Category: Pornographic Videotape Scandal

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Semangat 46 ceramah at Kedah Road Flats, Tanjung, Penang on Friday, 19th January 1990 at 9 p.m.

Challenge to Anwar Ibrahim and all Cabinet Ministers to make a solemn declaration that they have not viewed and have not been informed of the contents of the Vijandran videotapes and photographs.

The Government has declared 1990 as the Visit Malaysia Year, and is going all out to make Malaysia well-known internationally in order to attract tourists. As far as international publicity is concerned, there is no doubt that Malaysia has been having a very high international publicity profile since the beginning of the new year. Continue reading Challenge to Anwar Ibrahim and all Cabinet Ministers to make a solemn declaration that they have not viewed and have not been informed of the contents of the Vijandran videotapes and photographs

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 16.1.1990:

Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman is not entitled to the establishment of a Tribunal before he could be removed, as he could be sacked simply by a decision of the Cabinet

I have this morning sent a second letter to the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, also sent by hand to the Prime Minister’s Office, informing the Prime Minister that Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman is not entitled to the establishment of a Tribunal before he could be removed. Continue reading Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman is not entitled to the establishment of a Tribunal before he could be removed, as he could be sacked simply by a decision of the Cabinet

Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung and Assemblyman for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, during his constituency tour of Tanjung on Tuesday, 16.1.1990

DAP to send a petition to the Yang di Pertuan Agong to remove Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman as Attorney-General if Cabinet shirks its responsibility to sack the Attorney-General

If the Cabinet shriks its responsibility tomorrow and does not take any action to remove Tan Sri Abu Talib as Attorney-General, the DAP will send a petition to the Yang di Pertuan Agong to dispense with and terminate the services of Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman, as under Article 145, the Attorney-General serves at the pleasure of the Yang di Pertuan Agong. Continue reading DAP to send a petition to the Yang di Pertuan Agong to remove Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman as Attorney-General if Cabinet shirks its responsibility to sack the Attorney-General

Establishment of a Tribunal to remove Tan Sri Abu Talib as Attorney-General

I am writing to officially ask you to raise in the Cabinet on Wednesday, 17th January 1990, the question of involving Article 145 of the Constitution to establish a Tribunal to remove Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman as Attorney-General.

Never before in the history of Malaysia has an Attorney-General suffered such nation-wide loss of public confidence, credibility and even legitimacy as a result of his improper, unjustifiable and unlawful decision in January 1989 to destroy the eleven videotapes and four envelops of 2,000 photographs recovered by the Police in connection with the robbery in the house of the Deputy Speaker, D.P.Vijandran on August 3,1988. Continue reading Establishment of a Tribunal to remove Tan Sri Abu Talib as Attorney-General

By Parliamentary Oppistion Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 12.1.1990.

DAP calls on the Prime Minister to suspend Tan Sri Abu Talib as Attorney-General and to establishment a Tribunal to impeach him for misconduct for directing or advising the destruction of the Vijandran pornographic videotapes

For the last two days, Malaysians of all races and classes, men and women, had been seized by a sense of moral outrage at the destruction of the Vijandran pornographic videotapes at the behest of the Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abu Talib. Continue reading DAP calls on the Prime Minister to suspend Tan Sri Abu Talib as Attorney-General and to establishment a Tribunal to impeach him for misconduct for directing or advising the destruction of the Vijandran pornographic videotapes

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, January 11, 1990:

The Vijandran pornographic videotape scandal is blowing up to become the Barisan Nasional pornographic videotape burning scandal- DAP calls for sacking of Vijandran and resignation of Tan Sri Abu Talib as Attorney-General

With the statement by the Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman yesterday, the Vijandran pornographic videotape scandal has blown up to become an even bigger Barisan Nasional pornographic videotape burning scandal! Continue reading The Vijandran pornographic videotape scandal is blowing up to become the Barisan Nasional pornographic videotape burning scandal- DAP calls for sacking of Vijandran and resignation of Tan Sri Abu Talib as Attorney-General