Category: Religious Polarisation

The Dangerous Eighties for Malaysia with the rise of forces of extremism and chauvinism which reject Malaysia as a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Peraling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Royal Address on Tuesday, March 9, 1982

The Dangerous Eighties for Malaysia with the rise of forces of extremism and chauvinism which reject Malaysia as a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation.
As Malaysia completes our first quarter century as an independent and sovereign nation, the people of Malaysia are still seeking a national consensus on which a united Malaysian nation could be founded. Continue reading The Dangerous Eighties for Malaysia with the rise of forces of extremism and chauvinism which reject Malaysia as a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation

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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