Category: Sabah

DAP calls on Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir to pay official visit to Sabah to stabilise the political situation and calm political tension

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Wednesday, June 5, 1985:

DAP calls on Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir to pay official visit to Sabah to stabilise the political situation and calm political tension
in Sabah.

With the third bomb explosion in Kota Kinabalu yesterday, killing one person and injuring three others, it is now clear that the bomb explosions were deliberately planted as part of an overall plot to create tension, fear, and instability to de-stahilise the PBS government of Datuk Joseph Pairin in Sabah. Continue reading DAP calls on Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir to pay official visit to Sabah to stabilise the political situation and calm political tension

DAP Calls On Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to give a full account of the Federal Government’s involvement in the Sabah

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Klang DAP Branch Anniversary dinner held in Klang on Wednesday, 5th June 1985 at 8 pm

DAP Calls On Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to give a full account of the Federal Government’s involvement in the Sabah
submarine and APC plan.

Ever since the revelation by the Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan in the Sabah State Assembly on May 20 of the hitherto top-secret plan of Sabah Shipyard Bhd to build submarines Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), the Ministry Of Defence had given
confused and contradictory responses which shows that the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing in the Ministry. Continue reading DAP Calls On Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to give a full account of the Federal Government’s involvement in the Sabah

Sabah general election results a great day for parliamentary democracy in Malaysia

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang,
at DAP PJ Hqrs on Monday, April 22, 1985 at 12 noon.

Sabah general election results a great day for parliamentary democracy in Malaysia.

The Sabah general elections is a great day for parliamentary democracy for Malaysia. The virtually total rejection of Berjaya, and in particular the personal defeats of the former Berjaya Chief Minister Datuk Harris Salleh and seven State Ministers and Six Assistant State Ministers, is a clear-cut and ambiguous proclamation by the people of Sabah of their repudiation of Berjaya politics of fear, money and corruption. Continue reading Sabah general election results a great day for parliamentary democracy in Malaysia

DAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the functioning of parliamentary democracy for the last 25 years and make recommendations for its improvement in the next 25 years

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Dap Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, March 26, 1985 on the Motion of Thanks for the Royal Address

DAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the functioning of parliamentary democracy for the last 25 years and make recommendations for its improvement in the next 25 years

I rise to support the Motion of Thanks to the Yang di Pertuan Agong for his Gracious Address to both Houses of Parliament yesterday. Continue reading DAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the functioning of parliamentary democracy for the last 25 years and make recommendations for its improvement in the next 25 years

DAP calls on Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to remove Harris Salleh As Sabah Chief Minister for the repeated dishonour he had brought to Malaysia in international circles by his excesses and abuses of power.

A Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General ` and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a ceramah organised by the SEAPARK DAP Branch in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 3.1.l985 at 8pm.

DAP calls on Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to remove Harris Salleh As Sabah Chief Minister for the repeated dishonour he had brought to Malaysia in international circles by his excesses and abuses of power.

Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Harris Salleh, had again tarnished Malaysia’s international image by his abuses and excesses of power, when he abolished Tambunan’s status as a district, and the closure of all government departments in the area, when the Berjaya candidate was decisively defeated in the Tambunan by-election last Saturday. Continue reading DAP calls on Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to remove Harris Salleh As Sabah Chief Minister for the repeated dishonour he had brought to Malaysia in international circles by his excesses and abuses of power.

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Monday, 31.12.1984:

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Monday, 31.12.1984:

The DAP congratulates Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan for his Tambunan by-election victory in Sabah on Saturday, when he polled 3,685 votes defeating the Berjaya candidate, Roger Ongkili, who polled a miserable 637 votes.

Datuk Harris Salleh, the Berjaya Sabah Chief Minister, should take heed of the warning of the people of Sabah in the by-election that his policies are unacceptable to the people of Sabah, and that high-handed actions and pressure could only intimidate and silence the people for a time, but not forever. Continue reading by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Monday, 31.12.1984:

Challenge to Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abu Talib, to refer the Harris Salleh case to court for ruling as to whether the latter had violated Article 6(5) of Sabah Constitution

Press Conference Statement By Parliamentary Opposition Leader DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in DAP Headquarters in Petaling Jaya on Friday, 30.11.1984 at 12 noon

Challenge to Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abu Talib, to refer the Harris Salleh case to court for ruling as to whether the latter had violated Article 6(5) of Sabah Constitution

I am surprised and even shocked by the ruling of the Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman, that Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Harris Salleh, had not breached the Sabah State Constitution by remaining as a director of three companies. Continue reading Challenge to Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abu Talib, to refer the Harris Salleh case to court for ruling as to whether the latter had violated Article 6(5) of Sabah Constitution

Daim’s Maiden Budget

Speech by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang in Dewan Rakyat on the 1985 budget on October 24, 1984

I congratulate the new Finance Minister, Daim Zainuddin, for delivering his maiden Budget last Friday – and if I am not mistaken, it was also his maiden speech in Parliament.

Daim Zainuddin’s budget has another distinction in that it provoked a public protest and demonstration in Johore Bahru on Sunday for its being a “rich man budget”, at a period of deteriorating economy and worsening poverty arising from escalating prices of essential foodstuff and scarcity of low-cost housing. Continue reading Daim’s Maiden Budget

The 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone

Speech by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang in Dewan Rakyat on the debate on the Exclusive Economic Zone Bill 1984 on October 9, 1984

On 25th April 1980, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, proclaimed a 200-nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone from the baselines of Malaysia’s territorial waters, with

(a) Sovereign rights, for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the sea-bed and subsoil and the suprajacent waters, and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water currents and winds;
(b) Jurisdiction with regard to:
(i) The establishment and use of artificial islands, installations and structures;
(ii) Marine scientific research;
(iii) The preservation of the marine environment. Continue reading The 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone

Lim Kit Siang to make new challenge against Datuk Harris Salleh on Sept. 24 at Chinese Assembly Hall for violating Sabah State Constitution

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at DAP PJ Hqrs on Saturday, 22.9.1984 at 12 noon

Lim Kit Siang to make new challenge against Datuk Harris Salleh on Sept. 24 at Chinese Assembly Hall for violating Sabah State Constitution

The press has published a clarification by the Sabah State Assembly Secretary that Datuk Harris Salleh had never said anything in the Assembly on the allegation made by the Assembly for Bongawan, Abdul Hamid Awang, of a plot between USNO and the DAP, and presumably, including the allegation that I have received 1 million from Tun Mustapha and Sdr. Fung Ket Wing received $100000. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang to make new challenge against Datuk Harris Salleh on Sept. 24 at Chinese Assembly Hall for violating Sabah State Constitution