Lim Kit Siang

Ketuanan Melayu – concept used by UMNO leaders to enslave all Malaysians

Kit — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:18:31 +0000

The 2009 Budget debate on the Ministry of Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage last night opened up with the most unprecedented and ferocious attack by the UMNO MP for Sri Gading Datuk Mohamad Aziz on the MCA for being “biadap” and “kurang ajar”, telling PPP to “get out” of Barisan Nasional and even proposing [...]

Fight crime not fight perception

Kit — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:47:12 +0000

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was being most frivolous and irresponsible when he adopted lock, stock and barrel the line that the biggest police challenge is not to fight crime but the perception that crime is serious in Malaysia! He trotted out the argument that statistics indicate that crime rate in Malaysia is [...]

Mukhriz has committed the offence of sedition in proposing closure of Chinese/Tamil primary schools

Kit — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:00:11 +0000

UMNO MP for Jerlun and candidate for Umno Youth chief, Mukhriz Mahathir has committed the offence of sedition in questioning one of the four “sensitive” issues entrenched in the Constitution which has no parliamentary immunity and on conviction, he can be stripped of his parliamentary membership, disqualified from taking part in parliamentary and state assembly [...]

ISA release of Hindraf 5 - test whether Najib will be PM for all Malaysians

Kit — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:57:15 +0000

I was interviewed by Australian Broadcasting Corporation this morning on the recent BBC interview of Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak who said that he will do more to address the grievances of minority groups when he becomes Prime Minister in March. Najib acknowledged that Malaysian voters would want to see changes when he took [...]

Muhyiddin’s ultimatum to Zaid - rise of exclusive, intolerant and petty-mindedness in Umno leadership

Kit — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:10:11 +0000

I am surprised by the outburst of the Umno vice president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in Kota Kinabalu yesterday, excoriating former Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, for attending an opposition function, accusing Zaid of “disloyalty to Umno” and demanding an explanation from Zaid or to face disciplinary reprisals! I am very [...]

Still no PAC report on Eurocopter inquiry - will Azmi emulate Indian Home Minister and resign?

Kit — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:06:50 +0000

On November 11, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid had promised that the PAC report on its inquiry into the RM1.6 billion Eurocopter deal would be tabled in Parliament “in two or three days”. How can Azmi’s interpretation of “two or three days” be so elastic as to stretch to three weeks, and [...]

Natives Land Grabbed Systematically By Land Pirates Of Sarawak

Kit — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:44:16 +0000

Letters By Pribumi Sarawak YB Lim Kit Siang, In Sarawak NCR lands are ignored and not respected, in the name of politics of development, which will make the rich richer and the poor natives poorer. The big developments are owned by shareholders who are already rich and Taib Mahmud’s cronies with the revenues / profits [...]

The biggest obstacle to Malay progress…

Kit — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:13:32 +0000

Letters by Allan C I am a Chinese Malaysian male with diverse groups of friends - Tamils, Malayalees, Sikhs, Jaffna Tamils, whites, Eurasians, and Babas and Nyonyas. The problem is I have very few Malay friends. Umno tells them I am a threat to them.. Umno tells them I am undeserving of equal rights. They might even [...]

RMK9 – Does It Benefit The Orang Asli?

Kit — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:48:17 +0000

This is my exchange in Parliament with the Minister for Rural and Regional Development, Tan Sri Muhamad Muhamad Taib on the plight of the Orang Asli in Malaysia 51 years after Merdeka during the 2009 Budget debate in early November. The only way to end the decades-long neglect of the Orang Asli community in Malaysia [...]