar on Sunday and the Utusan Malaysia and Utusan Melayu editorials today which are not only most seditious and inflammatory but also highly communal and defamatory

DAP forms Bureau to Defend Rights of FELDA Settlers under the chairmanship of Salleh Ahmad which will organise Conference of FELDA settlers to fight for their legitimate rights

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 16th January 1995:

DAP forms Bureau to Defend Rights of FELDA Settlers under the chairmanship of Salleh Ahmad which will organise Conference of FELDA settlers to fight for their legitimate rights

DAP has formed a National DAP Bureau to Defend Rights of FELDA Settlers under the chairmanship of Salleh Ahmad which will organise Conference of FELDA settlers as the first step to fight for the legitimate rights if the FELDA settlers and to get greater justice from the Government and FELDA. Continue reading DAP forms Bureau to Defend Rights of FELDA Settlers under the chairmanship of Salleh Ahmad which will organise Conference of FELDA settlers to fight for their legitimate rights

Felda — NEP’s Most Conspicuous Failure

Speech by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang in Dewan Rakyat on the estimates of the Ministry of Land and Regional Development on December 1, 1982

The New Economic Policy was promulgated and implemented in 1970 with the objective of restructuring society so that there would be no identification of race with vocation or location.

Through the NEP Five-Year Malaysia Plans, there was much talk about government plans to increase the Malay population in the towns, as well as to increase the non-Malay population in the rural areas. Unfortunately what we see today is merely the swift urbanization of the Malaysia, without any serious effort to increase non-Malay population in the rural areas by providing agricultural opportunities, like opening up land for non-Malaysia. Continue reading Felda — NEP’s Most Conspicuous Failure

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