Category: ISA

Call on Datuk Musa Hitam to respond to Amnesty International campaign to free prisoners of conscience and as a first step release long-standing ISA detainees.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the Negeri Sembilan State Political Course at DAP Seremban branch premises on Saturday, 10th October, 1981 at 3 p.m.

Call on Datuk Musa Hitam to respond to Amnesty International campaign to free prisoners of conscience and as a first step release long-standing ISA detainees.

The new Mahathir-Musa leadership made a good start in rebuilding Malaysian’s human rights record when they released 21 Internal Security Act detainees on July 31 within two weeks of the new administration. Continue reading Call on Datuk Musa Hitam to respond to Amnesty International campaign to free prisoners of conscience and as a first step release long-standing ISA detainees.

DAP given notice to Dewan Rakyat to move a motion to condemn UMNO Youth Leader, Haji Suhaimi Kamaruddin, for his extremist and chauvinist pronouncements gravely retarding nation building.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the dinner given by Klang Pasar DAP Branch in honour of Chian Heng Kai and Chan Kok Kit on their unconditional release after 4 years and 9 months detention under the Internal Security Act, held at Klang on Tuesday, Sept.8, 1981 at 8 pm.

DAP given notice to Dewan Rakyat to move a motion to condemn UMNO Youth Leader, Haji Suhaimi Kamaruddin, for his extremist and chauvinist pronouncements gravely retarding nation building.

I have given notice to Dewan Rakyat that in budget meeting of Parliament from Oct. 12 to December 8, I will be moving a motion to condemn the UMNO Youth Leader, Haji Suhaimi Kamaruddin, for his repeated extremist and chauvinistic speeches which gravely retard nation building. Continue reading DAP given notice to Dewan Rakyat to move a motion to condemn UMNO Youth Leader, Haji Suhaimi Kamaruddin, for his extremist and chauvinist pronouncements gravely retarding nation building.

Chian Heng Kai and Chan Kok Kit, the matyrs of Chinese Education, should be shining examples to all dedicated political workers for the goal of a democratic socialist, Malaysian Malaysia.

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at DAP Headquarters in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 30th July 1981 at 5 pm on the release of Chian Heng Kai and Chan Kok Kit after 4 years 9 months detention under Internal Security Act.

Chian Heng Kai and Chan Kok Kit, the matyrs of Chinese Education, should be shining examples to all dedicated political workers for the goal of a democratic socialist, Malaysian Malaysia.

The DAP welcome the release of DAP MPs, Chian Heng Kai (Batu Gajah and Assemblyman for Pasir Puteh), DAP National Publicity Secretary, and Chan Kok Kit (Sungai Besi), DAP Deputy National Treasurer, and the release of other 19 ISA detainees, including PSRN President, Kassim Ahmad, and former Deputy Minister, Datuk Abdullah Ahamd. Continue reading Chian Heng Kai and Chan Kok Kit, the matyrs of Chinese Education, should be shining examples to all dedicated political workers for the goal of a democratic socialist, Malaysian Malaysia.

DAP calls for White Paper on Russian Subversion and Infiltration of the higher reaches of Malaysian society and government

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Tuesday, July 14, 1981:

DAP calls for White Paper on Russian Subversion and Infiltration of the higher reaches of Malaysian society and government

The detention under the Internal Security Act of the political secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Prime-Minister-to-be, Siddiq Mohamed Ghouse, and the expulsion of three top Soviet Embassy officials for KGB activities have highlighted what has been known or suspected for quite some time: the increasingly spread of the Russian expansionist tentacles in the Asia-Pacific region in keeping with the Russian world-wide designs of imposing Soviet supremacy and mastery. Continue reading DAP calls for White Paper on Russian Subversion and Infiltration of the higher reaches of Malaysian society and government

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

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

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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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”

Challenge to MCA and MCA Youth to declare clearly whether they support or oppose Essential (Security Cases) Regulations 1975

Speech by Parliament Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at a DAP Solidarity Dinner organised by the Selangor/Federal Territory DAP State Sub-Committee at Thin Kiew Leng Khai Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday, 3.10.1977 at 8 p.m.

Challenge to MCA and MCA Youth to declare clearly whether they support or oppose Essential (Security Cases) Regulations 1975 which makes it mandatory to sentence juvenile offenders to death

I note with interest the statement by the MCA Youth Headquarters in Kluang, Johore, yesterday, that they are deeply concerned about the death sentence passed on the 14-year-old condemned boy from Penang. for unlawful possession of a pistol and ammunition, and their offer of help. They seem to have awaken up to this problem very late in the day. Continue reading Challenge to MCA and MCA Youth to declare clearly whether they support or oppose Essential (Security Cases) Regulations 1975