Category: Human Rights

Call on Home Affairs Minister, Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie, to explain why Far Eastern Economic Review magazines are being held up for about three weeks before release

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Friday, 8th May 1981:

Call on Home Affairs Minister, Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie, to explain why Far Eastern Economic Review magazines are being held up for about three weeks before release?

The April 17-23 issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review was released by the Minister of Home Affairs yesterday, 20 days after being held up by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Continue reading Call on Home Affairs Minister, Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie, to explain why Far Eastern Economic Review magazines are being held up for about three weeks before release

Lim Kit Siang proposes the formation of Concerned Citizens Committees (CCCs), transcending politics, race, religion, to involve Malaysians in mass participation to protect and safeguard their basic rights as citizens

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, at the 23rd Annual General Meeting and Presidential Installation Dinner of the Apex Club of Kuala Lumpur held at Shepherd’s Inn, Lorong University ‘C’, Section 16, Petanling Jaya on Saturday, 26th July 1980 at 7.3 0pm

Lim Kit Siang proposes the formation of Concerned Citizens Committees (CCCs), transcending politics, race, religion, to involve Malaysians in mass participation to protect and safeguard their basic rights as citizens

I commend the Apex Club of Kuala Lumpur for the community services it had rendered in the last 23 years. It outs into practice the universal teachings of all the great religions about compassion, equality, justice, brotherhood and love. It is service clubs like the Apex Clubs which contribute to making Malaysians become aware of their larger responsibilities as self-willed human beings to rise above their daily pre-occupation with self-interest and help in the betterment of the human community. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang proposes the formation of Concerned Citizens Committees (CCCs), transcending politics, race, religion, to involve Malaysians in mass participation to protect and safeguard their basic rights as citizens

A decade of unity and reconciliation

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the debate on Royal Address on March 18, 1980)

I rise to support the Motion of Thanks to His Majesty for His Gracious Address to both Houses of Parliament yesterday.

His Majesty, at the outset of His Gracious Address, rightly reminded us that this session takes place during a historically significant period. We are entering the decade of the Eighties. This year is also the last year of the Third Malaysia Plan and the mid-way mark of the 20-year Perspective New Economic Policy of the Government.
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DAP calls for a Parliamentary Inquiry in to human rights violations in Malaysia

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on 30th August 1979:

DAP calls for a Parliamentary Inquiry in to human rights violations in Malaysia following the devastating Amnesty International Report on Malaysia.

The Amnesty International Report on human rights in Malaysia, released in London yesterday, is a devastating document of the systematic violation of human rights in Malaysia. It will mar and maim Malaysia’s international standing and image, Malaysia’s international image as a humane and civilised nation could not be regained not by Government leaders pouring scorn or condemnation on the Amnesty International, but by the holding of a Parliamentary or other form of Public Inquiry into the human rights violations in the country, coupled by a will and sincerity on the part of the Government to put an end to such human rights violations. Continue reading DAP calls for a Parliamentary Inquiry in to human rights violations in Malaysia

DAP calls on Ministry of Education to greatly increase Form Six places next year

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when officially declaring open the Perak DAP State Convention held at Catholic Centre, Ipoh, on Sunday, 5th August 1979 at 10 a.m.

DAP calls on Ministry of Education to greatly increase Form Six places next year and after to ensure that all non-Malay first graders in MCE/SPM examination can continue their studies.

In June this year, there was widespread discontent and frustration among parents and students when the Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, announced that there was only a meager increase of 2% for non-Malay university student intake this year, despite the solemn pledges in Parliament last December to significantly redress this problem. Continue reading DAP calls on Ministry of Education to greatly increase Form Six places next year

Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to convene an emergency Parliament meeting on the unending influx of Vietnamese refugees/illegal immigrants

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the First DAP Selangor State Annual Convention held at Transport Workers’ Union Hall on Sunday, 8th July 1979 at 10 a.m.

Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to convene an emergency Parliament meeting on the unending influx of Vietnamese refugees/illegal immigrants before the International Conference on the Indo-Chinese Refugees in Geneva on July 20 and July 21.

The world community has too long allowed Vietnam to get away with its barbaric and uncivilized policy of extorting blood money and exporting refugees, conducting with impunity a blatant policy of racism and genocide, which should have goaded the international community into drastic action against the Vietnamese regime, both in the United Nations and outside. Continue reading Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to convene an emergency Parliament meeting on the unending influx of Vietnamese refugees/illegal immigrants

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 calls on Prime Mimister, Dato Hussein Onn, to release immediately and unconditionally Sdr. Chian Heng Kai and Sdr. Chan Kok Kit, who are Malaysian patriots and defenders of the Malaysian Constitution and the democratic system

Statement by parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at a Press Conference held at 63-D Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday, 2nd Nov. 1977 at 12 noon, on the occasion of the first full year of the detention of Sdr. Chian Heng Kai and Sdr. Chan Kok Kit, and the publication of a Book on their Detention.

DAP calls on Prime Mimister, Dato Hussein Onn, to release immediately and unconditionally Sdr. Chian Heng Kai and Sdr. Chan Kok Kit, who are Malaysian patriots and defenders of the Malaysian Constitution and the democratic system.

I have with me Mrs. Chian Heng Kai. I have called this Press Conference on the occasion of the full one-year arbitrary detention without trial of two DAP leaders, Sdr. Chian Heng Kai, DAP Member of Parliament for Batu Gajah, and Sdr. Chan Kok Kit, DAP Assistant National Treasurer.
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DAP calls for the establishment of a Human Rights Commission in Malaysia to receive and consider complaints about violation of human rights and to make findings

I regret that the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Barisan Nasional members who spoke have made it very clear that they would oppose this motion calling for the ratification of the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights 1966.

The reasons that have been given by the Minister if Foreign Affairs, Tunku Rithaudeen, and the five other Barisan Nasional MPs who spoke, however, is most contradictory.

On the one hand, there are those like Tengku Rithaudeen, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who claimed that the human tights contained in the 1966 International Covenant of Political and Civil Rights are already respected in Malaysia, and there is therefore no need to ratify the Covenant. Continue reading DAP calls for the establishment of a Human Rights Commission in Malaysia to receive and consider complaints about violation of human rights and to make findings

Repeal of the 1975 Essential (Security Cases) Regulation essential to uphold Rule of Law

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, when moving a motion in Parliament on Oct. 27, 1977 to repeal the Essential (Security Cases) Amendment Regulations 1975

Repeal of the 1975 Essential (Security Cases) Regulation essential to uphold Rule of Law, restore self-respect of legal community, protect the reputation of Malaysian judges from being regarded as ‘handing judges’ and to redeem the international image of Malaysia as a civilized nation

I rise to move the following motion: Continue reading Repeal of the 1975 Essential (Security Cases) Regulation essential to uphold Rule of Law