School is the best part of one’s life where students can  be idealistic and must   dare to dream big dreams to  make Malaysia and the world a better place for everyone

The seventh Majlis Selamat Tahun Baru Cina of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Mutiara Rini is most meaningful because school is not only  the best part of one’s life, but even more important,  students can be idealistic and must  dare to dream big dreams to make Malaysia and the world a better place for everyone.

Malaysia is a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation and we are the confluence of four great civilisations of the world – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western.

Instead of the great  diversities  and the multi-colours in our midst being national  liabilities, we have in our hands the challenge to leverage on the best qualities and values of these four great civilisations to achieve a great Malaysian nation which leaves lasting footprints in the history of human civilisation by being a world top class in certain aspects of  human excellence and achievement.

This why Malaysians regardless of race and religion celebrate each other’s festivities, whether Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali or Christmas.

In fact, these festivities are given official recognition as they are declared National Holidays in Malaysia.

In school, we are taught to abide and uphold  the Malaysian Constitution and Rukunegara to be Malaysians, although we are also Malays, Chinese, Ibans or Kadazans  and adherents of different faiths.

After more than six decades of nationhood, we should  have more Malaysians than the early years of nationhood.  Do we?

But there can be no doubt that if Malaysia is to succeed as a world top-class nation, Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region, must unite to pool their resources, talents and abilities to ensure that Malaysia can reach the next level of development instead of fighting with each other for  Malaysia to end up as  a failed state.

When I was in school in the fifties in the last century, the world was shaking off the yoke of Western colonialism and Afro-Asian nations were embarking on the road of independence and statehood.

Today, we are in a different world.  In 2050, the  largest economies will be China, India, United States and Indonesia in that order.

What we make of the world in next few decades will depend on the school-children of today, and this is why we must invest in the proper education of the next generation of Malaysians.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang officiating the 7th Majlis Selamat Tahun Bahru Cina of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Mutiara Rini  in Gelang Patah on Wednesday, 22nd Januarty 2020)

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Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2019 the best Chinese New Year present to Malaysia and should spark the start of virtuous circle of delivery of Pakatan Harapan general election promises and achievements in 2020

The Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2019 released midday today is the best Chinese New Year present to Malaysia and should spark the start of a virtuous circle of delivery of Pakatan Harapan general election promises and achievements in 2020.

It is the best antidote to the atmosphere of doom and gloom which has descended on Malaysia.

In 2017, Malaysia’s TI CPI ranked No. 62 (lowest for Malaysia in 25 year since 1995) with a score of 47 out of 100; while in the TI CPI 2018 released in January 2019, Malaysia was ranked No. 61 out of 180 countries with a score of 47.

In the TI CPI 2019 released today, Malaysia is ranked No. 51 with a score of 53, registering a single-year improvement six points for the TI CPI score and 10 placings in TI CPI ranking, which is the best performance for Malaysia in the past quarter of a century.

Year

Score

Rank

Countries

1995

5.28

23

41

1996

5.32

26

54

1997

5.01

32

52

1998

5.3

29

85

1999

5.1

32

99

2000

4.8

36

90

2001

5

36

91

2002

4.9

33

102

2003

5.2

39

133

2004

5

39

145

2005

5.1

39

158

2006

5

44

163

2007

5.1

43

179

2008

5.1

47

180

2009

4.5

56

180

2010

4.4

56

178

2011

4.3

60

183

2012

49

54

176

2013

50

53

177

2014

52

50

175

2015

50

54

168

2016

49

55

176

2017

47

62

180

2018

47

61

180

2019

53

51

180

Malaysia’s score had fallen below 50 points or the rough equivalent of 5 points out of 10  before 2012  in nine out of the past 25 years, and seven of these nine years were after 2009.

I had expected an improvement in the TI CPI score and ranking for 2019, but the final results were beyond my greatest expectations.

In fact, Malaysia’s TI CPI score was the second highest since 1995.

But we should not be complacent. We are still behind 50 other countries.

The anti-corruption efforts, though remarkable since the change of federal government on May 9, 2018, should be regarded as a start, and Malaysia should not be satisfied until we are among the top 30 countries in public integrity.

This would mean that we must attain a score in the 60-point bracket, which is a great challenge as Malaysia’s  best TI CPI score goes back to 1996 when we had a score of 5.32 out of 10.

Malaysia should not only aim for the best TI CPI score in the TI CPI 2020, all sectors of the Malaysian society should work to ensure that Malaysia can be placed among the top bracket of the world’s 30 top countries in public integrity well before 2030.

2020 Chinese New Year Message by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang on Thursday, 23rd January 2020

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TI CPI 2019 Report best in 25 years and should be basis for new era of anti-corruption in Malaysia  by achieving the best TI CPI score next year to embark Malaysia on the road to become one  the world’s top 30 countries in public integrity before 2030

I regard  the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2019 Report the best in 25 years since Transparency International started  its annual Corruption Perception Index report in 1995, and should be the basis for a new era of anti-corruption in Malaysia by achieving the best TI CPI score next year, which will embark Malaysia on the road to become one of the world’s top 30 countries in public integrity before 2030.

The National Integrity Plan (NIP) 2004-2008  launched in 2004 had one of  its objectives the placing of Malaysia among the world top 30 countries in public integrity.

At that time, Malaysia was ranked No 37th with a score of 5.2 out of 10 in the TI CPI 2003.

The National Integrity Plan was a total failure as Malaysia never improved on its TI CPI ranking and score, and instead  went on a downward decline, ranked No. 47 out of 180 countries  with a score of 5.1 out of 100  in TI CPI 2008 at the end of NIP, before heading for another period of decline, falling to TI CPI ranking of 62 out of 180  countries with a score of 47 of 100 points in the TI CPI 2017.

Malaysia’s TI CPI 2019 score of 53 out of 100 is just short of Malaysia’s top score of 5.32 out of 10 in the TI CPI 1996 which placed Malaysia on the ranking of 26 out of 54 countries.

Malaysia should aim not onto to exceed the results  in the TI CIP 1996, but should also aim to achieve the NIP objective of  being ranked among the world top 30 countries in public integrity before 2030.

To do this, Malaysia would have improved considerably in anti-corruption drive and enter the sixties bracket of the TI CPI score, which would undoubtedly be an achievement for Malaysia.

The TI CPI 2019 is good news for Malaysia but we must also  be aware of sombre developments for the planet and humanity.

I am referring to the announcement that the Doomsday Clock is now 100 seconds to midnight, “the most dangerous situation that humanity has ever faced”.

The decision was made by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which announced it from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C

Since 1947, an organization known as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists developed a theoretical model to describe just how close humanity is to the brink.

The end result was a clock, dubbed The Doomsday Clock, whose countdown to midnight signified the approaching end of humanity.

Over the years, scientists have adjusted the clock according to their assessment of the risk of destruction. In 1953, the clock was moved to 11:58 as Americans and Soviets developed the hydrogen bomb, a weapon with destructive capabilities orders of magnitude greater than the Hiroshima bomb. Given the effects of nuclear winter alone, such a war would have almost certainly wiped out all of humanity, the catastrophic event known as omnicide.

After that, the world somewhat relaxed.

In 2007, a new variable for measuring omnicidal dangers was added: climate change – the effects of a steadily warming planet pose an enormous threat to organized human existence.

Global warming increases the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes such as wildfires, floods, freak storms and droughts. Increased carbon in the atmosphere is causing decreased nutritional levels in crops. Coastal areas around the world will sink under water, and entire countries will be uninhabitable due to excessive heat. The effects of this would be enough to tear apart the world order.

Since then, the clock has been inching closer to destruction. In 2018, the Doomsday Clock moved to 2 minutes to midnight, as close as it has ever been in the clock’s history.

In 2019, the Bulletin announced that it was still 2 minutes to midnight as information warfare techniques posed another threat to civilization. In a world of fake news and alternative facts, the information ecosystem is threatened with utter chaos.

For the 2020 Doomsday Clock, Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, said “the fact that the clock is now a mere 100 seconds from midnight signals really bad news. What we said last year is now a disturbing reality in that things are not getting better.”

Rosner added that a particular concern is the undermining of the public’s ability to understand what’s true from what’s false. “Past experience has taught us that even in the most dismal periods of the Cold War, we can come together. It is high time we do so again.”

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 24th January 2020)

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2020 is the year to leave the negative vibes of last year behind

Last year, Malaysia was virtually drowned in a sea of negative vibes.

In the first seven months of the  new  government in 2018, there was nothing that the Pakatan Harapan government could do wrong. But in the past year, there was nothing that the PH could do right.

This is one reason why the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2019 Report which was released on the eve of the Chinese New Year was met  with such grudging response, although it was the best TI CPI report in 25 years.

Without the phenomenal improvements in both TI CPI ranking and score last year , Malaysia would not be making the crucial and critical break from a global kleptocracy.

If there had been no change of government, Malaysia will  be sliding down the CPI score to the thirties bracket, to find new company among the more corrupt nations of the world in the lower rankings.

The TI CPI 2019 report does not mean that Malaysia has achieved the objective to become a world top class nation among the leading 30 states in public integrity, but it means that we are in the trajectory towards this direction if we build on the anti-corruption efforts of the past year.

We must not be complacent and  all sectors of society should work to ensure that we can repeat the  Great Leap in the TI CPI 2019 in TI CPI 2020 and future TI CPI  reports.

In the past 25 years, Malaysia’s  highest TI CPI score  of 5.32 out of 10 (or roughly 53.2 out of 100 under the new system presently  used by  TI) was achieved in 1996, in a survey involving  54 countries – which was why Malaysia could get the best TI CPI ranking of 23 (out of 41 countries) in TI CPI 1995.

In TI CPI 2016, Malaysia’s ranking fell seven places from 55 to 62 out of 180 countries and the nation plumbed the lowest TI CPI score of 4.3 out of 10 in the TI  CPI 2011.

In the TI CPI 2019, Malaysia is ranked with four other countries in No. 51 with a score of 53 out of 100 – Grenada, Italy, Rwanda and Saudi Arabia.

Can Malaysia improve our TI CPI ranking and score as compared  with these four other countries?

This will the immediate challenge for Malaysia, which  had better TI CPI  score and ranking than Saudi Arabia  in 12 of the 17 years from 2003 to 2019; better results than Rwanda  in 7 of the 15 years from 2005 to 2019; better results than Italy in two of the 12 years from 2008- 2019. In the three year from  2016 to 2018, Grenada had better TI CPI results than Malaysia.

2020 is the year is to leave the negative vibes of 2019 behind  – for Malaysians to believe again  that we are capable of building a New Malaysia which had been the driving power in the 14th General Election.

This is why 2020 is a make-or-break year for the Pakatan Harapan Goveernment  to convince Malaysians that Pakatan Harapan is serious is delivering the promises to reset nation building policies in the country, based on the Malaysian Constitution and Rukunegara, to:

· Reduce the people’s burden;

· Effect institutional and political reforms;

· Spur sustainable and equitable economic growth;

· Return Sabah and Sarawak to the status accorded in Malaysia Agreement 1963; and

· Create a Malaysia that is inclusive, moderate and respected globally.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 25th January 2020)

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Let us make 2020 a Year of Positive Vibes for Pakatan Harapan and a New Malaysia

Last Thursday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which takes stock of the threats posed by nuclear war and climate change each year, moved the Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds before midnight.

We are now measuring how close the world is to catastrophe in seconds — not hours, or even minutes. It is the closest to Doomsday we have ever been since the clock was created in 1947.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded by those who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and now includes 13 Nobel Laureates on the board, issued a statement on Thursday that read:

“Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society’s ability to respond. The international security situation is dire, not just because these threats exist, but because world leaders have allowed the international political infrastructure for managing them to erode.”

In 2018, the Doomsday Clock moved to 2 minutes to midnight, as close as it has ever been in the clock’s history because of two existential threats to humanity – nuclear risk and climate change.

In 2019, the Bulletin announced that it was still 2 minutes to midnight as information warfare techniques posed another threat to civilization. In a world of fake news and alternative facts, the information ecosystem is threatened with utter chaos.

If there is a Doomsday Clock for Malaysia, the events of the past year would have moved the clock like the Doomsday Clock 2020  closer to apocalypse, as lies, fake news and hate speech had wrought unprecedented  havoc with the important task of Malaysian nation-building after six decades of nationhood  in a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious Malaysia.

As illustrated by recent developments, events which had long been accepted as part of the  Malaysian mosaic   were given a racial and religious twist to appear as existential threats to different ethnic and religious identities, when they should continue as  the diversities  of Malaysia as part of the nation’s unique strength and assets instead of  liabilities to build an united, successful, progressive and prosperous plural Malaysia.

The deadly Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in no exception that in recent times,  every issue is being  distorted by lies, fake news and hate speech to ignite hatred and distrust among the different ethnic and religious communities, underlining  the truism of the warning  of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that  “cyber-enabled information warfare” poses a threat to mankind if not properly understood and managed.

As explained by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Coronavirus (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).

The Wuhan coronavirus is novel  strain of coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans.

Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people.  Detailed investigations found that SARS-CoV was transmitted from civet cats to humans and MERS-CoV from dromedary camels to humans. Several known coronaviruses are circulating in animals that have not yet infected humans.

The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) first emerged in Saudi Arabia in late 2012. Since its emergence, a total of 2279 patients from 27 countries have been infected across the globe according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report (Feb. 12th, 2019). Approximately 806 patients have died with a fatality rate of 37.1%.

The SARS outbreak in southern China between November 2002 and July 2003 caused an eventual 8,098 cases, resulting in 774 deaths reported in 17 countries, with the majority of cases in China mainland and Hong Kong, with fatality rate of 9.6%.  No cases of SARS have been reported worldwide since 2004.

With this background for Coronavirus, it is most irresponsible for any person to make use of the social media to disseminate lies, fake news and hate speech just to cause fear, panic, inter-racial and inter-religious animosity, distrust and hatred.

I believe that the merchants of intolerance and hatred using lies, fake news and hate speech are a tiny minority and the absolute majority of Malaysians want to build an united, successful,  tolerant, progressive and prosperous plural Malaysia.

The Year 2020 is the year for Malaysians to distance themselves from the merchants of intolerance and hate and ensure that the positive vibes overwhelm the negative vibes of the past year, to  renew  the hopes of the overwhelming majority of Malaysians for a New Malaysia.

I am reminded of the poem I wrote  in  my Form III class  magazine 63 years ago in 1957:

One for all and all for one,

We care not what colour, creed or religion you belong,

For aren’t each of us Malaya’s son –

    Then why let silly racial quarrels prolong?

Or the Editorial which I wrote in the same class magazine 63 years ago:

During the past few years, the spirit of the Malayan nationalism was aroused to such an extent that Malaya was granted independence and a new nation was born. This was only made possible through the united efforts of the various communities. We  the youths of today must now prepare ourselves to ‘serve to lead’. Let us not while away our time in meaningless pastimes and waste away precious moments. The role of youths in Independent Malaya is now more pressing and difficult for the inexperienced shoulders of the youths of this generation. We will be the first true independent shoulders to bear this responsibility. Let us then work with greater zeal and will, that our standard be not flying at half-mast.To accomplish this, we must bear in mind that co-operation between the different races is of paramount importance, working on a common basis that we are imbued with the spirit of tolerance, co-operation and loyalty. So let us ‘live and let live’ in friendly fraternity and harmony.

It has been my  lifelong vision to see an united, successful, progressive and prosperous plural nation.

Let us make 2020 a year of positive vibes for Malaysia, as it will be a make-or-break year for Pakatan Harapan and a New Malaysia.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, 27th January 2020)

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Malaysians do not want to be cow herders or pig herders but want to be on  the cutting edge of technology, leveraging on the best values  from the four great civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia, to build a world top class nation

The outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus has also seen the outbreak of another “virus” – the Internet virus of lies, fake news and hate  speech which is even more critical.

The previous deadly coronavirus outbreaks, whether Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV)  which originated from China or Middle East Respiratory Synbdrome (MERS-Cov)  which originated from Saudi Arabia, have shown that mankind is capable of prevailing over  them, and it is reassuring that the Universiti Malaya Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC) director Professor Dr. Sazaly Abu Bakar has said that unlike SARS and MERS. the Wuhan coronavirus has a low case fatality ratio (CFR) and appears to be less virulent at present, with the exception of the elderly and those with underlying health conditions.

But mankind has to find a solution to the Internet “virus”.

In fact, the “cyber-enabled information warfare” of lies, fake news and hate speech is one reason  why the  Doomsday Clock  in 2020 now stands at 100 seconds to midnight, the most dangerous situation that humanity has ever faced.

Why is  the Doomsday Clock so close to midnight so long after the end of the Cold War?

The answer is that we face a new kind of nuclear peril, a new existential threat in the climate crisis, and an information environment so corrupted that it is almost impossible for concerned governments and citizens to mobilize the consensus for necessary action.

Everyone must be troubled by the growing deluge of “fake news”  and the rise of “deepfake” footage – digitally manipulated video that is increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing – which blurred the lines between truth and fiction and disrupt information and trust.

Let Malaysians turn the present  crisis of information and  trust into an opportunity to resolve the crisis, where Malaysians develop the media literacy to be able to differentiate between what is true and  false, what is  information and what is fake news.

Let us  turn the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak into a blessing – to pull Malaysia back from the brink of deep polarisation along racial and religious lines because of lies, fake news and hate speech  for  Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region  to come together to save Malaysia and make her a great nation.

It has been said that Malaysians must choose whether they want to become cow herders or pig herders.

Malaysians do not want to be cow herders or pig herders but want to be on  the cutting edge of technology, leveraging on the best values  from the four great civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia, to build a world top class nation.

It is a great fallacy that the political choice before Malaysians is whether to be cow herders or pig herders.

Those who advocate this choice do not support the Pakatan Harapan commitment in Buku Harapan in the 2018 general election ‘to create a Malaysia that is inclusive, moderate and respected globally”.

They do not support the Malaysian Constitution or the Rukunegara principles of nation-building “to achiever a more perfect unity amongst the whole of her society; preserve a democratic way of life; create a just society where the prosperity of the country can be enjoyed together in a fair and equitable manner; guarantee a liberal approach towards her rich and varied cultural traditions; and build a progressive society that will make use of science and modern technology”.

They do not care whether Malaysia becomes a kleptocracy, an autocracy or a klepto-theocracy.

They are prepared to use democratic rights of press liberties and the freedom of choice to come to power to create a Malaysia which is the very antithesis of a Malaysia which is  “inclusive, moderate and respected globally”.

Instead of focusing on fallacious and misleading choices for Malaysians, as whether they want to be cow-herders or pig-herders, it would be more productive and responsible for political leaders to challenge Malaysians to transform Malaysia into a world top class nation.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Tuesday, January 28, 2020)

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Pakatan Harapan has a long hard road back  to restore public  trust in government and national institutions although this is also a  grave global problem

After nearly 21 months of the historic transition of power in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018,  where PH Government could do no wrong in the first months of power in 2018 but where it could  do no right last year, Pakatan Harapan has a long hard road back to restore public trust in government and national institutions although this is also a grave global problem.

A new report released last week found widespread global distrust in societal institutions – defined as government, business, NGOs and the media — despite a strong global economy, a phenomenon it deemed a “trust paradox”.

The report concluded that people’s fears about the future are driving this trend, and proposed institutions prioritize balancing competence with ethical behaviour to rebuild public trust.

The “Trust Barometer 2020” report was conducted by the communications firm Edelman, which has been running the survey for the past 20 years.

The Barometer, which aims to survey trust and credibility around the world, surveyed over 34,000 people in 28 countries.

Despite the strong global economy the report found that, globally, 83% of employees are worried about losing their jobs to reasons including automation, a looming recession, lack of training, cheaper foreign competition, immigration and the gig economy.

The Barometer found that none of the four institutions it asked about — government, business, NGOs and the media — are trusted.

Wealthier, more educated individuals trusted institutions more than the rest of the population, a gap it describes as the “mass-class” trust divide. The report found that this divide reached record levels in a record number of countries.

Sixty one percent of people responded that they felt the pace of change in technology is too fast, and 66% responded that they “worry technology will make it impossible to know if what people are seeing or hearing is real.”

In a similar vein, respondents worried about receiving accurate information.  Fifty seven percent agreed that the media they consume is “contaminated with untrustworthy information” and 76% of people said they worry about “fake news being used as a weapon” — a six-point increase from 2018.

There’s also a lack of faith that the government can address these problems. Sixty six percent of respondents said they do not have confidence that “our current leaders will be able to successfully address our country’s challenges”.

Just 46% people said they trust religious leaders, 42% said they trust government leaders and 36% said they trust the very wealthy. On a more positive note, 80% of respondents said they trust scientists, 69% said they trust “people in my local community” and 65% said they trust “citizens of my country.”

The Transparent International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2019 Report which placed  Malaysia  near the country’s  best TI CPI score of 53 out of 100 in 25 years, shows that Malays is on the  right track to  recover from almost a decade of “global kleptocracy”.

There are those who say they do not want to listen to the 1MDB scandal and the other corruption scandals of the past administration, but I believe the overwhelming majority of Malaysians are not so unreasonable for without the ravages of the past, Malaysia would be able to make a quicker turnaround and achieve greater progress in the past 21 months.

But Malaysia must not rest its laurels on  the TI CPI 2019 Report, but  must be able to use it as a basis to reach for higher achievements on the anti-corruption front until we are internationally recognised as among the top 30 top world class nations in public integrity.

This is a tall challenge but it is achievable, although it behoves on every Malaysian to make a contribution in this direction – to achieve a more competent and more ethical public service.

Malaysians should also be aware of what is happening in the world, especially the growing deluge of “fake news” and the rise of “deepfake” footage – digitally manipulated video that is increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing – blurring the lines between truth and fiction, disputing information and trust.

This phenomenon is one reason why the Doomsday Clock 2020 is 100 seconds to midnight and why the issue took central place in the  annual World Economic Forum in Davos this week.

Be that as it may, the long hard road back for the Pakatan Harapan government  to restore public trust and confidence must lie in its ability in 2020 to deliver the promises which resulted in the historic decision in the 2018 general election for a peaceful and democratic transition of power  for the first time in six decades.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 29th January 2020)

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DAP demonisers should make up their mind – Is DAP communist, want to revive communism, Christian committed  to set up a Christian state in Malaysia, Chinese chauvinist,  anti-Islam,  anti-Malay, anti-Indian, anti-Chinese, puppet-master of Mahathir, stooge of Mahathir – as it is impossible for DAP to play so many conflicting and contradictory roles

DAP demonisers should make up their mind – is DAP communist, want to revive communism, Christian committed  to set up a Christian State in Malaysia, Chinese chauvinist, anti-Malay, anti-Indian, anti-Chinese,  puppet-master of Mahathir, stooge of Mahathir – as it is impossible for DAP to play so many conflicting and contradictory roles.

In actual fact, the DAP is none of these, as it is a patriotic  Malaysian political party upholding the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukunegara principles and fully committed to improving the socio-economic welfare of all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region and  wants to see Malaysia succeed as a democratic, just, progressive and prosperous nation which can take its rightful place in the international community.

The latest demonization of DAP came from the former inspector-general of police (IGP) Tan Sri Musa Hassan who in a lecture at Universiti Teknologi Mara tried to poison the minds  of the new generation of Malaysians by alleging that DAP of an agenda to rewrite history by reviving the  communist ideology.

DAP is a political party with a 54-year history, and although DAP leaders had previously been detained under the Internal Security Act, neither the DAP nor any of the DAP leaders had ever been accused of being a communist or support of communist causes.

How then has  Musa come out with a new-fangled agenda of reviving communism in Malaysia for the DAP?

Recently, both Malaysia had been awash with lies, fake news and hate speech. I am accused of being a communist and even a cousin of Chin Peng, the former Malayan Communist Party leader.

Is Musa saying that although he was the eighth Inspector-General of Police from 2006 to 2010, he is unaware of that such an allegation is completely baseless and a downright lie?

It is clear that Musa has not  learnt from his blunder   in June 2018 when he publicly displayed his naivete in sharing and believing an article from a satirical website, The Onion,  which carried a fictional story of United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “clearing”  terrorist Osama Bin Laden of involvement in 9/11 attacks.

Instead of being a “poster boy” for lies, fake news and hate speech in Malaysia which is  trying to destroy Malaysia by polarising the country along racial and religious lines, it would be more useful for  Musa as the eighth IGP to enlighten Malaysians  about the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder trial as it took place during his tenure.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 1st February 2020)

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UiTM should dismiss Musa Hassan as lecturer at its Centre of Media and Information Warfare Studies (CMIWS) as the former IGP has become a “poster boy” not only for media illiteracy but also  for lies, fake news and hate speech

UiTM should dismiss former Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan as lecturer at its Centre of Media and Information Warfare Studies (CMIWS) if it aspires to be a centre of excellence for its information warfare centre, as the former IGP has become a “poster boy” not only for media illiteracy but also for lies, fake news and hate speech.

Last October, Musa made himself the joke in the cyber  world when he demonstrated his media illiteracy by showing that he did not know that The Onion website was a satirical news website when he defended  his comment against an old Onion article on terrorist Osama Bin Laden and the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), entitled “CIA Issues Posthumous Apology After New Evidence Clears Osama Bin Laden Of Involvement In 9/11 Attacks”.

Recently, Musa again made a fool of himself when he  tried to poison the minds of the new generation of Malaysians  alleging  that DAP has  an agenda to rewrite history by reviving the communist ideology.

In doing do, Musa denigrated the Special Branch of the Malaysian Police as an useless and incompetent outfit, when in fact the Special Branch is one of the best of its kind in the world.

Over past five decades, the Special Branch could not find any connection of DAP with the communist movement, but  Musa, who was the eighth IGP from 2006 – 2010, now alleges that  DAP wants to revive the communist ideology!

Is Musa suggesting that the Police should arrest and detain the DAP Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Members of Parliament for trying “to revive the communist Ideology”, when this is completely baseless, untrue and a total  figment of Musa’s imagination?

UiTM’s CIMWS should be one of the agencies that should be in  the forefront to promote media literacy in Malaysia with the upsurge of lies, fake news and hate speech to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation and conflict in Malaysia so that all Malaysians can differentiate  fact  from misinformation and disinformation,  and truth from lies.

Dr. Nuurrianti Jallin, a fellow of CIMWS, suggested  in an article in  local media today the establishment  of a fact-checking agency to mitigate the information disorder in our society, but how can CIMWS have  the authority and credibility to play a leading role in promoting media literacy in Malaysia  when it most star-studded lecturer is a “poster boy” not only for media illiteracy but also for  lies, fake news and hate speech?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 2nd February 2019)

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Fully support call on the Attorney-General to review the case of disabled person Mohamad Sani Isa who is  jailed today  for attempting suicide as Parliament is in the process of decriminalising suicide

I fully support the call on the Attorney-General Tan Sri Tommy Thomas to review the case of disabled person Mohamad Sani who is jailed today for attempting suicide as Parliament is in the process of decriminalising suicide.

This will be in keeping with the Pakatan Harapan’s promise of a New Malaysia – a more humane  and caring nation that looks after the welfare of the more unfortunate sections of society.

Today, there is the good news that Malaysia has achieved its best score and rank to date on the Democracy Index, placing 43rd from a total of 167 countries.

The Democracy Index 2019 report, released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), gave Malaysia a score of 7.16 from a maximum score of 10.

Malaysia had scored between 5.98 and 6.88 since the index began in 2006. It was ranked 52nd last year with a score of 6.88.

Malaysia’s  score of the Democracy Index 2019 improved and the country rose nine places in the global ranking from No. 52 last year to No. 43 out of 167 countries.

One important reason why  Malaysia had been falling down the slippery slope of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state is because the nation’s leaders had disregarded  the compass of nation-building which our forefathers had put together, in particular the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukunegara.

As a result, we have sunk to the lower levels of world indices for human accomplishments, achievements and excellence.

If Malaysians had not made the historic decision to peacefully and democratically bring about a transition of power in six decades, Malaysia would not have achieved the best score and rank on the Democracy Index 2019, nor achieved its best performance in a quarter of a century since 1995 in registering a single-year improvement six points for the  Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2019  score and 10 placings in TI CPI 2019  ranking.

We must neither be complacent nor satisfied  with these results , and must strive for better performance, whether in the Democracy Index, TI Corruption Perception Index or other world  indices in the coming  year.

But these turnarounds are necessary before  we can aim for higher and better accomplishments in various fields of human endeavour in Malaysia.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on  Monday, 3rd February 2020)

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Will the Opposition play its role as an honest, constructive and  loyal Opposition in accordance with the Constitution and Rukunegara instead of trying its utmost to polarise and divide Malaysians through the politics of race, religion, fake news and hate speech?

At last an Opposition leader has spoken the truth when the UMNO deputy president  Mohamad Hasan lamented about the level of politicking in the country, stressing that it is Malaysia that required a vote of confidence.

Referring to the PAS move for a vote of confidence for Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in the Dewan Rakyat next month, Mohamad Hassan said:

“Recently, there has been a lot of politicking in Malaysia, so much so that we forget the country is facing several critical challenges.

“Malaysia is the one that needs the confidence vote. If Malaysia fails to resolve the crisis of confidence which it is facing, Malaysia will continue to remain as a mediocre country.”

It is because of such irresponsible and unhealthy level of politicking by a   dishonest, destructive and disloyal Opposition to  the Constitution and Rukunegara,  that twenty months after the historic,  peaceful and democratic change of government in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 – one of the few victories of  democracy in the world  in the past decade –  that Malaysia has become a very polarised and divided nation where  the  politics of race, religion, fake news and hate speech sow and incite suspicion, doubt, distrust and hatred among the different communities, and   generate the baseless fear that each community is facing an existential threat with regard to its ethnicity, rights, religion and culture.

It is this irresponsible and  unhealthy level of the politicking that I have been demonised as a devil, a puaka, even jembalang and the greatest existential threat to the rights, position and future of the Malays and Islam in Malaysia, while at the same time, of becoming  a “running dog” who have sold out the rights, position and future of the Chinese and non-Malays – a clear impossibility!

Malaysia will not even be a mediocre country  but become a failed state if such reckless and irresponsible of politicking is the order the day.

What for instance will the fate of Malaysia if the Constitution and the Rukunegara are trampled upon, and the important nation-building principle that Malaysia is a plural society of diverse races, languages, religions and cultures is abandoned with the formation of a Malay government as have been  advocated by the Opposition?

What for instance did Mohamad Hassan do in the past decade when he was a key UMNO leader to save Malaysia from being condemned by the world as a global kleptocracy and rogue state?

Will the Opposition play its role as an honest, constructive, loyal Opposition to  the Constitution and Rukunegara instead of trying its utmost to polarise and divide Malaysians through the politics of race, religion, fake news and hate speech?

If so, is the Opposition prepared to give full-hearted support to the Pakatan Harapan government to reset nation-building policies for Malaysia to return to the founding principles of the Malaysian Constitution and Rukunegara  to ensure unity, justice, freedom, excellence and integrity in Malaysia, where there is separation of powers, the rule of law, public integrity and respect for human rights and to  fulfil the five pillar-promises of Buku Harapan towards the building of a New Malaysia:

· Reduce the people’s burden;

· Institutional and political reforms;

· Spur sustainable and equitable economic growth;

· Return Sabah and Sarawak to the status accorded in Malaysia Agreement 1963; and

· Create a Malaysia that is inclusive, moderate and respected globally.

Let Mohamad Hassan speak up.

Will the Opposition stop the present “level of politicking” and support a national campaign to clean up the Malaysia social media by combating fake news and hate speech to incite inter-racial and inter-religious suspicion, fear and hatred and prove to the world that Malaysia is a successful example of Alliance of Civilisations and not an example of failure from Clash of Civilisations as Malaysia should leverage on the best values and virtues of the world’s  four great civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia  – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Tuesday, 11th February 2020)

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A question which is also an indictment

There are those who think that  it is  naïve for me to pose the question: Will the Opposition  play its role as an honest, constructive and loyal Opposition to the Constitution and Rukunegara instead of trying its utmost to polarise and divide Malaysians through the politics of race, religion, fake news and hate speech?

This is a question which is also  an indictment.

I had not expected any answer from the Opposition and there was none. In the new Internet era of 24-hour news cycle, the two-day total  Opposition silence to my question on Tuesday is very eloquent and  conclusive proof that the Opposition will continue to be dishonest, destructive and disloyal to the Constitution and Rukunegara so that it could divide Malaysians through the politics of race, religion, fake news and hate speech.

I have always  believed  that in any democracy, the Opposition has an important role to play to provide the necessary  check and balance to prevent abuse of power and other deviations, but it must be an  honest, constructive and loyal Opposition – not to the government of the day, but to the country and the basic nation-building documents like the Constitution and the Rukunegara.

I have never believed that to be an effective Opposition, one must be dishonest, destructive and disloyal to the Constitution and Rukunegara which best describe the present Opposition.

Although my question was also an indictment of the Opposition, it was never meant to be attempt to explain why the Pakatan Harapan Federal Government is losing the perception war to the Opposition.  This calls for a another  treatment on another occasion.

UMNO never expected to be in the  Opposition as it had never expected to lose power in the 14th General Election. In fact, the UMNO leaders were  more worried about their prospects in the 13th General Election than in the 14th General Election.

This was why the historic result of the 14th General Election came like a bolt from the blue and UMNO leaders were completely taken by surprise that in the “morning after”, they were no longer in the seats of power in the Federal Government and several State Governments.

When it dawned on the UMNO leaders that they had been evicted from power, they consoled themselves with the notion  that the new and disparate coalition Pakatan Harapan coalition would not last long and would implode within months.

When this disintegration and implosion  of the Pakatan Harapan did not take place, UMNO went through its first crisis with many of its elected representatives jumping ship.

But UMNO steadied and consolidated when UMNO leaders discovered  a new modus operandi to undermine the Pakatan Harapan coalition by fully exploiting the social media polarising the nation with the politics of  race, religion, fake news and hate speech, aided by the  shameful “Bossku” phenomenon  and the   new Muafakat Nasional coalition with PAS, resulting in  a  series of by-election victories which  appear  to convey the message that the Pakatan Harapan coalition was going to be at best a one-term government.

But this new lease of political life could prove to be ephemeral and misplaced if the Pakatan Harapan coalition restored public support and confidence with the delivery of Pakatan Harapan promises in the 14th General Election, which is why I had described the year 2020 as a “make-or-break” year for Pakatan Harapan and New Malaysia.

Hence the need to speed up the disintegration and  of the Pakatan Harapan coalition. These are among the reasons for the latest spate of conspiracy theories – of statutory documents being collected from Members of Parliament to form a new Federal Government, the proposed confidence motion of Tun Dr. Tun Manathir as Prime Minister, and the various combinations and permutations of the new numbers game.

What is totally  unprecedented in six decades of Malaysian history is the emergence of a coalition founded upon the concept of a basically one-race government, which goes against the principles of Malaysian nation-building of a plural society of diverse races, religions, languages and cultures.

The advocates of a basically one-race government are tinkering with future of Malaysia, rejecting the dream of decades of Malaysian Prime Ministers, including

Tunkui Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein Onn, and great Malaysians patriots regardless of race or religion, for the nation to be  top world-class nation – relegating  Malaysia not to a mediocre nation but a failed state and to become the Venezuela of South-east Asia.

Venezuela is in the thick of a terrible political, socio-economic and humanitarian crisis. Once one of the 20 richest countries in the world and the richest in Latin America with free education and free medical services for her citizens, it is now poor, backward, broken and bankrupt state, with some 14  per cent of Venezuelans (4.5 million) having left the country in despair.

The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has affected the life of the average Venezuelan on all levels. By 2017, hunger had escalated to the point where almost seventy-five percent of the population had lost an average of over 8 kg (over 19 lbs) in weight, and more than half did not have enough income to meet their basic food needs.

In the latest international media report on Venezuela, the seven-year crushing depression in the Latin American country caused by massive corruption, incompetence and mismanagement has even led to the reversal of the infant mortality rates  which had been  falling since the 1940s.

The Opposition does not mind Malaysia becoming the  Venezuela of South East Asia, so long as the Pakatan Harpaan Federal government coalition is toppled.

In fact, one of the current Opposition leaders had couched the political future of Malaysians as to be a choice  to be goat-herders or pig-herders.

This is not the future for Malaysians. Pakatan Harapan does not want Malaysians to choose between becoming goat-herders or pig-herders, but to acquire  excellence and mastery  over science and technology in the information age  and the world of A.R. so that Malaysia can  become a top world-class nation.

Malaysia is the confluence of four great civilisations in the world – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western.

We can  play an active role to leverage on the  values and qualities of these four great civilisations to build a great Malaysian nation and a better world  –  even to recast the 2005 United Nations Initiative of Alliance for Civilisations into a genuinely universal collaboration of all the great civilisations of the world.

Instead of leveraging on the best qualities of our diverse population to  become  a  top world-class nation in unity in diversity, anti-corruption, economic progress and democratic freedoms, Malaysians can succumb to the dishonest, destructive and disloyal politics of the Opposition to become a  failed state and the Venezuela of South East Asia .

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 13th  February 2020)

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Parliament should honour Kevin Morais who gave his life in the battle against corruption and  the  heroes and heroines who saved Malaysia from the 1MDB kleptocracy

A little-noticed event in the anti-corruption battle which should have deserved greater and deeper public attention took place on Tuesday – the posthumous award to  the late senior deputy public prosecutor, Kevin Morais.

In honouring Kevin Morais with the Perdana International Anti-Corruption Champion 2020 Award at a ceremony which launched the Perdana  International Anti-Corruption Champion Foundation (PIACCF),  the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said  the award symbolised PIACCF’s appreciation to all the brave officers who suffered in upholding their integrity.

In his speech, Dr Mahathir also acknowledged the contributions of former Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, former Bank Negara Malaysia Governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz and former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Datuk Seri Mohd Shukri Abdull in exposing the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.

He said it was a significant case, as it became the turning point of Malaysia’s political direction and sparked an awakening among Malaysians.

“Their collective courage and determination brought a kleptocratic regime to its feet, in an unprecedented show of people’s power,”
 he added.

Parliament, which is reconvening next month, should honour Kevin Morais who gave his life in the battle against corruption and  the  heroes and heroines who saved Malaysia from the 1MDB kleptocracy.

Opposition  Members of Parliament especially from Muafakat Nasional say they support Mahathir’s premiership. This will be a good test whether they support Mahathir and Pakatan Harapan’s commitment to transform Malaysia from a global kleptocracy to one of the top nations in the world in public integrity and the unremitting battle against corruption, especially the 1MDB scandal.

There are Malaysians who said that they do not want to hear about the 1MDB scandal any more and complained that  corruption is still very rampant in Malaysia.

This thinking is encouraged by the Opposition, whether PAS, UMNO, MCA, MIC or Gerakan, who want to wipe out the 1MDB scandal from public memory and revert Malaysia back to the corruption and kleptocracy of the past.

Yes, corruption is still a serious problem in Malaysia and this is why Malaysia is ranked No. 51 out of 180 countries in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index 2019 with a score of 53 out of 100, which is one of the best scores achieved by Malaysia in the past 25 years but which is still quite low and most unsatisfactory.

If there had not been  a change of government in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2019, Malaysia’s ranking and score in the TI CPI 2019 and subsequent years would have fallen lower and lower and even entered the 70s and 80s ranking bracket – to the  great ignominy of  all self-respecting Malaysians.

If there had been no change of government on May 9, 2018, it would be impossible to effect a meaningful turnaround of the state of rampant corruption and kleptocracy in the country, a situation which the Opposition particularly Muafakat Nasional wants to country to revert to.

The question now  is whether Malaysians want to revert to the rampant corruption and kleptocracy of the past or to move forward into a new future in  Malaysia, however uphill and agonising,  where corruption and kleptocracy are regarded as  unacceptable and intolerable  behaviour in public life.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 14th February 2019)

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Hadi thinks Malaysians are fools to   believe the latest  PAS fairy tale that its  confidence motion is to save the nation, when in fact it is to torpedo the Pakatan Harapan government and advance Hadi’s  choice for Malaysians to be goat-herders or pig-herders

PAS President Datuk Seri Hadi Awang thinks Malaysians are fools to believe the latest PAS fairy tale that its confidence motion in Parliament next month is to save the nation when in fact it is to torpedo the Pakatan Harapan government and advance Hadi’s choice for Malaysians choose to be goat-herders or pig-herders.

It is also proof that the present PAS leadership is never committed to the principles of parliamentary democracy and  will be the first to dispense with democratic principles and practices  if given access to power, just as the present PAS leadership has exhibited its disloyal attitude to the Constitution and the Rukunegara after the 14th General Election, supporting corruption and kleptocracy as well as approving lies and falsehoods, sanitised as being  “shariah-compliant”.

Hadi claims that PAS MPs are not “cowards” and even  concocts the lie that DAP MPs are not united on the issue.

This is the latest  example of “shariah-compliant” lie sanctioned  by the present PAS leadership.

What is the political future of  Malaysians for the present PAS leadership – a kleptocratic Malaysia, teeming with “shariah-compliant” sin and lies, for  the people to choose to be goat-herders or pig-herders?

It is shocking that in the sixth decade of our Malaysian nationhood, Malaysian are being asked to choose to be goat-herders or pig-herders.

The advocates of this version of politics are gambling  with the future of a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural nation rejecting the dream for  decades of Malaysian Prime Ministers, including Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein Onn, and great Malaysian patriots regardless of race or religion, for the nation to be a top world-class nation.

These advocates of a  regressive and extremist Malaysia do not mind if Malaysia becomes a mediocre or even a failed kleptocratic state or  become the Venezuela of South East Asia, so long as the Pakatan Harapan Federal government coalition is torpedoed and toppled.

This is not the future for Malaysians. Pakatan Harapan does not want Malaysians to be forced to choose between becoming goat-herders or pig-herders, but to acquire excellence and mastery over science and technology in the information age and the world of artificial intelligence  (AR) so that Malaysia can become a top world-class nation.

Venezuela is in the thick of a terrible political, socio-economic and humanitarian crisis. Once one of the 20 richest countries in the world and the richest in Latin America with free education and free medical services for her citizens, it is now poor, backward, broken and bankrupt state, with some 14 per cent of Venezuelans (4.5 million) having left the country in despair.

The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has affected the life of the average Venezuelan on all levels. By 2017, hunger had escalated to the point where almost seventy-five percent of the population had lost an average of over 8 kg (over 19 lbs) in weight, and more than half did not have enough income to meet their basic food needs.

In the latest international media report on Venezuela, the seven-year crushing depression in the Latin American country caused by massive corruption, incompetence and mismanagement has even led to the reversal of the infant mortality rates which had been falling since the 1940s.

Malaysia is the confluence of four great civilisations in the world – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western.

We can play an active role to leverage on the values and qualities of these four great civilisations to build a great Malaysian nation and a better world – even to recast the 2005 United Nations Initiative of Alliance for Civilisations into a genuinely universal collaboration of all the great civilisations of the world.

Instead of leveraging on the best qualities of our diverse population to become a top world-class nation in unity in diversity, anti-corruption, economic progress and democratic freedoms, Malaysians can succumb to the dishonest, destructive and disloyal politics of PAS and the Opposition to  choose between becoming goat-herders or pig-herders, and become a failed state and the Venezuela of South East Asia.

The reaffirmation by  Mahathir in Langkawi yesterday of his commitment  to honour the plan to hand over the prime minister’s post to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim after the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in November should have put paid to all the scheming, conspiracies and plots by PAS and other Opposition characters  to torpedo the Pakatan Harapan government, but this may not be the case.

In fact, the political situation should have stabilised after Anwar met Mahathir on Thursday and said that the Pakatan Harapan agreement of January 7, 2018 on the on the appointment of Mahathir as the seventh Prime Minister and the transition of power from  Mahathir as the seventh Prime Minister to Anwar as the eighth Prime Minister would be finalised at the Pakatan Harapan presidential council on Feb. 21, but the prophets of doom and naysayers believed  otherwise, claiming that a lot of things could happen before the PH presidential council meeting on Feb. 21.

Will PAS leaders and Opposition opportunists continue to stir the pot, hoping to perpetuate the perception that the Pakatan Harapan federal government is on its last legs?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 15th February 2020)

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Parliament next month should not only be the most important in the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government, but also in the nation’s history, by implementing the most number of PH promises of a New Malaysia in the 14GE

The announcement by the PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man that PAS will move  a “vote of confidence” motion in the Dewan Rakyat to support Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s premiership until the 15th General Election found unusual support from MCA and  precipitated the country into a week of frenzy awash with plots, conspiracy theories and fake news of Statutory Declaratins by 138 MPs to torpedo the Pakantan Harapan Government in Putrajaya.

The climax of this political chicanery and psy-war to torpedo the Pakatan Harapan government was the  explosive infographic by  the  MCA-owned newspaper trumpeting that 138 Members of Parliament  had purportedly signed Statutory Declaration “for PM to stay the full term”, and a breakdown which political party  the 138 MPs came from.

It was the most recent example of the unholy alliance between PAS and MCA to propagate conflicting lies to   create an unprecedented scenario  in Malaysia – where every ethnic community or  religion was made to fear that it faced an existential threat from the other ethnic group or religion and where the DAP was painted as a political party performing  the impossible tasks of being  the greatest existential  threat to Malay rights, position and future as well as that of Islam on the one hand while being the greatest existential threat to the rights, position and future of the Chinese and non-Malays in the country on the other.

All these foam and fluff should have been exposed  by the statement by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim last Thursday after his meeting with the Prime Minister and Mahathir’s statement in Langkawi the next day that Anwar had provided an accurate account of what transpired in their meeting.

But no, there was no let-up by the conspirators and plotters to torpedo the Pakatan Harapan government before the 15th General Election, for there are  those who are still hoping that “something big” to torpedo the Pakatan Harapan government would take place before the Pakatan Harapan Presidential Council meeting next Friday on Feb. 21.

These Opposition conspirators and plotters to torpedo the Pakatan Harapan govememnt before the 15th General Election had  misread the character and commitment of Pakatan Harapan leaders to reset nation-building policies to develop the talents of Malaysians and leverage on the four great civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia to develop the country into  a world top-class nation, and end the trajectory of Malaysia as  a kleptocratic, rogue and failed state.

The Pakatan Harapan government is not perfect.

We never expected to win  the 14th General Election, and  we had not expected the scale and depth  of the problems the Najib administration had left behind, but we are committed to achieve a turnaround in all aspects of Malaysian life so that we can set about to  achieve our objective of an united, harmonious, just, democratic, progressive and  prosperous Malaysia which becomes a world top-class nation.

Parliament is meeting on March 9.

Let us make this parliamentary meeting the most important one, not only in the history of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government but in the nation’s history, by implementing the most number of Pakatan Harapan promise of a New Malaysia in the 14th General Election.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 16th February 2020)

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Why are PAS leaders panicking  over Pakatan Harapan fulfilling its general election promises on power transition on Friday?

Three days ago, I asked: “Will PAS leaders and Opposition opportunists continue to stir the pot, hoping to perpetuate the perception that the Pakatan Harapan federal government is on its last legs?”

I had said that the “political situation should have stabilised after Anwar met Mahathir on Thursday and said that the Pakatan Harapan agreement of January 7, 2018 on the appointment of Mahathir as the seventh Prime Minister and the transition of power from Mahathir as the seventh Prime Minister to Anwar as the eighth Prime Minister would be finalised at the Pakatan Harapan presidential council on Feb. 21” but  that “the prophets of doom and naysayers believed otherwise, claiming that a lot of things could happen before the PH presidential council meeting on Feb. 21”.

I have  been proven right.

Why are PAS leaders panicking over Pakatan Harapan fulfilling its general election promise on power transition on Friday?

Suddenly, the PAS leaders seem to be constitutional experts and fit for high judicial office, whether they are grounded in the law or not.

It is one of the blessings Malaysians should be thankful for that these PAS leaders do not occupy the high judicial posts in the land.

One PAS leader with legal background said that  discussions of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad handing over the reins to Anwar Ibrahim infringes on the authority of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

I wonder where he studied his law.

Another said the Pakatan Harapan presidential council had no locus standi to determine the next Prime Minister.

May be, if some basic intelligence test is needed, there will be less of such nonsense from political leaders.

But the long and short of such outpouring from PAS leaders is that they do not want Pakatan Harapan to honour its general election promises.

And yet, PAS leaders are the most ferocious in attacking Pakatan Harapan leaders for not delivering on its general election promises.

Can PAS leaders make up their mind, after they had teamed up with kleptocrats and invented “shariah-compliant” lies after the 14th General Election?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at Fraser’s Hill on Tuesday, 18th February 2020)

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The “highest levels” of the former Malaysian Government who believed from “very early on that the MH 370 tragedy was a murder-suicide plot” must now  speak up

The “highest levels” of the former Malaysian Government who believed from “very early on that the MH 370 tragedy was a murder-suicide plot must now speak up.

Both Malaysians and Australians must be shocked by the Australian Skynews  announcement that former Australian Prime minister Tony Abbott has revealed Malaysian authorities believed the disappearance of flight MH370 was a case of pilot murder-suicide, as 50 Malaysians and six  Australians, apart from 153 Chinese, seven Indonesians, four French, three Americans, two New Zealanders, two Canadians, two Iranians, two Ukrainians as well as from  other nationalities were among  the 239 persons who died in the air tragedy.

Abbott made the explosive comments in part one of  Sky News documentary ‘MH370: The Untold Story’, which would be aired tonight.

“My understanding – my very clear understanding – from the very top levels of the Malaysian government is that from very, very early on here, they thought it was a murder-suicide by the pilot,” said Abbott who was Australian premier when the plane disappeared on March 8, 2014.

“I’m not going to say who said what to whom. But let me reiterate – I want to be absolutely crystal clear – it was understood at the highest levels that this was almost certainly murder-suicide by the pilot.

“A mass murder-suicide by the pilot,” said Abbott in a stunning claim.

The world would be waiting for the airing of the two-part investigation tonight and tomorrow night by Skynews as it  reveals ground-breaking new details about the MH370 disappearance, which vanished from the radar screen while on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board,  and which  had  continued to baffle aviation experts, family members, friends and people from all over the world.

It would appear an international commission of inquiry into the MH 370 disappearance would be necessary as a result of Abbot’s revelations.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Wednesday 19th February 2020)

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Attorney-General’s decision to discontinue proceedings against the 12 persons  on LTTE links  most welcome

The decision of the Attorney-General Tommy Thomas to discontinue prosecution proceedings against the twelve persons for alleged links to the Liberation Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) with immediate effect is most welcome.

I look forward to the release of Negri Sembilan State Assemblyman for Seremban Jaya P. Gunasekaran, Malacca State Exco and State Assemblyman for Gadek G. Saminathan and other DAP members among the twelve as free men.

While welcoming the release of the Gunasekaran, Saminathan and others, DAP reiterates its condemnation of terrorism in any form and reaffirms it commitment to  effect political change through peaceful, non-violent and democratic means and to eschew any resort to any violence or any form of terrorism.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on  Friday, 21st February 2020)

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The Save Malaysia mission of the 14th General Election is still very valid and relevant, as we do not want to   revert to a global kleptocracy, and even worse, become a kakistocracy with the worst elements who practice dishonesty, perfidy and corruption in the government

Misi menyelamatkan Malaysia PRU14 masih lagi sah dan relevan kerana kita tidak mahu kembali menjadi kleptokrasi global ataupun lebih buruk lagi, sebuah “kakistokrasi” dengan anasir-anasir jahat yang mengamalkan khianat, ketidakjujuran, dan rasuah di dalam kerajaan

DAP akan mengadakan satu mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Tertinggi Pusat tergempar hari ini mengenai perkembangan politik semasa dan kita harus menunggu hasil keputusan mesyuarat tersebut.

Namun begitu, izinkan saya untuk menjelaskan mengenai satu paparan yang telah tersebar luas semalam — yang mengatakan: “Kit Siang di kesan berada di airport, mau lari ka…?” bersama dengan gambar saya di lapangan terbang dan dalam satu paparan yang berasingan, seorang pemimpin UMNO mengatakan: “Mohon standby di airport, tahan pemimpin DAP, PKR, PAN yang nak lari keluar negara – Azri”.

Saya berada di Lapangan Terbang Pulau Pinang semalam, menunggu penerbangan saya ke Kuala Lumpur untuk menghadiri kes mahkamah P Gunasekaran hari ini, dan persoalan untuk melarikan diri daripada negara ini tidak pernah sekali pun terlintas di fikiran saya.

Malah, soal melarikan diri daripada Malaysia ini tidak pernah timbul dalam fikiran mana-mana pemimpin DAP kerana kami bukanlah pencuri, perompak, mahupun penyangak, tetapi kami hanyalah rakyat Malaysia yang patriotik dan berdedikasi untuk menghentikan penjunaman Malaysia kearah menjadi negara kleptokratik yang gagal.

Para pejuang DAP berhasrat untuk berkhidmat untuk semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira batasan kaum, agama, mahupun kawasan. Kami menyertai politik kerana kami percaya politik adalah satu wadah yang jujur, bermaruah, malah mulia untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara yang lebih baik untuk generasi masa hadapan; kami berpegang kepada pendirian bahawa ahli politiklah yang kotor dan bukan politik itu sendiri.

Misi Menyelamatkan Malaysia dalam PRU ke-14 yang lalu masih lagi sah dan relevan, kerana kita tidak mahu melihat Malaysia kembali kearah menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global ataupun lebih buruk lagi, menjadi sebuah kakistokrasi (sistem kepimpinan yang diketuai oleh golongan yang paling tidak berkelayakan) dengan anasir-anasir jahat yang mengamalkan khianat, ketidakjujuran, dan rasuah di dalam kerajaan.

Terdapat cubaan daripada sesetengah pihak untuk merampas mandat yang telah diberikan oleh rakyat Malaysia dalam Pilihan Raya Umum yang ke-14 ini untuk membentuk sebuah kerajaan pintu belakang yang mengkhianati dan cuba menafikan janji-janji Pakatan Harapan untuk sebuah Malaysia Baharu.

Bayangkan mereka yang telah mendukung rejim kleptokratik selama sedekad ini kini cuba untuk mengaku yang mereka adalah pelopor sebuah Malaysia yang bersih tanpa sebarang toleransi terhadap rasuah?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri di Kompleks Mahkamah Duta selepas pembebasan ADUN DAP Negeri sembilan untuk Seremban Jaya, P Gunasekaran pada hari Isnin 24 Febuari 2020 pada jam 10:15 pagi)

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DAP is holding an emergency Central Executive Committee meeting today  on the extraordinary political developments in the country  and we should wait for the outcome of the meeting.

However, let me comment on postings  that went viral on the social media yesterday –  one  with the heading:
 “Kit Siang di kesan berada di airport, mau lari ka…?”
 with photograph of me at an airport  and another by an UMNO leader with the heading:
 “Mohon standby di airport, tahan pemimpin DAP, PKR, PAN yang nak lari keluar negara – Azri”.

I was at the Penang Airport last night waiting for the flight to Kuala Lumpur to attend P. Gunasegaram court cases today, and the question of my running away from Malaysia was never in my mind.

In fact, the thought of running away from Malaysia never entered into the mind of any DAP leader, for we are not thieves, robbers or rogues, but dedicated and patriotic  Malaysians who want to end Malaysia plunging along the trajectory of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

DAP men and women want to do good for the country for all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion  or region.  We are in politics because we believe that politics is an honest, honourable and even noble avenue to make Malaysia a better nation for our children and children’s children; that it is politicians and not politics which is dirty; and we hold to this belief.

The Save Malaysia mission of the 14th General Election is still very valid and relevant, as we do not want to   revert to a global kleptocracy, and even worse, become a kakistocracy with the worst elements who practice dishonesty, perfidy and corruption in the government.

There are attempts to carry out a coup against the decision of Malaysian voters in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 by forming a back-door government which will betray and negate the promises of Pakatan Harapan for  a New Malaysia.

Imagine those who had propped up a kleptocratic regime for a decade now claiming to be the vanguard of a clean Malaysia with zero tolerance for corruption?

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Duta Court Complex after acquittal of P. Gunasekaran, DAP Negri Sembilan State Assemblyman for Seremban Jaya on Monday, 24th February 2020 at 10.15 a.m)

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Pakatan Harapan is worth saving as no other political grouping in Malaysia is committed to restore Tunku Abdul Rahman’s vision of a Malaysia as “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”

Pakatan Harapan mesti diselamatkan memandangkan tidak ada kumpulan lain yang komited untuk memulihkan Malaysia selari dengan visi Tunku Abdul Rahman untuk Malaysia menjadi “cahaya yang menerangi kegelapan dalam dunia yang penuh cabaran”

Selepas ADUN DAP Negri Sembilan untuk kawasan Seremban Jaya, P Gunasekaran dibebaskan daripada pertuduhannya semalam, saya berada di sini sekali lagi hari ini untuk menyaksikan pembebasan Exco Melaka dan ADUN Gadek, G Saminathan bersama dengan sepuluh yang lain daripada pertuduhan keganasan berkaitan LTTE.

Saminathan, Gunasekaran, dan sepuluh yang lain berserta keluarga dan orang tersayang mereka telah menderita sepanjang 20 minggu yang lepas kerana mereka tidak bersalah atas tuduhan yang dikenakan kepada mereka, terutamanya pertuduhan yang kononnya mereka berhasrat untuk menghidupkan semula LTTE sedangkan pertubuhan itu telahpun berhenti daripada berfungsi hampir sedekad.

Perkembangan politik tergempar sepanjang dua hari yang lepas untuk menumbangkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan dan untuk mengeluarkan DAP daripada kerajaan persekutuan di Putrajaya dan kes 12 orang, termasuklah Saminathan dan Gunasekaran dan penahanan mereka selama hampir 20 minggu di atas pertuduhan berkaitan LTTE sedangkan mereka tidak bersalah, menimbulkan persoalan sama ada berbaloi untuk menyelamatkan Pakatan Harapan ataupun tidak.

Saya akan menjawab dengan positif — yang Pakatan Harapan masih perlu diselamatkan kerana tidak ada kumpulan politik lain yang komited untuk memulihkan Malaysia selari dengan visi Tunku Abdul Rahman untuk Malaysia menjadi “cahaya yang menerangi kegelapan dalam dunia yang penuh cabaran”.

Saya tidak bersetuju dengan pelbagai perkara yang telah dibuat di atas nama Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan sepanjang 20 bulan yang lepas, tetapi seperti yang saya telah katakan kepada pemimpin DAP semalam, selagi DAP kekal ikhlas, setia, dan berpegang teguh dengan prinsip dan objektifnya untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara yang hebat, dan tidak melawan hati nurani mereka, mereka haruslah bersedia untuk menjadi tidak popular malah disalah-faham.

Tetapi saya percaya Pakatan Harapan ini harus diselamatkan dan semua rakyat Malaysia perlu berusaha untuk mengalahkan cubaan oleh pihak-pihak oportunis politik yang tidak bertanggung jawab untuk menumbangkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan, kerana alternatif kepada Impian Malaysia — di mana negara kita menjadi Harimau Ekonomi dan negara berkelas-dunia — adalah Mimpi Ngeri Malaysia di mana negara kita kembali menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global dan negara gagal, malah lebih teruk lagi, mungkin menjadi sebuah kakistokrasi di mana anasir yang paling teruk, paling tidak berkelayakan, dan paling tidak berprinsip menduduki jawatan tertinggi negara.

Berikut adalah cogan kata Pakatan Harapan seperti yang dinyatakan dalam Buku Harapan:

“Pakatan Harapan bertekad untuk mengembalikan kegemilangan tanah air kita, iaitu seperti yang diimpikan oleh rakyat seluruhnya.

“Pakatan Harapan bertekad untuk menebus semula maruah rakyat Malaysia yang telah digadai oleh UMNO dan Barisan Nasional.

“Pakatan Harapan akan membawa Malaysia ke wawasan baru dan seterusnya memacu Malaysia untuk kembali dikagumi dunia.“

Berikut pula adalah janji Pakatan Harapan dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14:

“Perjuangan kami adalah perjuangan holistik untuk 99 peratus rakyat Malaysia, bukan seperti UMNO dan Barisan Nasional yang hanya mementingkan 1 peratus kroni mereka sahaja.

“Perjuangan Pakatan Harapan adalah untuk menjamin kesejahteraan hidup seluruh rakyat, tanpa mengira kaum, bangsa dan agama.

“Kami akan menghentikan kerosakan institusi-institusi penting negara, dan akan mengembalikan kedaulatan undang-undang, lantas menjamin kebebasan agensiagensi penting dalam kerajaan.

“Kami akan melaksanakan strategi serampang dua mata, iaitu membersihkan Malaysia daripada rasuah dan kleptokrasi serta memacu pertumbuhan ekonomi mapan yang manfaatnya dikongsi oleh semua dan bukan dibolot oleh mereka yang berkuasa sahaja.

“Kami menjanjikan pemimpin yang bersih iaitu pemimpin yang komited dalam membersihkan negara ini dan yang bertekad untuk membantu golongan yang memerlukan

“Visi kami ialah sebuah negara yang bersatu padu dalam membela nasib Pribumi dan rakyat Malaysia pelbagai bangsa, agar pembangunan dan kesejahteraan ekonomi dapat dikongsi bersama secara adil dan saksama, tanpa dibolot oleh tangan-tangan rakus yang mengaut kekayaan untuk diri sendiri. “

Sudah tiba masanya Pakatan Harapan bersama rakyat untuk menebus maruah bangsa, membina negara dan memenuhi harapan.

Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan tidak sempurna, tetapi kami menghala ke arah sebuah Malaysia yang Baharu and tidak ada kumpulan politik yang lain yang telah memberikan komitmen sebegitu untuk meneruskan hala tuju ini dalam pembinaan negara Malaysia.

(Komen Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kompleks Mahkamah Duta selepas pembebasan Exco Melaka dan ADUN Gadek G Saminathan, dan 9 yang lain yang didakwa dengan tuduhan keganasan berkaitan dengan LTTE pada hari Selasa 25 Febuari 2020)

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After the acquittal of P. Gunasekaran, DAP Negri Sembilan State Assemblyman for Seremban Jaya yesterday, I am here today for the acquittal of G. Saminathan, DAP Malacca State Exco and State Assemblyman for Gadek as well as the acquittal of ten others on charges of LTTE-related terrorism offences.

Saminathan, Gunasekeran and the ten others and their families and loved ones had suffered grievously in the past 20 weeks for they are innocent of the LTTE- related terrorism charges, in particular of wanting to revive the LTTE when it had been defunct close to a decade.

The extraordinary political developments in the last two days to topple the Pakatan Harapan government and to get the DAP out of the Federal Government in Putrajaya and the cases of the 12 persons, including Saminathan and Gunasekeran and their incarceration for close to 20 weeks for LTTE-related terrorism charges when they were innocent, raises the question whether the Pakatan Harapan is worthwhile and should be saved!

I would answer in the positive – that Pakatan Harapan is worth saving as no other political grouping in Malaysia is committed to restore Tunku Abdul Rahman’s vision of a Malaysia as “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”

I do not agree with all the things done in the name of the Pakatan Harapan Government in the past 20 months, but as I said to DAP leaders yesterday, so long as DAP leaders remain true, loyal and steadfast to their principles and objectives to make Malaysia a great nation, and do not go against their conscience, they must be prepared to be unpopular and even misunderstood.

But I believe that the Pakatan Harapan coalition is worth saving, and all efforts should be made by Malaysians to defeat the attempts by irresponsible political opportunists to topple the Pakatan Harapan Government, because the alternative to the Malaysian Dream that we are trying to achieve of the country becoming a Tiger Economy and a world top-class nation is a Malaysian Nightmare of the reversion to a global kleptocracy, a failed and rogue state, and even worse, the advent of a kakistocracy where the worst, the most unscrupulous and the most unprincipled elements of society occupy the high offices of state in the nation.

The following is the clarion call of the Pakatan Harapan as contained in the Buku Harapan – the Pakatan Harapan’s 14th General Election Manifesto:

“Pakatan Harapan is determined to bring back the glory that we once enjoyed.

“Pakatan Harapan is determined to reclaim the pride of all Malaysians that has been sold and bartered away by UMNO and Barisan Nasional.

“Pakatan Harapan is determined to bring Malaysia to a new vision and then drive it back to a stage where we are once again the envy of the world.”

This was Pakatan Harapan promise in the 14th General Election:

“Our promises are for the 99 percent, and not just for the 1 percent cronies of UMNO and Barisan Nasional.

“We promise hope for all citizens, regardless of race and religion.

“We will stop the rot in key national institutions and we will return the rule of law by ensuring the independence and integrity of important government agencies.

“We will cleanse Malaysia from corruption, malfeasance and kleptocracy, and at the same time drive a sustainable economic growth so that the benefits can be shared by all, not just by a few people in power.

“We offer leaders who are clean and committed to cleaning up this country from the rot, and leaders who are committed to helping people of all backgrounds.

“Our vision is a nation where the citizens are united in championing the fate of the Pribumi and all Malaysian citizens, so that the development and growth can be enjoyed by all in a fair and equitable manner, not monopolised by those who are only interested in enriching themselves.

“It is time for Pakatan Harapan and for all of us to reclaim this nation’s honour, rebuild this nation, and fulfil our potentials.”

Pakatan Harapan Government is not perfect, but we are set in this direction of a New Malaysia, and no other political group has made a similar commitment to continue in this direction in Malaysian nation-building.

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Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the Duta Court Complex after the acquittal of G. Saminathan, Malacca State Exco and State Assemblyman for Gadek, and nine others charged with LTTE-related terrorism offences on Tuesday, 25th February 2020 at 10.30 a.m.
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Who will believe that the 42 BN MPs and 18 Pas MPs now support Pakatan Harapan 14GE Manifesto and the arrest and trial of Najib and former top BN leaders – and if so, will they make such a declaration?

Siapakah yang akan percaya 42 MP BN dan 18 MP PAS kini menyokong manifesto PRU14 Pakatan Harapan dan penangkapan Najib dan pimpinan BN — dan jika benar, adakah mereka akan mengumumkan perkara ini?

Parlimen dijadualkan untuk bersidang semula pada 9 Mac ini dan tarikh ini juga menandakan bulan ke-21 selepas pilihan raya bersejarah 9 Mei 2018, di mana seluruh dunia telah menyaksikan kepimpinan Malaysia dalam memperbaharui harapan dalam sistem demokrasi sedangkan berbagai negara menyaksikan pengunduran sistem demokrasi memberi ruang kepada rejim autokratik dan kleptokratik.

Namun begitu, adakah kerajaan Pakatan Harapan akan masih wujud pada 9 Mac 2020 ini, atau adakah kita dan seluruh dunia bakal menyaksikan Malaysia dalam satu keadaan yang buruk dan zalim di mana mandat rakyat yang diberikan pada 9 Mei 2018 untuk menyelamatkan negara ini dikhianati oleh sebuah kerajaan pintu belakang yang menggunakan nama Pakatan Harapan untuk membunuh Pakatan Harapan dan untuk menghalalkan kepulangan kleptokrasi ataupun lebih teruk lagi, kemunculan kakistokrasi di mana anasir yang paling teruk, paling tidak berkelayakan, dan paling tidak berprinsip menduduki jawatan tertinggi negara?

Dalam memperkenalkan Manifesto Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14, Buku Harapan, Pengerusi Pakatan Harapan Tun Dr Mahathir pada 8 Mac 2018 telah mengatakan:

“Buku ini mengandungi janji-janji Pakatan Harapan kepada rakyat Malaysia mengenai langkah-langkah yang akan diambil apabila kami mengambil alih pemerintahan.

“Ini adalah polisi dan tindakan yang akan dilaksanakan untuk memberikan negara ini rawatan yang diperlukan, untuk membina semula negara dan untuk memenuhi harapan rakyat.

“Bagi pihak semua di Pakatan Harapan, dengan penuh rendah diri dan tawakkal kepada Allah SWT, saya tawarkan diri kami untuk memikul tanggungjawab yang berat ini untuk menyelamatkan negara kita.

“Kami merayu kepada rakyat untuk memberikan kami peluang untuk menunjukkan kebolehan kami dan membantu negara kita.

“Dengan penerbitan buku ini, kami juga dengan rendah diri berikrar yang kami bersedia untuk dinilai oleh rakyat mengenai sejauh mana kami berjaya mengotakan janji-janji ini apabila kami berada di dalam kerajaan.

“Jika kami gagal atau mungkir kepada janji-janji ini, maka tolaklah kami dalam pilihan raya yang akan datang.”

Adakah rakyat Malaysia kini akan percaya bahawa kesemua 42 Ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional (39 UMNO, 2 MCA, dan 1 MIC) dan 18 Ahli Parlimen PAS kini menyokong manifesto PRU14 Pakatan Harapan dan penangkapan Najib dan pimpinan BN — dan jika benar, adakah mereka akan mengumumkan perkara ini?

Adakah mereka juga akan menyatakan sokongan mereka kepada Deklarasi Rakyat pada 4 Mac 2016 yang menyeru kepada:

    a) Penyingkiran Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia melalui cara yang menolak keganasan dan sah disisi undang-undang;

    b) Penyingkiran semua yang telah bersekongkol dengan beliau;

    c) Pemansuhan semua undang-undang dan perjanjian baharu yang mencabul hak asasi seperti yang dilindungi di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan menafikan pilihan polisi, dan;

    d) Pemulihan integriti institusi-institusi negara yang telah dirosakkan seperti polis, SPRM, Bank Negara, dan PAC;

Adakah mereka kini menyokong seruan Deklarasi Rakyat kepada “semua rakyat malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, pegangan politik, kepercayaan, mahupun parti, muda dan tua” untuk “menyelamatkan negara dan membuka jalan kepada reformasi institusi dan demokrasi yang amat diperlukan, dan memulihkan prinsip-prinsip utama pembahagian kuasa di antara cabang eksekutif, legislatif, dan kehakiman, yang akan memastikan kebebasan, kredibiliti, professionalisme, dan integriti institusi-institusi awam kita”?

Bukankah penumbangan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan dan penyelewengan agenda Pakatan Harapan untuk sebuah Malaysia Baharu ini kerja-kerja pengkhianatan amanah dan mandat yang telah diberikan oleh rakyat Malaysia yang telah mengundi untuk sebuah Malaysia Baharu pada 9 Mei 2018?

Saya terkejut dengan mereka yang terlibat dengan penyelewengan dan pengkhianatan mandat yang diberikan rakyat ini.

Selain daripada pemimpin mereka, saya menyeru kepada semua yang terlibat dengan pengkhianatan ini untuk memperingati dan menghormati mandat mulia yang diberikan oleh rakyat Malaysia pada 9 Mei 2018, dan untuk berhenti dan pulang ke jalan yang benar yang berasaskan kejujuran, prinsip, amanah, dan tanggung jawab untuk memperjuangkan agenda Pakatan Harapan bagi membolehkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan memenuhi mandat Malaysia Baharunya.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Selasa 25 Februari 2020)

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Parliament is scheduled to meet on March 9th, which also marks 21 months from the historic decision of Malaysian voters on May 9, 2018, when the world sat up and noticed that Malaysia can lead the world in renewing hope in democracy when for over a decade in the world, democracy had been in retreat losing out to autocratic and kleptocratic regimes.

But will there be a Pakatan Harapan Government by March 9, 2020, or Malaysians and the world will observe another Malaysian infamy, ignominy and iniquity, where the historic decision of May 9, 2018 to Save Malaysia from the fate of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state will be hijacked and perverted by a back-door government, using the name of Pakatan Harapan to kill Pakatan Harapan, and to justify not only the reversion to a global kleptocracy but even worse, the advent of a kakistocracy where the worst, the most unscrupulous and the most unprincipled elements of society occupy the high offices of state in the nation?

In introducing the Pakatan Harapan 14th General Election Manifesto, the Buku Harapan, the Pakatan Harapan Chairman Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on 8th March 2018 said:

“This book contains Pakatan Harapan’s promises to the people of Malaysia on the steps we will take when we become the government.

“These are the policies and actions that we will implement to give this country the treatment that it needs, to REBUILD THE NATION and to FULFIL THE HOPE of the people.

“On behalf of everyone in Pakatan Harapan, with humility and in full submission to Allah SWT, I offer ourselves to shoulder the heavy responsibility of saving the country.

“We appeal to the people to give us a chance to showcase our abilities and to help the country.

“With the publication of this book, we also humbly pledge that we are willing to be judged by the people on how far we fulfil our promises when we are in government.

“If we fail or if we break our promises, by all means reject us in the next general election.”

Are Malaysians now suddenly to believe, for instance, that the 42 Barisan Nasional MPs (39 UMNO, 2 MCA and 1 MIC) and 18 PAS MPs now support Pakatan Harapan 14GE Manifesto and the arrest and trial of Najib and former top BN leaders – and if so, will they make such a declaration?

Will they now also declare support for the Malaysian Citizens’ Declaration of 4th March 2016 which declared for

a) The removal of Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak as the Prime Minister of Malaysia through non-violent and legally permissible means;

b) The removal of all those who have acted in concert with him;

c) A repeal of all the recent laws and agreements that violate the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Federal Constitution and undermine policy choices and

d)A restoration of the integrity of the institutions that have been undermined, such as the police, the MACC, Bank Negara and the PAC;

Are they now in support of the Citizen’s Declaration’s call on “all Malaysians, irrespective of race, religion, political affiliation, creed or parties, young and old”, to “save the nation and pave the way for much needed democratic and institutional reforms, and to restore the important principle of the separation of powers among the executive, legislature and judiciary which will ensure the independence, credibility, professionalism and integrity of our national institutions”?

Isn’t the toppling of the Pakatan Harapan Government and the hijacking and perversion of Pakatan Harapan Agenda for a New Malaysa the work of traitors, an unforgivable betrayal of the trust and mandate of the voters of Malaysia who had voted for a New Malaysia on May 9, 2018?

I am shocked by those involved in the hijacking and perversion of the Malaysian people’s mandate of May 9, 2018.

Apart from the ringleaders, I urge all who had been involved to remember and respect the solemn and courageous mandate of the people for a New Malaysia on May 9, 2018, to desist at the brink of the precipice and to return to the path of honesty, principle, trust and responsibility to defend the Pakatan Harapan Agenda so that the Pakatan Harapan Government could discharge its mandate of a New Malaysia.

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Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Tuesday, 25th February 2020
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