Call on MCA by-election candidate Tan Chee Teong to make a last-minute withdrawal from the Balakong by-election as a protest against the shame, indignity and irresponsibility of the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance

The former MCA Negri Sembilan leader Lim Ching Fui was the only voice so far to protest against the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance, which has been forged in the Balakong by-election with PAS leaders speaking at MCA ceramahs for the first time in the 69-year MCA history.

Lim Ching Fui said he could not understand why MCA would accept PAS’ assistance to  campaign in the Balakong by-election, warning that this will culminate in the party losing the one thing which it is left with – dignity.

It is debatable whether MCA has still got any dignity left,  having been reduced to a 7/11 party in the 2013 General Election with seven MPs and eleven State Assemblymen, and further reduced to ½ party in the 2018 general election, with one MP and two State Assemblymen.

There was a time when the MCA had four Ministers, 31 MPs and 76 State Assembly seats.

Instead of learning from its mistakes to carry out root-and-branch reforms, by asking why it had fallen so low after bestriding the Malaysian political stage like a giant for six decades  of the nation’s history that  it is now reduced to a mosquito party even worse off than the MIC, the MCA leadership has sunk lower by  forming the MCA/UMNO/PAS  unholy alliance in the Balakong by-election which dare not condemn the 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal but only to secure the  deposit of the MCA candidate in the Balakong by-election.

Is this what the MCA, which boasts of having more than a million members, been reduced to?

The overwhelming majority of MCA members have “abandoned darkness and joined the light”, and although their names are on the MCA membership register, they cast their vote solidly for DAP and Pakatan Harapan for truth, justice and a New Malaysia..

But there is a very small minority who have remained in MCA, hoping  that it is possible for MCA to learn from its mistakes and betrayals  and carry out root-and-branch reforms.

Is the MCA candidate, Tan Chee Teong one of them? Does he belong to the honest politicians who value integrity and public service, or does he belong to the band of unscrupulous politicians who are more interested in political advancement for self, regardless of the betrayal of public interests and political principles?

I advise Tan Chee Teong to “rein in the horse at the edge of a cliff” (临崖勒马) and the Chinese saying “one false step brings eternal regret and looking back your whole life has passed away” (一失足成千古恨 回头已是百年身).

If he is a budding politician of ideals with a passion for truth and justice, I call on him to announce his last-minute withdrawal as the MCA candidate for the Balakong by-election to protest against  the shame,  indignity and irresponsibility  of  the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance.

It is not too late for Tan to make this grand political gesture which will resonate down the generations. Although the by-election campaign ends in a few hours, all Tan needs to do is to send publicity trucks all over the constituency tomorrow to announce his withdrawal as a MCA candidate on a matter of principle to protest against the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance.

Or had Tan Chee Teong agreed with and been one of the principal proponents of the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance all along?

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Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the DAP Balakong by-election ceramah at Sungai Long on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 at 9.30 pm
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Hanif Omar is not doing his reputation as country’s longest-serving top cop  any service by retailing cock-and-bull stories about his past police career

Former  Inspector-General of Police, Tun Hanif Omar, is not doing his reputation as the country’s longest-serving top cop any service by retailing cock-and-bull stories about his past police career.

This is the first time I had heard that to maintain the country’s harmony, he had to be tough as the top cop and put me behind bars in 1969.

Sinar Harian reported Hanif as saying  that the Alliance had formed its successor coalition, BN, following the 1969 riots.

He said:

“At that time, the Alliance formed BN because the country was on the brink of destruction. DAP suggested that Peninsular Malaysia be split into two, East Coast for the Malays and the West Coast for the Chinese.

“What was my answer? I put Lim Kit Siang in prison.

“He was in (detention) for two years. That was Hanif’s way when I was the inspector-general of police.”

I am shocked beyond words, making me wonder whether Hanif has gone senile or he has suddenly adopted a secret agenda to demonise me and the DAP.

What Hanif said were replete with errors.

This is the first time I have heard that he was responsible for my first detention under the Internal Security Act 1960.

In the first place, he was not the Inspector-General of Police when I was detained for the first time under the Internal Security Act on 18th May 1969.

Hanif served as Inspector-General of Police from 1974 to 1994, after I had been released from ISA detention on Oct. 1, 1970.

Hanif claimed that he was responsible for my first ISA detention in 1969. Was he responsible for my first ISA release on Oct. 1, 1970.  It will be interesting to hear Hanif’s other cock-and-bull stories.

Secondly, the National Front was not immediately formed after the May 10, 1969 General Election.

It was formed in 1973 before Hanif became Inspector-General of Police.  He became IGP only on 8th June 1974 after the assassination of his predecessor IGP Tan Sri Abdul Rahman in Kuala Lumpur.

There must have  been discussions for the formation of National Front before 1973, but clearly the idea of a National Front had not even been conceived when I was arrested under the ISA on May 18, 1969.

But Hanif’s greatest cock-and-bull story is his claim that I had suggested that  that Peninsular Malaysia be split into two, East Coast for the Malays and the West Coast for the Chinese, provoking his “tough” response as IGP to put me in prison –  when he was not the IGP at the time.

This is also the first time I have heard of any proposal that Peninsular Malaysia be split into two, East Coast for the Malays and the West Coast for the Chinese.

If I had made such a suggestion, it would not have been kept a secret for half a century, for it would have been used down the decades in everyone of the the eleven general elections from 1974 to 2018 to show how divisive,  destructive, racist and unpatriotic  I had been  in wanting to divide up Peninsular Malaysia into two parts according to race.

In fact, in  my more than half a century of public life, I had never come across any such suggestion from anyone.

Where did Hanif source such a cock-and-bull story.

I had been the most demonized political leader in the past half a century. I was accused of being a communist; responsible for the May 13, 1969 riots, leading the street demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur shouting anti-Malay and anti-Islam slogans although I was never in Kuala Lumpur after the May 10, 1969 General Election; painted as quite a devil, a puaka, even jembalang; that I am anti-Malay, anti-Islam; a stooge of foreign powers; that I dominate Pakatan Harapan and made other leaders like Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali and Mohamad Sabu into my stooges and puppets and that I wanted to be Prime Minister if Pakatan Harapan could win the 14th General Election.

But all these lies, falsehoods and demonisation pale into insignificance compared with  Hanif’s cock-and-bull story that I had advocated after the May 1969 general election for Peninsular Malaysia to be split into two, East Coast for the Malays and the West Coast for the Chinese.

I am sure that the Special Branch, one of the most competent in the world, would  have a full record chronicling my whereabouts in the eight day from May 10 (Polling Day of the 1969 General Election) to 18th May 1969, when I was detained at the Subang International Airport, when I flew in from Singapore against advice from party leaders and my family not to return home as I was on the blacklist for arrest under the Internal Security Act.

During this eight-day period, I was never in Kuala Lumpur, as I was in  Malacca, Petaling Jaya, Sabah and Singapore.

I challenge Hanif to quote chapter and verse, date and place, where I had made such a ridiculous proposal.  If the information is classified as official secret, then it shoud be declassified.

In any event, would such information be classified as official secrets if I had in fact made such a proposal which caused him to give me the Hanif treatment by putting me in prison.

I give Hanif two days to respond to this challenge or Malaysians must conclude that he is senile or had a special agenda to demonise me and DAP with such a lie.

I reserve my right to institute legal action to vindicate my character and reputation which I would disclose after two days.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 7th September 2018)

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Hanif Omar tidak membantu reputasinya sebagai mantan ketua polis negara yang paling lama berkhidmat, dengan menjaja kisah-kisah mengarut tentang kerjayanya sebagai seorang anggota polis

Bekas Ketua Polis Negara, Tun Hanif Omar tidak membantu reputasinya sebagai mantan ketua polis negara yang paling lama berkhidmat, dengan menjaja kisah-kisah mengarut tentang kerjayanya sebagai seorang anggota polis.

Ini kali pertama saya mendengar kenyataan bahawa untuk memelihara keharmonian negara ini, beliau mesti berkeras sebagai sebagai seorang pegawai polis atasan dan memenjarakan saya pada 1969.

Beliau dilaporkan oleh Sinar Harian sebagai berkata Parti Perikatan membentuk Barisan Nasional susulan rusuhan pada 1969.

Hanif berkata:

“Masa itu Parti Perikatan bentuk Barisan Nasional sebab pada masa itu negara kita hampir hancur. DAP pula minta Malaya dibahagi kepada dua.

“Pantai Timur kepada Melayu dan Pantai Barat kepada Cina. Jadi jawapan saya macam mana? Saya masukkan Lim Kit Siang dalam penjara.

“Dua tahun dia dalam tu. Itu cara ‘cara Hanif’ mengambil tindakan semasa menjadi Ketua Polis Negara,” ujarnya.

Saya kelu apabila mendengar kenyataan itu, membuatkan saya tertanya-tanya sama ada Hanif sudah nyanyuk atau mempunyai agenda tersembunyi untuk memburuk-burukkan saya dan DAP.

Apa yang diperkatakan Hanif itu penuh dengan pelbagai kesalahan.

Ini kali pertama saya dengar bahawa beliau adalah orang yang bertanggungjawab terhadap penahanan saya mengikut Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri 1960.

Pertama sekali, beliau masih belum menjadi Ketua Polis Negara semasa saya pertama kali ditahan mengikut Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri pada 18 Mei 1969.

Khidmat Hanif sebagai Ketua Polis Negara bermula pada 1974 hingga 1994, selepas saya dibebaskan daripada tahanan ISA pada 1 Oktober 1970.

Hanif mendakwa beliau adalah pihak yang bertanggungjawab terhadap penahan tersebut. Adakah beliau juga orang yang bertanggungjawab membebaskan saya sebagai tahanan ISA pada 1 Oktober 1970? amat menarik jika dapat mendengar satu lagi kisah temberang daripada Hanif.

Kedua, Barisan Nasional tidak ditubuhkan selepas Pilihan Raya Umum 10 Mei 1969.

Ia ditubuhkan pada 1973, iaitu sebelum Hanif menjadi Ketua Polis Negara. Beliau menjadi KPN pada 8 Jun 1974 selepas kematian pendahulunya Tan Sri Abdul Rahman akibat dibunuh di Kuala Lumpur.

Perbincangan berhubung pembentukan Barisan Nasional mungkin berlaku sebelum 1973, tetapi adalah jelas bahawa Barisan Nasional tidak ditubuhkan ketika saya ditahan di bawah ISA pada 18 Mei 1969.

Namun cerita temberang Hanif ini mendakwa kononnya saya mencadangkan agar Semenanjung Malaysia dibahagikan kepada dua, Pantai Timur kepada orang Melayu dan Pantai Barat kepada orang Cina, sambil mendabik dada kononnya beliau memenjarakan saya ekoran kenyataan rekaan itu walaupun beliau masih belum menjadi KPN pada masa itu.

Ini juga adalah kali pertama saya mendengar mengenai cadangan untuk memisahkan Semenanjung Malaysia kepada dua bahagian.

Jika saya pernah membuat cadangan sebegitu, ia tidak akan terperap lama sehingga separuh hampir abad, kerana sudah pasti akan digunakan oleh musuh saya untuk memburuk-burukkan saya.

Malah, sepanjang hayat saya, saya tidak pernah mendengar cadangan sebegitu daripada mulut sesiapa.

Sumber mana agaknya yang dipetik Hanif untuk mereka-reka cerita temberang tersebut.

Saya menjadi pemimpin politik yang paling banyak dimomokkan sepanjang separuh abad lalu. Saya dituduh menjadi komunis; bertanggungjawab terhadap rusuhan 13 Mei 1969, mengetuai demonstrasi jalanan di Kuala Lumpur dengan melaungkan slogan anti-Islam dan anti-Melayu walaupun saya tidak berada di Kuala Lumpur selepas Pilihan Raya Umum 10 Mei 1969; saya digambarkan sebagai iblis, puaka dan jembalang, Saya dituduh anti-Melayu, anti-Islam; boneka kuasa asing; saya dituduh mendominasi Pakatan Harapan dan menjadikan pemimpin lain seperti Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali and Mohamad Sabu sebagai boneka saya dan kononnya saya mahu menjadi Perdana Menteri jika Pakatan Harapan menang PRU14.

Namun semua pembohongan, kepalsuan dan tindakan memburuk-burukkan ini tidak terbanding dengan cerita temberang Hanif yang mendakwa kononnya saya mahu Malaysia terbahagi kepada dua bahagian selepas PRU Mei 1969.

Saya pasti, Cawangan Khas, salah sebuah pasukan yang paling cekap di dunia, mempunyai rekod penuh keberadaan saya selama lapan hari dari 10 Mei (Hari Pengundian PRU 1969) sehingga 18 Mei 1969, semasa saya ditahan di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Subang, ketika saya menaiki pesawat dari Singapura walaupun pemimpin parti dan keluarga saya menasihati saya supaya tidak pulang ke tanah air kerana saya disenarai hitam sebagai tahanan mengikut ISA.

Semasa tempoh lapan hari itu, saya tidak berada di Kuala Lumpur, sebaliknya di Melaka, Petaling Jaya, Sabah dan Singapura.

Saya minta supaya Hanif memetik bab dan rangkap, tarikh dan masa, di mana saya membuat cadangan mengarut seumpama itu. Jika maklumat itu diklasifikasikan sebagai rahsia rasmi, maka ia harus dinyahkan daripada status itu.

Saya memberi Hanif tempoh selama dua hari untuk memberi respons terhadap cabaran ini atau rakyat Malaysia akan membuat kesimpulan bahawa beliau sudah nyanyuk atau mempunyai agenda tersembunyi untuk memburuk-burukkan saya dan DAP dengan penipuan sebegitu.

Saya akan mempertimbangkan untuk mengambil tindakan undang-undang selepas tamat tempoh dua hari tersebut.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang pada Jumaat 7 September 2018 di Kuala Lumpur)

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Sungai Kandis, Seri Setia and Balakong by-elections are building blocks for the making of the  MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance to topple the Pakatan Harapan government before 15GE in 2013 and such ignoble efforts must be exposed and defeated

The Sungai Kandis, Seri Setia and Balakong by-elections in Selangor are the building blocks for the making of the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance to topple the Pakatan Harapan government before the 15th General Election in 2013 and such ignoble efforts must be exposed and defeated.

UMNO President Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has said that the entire UMNO leadership would attend the PAS Muktamar in Kuala Terengganu next week.

But I do not expect the MCA leadership would dare to be so brazen and blatant as to attend the PAS Muktamar, as it already speaks of great desperado on the part of MCA leaders that they could agree to PAS leaders appearing in MCA ceramahs in the Balang by-election for the sake of saving the deposit of the MCA candidate.

But why had UMNO given way to PAS in the Seri Setia by-election?

In the May 2018 general election, where there was a four-cornered contest in Seri Setia, the UMNO/BN candidate polled 9,878 votes as compared to the PAS candidate who secured only 4,563 votes and lost his deposit.

It would be understandable for UMNO to give way to PAS to contest in the by-election  if PAS candidate  had secured more votes than the UMNO candidate in the May 2018 general election, but the PAS candidate  not only lost out to the UMNO candidate, he even lost his deposit!

Why then did UMNO give way to PAS to contest the Seri Setia by-election.

The answer is obvious. The Sungai Kandis,  Seri Setia and Balakong by-elections are building blocks for the making of the  MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance to topple the Pakatan Harapan government before 15GE in 2013, with UMNO contesting in Sungai Kandis, PAS in Seri Setia and MCA in Balakong – while all the three parties secretly or overtly helping each other in the three by-elections.

The MCA/UMNO/PAS get-together is most irresponsible, unprincipled, toxic and opportunistic alliance as it is not founded on principles and any noble objectives, but based on the selfish interests of the leaders who want to topple the Pakatan Harapan Government and return to the corruption, abuses of power and injustices of the Najib government which was thrown out peacefully and democratically in the 14th General Election on  May 9, 2018.

I am rather worried about the voter turnout for the Seri Setia and Balakong by-elections bomorrow  as the public holidays for the next four days at a stretch may defeat Pakatan Harapan efforts to call for a high turnout of voters in the by-election, so as to avoid the dismally low  49.4 per cent voter turnout in the Sungai Kandis by-election.

The 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 had been described as  a “gift of hope” to Malaysians for a New Malaysia, where life would be better under a new government where  Malaysians can hope and dream again to make Malaysia a great and respected nation in the world.

On that day, Malaysians not only in the country but in the Malaysian Diaspora worldwide stood up and felt proud as Malaysians.

They had stopped the country’s trajectory hurtling towards a failed state, rogue democracy, global kleptocracy and kakistocracy and given Malaysians a second chance to rebuild the country into a world-class nation in various fields of human endeavour, which is united, harmonious, democratic, progressive and prosperous,  with rule of law, good governance,  public integrity and economic well-being for her citizens.

I call on the voters of Seri Setia and Balakong to turn out in force despite the stretch of  four consecutive days of public holdiays, to endorse efforts by Pakatan Harapann  to bring about a New Malaysia.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang campaigning for PKR candidate Halimey Abu Bakar in Seri Setia by-election in Kelana Jaya on Friday, 7th May 2018)

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The most ideal result is for the MCA and PAS candidates in the two by-elections to lose their deposits which will be a fatal blow to the incipient MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance which will cause untold national disunity and dissension in coming years

I was in Seri Setia earlier this evening, as tomorrow, the voters of Balakong and Seri Setia will be casting their votes in the two by-elections.

The most ideal result is for the MCA and PAS candidates in the two by-elections to lose their deposits which will be a fatal blow to the incipient MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance which will cause untold national disunity and dissension in coming years.

On the historic night of May 9, 2018, when the Election Commission downed tools and refused to announce results of the 14th General Elections, as  it was clear that UMNO/BN had finally been rejected  by the voters of Malaysia, my greatest concern was that Pakatan Harapan could  secure a simple majority of at least 112 parliamentary seats to form the new Federal Government of Malaysia.

If there was a hung Parliament, and no contender could get a simple majority of 112 parliamentary seats, then PAS would be able to play the “king-maker” role as envisaged by the PAS President, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, who had announced the PAS objective of winning 40 parliamentary seats in the 14GE to be the “kingmaker” as to who would be the Prime Minsiter and which coalition form the Government in Putrajaya.

There was no hiding the fact that the PAS leadership under Hadi would have allowed Datuk Seri Najib Razak to continue as Prime Minister, and throw the support of the 40 PAS MPs to play the “kingmaker” role to enable UMNO/BN to continue as the Federal Government – most probably bargaining the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Hadi – as PAS has no objections to Najib’s 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal which resulted in Malaysia being shamed and known worldwide as a global kleptocracy.

Fortunately, this did not happen and Pakatan Harapan won more than a simple majority and together with the Warisan parliamentary seats, a secure and strong Federal Government was formed in Putrajaya.

Now, these political players are up to their old tricks and we can see the new form and shape of a MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance being constructed  after the  by-elections tomorrow.

Such an unholy alliance will be unprincipled, opportunistic and highly irresponsible as it would have only one objective – to use lies and falsehoods to stop the building of a  New Malaysia by ensuring that the Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya would collapse and disintegrate before the next general election in 2023.

This is why the results of the MCA and PAS candidates in Balakong and Seri Setia by-elections losing their deposits would be the most ideal outcomes, for it would be a fatal blow to the incipient MCA/UMNO/MCA unholy alliance which will cause untold national disunity and dissension in coming years.

This would not be easy, unless there is a high voter turnout, which is always a problem in by-elections a few months after a a general election.

I am rather worried about the voter turnout for the Seri Setia and Balakong by-elections tomorrow as the public holidays for the next four days at a stretch may defeat Pakatan Harapan efforts to call for a high turnout of voters in the by-election, so as to avoid the dismally low 49.4 per cent voter turnout in the Sungai Kandis by-election.

Let us keep our fingers crossed, that there would be a high voter turnout in both by-elections and that the MCA and PAS candidates would lose their deposits.

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Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the DAP Balakong by-election ceramah at Taman Desa Baijuri  on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 at 10.30 pm
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UMNO and PAS making use of MCA to “borrow a corpse to resurrect the soul” (借尸还魂) to build the new MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance to plot the downfall of Pakatan Harapan Government before 15GE

Yesterday, I asked three questions:

· Why PAS wants to help the MCA in the Balakong by-election;

· Why is MCA getting help from UMNO leaders who are continuing with their extreme and irresponsible  politics of race, religion, hate, fear and lies  declaring that after the 14GE, the Malays have lost political power, that the DAP is the enemy of the Malays and Islam  and that DAP wanted to abolish the Malay Sultans and set up a republic.

· Why is MCA so desperate that it has to seek help from the  extremist and opportunistic UMNO/PAS unholy alliance  to avoid losing deposit in the Balakong by-election?

All the answers to these three questions were answered yesterday evening.

In the Seri Setia by-election yesterday, UMNO and PAS finally got in bed together, with both parties campaigning jointly for the PAS candidate.

This unholy UMNO/PAS union was blessed by the MCA leadership, which was represented at the PAS Seri Setia by-election campaign when the UMNO President, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi spoke at the PAS by-election ceramah and even pledged to personally attend the PAS Muktamar in Kuala Terengganu next week.

In fact, Zahid said he would ask the entire top UMNO leadership to attend the PAS muktamar with him – a special treatment which had been denied to MCA  as the entire top UMNO leadership never attended the MCA General Assemblies in the MCA history although  MCA boasted that it was the No. 2 biggest party in the 13-party Barisan Nasional in the past decades.

In reciprocation for MCA’s blessing for the UMNO/PAS unholy union, PAS leaders had been actively campaigning for the MCA in the Balakong by-election on the personal directive of the PAS President, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.

Zahid also appeared in the MCA by-election campaign in Balakong in his capacity as Barisan Nasional Chairman and appealed for a “moral victory” in the Balakong by-election, whether the MCA candidate wins or loses.

It is now clear that UMNO and PAS are making use of MCA to “borrow a corpse to resurrect the soul” (借尸还魂) to build the new MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance to plot the downfall of Pakatan Harapan Government before 15GE in 2023.

This has given Balakong and Seri Setia by-elections tomorrow a national importance over and above their  local objective to elect the State Assembly representative for the area – whether the voters of Balakong and Seri Setia wants to give the  MCA/UMNO/PAS a “moral victory” in their unholy alliance in-the-making.

It is very significant that neither in the Balakong nor Seri Setia 21-day by-election campaigns, the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance had not said a word of condemnation or repudiation of the corruption and abuses of power of the Najib government, in particular the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal which had given Malaysia the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of a global kleptocracy.

How then can they reform to become a constructive and honest Opposition, to transform their “unholy alliance” into a “holy alliance”, and  to provide the necessary check-and-balance for democracy to thrive in Malaysia, when they still represent the corruption, abuses  of power  and injustices of the Najib era?

If the MCA candidate in Balakong and the PAS candidate in Seri Setia lose their deposits in the by-elections tomorrow, it will the first and historic verdict that the people of Malaysia do not want an unprincipled, opportunistic and irresponsible MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance to muddy the waters in the difficult task of building a New Malaysia, free from the corruption, abuses of power and injustices of the Najib regime which was toppled peacefully and democratically in the 14th General Election some four months ago on May 9, 2018.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 7th Sept. 2018)

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My lawyers instructed to initiate legal proceedings against Hanif Omar if there is no satisfactory or acceptable response from the former IGP on his allegations against me by 12.30 pm tomorrow

My lawyers have been instructed to initiate legal proceedings against Tun Hanif Omar if there is no satisfactory or acceptable response from the former Inspector-General of Police on his allegations against me by 12.30 pm tomorrow.

Sinar Harian had reported Hanif as saying that he had put me in prison under the Internal Security Act in May 1969 because DAP wanted to divide Peninsular Malaysia into two parts after the 1969 General Election. the East Coast for the Malays and the West Coast for the Chinese.

This is a downright lie and falsehood, as neither DAP nor I had ever made such a preposterous proposal whether in 1969, before or after it.

In fact, in the seven grounds for my detention under the Internal Security Act in 1969, there was no reference whatsoever to the proposal to divide Peninsular Malaysia into the East Coast for Malays and the West Coast for Chinese, and during my initial 60-day custodial detention at the Kuala Selangor police lock-up in 1969, when I was questioned by squads of Special Branch officers I was never questioned about this allegation.

This is why I wanted to know where Hanif had sourced this preposterous allegation.

I had challenged Hanif to quote chapter and verse, date and place within two days where DAP or  I had made such a preposterous proposal after the May 1969 general election and that  I reserved the right to institute legal proceedings to protect my character and reputation if Hanif failed to do so.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturay, 8th September 2018)

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Blogger Sakmongkol AK47 writes again

Former DAP MP for Raub Ariff Sabri who blogged as Sakmongkol AK47, and  who had been struck by a brainstem stroke seventeen months ago in May 2017 and rendered bedridden, has revived his blog and written again on “The Rule of Law”.

Ariff, who was unable to contest in the 14th General Election in May 2018, wrote today, exactly four months after the historic, peaceful and democratic change of Federal Government:

“Even though I am bedridden because of my stroke, I have been watching and reading as New Malaysia events unfold. While I rejoice in a ruling coalition that I support, I will not stop criticising.

“It has now been over 100 days since PH’s inauguration.

“And I ask, why are we so engrossed over the 100 days issue?”

Later in his blog today, Sakmongkol AK47 wrote:

“I believe the greatest failure of the 100-days limit is the failure of this government to put the people who committed economic crimes behind bars. If Najib were guilty of economic crimes—and all signs point to yes—he must be sent to the bamboo river resort.”

Welcome back to the blogosphere, Sakmongkok AK47!

And I pray and hope that I will also be able to say, sometime in the future: “Welcome back to Parliament Ariff Sabri!”

(Speech (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a youth dialogue at LYM Café, Skudai on Sunday, 9th September 2018 at 3 pm)

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One option MCA should consider is to close shop  if the best it can do in the Balakong by-election is to keep its deposit (or secure 12.5% of total votes cast) even with PAS help

I am really surprised by the low standards and expectations of MCA leaders on the eve of the 60th MCA anniversary in their reaction to the Balakong by-election result.

For instance, the MCA Deputy President, the sole MCA parliamentary survivor in the 14th General Election and MCA master campaigner in the Balakong by-election, Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong  claimed success for the MCA outing, saying that MCA had gained a higher percentage of support compared to the May election.

Wee said MCA earned a higher percentage of support of almost 15 per cent compared to 10.7 per cent in GE14.

This is really pathetic.

One option MCA should really consider on the eve of its 60th anniversary  is to close shop  if the best it can do in the Balakong by-election is to keep its deposit (or secure 12.5% of total votes cast) evem with PAS help, which means that without PAS help, the MCA candidate would have lost his deposit in the by-election!

What a fall from MCA’s height and halcyon days when it had four Ministers, 31 Members of Parliament, 76 State Assembly representatives and thousands  of local councillors and ketua kampongs   to its pathetic present when MCA has to fight to keep its deposit (i.e. win one-eighth of the votes cast) only with the help of PAS!

I congratulate Wong Siew Kin for her sterling victory in the Balakong by-election, all the more significant in increasing DAP’s vote share from 77.5 per cent in the 14thh General Election to 85 per cent in the by-election despite the lowest voter turnout of 43% in the country’s electoral history.

The Balakong by-election results have confirmed my analysis that a MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance will only result in PAS and UMNO making use of MCA to “borrow a corpse to resurrect the soul” (借尸还魂) to try to recover from their abject defeats in the 14GE.

It is very significant that neither in the Balakong nor Seri Setia 21-day by-election campaigns, the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance had said a word of condemnation or repudiation of the corruption and abuses of power of the Najib government, in particular the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal which had given Malaysia the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of a global kleptocracy.

This shows the real character and purpose of the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance whose formation was given a great push in the Balakong and Seri Setia by-elections.

MCA leaders, delegates and members (MCA claims to have a membership of more than a million members)  must now decide whether to go through with the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance, and condemn the present MCA leaders for their unholy alliance with PAS in the Balakong by-eleciton or to break totally not only with PAS but also with UMNO unless all three parties are prepared to fully reform and condemn the corruption, abuses of power and injustices of the Najib government.

I also congratulate Halimey Abu Bakor for his victory in the Seri Setia by-election, polling 13,725 votes to beat PAS’ candidate, Dr. Halimah Ali with 9,698 votes.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 9th September 2018)

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UMNO and PAS leaders should stop their delusion  to justify the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance in-the-making when the real intent of the unholy pact is purely for the selfish interests of UMNO and PAS leaders

UMNO and PAS leaders should stop their delusion  to justify the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance in-the-making when the real intent of the unholy pact is purely for the selfish interests of UMNO and PAS leaders.

A PAS leader has said that the PAS’ increased vote share at the Seri Setia by-election yesterday showed that further cooperation between BN and PAS was worth exploring.

He said Harapan’s popular vote had deteriorated whereas PAS had made significant inroads.

On the other hand, an UMNO leader said that the doubling of votes for the PAS candidate in GE14 from 4,563 votes to the 9,698 received by PAS by-election candidate  Dr Halimah Ali was proof that Malays approve of the cooperation between Umno and the Islamist party.

These are dishonest delusions by the PAS and UMNO leaders, as the UMNO and PAS leaders are  using different yardsticks for the comparison of the two polls, when what must compared are the votes secured by the PAS candidate in the by-election with the total votes polled by the UMNO and PAS candidates in the 14GE as PAS and UMNO had co-operated as one platform in the by-election  as compared to the 14GE when they each fielded separate candidates.

The UMNO leader was not being honest in claiming that the PAS candidate in Seri Setia Dr. Halimah Ali had doubled the votes polled by the PAS candidate in the 14GE, when her vote should be compared against the total combined votes secured by the UMNO candidate (9,878 votes) and the PAS candidate (4,563 votes), i.e. a total of 14,441 votes.

As  PAS and UMNO had jointly campaigned for voter support in the Seri Setia by-election, what Halimah got was 9,698 out of 14,441 votes – or only two-thirds of what PAS and UMNO polled in the 14GE.

In fact, Halimah’s vote of 9,698 votes was less than the 9,878 votes secured by the UMNO candidate in Seri Setia in the 14GE, raising the question why UMNO gave way to PAS to contest in the Seri Setia by-election when the UMNO candidate had more than double the votes of the PAS candidate in the 14GE!

When PAS leader claimed that Pakatan Harapan votes had deteriorated, he had simply ignored fact the voter turnout deteriorated from 84% to 44%.

The reason why UMNO/BN had been rejected by the Malaysian electorate in the 14GE was because the UMNO/BN leaders caused  Malaysia  to becomr a global kleptocracy, and in the four months after the 14GE, the UMNO/BN leaders (including MCA leaders) had not made any apology for the 1MDB kleptocracy, showing that MCA/UMNO/BN are  not capable of reform to become honest and constructive opposition parties.

Under such circumstances, why are the PAS leaders advocating an unholy alliance with the UMNO leaders?

Or are the PAS leaders under the PAS President, Datuk Hadi Awang, advocating Islamic kleptocracy?

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a youth dialogue at LYM Café, Skudai on Sunday, 9th September 2018 at 3 pm)

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Singapore’s return to Malaysia of RM46 million stolen from 1MDB powerful  reminder that unless MCA and UMNO leaders apologise and repent for aiding and abetting Najib in 1MDB corruption scandal, there is no future for MCA and UMNO

Singapore’s return to Malaysia of RM46 million unlawfully misappropriated from 1MDB and its former subsidiaries should be powerful reminder that the 1MDB global kleptocracy is not going to go away and unless MCA and UMNO leaders apologise and repent for aiding and abetting former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the 1MDB corruption scandal, there is no future for MCA and UMNO.

Efforts to recover other unlawfully misappropriated assets in the 1MDB scandal are ongoing not only in Singapore, but in many countries, including the United States and Switzerland and will continue to periodically catch international headlines and remind Malaysians of the criminality and moral turpitude of the 1MDB global kleptocracy.

The monies recovered from the misappropriated assets in the 1MDB scandal will be transferred to the special 1Malaysia Development Bhd recovery bank account in Kuala Lumpur.

It is open secret that cybertrooopers had been employed and  deployed by UMNO and MCA to criticise DAP and Pakatan Harapan leaders for continuing to talk about the 1MDB global kleptocracy, for their secret  agenda is  to get the DAP and Pakatan Harapan leaders to stop talking about the 1MDB scandal, whether during by-elections or otherwise.

But their strategies to stop Malaysians focussing on the 1MDB global kleptocracy are destined to fail, for as in the past few years, the 1MDB scandal will continue to periodically make international headlines because of the unprecedented  international scale and global magnitude of the 1MDB corruption and crime that the United States Attorney-General had described it as “kleptocracy at its worst”.

Malaysian must purge the 1MDB ghost and scandal, and this cannot be done by forgetting about it.

Furthermore, the failure of UMNO and MCA leaders to apologise and repent for aiding and abetting former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the 1MDB global kleptocracy will only prove that neither UMNO nor MCA is capable of reform to become a honest and constructive opposition party, and will continue to be rejected by the people as in the three recent by-elections in Sungai Kandi, Balakong and Seri Setia.

If UMNO and MCA want to be accepted as reformed political parties who can play a role in the necessary check-and-balance mechanism in any democratic society, then all UMNO and MCA leaders (including Ministers) who had aided and abetted in Najib’s 1MDB global kleptocracy should publicly apologise and retire from front-line political office.

If UMNO and MCA leaders think they can find salvation through an MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance, which saw initial efforts in the Balakong and Seri Setia by-elections,  they cannot be more mistaken and history will show them to be very wrong!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, 10th Sept. 2018)

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If Hanif is not senile, then he should act as a responsible former IGP but not be an irresponsible former top cop by failing to take  cognizance of the “scorched earth” tactics  of UMNO and PAS  political opportunists and extremists in post-14GE exploiting the toxic and dangerous politics of race, religion, fear, hate and lies to new unprecedented levels

Former Inspector-General of Police, Tun Hanif Omar, has told Sinar Harian today that he is not senile, that he has got a good memory as he can still remember the Japanese bombing of Teluk Intan on 24th December 1941, when he was not yet three years old!

A person who is senile would  not admit that he is senile, but I congratulate Hanif for having such a good memory. He is better than me as I could not  remember what I did before I was three years old!

I had given Haniff 48 hours expiring around noon on Sunday to quote chapter and verse, date and place where I had made the preposterous and ridiculous proposal to partition Peninsular Malaysia into two parts,  the West for the Chinese and the East for the Malays, for which he sent me to prison in 1969.

He failed to do so and  his clarification to Sinar Harian today has not met my 48-hour deadline.

As I have already instructed my lawyer, RamKarpal Singh to initiate legal proceedings against Hanif, I would leave the matter in RamKarpal’s hands.

I would advise Hanif, however, that if he is not senile, then he should act as a responsible former IGP and not be an irresponsible former top cop  by failing to take  cognizance of the “scorched earth” policy of UMNO and PAS  political opportunists and extremists in post-14GE exploiting the toxic and dangerous politics of race, religion, fear, hate and lies to new unprecedented levels.

He should realise that his cock-and-bull story that DAP wanted to partition Peninsular Malaysia into two parts, the West for the Chinese and the East for the Malays (where would the Indians go to?) would be fodder for the political extremists and opportunists in post-14th General Election, as illustrated by the 1min-58 sec WhatsApp video “Realiti Kerajaan Pro-DAP” carrying the most provocative and incendiary speech by the UMNO Secretary-General Tan Sri Annuar Musa to incite inter-racial and inter-religious animosity, hatred and strife in Malaysia or the speech by former UMNO Deputy Minister, Datuk Tajuddin Abdul Rahman at the Himpunan Melayu Bangkit purveying the lies that the Malays have lost political power, that the DAP-dominated Pakatan Harapan wanted to “Christianise” Malaysia and abolish the Malay Sultans to set up a republic.

Hanif has created a new cock-and-bull story and now wants everybody to  believe that his cock-and-bull story that DAP wanted to partition Peninsular Malaysia into two, with the West for the Chinese and the East for the Malays, was based on a special branch intelligence report sent to him in his capacity as police chief-of-staff in the National Operations Council (Mageran) in 1969.

As I have said, if I or the DAP had proposed the partition of Peninsular Malaysia into two, the West to the Chinese and the East to the Malays, it would not have been kept a secret for half a century, for it would have been used in the last five decades against me and the DAP to show how divisive, destructive, racist and unpatriotic DAP and I had been in wanting to divide Peninsular Malaysia into two parts according to race.

Can Haniff explain firstly, why this so-called DAP proposal was unknown to DAP leaders as I had never heard of it; and secondly, why it had been kept a secret for half a century?  Was it a secret only privy to Hanif and the Special Branch?

Will Hanif apologise for acting most irresponsibly as a former top cop in the country  with his cock-and-bull story?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on  Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018)

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Najib’s credibility has now reached such a low level that Utusan Malaysia has  blacked out the story of Najib’s documentary self-defence on the RM2.6 billion in his  personal bank account

How low the mighty have fallen in a matter of four months.

In his nine years as the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has achieved what the previous five Malaysian Prime Ministers as well as Prime Ministers in other countries  had never done – loss of his credibility to near zero level!

In fact, Najib’s credibility has now reached such a low level that Utusan Malaysia, which had depended on Najib for keeping it alive for nine years, have blacked out the story of Najib’s production of documents to try to  prove the truth of his claim about the former King of Saudi Arabia’s RM2.6 billion donation in Najib’s personal bank account.

The front-page stories of Utusan Malaysia today are “SERAH WANG 1MDB – Mahkamah Singapura arah pulangkan RM45 juta” and  “Muktamar bakal cipta sejarah PAS-UMNO” while there is no news report about Najib’s documentary self-defence at all.

Even the Star, the newspaper of MCA, a loyal component of Barisan Nasional when Najib was the Prime Minister and whose top leadership whether in Cabinet, Parliament or government had aided and abetted Najib in the 1MDB corruption scandal bringing infamy to Malaysia as a global kleptocracy today blacked out Najib’s attempt at self-exoneration and self-exculpation.

Only the  newspaper, New Straits Times, still loyally published Najib’s statement with a half-page report under the heading: “SAUDI RECORDS REVEALED”, although this is  relegated to Page 5 instead of a being a front-page news (which would be the case before May 9, 2018).  Instead, the front-page headlines in NST today are: “SINGAPORE TO RETURN RM46M”!

As veteran journalist, R. Nadeswaran rightly pointed out in his Opinion piece, “Najib and his ‘evidence;”;

“It’s better to be late than never. But sometimes, procrastination on issues and taking time to put matters right would convey the wrong message.

“After months of silence when one source after another insinuates on impropriety, the inability to rebut instantaneously can only be read that that subsequent and delayed responses become indefensible.”

Najib must explain why he allowed himself to be called a “pencuri, perompak, penyagak, penyamun” worldwide  for the past three years, demeaning not only the office of Prime Minister of Malaysia, but the good name and reputation of Malaysia in the world.

The truth of Najib’s integrity, whether the  documentary self-defence presented by Najib deserves belief and credibility, lies in his prepardness and alacrity to defend his reputation and character.

Najib should explain why he failed to sue the Wall Street Journal which published the report in July 2015 that the RM2.6 billion in his personal bank account belonged to 1MDB, which was followed by the major newspapers in the world.

It is not too late for Najib to sue Wall Street Journal as civil defamation suits have a six year statutory limitation. Will Najib now sue Wall Street Journal?

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) largest kleptocratic litigation suit to forfeit US$1.7  billion out of US$4.5 billion 1MDD-linked assets money-laundered  through the United States financial and banking system contained 10 “killer” paragraphs, i.e. Paragraphs 339 – 348 under the section “$681 MILLION WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE TANORE ACCOUNT TO AN ACCOUNT BELONGING TO MALAYSIAN OFFICIAL 1” which directly linked Najib’s RM2.6 billion donation to 1MDB.

If this was untrue and defamatory, why Najib failed to take  action to defend the country’s honour and integrity, if he does not think much of his own honour and integrity?

It is too late now for Najib to unveil documents of unknown authenticity to disprove that the 1MDB money-laundering was one of the world’s  worst cases of kleptocracy,  but for Malaysians to be cleansed of the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy because of the 1MDB money-laundering scandal and a kleptocratic Prime Minister.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Tuesday, 11th September 2018)

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1MDB chickens coming home to roost – all the way to Bamboo River Resort

What cheek and unrepentant  immorality and insolence that former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak could insist that I admit that he had received RM2.6 billion donation from a Saudi Prince, when the best answer to his pathetic effort at documentary exoneration on Monday was made  by Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) award-winning journalists, Tom Wright and Bradley Hope,  whose exposes on the 1MDB scandal in their book “Billion Dollar Whale” will hit the Malaysian bookstores next week.

Tom Wright and Bradley Hope took Najib  to task for his blog on Monday regarding how he received donations from the Saudi royal family.

Wright and Hope said Najib was not offering anything new with his disclosure of documents pertaining to donations from the Saudi royal family received in 2011.

Wright, via his Twitter account, said investigators around the world have said the bulk of the US$1 billion Najib received came from 1MDB.

Wright said:

“Najib Razak on Facebook says he received millions from Saudi Arabia in 2011. We have always reported that.

“It has nothing to do with US$681 million in 2013 that came from 1MDB, not to mention tens of millions more from the fund. Our book will detail all this.”

Wright disputed Najib’s claim that he needed time to gather the documents and said:

“We’ve had them for years, and there’s nothing new in them. And they don’t explain why he received US$681 million in 1MDB cash.”

His tweet went on to refer Najib to graphics published on September 1, 2016 in the WSJ, which described in detail how Najib allegedly received more than US$1 billion in his personal bank account .

Hope meanwhile tweeted to say that the documents that Najib included were partly misleading and said:

“The documents you’ve included are partly misleading (i.e. the wire transfers, which shield the true origin of the funds) and based partly on alleged fraud (the letter purporting to be from the Saudi prince, which was created to mislead regulators and banks.”

Najib seems to have difficulty in understanding simple English, taking my statement as vindication that I have now accepted that he had issued “some proof of the money donated from Saudi Arabia to my personal account”.

Najib cannot be more wrong, as Najib has not produced any proof that the RM2.6 billion in his personal bnak account came from Saudi Arabia.

In fact, I had said that Najib had achieved what the previous five Malaysian Prime Ministers as well as Prime Ministers in other countries  had never done – loss of his credibility to near zero level!

It is shocking that Najib could read into such a statement my acceptance of his claim that he had issued “some proof of the money donated from Saudi Arabia to my personal account”.

Let me advise Najib to wake up from such delusion or hallucination.

Najib should respond to the questions I had posed  – why he failed to sue the Wall Street Journal which published the report in July 2015 that the RM2.6 billion in his personal bank account belonged to 1MDB.

Furthermore that it was not too late for Najib to sue Wall Street Journal as civil defamation suits have a six year statutory limitation. Will Najib now sue Wall Street Journal?

It is fortunate that the change of government in the 14th General Election on 9th May 2018 has finally given Malaysians the chance to be freed from the albatross of a global kleptodcracy.

Can  we imagine what would have happened to the 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal if Barisan Nasional had won the 14th General Election on  May 9, 2018 witn  Datuk Seri Najib Razak continuing as Prime Minister – with or without the two-thirds parliamentary majority which Najib was confident of regaining up to the very last minute of the last general election campaign?

The Najib-controlled Parliament would continue to have Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mualia as Speaker, MPs will continue to forbidden from asking questions or debate the 1MDB scandal, while I will not be the only MP to be  treated as a “parliamentary ghost” in the 13th Parliament, where the Speaker and Deputy Speakers have eyes that see not, ears that hear not and mouth that rain prohibition on all things 1MDB.

The Parliamentary Account Commuittee will not only continue to  close its eyes and ears to the mounting evidence of 1MDB kleptocracy, whether the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) litigation to forfeit US$1.7 billion 1MDB-linked assets or the books on 1MDB whether by Sarawak Report founder Clare Rewcastle Brown’s “The Sarawak Report – the Insde Story of the 1MDB Expose” or Wall Street Journal’s award-winnning journalists Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s “Billion Dollar Whale”.

The 1MDB-linked assets, whether the billion-ringgit luxury superyacht Equanimity, the RM120 million Bombardier jet or the glittering stones like the RM120 million pink diamond necklace, would be exhibited publicly, blatantly and brazenly, while 1MDB mastermind Jho Low would not have to live the life of a international fugitive from justice!

But May 9, 2018 changed the world of 1MDB – and the 1MDB “chickens are coming home to roost” – all the way back to Bamboo River Resort!

Instead of continuing to build superstructures to fortify himself behind the walls of delusion and hallucination, it will do Najib good to have some shots of reality – like veteran journalist R. Nadeswaran’s latest commentary on the 1MDB scandal,  “Lies, damned lies and fairy tales”.

(Media Statement  by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018)

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Hanif’s cock-and-bull story that DAP wants Peninsular Malaysia to be partitioned into two parts, the West for Chinese and the East for Malays, is a rare and colossal act of mischief and irresponsibility  by a former top cop

I have been thinking about the  outrageous claim by the former  Inspector-General of Police, Tun Hanif Omar, who said that the DAP  proposal to split Peninsular Malaysia between the Malays and the non-Malays was detailed in a Special Branch intelligence report sent to him in his capacity as police chief of staff in the National Operations Council (Mageran) in 1969.

It would appear that the Special Branch knew more about the DAP than the DAP itself!

This is total news to DAP leaders and I myself, who was DAP Secretary-General for 30 years from  1969-1999, DAP National Chairman for five years from 1999 to 2004 and DAP Parliamentary Leader for 14 years from 2004 – 2018, have never heard of it.

I have just spoken to the founding National Chairman Dr. Chen Man Hin who will be 94 years old in another two months’ time. Dr. Chen, who was DAP National Chairman for 33 years from 1966 to 1999 and four-term Member of Parliament, confirmed that he had never heard of the preposterous and ridiculous proposal to partition Peninsular Malaysia into two parts, the West for the Chinese and the East for the Malays, which is against the  very principle and objective of the DAP since the founding of the party in 1966.

It would appear that the goal posts have been shifted since Hanif’s  original statement that the DAP had proposed after the May 13 riots in 1969 the partition of Peninsular Malaysia into two, the west for the Chinese and the east for the Malays to a new position that there was a Special Branch intelligence report in 1969 that there was such a DAP proposal.

Was there such a Special Branch intelligence report and was it credible?

Was the Special Branch officer who made the intelligencer report a “rogue” operative who had wanted the DAP to adopt the proposal that Peninsular Malaysia be divided into two, the west for the Chinese and the east for the Malays, so that DAP could be painted and demonized as racist, irresponsible and even treacherous and treasonable?

Even if it is true that there was such a Special Branch intelligence report – whose veracity is very much doubted as the DAP leadership knew nothing about it – the question is why Hanif had decided to resurrect it after half a century?

I am really mystified how such an outrageous allegation has been resurrected after half a century, even if it was true that there was such a Special Branch intelligence report in the first place.

The proposal is so preposterous, ridiculous, divisive, racist and treacherous that I want the full facts of this cock-and-bull story to be known.

Hanif’s cock-and-bull story that DAP wants Peninsular Malaysia to be partitioned into two parts, the West for Chinese and the East for Malays, is a rare and colossal act of mischief and irresponsibility  by a former top cop and the onus is on him to prove that there is such a Special Branch intelligence report and to reveal the identity of the Special Branch Officer who made such a report.

It is clear that the Police themselves did not believe in this Special Branch intelligence report as I was never questioned about it during my 60-day interrogative custody under the Internal Security Act, and furthermore, nobody heard anything about it for half-a-century until Hanif resurrected it.

Was the proposal a black operation which the Special Branch  had wanted to hoist on the DAP in 1969 so that the DAP could be accused of being divisive, racist and unpatriotic but failed?

Let the truth be known!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Wednesday, 12th Sept 2018)

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Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang pada Rabu, 12 September 2018 di Gelang Patah:

Kisah temberang Hanif bahawa DAP kononnya mahu Semenanjung Malaysia dipisahkan kepada dua bahagian, Barat untuk orang Cina dan Timur untuk orang Melayu, adalah tuduhan palsu dan tidak bertanggungjawab yang jarang berlaku dan berlebih-lebihan oleh seorang bekas pegawai kanan polis

Saya telah memikirkan mengenai dakwaan yang keterlaluan oleh bekas Ketua Polis Negara, Tun Hanif Omar, yang mendakwa bahawa DAP kononnya bercadang untuk memisahkan Semenanjung Malaysia dan ia kononnya dilaporkan secara terperinci dalam laporan risikan Cawangan Khas yang dihantar kepadanya dalam kapasitinya sebagai ketua pegawai polis di Majlis Operasi Nasional (Mageran) pada 1969.

Nampaknya, Cawangan Khas (SB) seolah-olah tahu lebih banyak mengenai DAP daripada DAP itu sendiri!

Para pemimpin DAP dan saya sendiri, yang merupakan Ketua Setiausaha DAP selama 30 tahun dari 1969 hingga 1999, Pengerusi Kebangsaan DAP selama lima tahun dari 1999 hingga 2004 dan Ketua Parlimen DAP selama 14 tahun dari tahun 2004 – 2018, tidak pernah mendengar mengenai perkara itu sehinggalah Hanif membangkitkannya.

Saya baru saja bercakap dengan pengasas dan Penasihat Seumur Hidup DAP Dr. Chen Man Hin yang bakal mencecah usia 94 tahun dalam masa dua bulan lagi. Dr. Chen,yang juga merupakan Pengerusi DAP Kebangsaan selama 33 tahun dari 1966 hingga 1999, mengesahkan bahawa beliau tidak pernah mendengar cadangan yang tidak masuk akal dan mengarut seumpama itu, yang jelas bertentangan dengan prinsip dan objektif DAP sejak penubuhannya pada 1966.

Hanif yang sebelum ini mendakwa DAP kononnya membuat cadangan tersebut selepas berlakunya rusuhan 13 Mei 1969, bagaimanapun menokok tambah kenyataannya itu dengan mendakwa bahawa kononnya perkara itu dimaklumkan kepadanya menerusi laporan perisikan Cawangan Khas pada 1969.

Adakah laporan risikan Cawangan Khas ini sebenarnya wujud dan boleh dipercayai?

Adakah pegawai Cawangan Khas sengaja mereka-mereka laporan risikan itu bagi memburuk-burukkan DAP dengan tuduhan perkauman, tidak bertanggungjawab dan bahkan khianat dan berbahaya?

Jikalau benar sekalipun terdapat laporan perisikan Cawangan Khas – yang boleh diragui kerana kepimpinan DAP sendiri tidak mengetahui apa-apa mengenainya – mengapa baru sekarang Hanif membangkitkannya setelah setengah abad berlalu?

Cadangan itu sangat tidak masuk akal, mengarut, memecah-belahkan rakyat, bersifat perkauman dan khianat sehinggakan saya mahu kesemua fakta mengenai kisah temberang ini didedahkan.

Kisah temberang Hanif bahawa DAP kononnya mahu Semenanjung Malaysia dipisahkan kepada dua bahagian, Barat untuk orang Cina dan Timur untuk orang Melayu, adalah tuduhan palsu dan tidak bertanggungjawab yang jarang berlaku dan berlebih-lebihan daripada seorang bekas pegawai kanan polis dan menjadi tanggungjawab beliau untuk membuktikan kewujudan laporan risikan Cawangan Khas tersebut serta mendedahkan identiti Pegawai Cawangan Khas yang membuat laporan sedemikian.

Adalah jelas bahawa polis sendiri tidak mempercayai laporan risikan Cawangan Khas ini kerana saya tidak pernah disoal siasat berhubung perkara itu semasa saya ditahan selama 60 hari mengikut Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri, malah, tiada seorang pun tahu mengenainya sejak setengah abad lalu sehinggalah Hanif membangkitkannya.

Adakah cadangan tersebut sebenarnya black ops yang dijalankan Cawangan Khas untuk memburuk-burkkan DAP pada 1969, supaya DAP boleh dituduh sebagai pemecah belah, perkauman dan tidak patriotik, namun gagal mencapai objektifnya?

Lim Kit Siang

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Now that the BN-controlled Senate had sabotaged the repeal of the Anti-Fake News Act at least for a year, should Najib be the first to be  charged for the numerous fake news he had manufactured about the 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal?

A Barisan Nasional-owned newspaper which described yesterday’s Senate rejection of the Anti-Fake News (Repeal) Bill passed by the Dewan Rakyat  as “an historic development” was right in the sense that it was  a Day of Infamy for the Senate after six decades of irrelevance in Malaysian history.

It highlighted the urgency of parliamentary reforms with regard to the  Senate to ensure that it could be an effective revising chamber for the Dewan Rakyat as envisaged by the founding fathers of the nation, instead of being  a dumping-ground for the political has-beens and the political rubbish from the Barisan Nasional parties, which was the standard operating procedure for appointment of BN Senators in the past six decades.

This is why BN-appointed Senators do not feel the shame that their appointers had been rejected by the Malaysian people in the 14th General Election, and if they had a modicum of  shame and moral compass, they would have honourably resigned from the Senate instead of playing the role like yesterday as saboteurs and enemies of the popular will as expressed in the 14th General Election.

The Pakatan Harapan is committed to far-reaching parliamentary reforms, not only for the Dewan Rakyat but also for the Dewan Negara, so that Senators can play a proud and important role in the national political landscape.

Although a Barisan Nasional Senator said after the rejection of the Bill that opposition Senators voted against the repeal because they believed the law prohibiting fake news could be improved, this is an insincere post-facto explanation for their sin of parliamentary sabotage, for no Barisan Nasional Senator had submitted any specific proposal to improve the Anti-Fake News Act.

I had previously said that the  Anti-Fake News Act was in fact a “Save Najib from 1MDB Scandal” legislation  which criminalized  all news about 1MDB scandal in Malaysia available worldwide and punishable as “fake news” with excessive penalties of RM500,000 fine, 10 years jail or both.

I have been a victim of fake news and false information for decades, demonizing me as anti-Malay, anti-Islam; cause of May 13 riots in Kuala Lumpur in 1969 when I was never in Kuala Lumpur during the relevant period; agent of foreign powers one and the same time, agent of CIA, M16, KGB and Australian Intelligence; having received RM1 billion from Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to allow the entry of PPBM into Pakatan Harapan, received RM100 million from Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok, financed a news portal with RM40 million, received more than a billion ringgit from Israeli sources, and other monstrous and evil lies; and  most recently, that I had wanted to partition Peninsular Malaysia into two parts, the west for the Chinese and the east for the Malays.

Are the Income Tax department and the Special Branch in Malaysia so inefficient, incompetent and unprofessional to allow such dastardly activities to take place in the past few decades without knowing about them?

It is of course impossible. In fact, Malaysia has one of the most competent, efficient and top-class Special Branch in the world, and the Special Branch professionals know these fake news and false information about me are just downright lies – the handiwork of the UMNO/BN propagandists and well-funded quinoa cybertroopers.

Will all these people who concoct and peddle these fake news and false information about me be arrested, prosecuted and punished with half-a-million ringgit fine or 10 years’ jail or both?

Of course not.

This was why the Suhakarm Chairman Tan Sri Razali Ismail had opposed the Anti-Fake News Act, as while false news must be exposed and combated, it must not be through the Anti-Fake News Act which had enormous implications and could lead to an authoritarian form of government.

As the Suhakam Chairman  rightly pointed out early this year, the UMNO/BN government’s track record in utilizing laws for reasons other than its intended purpose was arguably questionable and the proposed law could be used to exert control on the media and worsen Malaysia’s standing on the Reporters Without Border’s World Press Freedom Index. Malaysia ranked 144th out of 180 countries in the 2017 index.

The Anti-Fake News Act was  a new weapon to cover-up corruption, in particular the 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal and  to entrench Malaysia’s 3Is – ignominy, infamy and iniquity – as a global kleptocracy!

Now that the BN-controlled Senate has sabotaged the repeal of the Anti-Fake News Act for at least for a year, may be the former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak should be the first to be charged for the mountain of  fake news he had manufactured about the 1MDB scandal, including his false claims that  the RM2.6 billion donation in his personal bank  accounts came  from Saudi Arabia royalty, that he  had returned RM2.6 billion donation to the Saudi Arabia royalty and that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the 13th Parliament had cleared him of any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah  on Thursday, 13th September 2018)

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MCA, UMNO, BN and even PAS can kiss  their future goodbye if their  leadership are not prepared to apologise and repent for aiding and abetting Najib in  the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal which transformed Malaysia into a global kleptocracy

MCA Deputy President Datuk Wee Ka Siong said yesterday that  the  Barisan Nasional can kiss government and political power goodbye if there is a UMNO-PAS hook-up as 141 parliamentary seats (85 in Peninsular Malaysia and 56 in Sabah/Sarawak) out of a total of 222 parliamentary seats in Malaysia  have more than 35% voters who are non-Malays and in such a UMNO/PAS hook-up, the non-Malay voters would be driven towards Pakatan Harapan.

Wee is not strictly correct as there are over 20 parliamentary constituencies in Peninsular Malaysia  where the predominantly Malay voters exceed 65% and they had elected Pakatan Harapan parliamentarians in the 14th General Election on 9th May 2018.

In any event, Wee have the least political credibility to forecast the future or he would not have entered into an MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance in the recent Balakang and Seri Setia by-elections in Selangor.

I would say that  MCA, UMNO, BN and even PAS can kiss  their future goodbye if their  leadership are not prepared to apologise and repent for aiding and abetting former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak in  the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal which transformed Malaysia into a global kleptocracy!

Their  apology and repentance is now all the more imperative with the law enforcement agencies closing in and the 1MDB chickens coming home the roost.

Even Najib is making the unprecedented step of conducting a pre-trial defence through the media (although he objected to a trial by media) with the  most novel and unbelievable claim that the US$681 million (RM2.6 billion) in his personal accounts were “contingency funds” from the king of Saudi Arabia, allegedly channelled through what he claimed was one of the latter’s companies, Tanore Finance Corporation.

This is a most peculiar time for Najb to come out with such a novel defence – when the Malaysian public can easily find answers to the 1MDB conundrum through two books on the 1MDB available in the bookshops – Clare Rewcastle Brown’s “The Sarawak Report – the Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose” and “Billion Dollar Whale” by two journalists from Wall Street Journal, Tom Wright and Bradley Hope.

I met Wee at the Subang Airport lounge yesterday and I showed him a copy of “Billion Dollar Whale” which I was reading.

I was  surprised that he showed the least interest in the book on how a Penangite “fooled Wall Street,  Hollywood and the World”” – as well as 30 million Malaysians – as if he knew all along about the enormity of the 1MDB scandal, as well as the financial scams and scandalous escapades of  1MDB mastermind Jho Low.

All MCA and UMNO leaders – PAS as well – at all levels of their leadership should get a copy each of Clare’s “The Sarawak Report” and Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s “Billion Dollar Whale”” so that they can forcefully demand that all political leaders during Najib’s premiership who aided and abetted in the “kleptocracy at its worst”” scandal should now apologise and repent for their dereliction of duty to defend and uphold the best interests of the nation.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 14th September 2018)

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Will Najib have the spend the rest of his life in jail if former El Salvadoran President Elias Antonia Saca gets 10-year prison term for RM1.2 billion graft as  Najib’s 1MDB corruption scandal  runs into tens fo billions of ringgit

Will the sixth Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, have to spend the rest of his life in jail if former El Salvadoran President Elias Antonia Saca gets 10-year prison term for RM1.2 billion graft as  Najib’s 1MDB corruption scandal  runs into tens fo billions of ringgit!

It was reported today that a court in El Salvador had sentenced former president Saca to ten years in prison for diverting US$301 million (RM1.2 billion) from state coffers during his term and being guilty of the crimes of embezzlement, money, and asset laundering.

Saca’s former private secretary Elmer Charlaix was also sentenced  to 10 years in prison for the same crimes, while the Communications Secretary Julio Rank, and the president of the state water company, Cesar Funes, were sentenced to five years in prison.

Saca was tried along with six of his collaborators in the public funds theft case.

In a plea-bargaining deal, the former El Salvador president agreed to having committed crimes of embezzlement, money, and asset laundering, in exchange for the 10-year term. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.

Saca also was directed to return to the state personally his share of the loot – or US$260.7 million.

All over the world, there is a war against corruption, embezzlement and money-laundering.

Malaysia is no exception and is in fact in the thick of the war against corruption, embezzlement and money-laundering and the only question is whether can follow up on the historic milestone of May 9, 2018 in bringing about a peaceful and democratic transition of power with another world-class coup – the transformation of a global kleptocracy into a leading nation of integrity!

The test of the  second historic milesone is how the the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal, which the US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions had told an international conference as  “kleptocracy at its worst”, could be exposed, exorcised and those guilty for the heinous crimes of 1MDB corruption, embezzlement and money-laundering brought to justice.

I am reading the second 1MDB book to be published this month, Clare Rewcastle Brown’s “The Sarawak Report – the Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose”.

It is most shocking and a shame and infamy to all Malaysians that former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in a foreword to the book, described the 1MDB scandal as the “theft of the century”, where “billions of the Malaysian people’s money gone missing during a ten-year binge”.

Gordon Brown said the 1MDB “is not just a morality tale about corruption in high places” but  “a morality tale about how what has become the economic jungle of modern globalisation costs ordinary citizens billions in lost income, lost services and lost savings when the transactions of a ruling clique are not subject to cross-border rules governing proper behaviour”.

He said that in the 1MDB scandal, “the wealth of the Malaysian people – accumulated in the fund 1MDB and personally under the control of Prime Minister Najib Razak – was sent out of Malaysia and round the world, flowing into shell companies in Curacao, the British Virgin Islands, the Seychelles, the Cayman Islands and many other tax shelters and havens,  the sole purpose being to disguise what is alleged in indictments by US prosecutors to be the plundering of the nation’s wealth”.

Gordon Brown wrote: “In recent years there have been  two notorious cases of wrongdoing at the highest level: Malaysia’s 1MDB and Brazil’s Petrobas. Both expose the loopholes in the way we manage globalisation. But the Malaysian 1MDB theft – with its global scope and scale, and its geopolitical fallout – has reached even deeper  than the oil company scandal that has engulfed Brazil.

”What happened at 1MDB reflects the way modern globalisation can work to aid, rather than prevent, wrongdoing – not only enabling money to  be sent at speed, at the flick of a switch, from place to place and to any and all corners of the world, but also enriching secretive tax havens operating questionable practices to hide assets and so disguise the real patterns of ownership and all too often to hide criminal acts.”

Clare launched her book in Malaysia five days ago. Why the thunderous silence from Najib to Clare’s book and Gordon Brown’s indictment, when Najib takes to his blog daily?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit  Siang in Gelang Patah on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018)

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All Malaysian will share my feeling when reading Clare Rewcastle-Brown and  Tom Wright/Bradley Hope’s two books on the 1MDB scandal that the more you read and angrier you become as the 1MDB scandal is even worse than what one had thought

The 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 had not  just achieved the peaceful, democratic and historic result of changing the Federal Government for the first time in the nation’s  61-year history, it had changed Malaysia in many ways.

For one, two books this week  on the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal would have been banned in Malaysia and Malaysians would have to get them overseas and smuggle them into country to  share the sordid tales  of crime and corruption of powerful people in Malaysia!

The two books are Clare Rewcastle Brown’s “The Sarawak Report – The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose” and Wall Street Journal’s two award-winning journalists Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s “Billion Dollar Whale”.

The first print run of 5,000 copies of Sarawak Report editor Clare’s  book chronicling the 1MDB scandal has been completely sold out in less than a week.

I do not know the number of  the first print run of Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s  “Billion Dollar Whale”, but I expect it to be selling like hot cakes like Clare’s book when they are available in the bookshops next week.

Why “Billion Dollar Whale”? Is it because of 1MDB mastermind Jho Low’s size and appearance as I originally thought.

The answer is provided in Page 3 of the book:

“Casino operators and nightclubs refer to their highest rollers as ‘whales’, and one thing was certain about Low : He was the most extravagant whale that Vegas, New York and St. Tropez had seen in a long time – maybe ever”.

Jho Low  stayed at the most opulent “”Chairman Suites” at Palazzo  in Las Vegas, priced at US$25,000 per night. For his 31st birthday celebration in November 2012, he splashed millions of US dollars to host a circus-themed extravaganza that would go down in Las Vegas lore as the most expensive private party ever held featuring an indoor Ferris wheel, circus performers, and a who’s who of Hollywood – not to mention Britney Spears emerging from a fake birthday cake and the attendance of all of Low’s contacts, including stars like Leonardo DiCaprio.  Spears reportedly took a six-figure sum for her brief cameo. Psy, the South Korean singer who had shot to stardom that year for “Gangnam Style”, was there to provide a live performance.

The book said: “Almost everyone who had played a role in facilitating Low’s triump was on hand to celebrate with him.  Low arranged for every aspect of the event to be paid from the 1MDB bonds, and the amounts were staggering. For an evening work, Swizz Beatz, Low’s producer friend and husband of Alicia Keys, received US$800,000 from a shell company funded from the stolen money.”

The book said: ”Even today, the scale of what he achieved – the global heists he pulled off, allowing him to pay for that night’s party and much, much more – is hard to fathom.

“Low might have hailed from Malaysia, but his was a twenty-first century global scheme. His conspirators came from the world’s wealthiest 0.1 per cent, the richest of the rich, or people who aspired to enter its ranks.”

The more I read the two books, the angrier I became. In fact, I believe that all Malaysian will share my feeling when reading Clare Rewcastle-Brown  and  Tom Wright/Bradley Hope’s two books on the 1MDB scandal that the more you read and angrier you become, at how tens of billions of Malaysian ringgit and the future of the present and future generations of Malaysians could be so easily and irresponsibly stolen and pawned away!

It is indeed the heist of the rights and future of Malaysians!

I thought I had known more than ordinary Malaysians about the criminality and moral turpitude of the 1MDB scandal, but I was completely floored by the scale and scope of the immorality and brazenness of the two protagonists of the 1MDB scandal which transformed Malaysia into a global kleptocracy – the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia Datuk  Seri Najib Razak and the real operator of 1MDB, Jho Low.

Former US Ambassador to Malaysia, John Mallot, is right – the 1MDB scandal is even worse than what one had thought.

As John Mallot wrote in his recent article on “Billion Dollar Whale”:

The authors describe in great and fascinating detail how Jho Low, with Najib’s connivance, was able to steal over US$5 billion from 1MDB – and therefore from the Malaysian people. Jho Low put Malaysia on the map, but for all the wrong reasons.

“”The Najib in this book is incompetent and uncaring and doesn’t care to learn the details – as long as he gets money for his political purposes, and as long as his wife, Rosmah, is happy and gets what she wants. He knew Jho Low was stealing, but he didn’t know how much. As for Rosmah, what mattered most was the millions of dollars worth of Birkin bags and jewellery, funded by money stolen from 1MDB.”

John Mallot rigthtly pointed out: “The authors talk about Imelda Marcos and the 1,100 pairs of shoes that were found after Ferdinand Marcos was overthrown in the Philippines.

“But even if each pair of shoes was worth US$1,000, that still is only a million dollars. The Malaysian police say that all the ‘loot’ confiscated from the Najib family home and condos added up to US$273 million.”

I came away with two conclusions from the two books on the 1MDB scandal.

Firstly, those who claim that the 1MDB is fake news, an elaborate international conspiracy to topple a freely-elected Prime Minister in Malaysia should just read these two books.

Secondly, how could the political and government leaders in the Najib government, whether Ministers, Members of Parliament, top government officials or  UMNO/MCA/MIC/Gerakan/Barisan Nasional leaders at all levels, from national to state to local, be so blind to the criminality and moral turpitude in the 1MDB scandal  committed since 2009.

All of them are guilty of aiding and abetting Najib in the crime and corruption of the 1MDB scandal, and should apologise and repent for their betrayal of the nation and people by their silence and inaction – and the least they should do is to withdraw from public office for they have proved unworthy leaders of the Malaysian people and nation.

This includes all MCA/UMNIO/MIC leaders who had been Ministers or Deputy Ministers in the Najib government.

Every political activist, in fact every Malaysian concerned about Malaysia’s future, should get a copy of these two books, for what happened in the 1MDB scandal must never be allowed to happen again.

Clare Rewcastle Brown and Tom Wright/Bradey Hope should get their 1MDB books translated into Malay, Chinese and Tamil so as to reach a maximum readership in Malaysia.

Malaysia cannot afford to have another Najib and Jho Low.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the opening of the DAP Teluk Intan constituency service centre on Saturday, 15th September 2018 at 11 am)

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What a pity, Mah should resign over  national issues such as protesting the 1MDB scandal and  Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy under Najib’s premiership instead of over any personal matter

What a pity! Datuk Mah Siew Keong should have resigned as Gerakan President over national issues such as protesting the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal and Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy under Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s premiership instead of over any personal matter.

If Mah had done the former, he would have the sympathy, support and solidarity of all thinking patriotic Malaysians, as  he would be doing something which a patriotic Malaysian should have done long ago, but I am not sure he would gain similar public sympathy, support and solidarity in resigning as Gerakan President for a personal matter.

Mah had resigned as Gerakan President with immediate effect when officiating the 43rd Gerakan Negri Sembilan annual assembly this morning, on the ground that he had promised to do so if the party’s performance in the 14GE was worse than its previous showing.

This is the fundamental problem with Gerakan and Barisan Nasional leaders – they cannot see the wood for the trees.

This is all the more so at a time when two books on the 1MDB scandal had hit the bookstores and no Malaysian can claim that the 1MDB scandal is just “fake news” and part of an international plot by diabolical forces to topple Najib from power!

The two books are Clare Rewcastle Brown’s “The Sarawak Report – The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose” and Wall Street Journal’s two award-winning journalists Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s “Billion Dollar Whale”.

As I said in Teluk Intan yesterday when officiating the opening of the DAP Service Centre of the DAP MP and Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Nga Kor Ming and Perak State Assemblyman for Pasir Bedamar Terence Naidu, the more I read the two books, the angrier I became.

I believe that all Malaysian will share my feeling when reading Clare Rewcastle-Brown  and  Tom Wright/Bradley Hope’s two books on the 1MDB scandal,  the more you read and angrier you become, at how tens of billions of Malaysian ringgit and the future of the present and future generations of Malaysians could be so easily and irresponsibly stolen and pawned away!

It is indeed the heist of the rights and interests of future generations of Malaysians!

I thought I had known more than ordinary Malaysians about the criminality and moral turpitude of the 1MDB scandal, but I was completely floored by the scale and scope of the immorality and brazenness of the two protagonists of the 1MDB scandal which transformed Malaysia into a global kleptocracy as revealed by these two books – Najib and Jho Low.

Former US Ambassador to Malaysia, John Mallot, is right – the 1MDB scandal is even worse than what one had thought.

As John Mallot wrote in his recent article on “Billion Dollar Whale”:

“”The authors describe in great and fascinating detail how Jho Low, with Najib’s connivance, was able to steal over US$5 billion from 1MDB – and therefore from the Malaysian people. Jho Low put Malaysia on the map, but for all the wrong reasons.

“”The Najib in this book is incompetent and uncaring and doesn’t care to learn the details – as long as he gets money for his political purposes, and as long as his wife, Rosmah, is happy and gets what she wants. He knew Jho Low was stealing, but he didn’t know how much. As for Rosmah, what mattered most was the millions of dollars worth of Birkin bags and jewellery, funded by money stolen from 1MDB.”

John Mallot rightly pointed out: “The authors talk about Imelda Marcos and the 1,100 pairs of shoes that were found after Ferdinand Marcos was overthrown in the Philippines.

“But even if each pair of shoes was worth US$1,000, that still is only a million dollars. The Malaysian police say that all the ‘loot’ confiscated from the Najib family home and condos added up to US$273 million.”

I said in Teluk Intan yesterday that my conclusion after  reading the two books on the 1MDB scandal was “How could the political and government leaders in the Najib government, whether Ministers, Members of Parliament, top government officials or UMNO/MCA/MIC/Gerakan/Barisan Nasional leaders at all levels, from national to state to local, be so blind to the criminality and moral turpitude in the 1MDB scandal  committed since 2009”.

Those  who claim that the 1MDB is fake news, an elaborate international conspiracy to topple a freely-elected Prime Minister in Malaysia, should just read these two books.

All political and government leaders, whether Ministers, Members of Parliament, top government officials or  UMNO/MCA/MIC/Gerakan/Barisan Nasional leaders at all levels, from national to state to local, under Najib’s premiership were guilty of aiding and abetting Najib in the crime and corruption of the 1MDB scandal, and should apologise and repent for their betrayal of the nation and people by their silence and inaction – and the least they should do is to withdraw from public office for they have proved unworthy leaders of the Malaysian people and nation.

Mah’s resignation, without lodging a single protest at the 1MDB scandal and Malaysia’s infamy for being regarded as a global kleptocracy, is a great disservice to Gerakan and himself.

Will there be anybody in the Gerakan leadership who will resign from all public office in repentence and shame in aiding and abetting Najib in the 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal resulting in Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 16 September 2018)

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Call on all Malaysian patriots who made history on May 9 to bring about a  peaceful and democratic transition of power in Malaysia  to  re-unite and join forces to create another history in Port Dickson in preparation for the  second phase of a New Malaysia

Now that diverse views have been expressed about the forthcoming Port Dickson by-election for Anwar Ibrahim to take his rightful place in Parliament, I call on all Malaysian patriots who had made history  on May 9 to bring about a peaceful and democratic transition of power in Malaysia  to re-unite and join forces to create another history in Port Dickson in preparation for the second phase of a New Malaysia.

The great idea of a New Malaysia cannot be accomplished in one general electoral cycle but will need ten to 20 years to accomplish.

We do not want Malaysia just to take the first step of the  first phase of a New Malaysia – when Malaysians whether in the country or the worldwide Diaspora felt proud to be Malaysians for the first time in many years and showed the world to have faith in the democratic process, especially at a time when democracy is undergoing world-wide crisis.

Let us fulfil the vision of Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman  that Malaysia is  a “beacon of light in a disturbed and distracted world” instead of a “black hole” of rogue democracy, kakistocracy and global kleptocracy in the world.

We must restore the doctrine of separation of powers with a Parliament which is not a creature of the Executive and the Prime Minister to aid and abet the suppression of heinous crimes like the international  1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal and blind to international indictment of Malaysia as  a global kleptocracy.

We must also  restore a nationally and internationally respected  Judiciary with independence, impartiality and professionalism  which is not a creature of the Executive and the Prime Minister – and we have made important beginnings with  the appointment of the new Chief Justice, Tan Sri Richard Malanjum,  the  new Court of Appeal President Tan Sri Ahmad Maarop and the new Attorney-General

Tommy Thomas.

Let us transform  Malaysia from a global kleptocracy into a leading nation of integrity in the world.

Let us restore our economic prowess and national greatness by leveraging on the strength and assets of our diversities of race, religion, language and culture to transform Malaysia into a top world class nation in every field of human endeavor and be an example to the world of an united, harmonious, successful, progressive and prosperous nation.

For the sake of future generations, we must completely the great journey to build a New Malaysia which is top world class in every field of human endeavour  and an example to the world of an united, harmonious, plural, just. successful, progressive and prosperous nation.

I recently visited Shanghai and Beijing.

Three to four decades ago, Malaysians visiting China find China more backward than Malaysia virtually in all fields, but today, the reverse has taken place and Malaysians visiting China find Malaysia behind China virtually behind in all fields.

How did Malaysia fall behind allowing one country after another to overtake us or close the gap of development and progress?

The time has come to reset Malaysia’s nation-building polices and directions where Malaysians will stop thinking of themselves merely as Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans and Ibans but to think of themselves as Malaysians!

There is however no guarantee  that the vision of a New Malaysia will succeed as there are  many in Opposition working for the implosion of Pakatan Harapan, as evidenced by the just-concluded PAS Muktamar heralding a new PAS-UMNO alliance to take the extremist  politics of race, religion, fear, hate and lies to an unprecedented level.

If the May 9, 2018 is to successfully herald a New Malaysia, we must ensure not only that the first phase of New Malaysia under  the seventh Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is a success, the second phase of a New Malaysia under the eighth Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim must equally be a success.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, 17th September 2018)

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Is Jho Low’s revamp of his personal website the first blow of a new Najib-Low campaign to limit the damage of the 1MDB scandal by working for the toppling of the Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya before 15GE?

News reports that fugitive billionaire Jho Low had overhauled his personal website to focus on rebutting allegations against him in connection with the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal kept gnawing at me in the five-hour  flight from Kuala Lumpur to Perth.

Why had Jho Low, described by two authors of the latest best-selling book on the 1MDB scandal, journalists of Wall Street Journal, Tom Wright and Bradley Hope in their book “Billion Dollar Whale” as “a silver-tongued con man”, made such a belated attempt at self-defence over the 1MDB scandal at such a late stage – five years after Clare Rewcastle Brown started digging up the 1MDB scandal, culminating in another best-seller on the 1MDB scandal, “The Sarawak Report – The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose”; more than three years after the Wall Street Journal expose of the RM2.6 billion donation in former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s personal bank accounts; and more than two years after the US Department of Justice (DoJ) largest kleptocratic litigation to eventually forfeit US$1.7 billion of US$4.5 billion of 1MDB-linked assets transacted through United States financial system?

Was Jho Low’s overhaul of his personal website in self-defence over the 1MDB scandal the result of pestering from Najib, who must felt very lonely in his solitary defence through the social media in the past few months declaring his innocence of any corruption or criminality in the 1MDB scandal, which transformed Malaysia into a global kleptocracy.

Or was it because of the publication of two books on the 1MDB scandal, which became instant best-sellers – “Billion Dollar Whale” and “The Sarawak Report – The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose”?

But is Jho Low unaware that Najib has virtually zero credibility among the Malaysian public on the 1MDB scandal, and Jho Low’s has the peculiar dishonour of having even lower credibility than Najib as far as the 1MDB scandal is concerned?

How then can Jho Low’s revamped personal website add value and credibility to the tale of Najib and Jho Low’s innocence in the 1MDB scandal?

Jho Low should know that the two 1MDB bestsellers have greater credibility than his revamped personal website – with the stories about Jho Low’s personal email in Sept. 2009 that “looks like we have hit a goldmine” which started the 1MDB scandal and his email in March 2013 about the “681 American pies” – clearly referring to the deposit of US$681 million (RM2.6 billion) into Najib’s personal bank accounts.

The famous episode where Low tried to topple the DAP, and in particular the DAP Secretary-General and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng in the 13th General Election was recorded in Chapter 30 of “Billion Dollar Whale”, as follows:

“But despite the huge expenditure, Najib remained stubbornly unpopular in Penang.  At the Psy (whose song “Gangnam Style” was a global hit and was paid by  Low to give a concert in Penang) concert, the prime minister went on stage, asking the concertgoers whether they were ready for the South Korean singer.

“’Yes’, they screamed back.  Then he asked whether the crowd was ready for his coalition to take back power in the state.

“’No,’ they roared.

“Low’s gambit had backfired.”

Let me put to Jho Low bluntly, if he is innocent, he should return home to vindicate himself instead of being an international fugitive from more and more countries.

Clearly, if Najib had won the 14GE,  Jho Low would have returned home and his billion-dollar superluxury yacht Equanimity docked in grand fashion in a Malaysian port, with the Prime Minister as the guest-of-honour.

Jho Low should know that he cannot be an international fugitive for life as the 1MDB noose is getting tighter.

Is Jho Low now hand-in-glove with Najib for a final power-play, to topple the Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya before the 15GE, with the revamp of his personal website as the spearhead of such a new campaign?

Let Jho Low answer: Is his revamp of his personal website the first blow of a new Najib-Low campaign to limit the damage of the 1MDB scandal by working for the toppling of the Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya before 15GE?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Perth on Tuesday, 18th Sept. 2018)

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