Protest cable to Datuk Musa hitam to check the ‘May 13’ threats and irresponsible statements of Malacca Chief Minister to prevent further worsening of racial polarisation

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in DAP PJ Headquarters on Saturday, 18.8.1984 at 11.30 a.m.

Protest cable to Datuk Musa hitam to check the ‘May 13’ threats and irresponsible statements of Malacca Chief Minister to prevent further worsening of racial polarisation

I have never been more shocked than this morning to read in the newspapers that the Malacca Chief Minister, Abdul Rahim Thamby Cik, in his determination to level and develop Bukit China, has raised the ‘May 13’ scare. Continue reading Protest cable to Datuk Musa hitam to check the ‘May 13’ threats and irresponsible statements of Malacca Chief Minister to prevent further worsening of racial polarisation

Call on Dr. Tan Tiong Hong to condemn and dissociate himself from the Wanita MCA house-to-house campaign to scare the voters of a May 13 incident if the DAP wins Raub by-election

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Raub by-election ceramah at Sungei Lui New Village on Sunday, 29th May 1983 at 8 pm.

Call on Dr. Tan Tiong Hong to condemn and dissociate himself from the Wanita MCA house-to-house campaign to scare the voters of a May 13 incident if the DAP wins Raub by-election.

It is now a traditional MCA election or by-election practice to bring out all the weapons of smear, scare or threat tactics during the last week of the election campaign. Continue reading Call on Dr. Tan Tiong Hong to condemn and dissociate himself from the Wanita MCA house-to-house campaign to scare the voters of a May 13 incident if the DAP wins Raub by-election

The Role of the Opposition After May 13

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at a forum at the Sixth Student Leadership Training Programme organized by the University of Malaya Students’ Union on Thursday, 27th April 1972 at 7.30p.m.

The Role of the Opposition After May 13

The subject tonight, ‘The Role of the opposition after May 13’, has assumed great topicality with yet another opposition party surrendering to the deathly embrace of the Alliance Party. Continue reading The Role of the Opposition After May 13

The last chance for democracy in Malaysia

Speech by DAP Secretary General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at a dinner given by Penang DAP at Sun Hoe Penang Restaurant on Sunday, Nov. 22 1970 at 8pm.

The last chance for democracy in Malaysia

I am overwhelmed by the great reception given by Penang DAP members and the public on the occasion of my unconditional release from detention.

One reason why I was able to withstand the test I underwent during my 16-month long detention was my knowledge and confidence that although I has lost personal freedom, outside the Muar Detention Camp, I had the support of millions of Malaysians to share with me and the DAP the same aspirations for a democratic socialist Malaysian Malaysia, and for which I was being detained. Continue reading The last chance for democracy in Malaysia

A letter to the Chairman of DAP, Dr. Chen Man Hin- The suit on the NOC’s decision regarding consultative committee

Below is the complete text of a letter dated 27.12.69 form Comrade Lim Kit Siang , our detained Secretary-General, to our Party Chairman Dr. Chen Man Hin.
Muar Detention Camp
27.12.69
Dear Chen,

The NOC decision are re: consultative committee is negative. I must confess that I had entertained some hopes that the leaders in power are genuinely trying to lead Malaysia out of the morass of racialism, bigotry and reaction, onto the highlands of multi-racial nationhood, social justice, prosperity, in working hand-in-hand with Opposition parties and leaders.

But the decision has proved me wrong, alas. Continue reading A letter to the Chairman of DAP, Dr. Chen Man Hin- The suit on the NOC’s decision regarding consultative committee

A letter to the Chairman of DAP, Dr. Chen Man Hin- The May 13 Disturbances

Below is the complete text of a letter dated 31.12.69 form Comrade Lim Kit Siang , our detained Secretary-General, to our Party Chairman Dr. Chen Man Hin.

Dear Chen,

Today marks the end of the Sixties.

The decade which opened up with the end of the first Emergency has ended with the beginning of the Second Emergency. The decade which was ushered in by the first Parliamentary elections is now followed out by the suspension of parliamentary democracy and the solemn pronouncement that ‘democracy is dead.’ The decade which started with the boast that Malaysia was model of racial peace, goodwill and harmony closed with the shattering of the myth which mistook the absence of racial conflict for Malaysian identity and solidarity. Continue reading A letter to the Chairman of DAP, Dr. Chen Man Hin- The May 13 Disturbances

Letter (2) to the Prime Minister from Muar Detention Camp

Lim Kit Siang, M.P
c/o Detention Camp,
Muar, Malaysia.
14th August 1969

Y.T.M Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-haj
Prime Minister,
Malaysia

Dear Prime Minister,

The absence of a national dialogue in the conduct of national affairs and the formulation and implementation of national policies must be a cause of gave concern for all thinking Malaysians.

No battle for the hearts and minds of the people can be won through a diktat. Only a dialogue, a democratic and responsible debate and discussion, can ensure this.

The establishment of the Department of National Unity is a welcome indication of the government’s belated awareness of the need to take a positive approach to identify and solve the complexity of racial problems confronting Malaysia since Merdeka. Continue reading Letter (2) to the Prime Minister from Muar Detention Camp

Letter to the Prime Minister from Muar Detention Camp

Lim Kit Siang, M.P
c/o Detention Camp,
Muar, Malaysia.
5th August 1969

Y.T.M Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-haj
Prime Minister,
Malaysia

Dear Prime Minister,

I feel it my duty as a Malaysian citizen and Member of Parliament to write to you about my anxieties for the future of Malaysia.

The tragedy of May 13 disturbances has raised a big question mark as to whether Malaysia could hold together as a nation and her citizens as one people.

Close in the wake of the May 13 disturbances, the Malayan Communist Party has reactivated its armed struggle at the Malaysian-Thai border. Continue reading Letter to the Prime Minister from Muar Detention Camp

Replies by Lim Kit Siang

A REPLY BY MR. LIM KIT SIANG,M.P.FOR MALACCA BANDAR, AND NATIONAL ORGANISING SECRETARY, D.A.P. MALAYSIA ON “GROUNDS ON WHICH THE ORDER OF DETENTION IS MADE”

In the statement entitled “GROUNDS ON WHICH THE ORDER OF DETENTION IS MADE” there are six (6) allegations of facts against me which I shall deal seriastem.

ALLEGATION OF FACT 1
On the 27th July 1968, at a DAP public rally at Tanjong Malim, Perak, you deliberately distorted the Government policy on Education by telling your audience that the policy was designed to achieve and eventual extermination of Chinese newspapers, Chinese schools and Chinese languages. Such distortion was made by you with the deliberate intention of creating and furthering suspicion and animosity between the Chinese and the Malay in this country.
Reply:

(a) I deny that there is any distortion. It is a statement of fact. The Alliance government’s policy is designed to achieve eventual extermination of all language schools, whether Chinese, English or Tamil. The Alliance wants only one type of school, know as National schools, where the sole medium of instruction and examination is in the National Language, and where schools employing Chinese, Tamil or English as media of instruction and examination are discontinued, whether at primary or secondary level. This policy was first enunciated by the 1956 Abdul Razak Report, confirmed in the 1960 Abdul Rahman Talib Review Report, both of which formed the basis of the Alliance education policy. Alliance leaders have often declared publicly their education policy that they are working eventually towards a situation where only National Schools will be the only type of schools and where all other type of schools have been eliminated. Continue reading Replies by Lim Kit Siang

Detention under ISA – Grounds on which order of detention made

STATEMENT UNDER SCTION 11(2)(b) ISA, 1960.

NAME OF DETAINEE: LIM KIT SIANG.

GROUNDS ON WHICH THE ORDER OF DETENTION IS MADE:

Since July, 1968, you, Lim Kit Siang, have been acting in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order in Malaysia in that in the several speeches you have made since the date you have deliberately and intentionally roused intense communal feelings thereby promoting feelings of hostility between different races in Malaysia and causing suspicion and disunity to grow between them.

ALLEGATIONS OF FACTS:

1) On the 27th July 1968, at a DAP public rally at Tanjong Malim, Perak, you deliberately distorted the Government policy on Education by telling your audience that the policy was designed to achieve and eventual extermination of Chinese newspapers, Chinese schools and Chinese languages. Such distortion was made by you with the deliberate intention of creating and furthering suspicion and animosity between the Chinese and the Malay in this country.

2) On the 24th August 1968, at a public rally at Slim River, Perak, you deliberately distorted the Government’s policy on language by telling your audience that a tourist poster with the Malay wordings “speak the National language only” clearly illustrated the one language policy of the government and that the dubbing of English, Chinese and Tamil T.V. films with Malay was unfair to the other races as their languages were not being given equal status such distortion was made by you with the deliberate intention of creating and furthering suspicion and animosity between the Chinese and the Malays in this country.

3) On the 7th September 1968, at the DAP public rally at 24 milestone, Sg. Besi road, Kuala Lumpur, and on 21st. September 1968, at Sungei Way new Village Selangor, on both these occasions you deliberately roused intense communal feelings by telling your audience that the MCA had instead of striving for the rights of the Chinese Language and Education in fact assisted the government in suppressing the Chinese Language as evidenced by the Non-recognition of Nanyang University project. The speeches are evidence of a deliberate misinterpretation of actual facts and had resulted in generating suspicion and animosity between the Malays and the Chinese in Malaysia and thereby creating a feeling of tension and racial hatred.

4) On the 29th September 1968, at the DAP public rally at Batu Pahat, Johore, on 2nd November 1968, at Lawan Kuda Bahru, Gopeng, Perak, and on 26th January 1969, at Jalan Yow, Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, on these three occasions you deliberately roused intense communal feelings by telling your audience that the alliance’s policy was a “racialist policy” as the Alliance had given more privileges to Bumiputras in University education and that there were first and second class citizens – the Bumiputras being first class citizens, and that the awards of honour such as P.P.M, are not worth anything because they were given to men in the streets and that P.P.M. stands for “ PELAN PELAN MATI”. By these utterances you had deliberately distorted the actual Government policies and by doing so you had generated racial tension, hatred and disharmony in the country.

5) On 12th, Feb 1969, at a DAP public rally held at Jalan Lengkongan Brunei, Kuala Lumpur, you deliberately roused intense communal feelings by telling your audience that the Government was showing discrimination between the various races in examination entry to University of Malaya, employment and in the distribution of land and that special privileges were being given to the Malays. By these utterances you deliberately distorted the Government policies and thereby causing suspicion and animosity between the various races.

6) On 13th May 1969, at a public rally held at Kampong Ayer, Kota Kinabalu, you deliberately roused intense communal feelings by telling your audience that the Government was trying to have a Malay Malaysia by dividing the people into bumiputras and non-bumiputras, that “the Malays were first class Bumiputras” and that the Government was carrying out a policy of “Malaysiation” of Sabah whereby all top post were held by the Malays. You also stirred anti-Malay and anti-Islamic religious feelings by telling your audience that the Government was pursuing the policy of exploitation by Malays of other races and that the Government by holding an International Islamic Conference in Kuala Lumpur had intended to send Malaysian citizens to die in the Middle East in order to capture Jerusalem for the Muslim World. By this speech you had made dangerous statements of a communal nature there by fostering communal resentment fear and apprehension amongst sections of the public in Sabah.

By direction,
Sign:
b/p SETIA USAHA,
KEMENTERAIN HAL EHWAL DALAM NEGERI,
MALAYSIA.

DATE: 11 JULY 1969