Adham should stop his game of semantics and focus on checking  the rise in daily increase of new Covid-19 cases and bring it down to double-digit figures or resign!

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The Health Minister, Adham Baba, should stop his game of semantics and focus on checking the rise in the daily increase of Covid-19 cases and bring it down to double-digit figures or resign!

He said that the fourth wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia will not happen unless cases involving domestic or local transmission record zero in the current third wave before the number of cases increase sharply the next day.

Going by Adham’s definition of the fourth wave, that it can only occur when the country has succeeded in zeroing cases in the third wave, then there will never be a fourth wave in Malaysia.

Can Adham state how many days in the past year had the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases in the country been zero case?

Yesterday’s record of daily increase of 2,331 new Covid-19 cases was the third day in a row since the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases have risen above the 2,000 mark.

I call on Adham to stop his game of semantics because his stance would only increase the concern and even alarm of Malaysians that the country would face the fourth wave of Covid-19 pandemic before we could bring the third wave (which started September last year and already one of the longest Covid-19 waves in the world) under control by reducing the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases to double-digit figures as in August last year and that we have competent and qualified people to end the trauma and catastrophe of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia.

A strong case could be made that Malaysia would have been spared the second and third waves of the Covid-19 pandemic (let alone the fourth wave) if the Sheraton Move conspiracy had not toppled the legitimate, competent and democratic Pakatan Harapan Government at the end of February 2020.

For more than a year of the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysia is the only country in the world \which had operated without an effective and credible Minister of Health, who had incapacitated himself with a series of fiascos like “warm water cure for Covid-19”, “500 countries” and “15 states in Malaysia” gaffes.

Now he had excelled himself, by claiming that Malaysia will not face a fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic unless the third wave in Malaysia recorded zero case in daily increase first!

How “smart” the Health Minister in fighting the fourth wave – by claiming that it will not happen because the third wave is still here, although it can be worse than in the past.

Is this Adham’s best answer to my call for the reconvening of Parliament to deal with a potential fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia?

No wonder the hashtag #kerajaangagal is such a rage on twitterjaya!

Malaysians fought against kleptocracy in the 14th General Election. They must now fight against kakistocracy in the 15th General Election!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 18th April 202)

Adham perlu berhenti bermain semantik dan fokus terhadap kadar kenaikan harian Covid-19 dan pastikan angka ini turun kepada julat dua angka, jika tidak, letak jawatan!

Menteri Kesihatan, Adham Baba, perlu berhenti memainkan hujah semantik dan sebaliknya fokus terhadap angka kadar kenaikan harian Covid-19 untuk memastikan angka ini turun ke julat dua angka, jika tidak, beliau patut letak jawatan!

Beliau mengatakan yang gelombang keempat Covid-19 di Malaysia tidak akan berlaku melainkan sekiranya kes domestic dan jangkitan tempatan turun ke kadar sifar dalam gelombang ketiga semasa sebelum kadar ini kemudiannya meningkat mendadak.

Mengikut definisi gelombang keempat Adham, di mana perkara ini hanya boleh berlaku selepas kita mencatatkan sifar kes Covid-19, maka kita tidak akan melihat gelombang keempat langsung.

Bolehkah Adham menyatakan berapa hari dalam tahun lepas di mana jumlah peningkatan harian kes ini berada pada kadar sifar?

Kadar peningkatan 2,331 semalam adalah hari ketiga berturut-turut sejak kita menyaksikan pengembalian kadar peningkatan di atas julat 2,000 kes sehari.

Saya menyeru Adham untuk menghentikan permainan semantik ini kerana pendirian beliau ini hanya akan menambahkan kebimbangan kepada rakyat Malaysia yang negara kita bakal berhadapan dengan gelombang keempat sebelum kita berjaya mengawal gelombang ketiga (yang bermula pada bulan September tahun lepas dan masih merupakan salah satu gelombang penularan Covid-19 yang terpanjang di dunia) dengan menurunkan kadar jangkitan harian ke julat dua angka seperti bulan Ogos tahun lepas dan menimbulkan persoalan sama ada kita mempunyai orang yang berkebolehan untuk menghentikan trauma dan bencana yang dibawa oleh wabak ini ke negara kita.

Boleh dikatakan yang Malaysia mungkin akan berhadapan dengan nasib yang lebih baik dan terlepas daripada gelombang kedua dan ketiga wabak Covid-19 ini (apatah lagi gelombang keempat) sekiranya Langkah Sheraton tidak menumbangkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan yang sah, berkebolehan, dan demokratik pada hujung Februari 2020.

Untuk selama lebih daripada setahun, Malaysia adalah satu-satunya negara yang beroperasi tanpa seorang Menteri Kesihatan yang efektik dan berkredibiliti, yang telah melumpuhkan dirinya sendiri dengan pelbagai kesilapan, seperti “penawar air suam kepada Covid-19”, “500 negara” dan “15 negeri di Malaysia”.

Kini beliau telah melakukannya sekali lagi dengan mengatakan yang Malaysia tidak akan berhadapan dengan gelombang keempat wabak ini selagi mana peningkatan harian kes Covid-19 dalam negara belum mencatatkan sifar kes!

Betapa “bijaknya” Menteri Kesihatan kita dalam melawan gelombang keempat — dengan mendakwa yang perkara ini tidak akan berlaku kerana gelombang ketiga masih di sini, walaupun ia mungkin akan menjadi lebih buruk.

Adakah ini jawapan terbaik Adham kepada seruan saya supaya Parlimen dipanggil bersidang semula untuk berhadapan dengan kemungkinan gelombang keempat ini?

Tidak mengejutkanlah hashtag #kerajaangagal terus tular di twitterjaya!

Rakyat Malaysia telah bangkit melawan kleptokrasi dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14. Kini kita perlu bangkit melawan kakistokrasi dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15!

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Ahad, 18 April 2021)

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The issue is not Mahathir but  how to unite our diverse peoples  as Malaysians to fulfil the Malaysian Dream as a world-class great nation

Former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad yesterday explained his “DAP sometimes extreme” remark which became fodder for those who are out to tar the DAP leadership and me has having sold out Chinese rights and interests.

For the past 55 years, I have been demonised as anti-Malay, anti-Islam, anti-Royalty, a communist, cause of May 13, 1969 riots in Kuala Lumpur, a non-Malaysian who came from China when I was 17 years old, when all these were lies and falsehoods as all DAP leaders are fully committed to uphold the cardinal features of the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukunegara nation-building principles, viz;

Constitutional monarchy;

Islam is the religion of the Federation and other religions may be practiced in peace and harmony everywhere in the country;

the special position of the Malays and natives of Sabah and Sarawak and the legitimate interests of other communities in accordance with Article 153;

Malay as the official language in line with Article 152 of the Constitution and to protect and strengthen the use of the mother tongue of all races;

Malaysia ‘s special characteristic as a nation of diversity — of races, language, cultures and civilisations;

Repeal or amend all unjust acts and laws which violate human rights; and

Federalism and fair relations between the Federation and the states, including restoring the rights of Sabah and Sarawak under the 1963 Malaysia agreement is upheld.

Now, after the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government (May 2018–Feb. 2020), a new demonization has been emplaced on DAP leaders and me: that we have sold out the rights and interests of the Chinese with DAP trying to DAP to de-Chinese the DAP.

Despite my two strenuous denials in three days that there is any DAP de-Chinese, de-Malay, de-Indian, de-Kadazan or de-Iban policy as this is the very opposite of the DAP policy of integration, the demonization campaign continued and the major Chinese media in the country carried an editorial today entitled: “What right has the DAP to carry out a de-Chinese Policy?”

They are all barking up the wrong tree.

The issue is not Mahathir but how to unite our diverse peoples as Malaysians to fulfil the Malaysian Dream as a world-class great nation.

When the Jawi controversy exploded in July/August 2019 I asked in Salem, Tamil Nadu what form of nation-building should be pursued in multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious Malaysia — assimilation or integration?

I said: “In 1994, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in his 13th year as the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, publicly announced that the Barisan Nasional government had given up its nation-building policy of assimilation as it had realised that this was unsuitable for a plural society like Malaysia and that integration and not assimilation should be the basis of the nation-building process in the country.

“But apart from assimilation and integration, there is a third alternative of nation-building: no assimilation and no integration but where different communities live side by side but separately under the same political system.”

The third alternative is what the British writer J.S . Furnivall described of colonial Malaya before Merdeka — “the communities mingle but do not mix”.

DAP and I have always advocated integration — not assimilation or “communities mingle but do not mix”.

There are Chinese who live completely in a Chinese universe of their own, without inter-acting with other races; just as there are Malays and Indians who live completely within their own respective Malay or Indian universes.

This is not the Malaysia that DAP and I strive for.

The Malaysia I want to see is one where the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans and Ibans come out of their own universes to interact with other communities; to learn, appreciate and accept that Malaysia is not to be identified with any one community but with all the different communities who have made the land their mother country — where a Chinese has not betrayed race and culture for his exquisite Jawi skill, a Malay has not betrayed race and culture because of his Bharatanatyam repertoire, or an Indian betrayed race and culture because of his mastery of Chinese calligraphy.

In other words, a Malaysian is a Chinese who is not 100 per cent Chinese but has an extra dimension which could be described as Malaysia-plus; a Malay who is not 100 per cent Malay but with a Malaysia-plus dimension; and an Indian who is not 100 per cent Indian but with a Malaysia-plus dimension.

One question all Malaysians must ask: Who is the “Other” in the Malaysian context?

Is the “Other” the Chinese and Indians to a Malay Malaysian, the Malays and Indians to a Chinese Malaysian, and the Malays and Chinese to an Indian Malaysian?

If this is the answer, then we have not yet succeeded in Malaysian nation-building, for the “Other” must be a non-Malaysian, whether from Indonesia, China or India or any other part of the world.

Malaysia seems to be trapped in an extraordinary situation which, if not addressed, will only lead to greater division and disunity, stagnation and failure to leverage on the best values and qualities of the Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia to build a great Malaysian nation.

This extraordinary situation is one where the Malays feel threatened, the Chinese feel threatened, the Indians feel threatened, the Kadazans feel threatened and the Ibans feel threatened.

Every community is made to believe that its culture and ethnicity is facing an existential threat.

But who is creating all these threats to all racial groups in the country?

Not only the various races feel threatened, Islam feels threatened and the non-Islamic religions feel threatened.

Malaysians must develop a new self-confidence of “reaching for the stars”, a new “Malaysia Boleh” spirit, to exorcise the various contrived or imaginary fears and demons for Malaysia to excel itself in various fields of human endeavour so as to achieve a golden age for Malaysia.

DAP and my stand on integration and not assimilation nor the colonial Malayan formula of “communities mingle but do not mix” has not changed in the last six decades.

During the era in the 70s when government leaders stood for assimilation, my stand in defence of lion dance and the Chinese and Tamil primary schools were regarded as extreme and un-Malaysian.

When I launched a “No to 929” campaign in 2002 to defend the secular basis of the Malaysian Constitution and oppose Malaysia becoming a Islamic theocratic state as well as Mahathir’s announcement on Sept. 29, 2001 at the Gerakan 30th Delegates Conference that Malaysia was an Islamic State, I was regarded as “extreme” by those who disagreed with me.

When Mahathir stood for assimilation and DAP stood for integration, my stand was regarded as extreme.

When Mahathir accepted the Malaysian reality that assimilation in a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural nation is not viable, perceptions change.

In my media statement eighteen years ago on 24th August 2003, I praised Mahathir for his speech a day earlier at the Gerakan’s 32nd National Delegates Conference where he said that the Barisan Nasional government was not keen on assimilation in a plural Malaysia and was interested in their integration.

He said: “And I am happy that at the end of my career this has happened. Those of Malay origin will retain their characteristics, their religion, language and culture… Malaysians of Chinese origin will maintain their culture, language and religion and similarly the Indians and people in Sabah and Sarawak … will maintain their characteristics, religion and identity.”

Mahathir said these differences should not be an obstacle for the citizens of this country to work together and integrate as Malaysians (Bernama).

I commended Mahathir for having abandoned the assimilation policy in favour of integration as the basis of nation-building in plural Malaysia and for the courage of publicly admitting such a change of mind and policy about a decade ago.

DAP faced great odds to change the Malaysian nation-building policy from one of assimilation to that of integration, and the DAP had fought many battles and campaigns from the sixties like the defence of the lion dance, preservation of Chinese and Tamil primary schools, “No to One Language, One Culture, One Religion” campaign in the Kepayang by-election in Ipoh in 1983, the “Save Bukit China Campaign”, in 1984 and the “No to 929” campaign in 2002.

As I said yesterday to Kuala Kubu Baru DAP members at the Theatre Impian, Bukit Jalil, the Malaysian Dream movement must dare to face daunting tests and obstacles but we must be fortified by the conviction that truth and justice will eventually prevail.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 18th April 2021)

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Second example of  #kerajaangagal — Batu Pahat school segregating students for co-curricular activities based on race and gender

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Yesterday, I called on the Health Minister, Adham Baba, to stop his game of semantics and focus on checking the rise in the daily increase of Covid-19 cases and bring the third Covid-19 wave down to double-digit figures or resign!

Yesterday was the fourth day in a row where the daily increase of new Covid-19 breached the 2,000-mark, with 2,195 new Covid-19 cases, following daily increases of 2,148, 2,551 and 2,331 new cases the previous three days. The cumulative total of Covid-19 cases is 375,054.

If the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia continue above 2,000-mark today, Malaysia will overtake Slovakia to be ranked No. 44 among countries in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases. This is not a record which the country should be proud.

While Malaysians are worried that the country will plunge into the fourth Covid-19 wave before the third Covid-19 wave (already one of the longest Covid waves in the world) could be brought under control by reducing the daily increase of new cases to double-digit figures, Adham was only interested in semantics claiming that the fourth Covid-19 wave would not happen until the daily increase of new cases in the third Covid wave is first brought down to zero.

My statement yesterday was the first in my daily series of #kerajaangagal to illustrate that under the backdoor, undemocratic and illegitimate Sheraton Move government, Malaysia is becoming a kakistocracy.

The second in the daily #kerajaangagal series is the Batu Pahat school segregating students for co-curricular activities based on race and gender.

Schools are meant to inculcate in the new generation of Malaysians the values of Malaysian unity regardless of race, religion, region or gender but the SMK Dato Bentara Luar had done the very opposite.

An apology by the school principal for such a serious mistake is grossly inadequate, and Malaysians are entitled to know actions the Ministry of Education would take for such grave violation of the Malaysian ethos.

How can a person be promoted to the responsible position of school principal whose vision of a school is not to be the seedbed for national unity but the very opposite of sowing national division and separateness.

A strong and potent message must be sent out to all teachers, and in particular school principals, that after six decades of nationhood, they must promote Malaysian unity and not to encourage division among the new generation of Malaysians.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 19th April 2021)

Contoh kedua #kerajaangagal — sekolah di Batu Pahat mengasingkan pelajar mengikut kaum dan jantina untuk aktiviti kokurikulum

Semalam, saya menggesa Menteri Kesihatan, Adham Baba, untuk berhenti memainkan hujah semantik dan sebaliknya fokus terhadap angka kadar kenaikan harian Covid-19 untuk memastikan angka ini turun ke julat dua angka, jika tidak, beliau patut letak jawatan!

Semalam merupakan hari keempat berturut-turut di mana kenaikan baharu kes Covid-19 melepasi paras 2,000, dengan 2,195 kes baharu Covid-19 dicatatkan, selepas sebanyak 2,148, 2,551 dan 2,331 kes dicatatkan sepanjang tiga hari lalu menjadikan kes terkumpul Covid-19 kini mencecah 375,054.

Jika peningkatan kes baharu Covid-19 di Malaysia berterusan meningkat di atas paras 2,000 hari ini, Malaysia akan mengatasi Slovakia untuk berada di kedudukan ke-44 antara negara-negara di dunia dengan kes terkumpul Covid-19 terbanyak. Ini bukanlah rekod yang harus negara banggakan.

Sementara rakyat Malaysia bimbang negara akan dilanda gelombang keempat Covid-19 sebelum gelombang ketiga Covid-19 (yang mana telah menjadi gelombang penularan Covid terpanjang di dunia) dapat dikawal dan memastikan angkat kes turun ke julat dua angka, Adham sebaliknya lebih berminat memainkan hujah semantik dengan mendakwa bahawa gelombang keempat Covid-19 tidak akan boleh berlaku selepas kita mencatatkan sifar kes Covid-19 dalam situasi gelombang ketiga wabak itu.

Kenyataan saya semalam adalah hari pertama dalam siri harian #kerajaangagal bagi mengambarkan bahawa Malaysia telah menjadi sebuah kakistokrasi di bawah kerajaan pintu belakang, tidak demokratik dan terbentuk secara tidak sah melalui Langkah Sheraton.

Hari kedua dalam siri #kerajaangagal adalah peristiwa di mana sebuah sekolah di Batu Pahat memisahkan pelajar untuk aktiviti kokurikulum berdasarkan kaum dan jantina

Sekolah sepatutnya memainkan peranan untuk menanamkan nilai-nilai perpaduan dalam generasi baru rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengirakaum, agama, wilayah atau jantina tetapi SMK Dato Bentara Luar telah melakukan sebaliknya.

Permohonan maaf oleh pengetua sekolah atas kesalahan serius tersebut sangat tidak memadai, dan rakyat Malaysia berhak mengetahui tindakan yang akan diambil oleh Kementerian Pendidikan atas pelanggaran berat terhadap etika Malaysia.

Bagaimana seseorang boleh dinaikkan pangkat sebagai pengetua sekolah yang mempunyai visi untuk sekolahnya bukan untuk menyemai perpaduan nasional tetapi sebaliknya menyemai perpecahan dan pemisahan.

Mesej yang keras dan tegas harus disampaikan kepada semua guru, khususnya pengetua sekolah, bahawa setelah enam dekad pembinaan negara, mereka mesti mempromosikan perpaduan rakyat Malaysia dan tidak mendorong perpecahan di kalangan generasi baru rakyat Malaysia.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 19 April 2021)

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There is a movement questioning why Gobind, Kula, Tengku Zulpuri,  Ramasamy, Jagdeep, Aziz Bari, Zairil and others are DAP MPs or  SAs when their constituencies should be contested by Chinese candidates

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There is surreptitious movement questioning why Gobind, Kula, Tengku Zulpuri, Noorita Sual, Rayer, Ram Karpal, Kasthuri, Sivakumar, Mordi Bimol and Charles Santiago are DAP MPs, Ramasamy the Penang Deputy Chief Minister, Aziz Bari the Perak Opposition Leader and Jagdeep, Zairil, Ganabatirau, Arul Kumar and Veerapen State Exco Members and Rajiv, Edry, Jamaliah, Syerleena, Satees, Sivanesan, Terence Naidu, Young Syefura, Kamache, Gunasekaran, Mary Josephine, Saminathan, Ramakrishnan, Sheikh Umar and Jannie Lasimbang State Assembly persons when these constituencies should be contested by Chinese candidates.

This movement sounds the call of “Chinese unite” to respond to the “Malays unite” political call, advocating that in the 15th General Election, the Chinese voters should vote for good Chinese candidates regardless of political party.

The inspiration of this surreptitious movement is from the MCA and Gerakan, which hopes to join forces with DAP members who agree with this approach.

This is why when I tried to explain the true picture as to why the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) was not accorded recognition in the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government before it was toppled by the Sheraton Move conspiracy, there was a very strong reaction which led to organised cybertrooper responses saying that they do not want to listen to any explanation about the UEC.

Why is this so?

If what I said contained mistakes or fallacies, expose them. Closing one’s eyes and shutting’s one ears is not the action of a rational human being.

I had quoted what Pakatan Harapan promised on the UEC in the 14th General Election in Buku Harapan, which said:

“Pakatan Harapan will undertake to recognise UEC certificates to enter public institutions of higher learning (IPTA) provided that applicants have a credit in Bahasa Melayu at the SPM level. For this purpose, the UEC certificate will be assessed to be equivalent to the existing general qualification for entry into IPTA.”

I also pointed out that at the DAP Retreat in 2019, the then Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said the Pakatan Harapan government was committed to the pledge to recognise the UEC certificate to enter public institutions of learning, after an assessment. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim also made a similar commitment.

I admitted that the high hopes and expectations of the 14th General Election to restore Malaysia as a world-class great nation – in the words of Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” – had not been fulfilled.

I said:

“Instead of five years of institutional reforms and political, economic, social and educational changes to strongly anchor Malaysia as a world-class great nation, the Pakatan Harapan Government was toppled by the Sheraton Move conspiracy after 22 months, ushering in a backdoor, undemocratic and illegitimate government which suspended Parliament as it was unsure that it could continue to command the support of the majority of MPs in Parliament.”

Did I say anything wrong, untrue or incorrect? If so, point it out.

The same refusal to hear explanation is evident when I tried to counter, with facts, the lies that I have changed my stand on Jawi in 1984, that I had said that one must learn Jawi to be a Malaysian or that DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng had declared that he was not a Chinese when he was appointed Finance Minister.

Why so afraid of the truth?

The real challenge is whether we can rekindle, re-inspire, re-energize and re-motivate among Malaysians, both at home and in the Malaysian Diaspora worldwide, hope and inspiration in the Malaysian Dream for the country to be a world-class great nation by ensuring that the 15th General Election can fulfill the high but dashed hopes of the 14th General Election for reform and salvation!

I say it can be done although it is a very tall order. The darkest hour is just before the dawn. All we need are conviction, stamina, commitment and perseverance to pursue the Malaysian Dream.

We rejected kleptocracy in the 14th General Election. Let Malaysians reject kakistocracy in the 15th General Election.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 19th April 2021)

Terdapat gerakan yang mempersoalkan mengapa Gobind, Kula, Tengku Zulpuri, Ramasamy, Jagdeep, Aziz Bari, Zairil dll menjadi Ahli Parlimen atau Adun DAP sedangkan semua jawatan ini patut ditandingi oleh calon Cina

Terdapat gerakan diam-diam yang mempersoalkan mengapa Gobind, Kula, Tengku Zulpuri, Noorita Sual, Rayer, Ram Karpal, Kasthuri, Sivakumar, Mordi Bimol dan Charles Santiago menjadi Ahli Parlimen DAP, Ramasamy menjadi Timbalan Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Aziz Baru menjadi Ketua Pembangkang di Perak, dan Zairil, Jagdeep, Ganabatirau, Arul Kuma dan Veerapen menjadi Ahli-ahli EXCO, dan Rajiv, Edry, Jamaliah, Syerleena, Satees, Sivanesan, Terence Naidu, Young Syefura, Kamache, Gunasekaran, Mary Josephine, Saminathan, Ramakrishnan, Sheikh Umar dan Jannie Lasimbang menjadi ADUN sedangkan semua jawatan ini patut ditandingi oleh calon Cina.

Gerakan ini membawa seruan “perpaduan Cina” sebagai respons kepada seruan politik “perpaduan Melayu”, menggesa supaya dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, pengundi Cina perlu mengundi calon Cina yang baik tanpa mengira parti politik mereka.

Inspirasi pergerakan ini datang daripada parti MCA dan Gerakan, yang berharap untuk bergabung tenaga dengan ahli-ahli DAP yang bersetuju dengan pendekatan ini.

Kerana inilah apabila saya cuba menjelaskan gambaran sebenar mengenai mengapa Sijil Peperiksaan Dipersatukan (UEC) tidak diberikan pengiktirafan dalam tempoh 22 bulan pentadbiran Pakatan Harapan sebelum ia ditumbangkan melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton, terdapat reaksi yang sangat kuat yang membawa kepada serangan tentera siber yang cuba mengatakan yang mereka tidak mahu mendengari sebarang penjelasan mengenai perkara ini.

Mengapakah begini?

Sekiranya apa yang saya katakan itu mempunyai kesilapan, dedahkanlah. Menutup mata dan telinga bukanlah satu tindakan yang rasional.

Saya telah memetik apa yang dijanjikan oleh Pakatan Harapan mengenai UEC dalam Buku Harapan, yang mengatakan:

“Pakatan Harapan akan mengiktiraf sijil UEC sebagai syarat am kelayakan untuk memasuki institusi-institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA) dengan syarat pemohon memiliki kepujian dalam mata pelajaran Bahasa Melayu di peringkat SPM. Untuk tujuan ini, sijil UEC akan dinilai agar setaraf dengan syarat am kelayakan sedia ada untuk kemasukan ke IPTA.”

Saya juga telah menekankan di pemukiman DAP pada tahun 2019, Perdana Menteri sewaktu itu, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad telah mengatakan yang kerajaan Pakatan Harapan kekal komited kepada janji untuk mengiktiraf UEC untuk kemasukan ke institusi pengajian awam selepas kaji selidik dijalankan. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim juga telah membuat komitmen yang serupa.

Saya mengakui yang harapan yang tinggi dan jangkaan selepas PRU14 untuk mengembalikan Malaysia ke arah menjadi negara hebat berkelas dunia — dalam kata-kata Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, untuk menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang kelam dan terganggu” — tidak berjaya dipenuhi sepenuhnya.

Saya telah katakan:

“Daripada mendapat reformasi institusi reformasi dan perubahan politik, ekonomi, sosial, dan pendidikan selama lima tahun untuk menetapkan hala tuju negara kita sebagai negara yang hebat, kerajaan Pakatan Harapan ditumbangkan hanya selepas 22 bulan melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton, yang membawa masuk sebuah kerajaan pintu belakang yang tidak sah dan tidak demokratik yang telah menggantung sidang Parlimen demi kelangsungan hidupnya.”

Adakah saya telah mengatakan apa-apa yang salah, tidak benar, atau silap? Jika ya, sila tunjukkannya.

Keengganan untuk mendengar penjelasan ini juga terbukti jelas apabila saya cuba menjelaskan, dengan fakta, penipuan yang kononnya saya telah berubah daripada pendirian saya pada tahun 1984, yang saya kini mengatakan seseorang itu perlu mempelajari Jawi untuk menjadi rakyat Malaysia, atau kononnya Setiausaha Agung DAP, Lim Guan Eng mengumumkan yang beliau bukanlah seorang Cina apabila beliau dilantik menjadi Menteri Kewangan.

Mengapakah takut dengan kebenaran?

Cabaran sebenar yang dihadapi kita sekarang adalah sama ada kita mampu untuk menghidupkan semula dan memberikan motivasi kepada rakyat Malaysia, baik di dalam negara atau di luar negara, memberikan harapan untuk mencapai Impian Malaysia untuk negara kita menjadi negara hebat berkelas dunia dengan memastikan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 dapat memenuhi cita-cita yang terbantut dalam PRU-14 yang lalu!

Saya telah katakan yang perkara ini boleh dilakukan walaupun ia tidaklah mudah. Waktu yang paling gelap adalah waktu sebelum subuh. Apa yang kita perlukan adalah keazaman, stamina, komitmen, dan kecekalan untuk mengejar Impian Malaysia ini.

Kita telah menolak kleptokrasi dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14. Marilah kita semua rakyat Malaysia menolak kakistokrasi dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 19 April 2021)

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Lets have a honest debate about the future of Malaysia and DAP and not use lies, falsehoods and distorted sayings

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Yesterday I said that there is a movement calling for “Chinese Unite” to respond to “Malays Unite” movement, urging the Chinese voters to vote for “good Chinese” regardless of political party in the 15th General Election.

I said:
“The inspiration  of this  surreptitious movement  is  from the  MCA and Gerakan, which  hopes to join forces with  DAP members who agree with this  approach.”

This has been distorted into my saying that there are DAP elements who are working with MCA and Gerakan to secretly launch a “Chinese Unity” movement to ask the voters to vote for “good Chinese” in the 15th General Election regardless of party.

This is exactly the type of falsehood and distortions that accused me of saying that one must learn Jawi to be a Malaysian or that the DAP Seccretary-General Lim Guan Eng had declared that he was not a Chinese when he was appointed Finance Minister when we have never said these things.

Did I ever say that one must learn Jawi to be a Malaysian?

This is what I say in Salem in August 2019 when the Jawi controversy in Chinese and Tamil primary schools exploded:

“When I was first detained under the Internal Security Act in 1969, I taught myself Jawi in detention. It did not make me any less of a Chinese, and may have helped in making me more of a Malaysian.”

Only the most illiterate or the most morally bankrupt would interpret the above as saying that one must learn Jawi to be a Malaysian.

I was accused of abandoning my stand on Jawi in 1984, which I stated in a speech to the Selangor State DAP Committee on 1st June 1984. This is what I said then (speech available on the website):

“The DAP is opposed to the introduction of Jawi as a compulsory subject for the primary schools, for it is clearly against the Constitutional provision in Article 152 which provided for the national language to be Rumi script of Bahasa Malaysia. The Jawi script therefore is not part of the national language or official language.”

The DAP stand on Jawi, whether in 1984, 2019 or 2021 remains unchanged.

These were the three points which I made  in Salem in August 2019:

· Jawi is not compulsory but optional for students in Chinese and Tamil primary schools, and that there will be no compulsion, learning or examination of Jawi.

· Plans to revise the curriculum to include Jawi in Std. 4 Bahasa Malaysia textbook in 2020 was decided by the Barisan Nasional government in 2014-2016.

· The statement from the Education Ministry that “Although the plan to introduce khat in schools will proceed, the ministry will still accept the views of various parties to ensure that there is fair consideration” indicates that the Education Ministry is still open to views and consultation from all groups and parties concerned.

How was my stand on Jawi in 2019 contrary to my stand on Jawi in 1984?

It is also pertinent to note that the backdoor, undemocratic and illegitimate  Perikatan Nasional (PN) has been in office for over a year, where both the MCA and Gerakan are represented.  Why are these critics not being consistent, as they had never asked the three-page  Jawi be completely removed from the Chinese and Tamil primary school curriculum?

The same dishonesty and distortion  apply to the accusation that Guan Eng had declared that he was not a Chinese when he was appointed Finance Minister, when all he wanted to stress was that he would a Finance Minister to all Malaysians.

Again, only the most illiterate or the most morally bankrupt would resort to such despicable tactics.

This is also  why when I tried to explain the true picture as to why the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) was not accorded recognition in the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government before it was toppled by the Sheraton Move conspiracy, there was panic and a very strong reaction  which led to organised cybertrooper responses saying that they do not want to listen to any explanation about the UEC.

Why is this so? Why so afraid of the truth?

If what I said contained mistakes or fallacies, expose them. Closing one’s yes and shutting’s one ears is not the action of a rational human being.

I had quoted  what Pakatan Harapan promised on the UEC in the 14th General Election in  Buku Harapan, which said:

“Pakatan Harapan will undertake to recognise UEC certificates to enter public institutions of higher learning (IPTA) provided that applicants have a credit in Bahasa Melayu at the SPM level. For this purpose, the UEC certificate will be assessed to be equivalent to the existing general qualification for entry into IPTA.”

I also pointed out that at the DAP Retreat in 2019, the then Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said the Pakatan Harapan government was committed to the pledge to recognise the UEC certificate to enter public institutions of learning, after an assessment.  Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim also made a similar commitment.

But the toppling of the Pakatan Harapan government after 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy made it impossible to fulfil the election manifesto which was to be fulfilled in five years.

Why are these critics not asking the PN government, which included MCA and Gerakan, to accord recognition to UEC?

I admitted that the high hopes and expectations of the 14th General Election to restore Malaysia as a world-class great nation – in the words of Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” – had not been fulfilled.

Lets have a honest debate about the future of Malaysia and DAP and not use lies, falsehoods and distorted sayings.

But we  must not give up our Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to be a world-class great nation.

Let us return to basics and  refocus on our real challenge – how we can rekindle, re-inspire, re-energize and re-motivate among Malaysians, both at home and in the Malaysian Diaspora worldwide,  hope and inspiration in the Malaysian Dream for the country to be a world-class great nation by ensuring that the 15th General Election can fulfil the high but dashed hopes of the 14th General Election for reform and salvation!

We rejected kleptocracy in the 14th General Election.

Let Malaysians reject kakistocracy in the 15th General Election.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 20th April 2021)

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Marilah kita berbahas dengan jujur mengenai masa hadapan Malaysia dan DAP dan bukannya menggunakan penipuan, fitnah, dan putar belit fakta

Semalam saya telah kata terdapat pergerakan yang menyeru “perpaduan Cina” sebagai respons kepada seruan politik “perpaduan Melayu”, menggesa supaya dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, pengundi Cina perlu mengundi calon Cina yang baik tanpa mengira parti politik mereka.

Saya telah katakan: “Inspirasi pergerakan ini datang daripada parti MCA dan Gerakan, yang berharap untuk bergabung tenaga dengan ahli-ahli DAP yang bersetuju dengan pendekatan ini.”

Perkara ini telah diputar belit kepada kononnya saya mengatakan terdapat unsur-unsur dalam DAP yang bekerjasama dengan MCA dan Gerakan untuk melancarkan kempen “Perpaduan Cina” untuk meminta pengundi Cina mengundi calon Cina yang baik tanpa mengira parti politik mereka.

Inilah contoh penipuan dan putar belit fakta yang digunakan untuk menuduh saya sebagai mengatakan kononnya seseorang itu perlu mempelajari Jawi untuk menjadi rakyat Malaysia, atau kononnya Setiausaha Agung DAP, Lim Guan Eng mengumumkan yang beliau bukanlah seorang Cina apabila beliau dilantik menjadi Menteri Kewangan sedangkan kami tidak pernah pun mengatakan sebarang perkara seperti ini.

Pernahkah saya katakan yang seseorang itu perlu belajar Jawi untuk menjadi rakyat Malaysia?

Inilah apa yang saya katakan di Salem pada bulan Ogos 2019 semasa kontroversi mengenai isu Jawi di sekolah rendah jenis Cina dan Tamil meletus:

“Semasa dalam tahanan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri pada tahun 1969, saya belajar sendiri menulis Jawi dalam tahanan. Perkara ini tidak mengurangkan identiti saya sebagai seorang Cina, tetapi mungkin telah membantu identiti saya sebagai seorang rakyat Malaysia.”

Hanya mereka yang buta huruf dan mempunyai kebankrapan moral sahaja yang akan menafsir ayat di atas sebagai mengatakan seseorang perlu mempelajari Jawi untuk menjadi rakyat Malaysia.

Saya telah dituduh sebagai mengabaikan pendirian saya pada tahun 1984 mengenai Jawi, di mana saya telah nyatakan dalam satu ucapan kepada Jawatankuasa Negeri DAP Selangor pada 1 Jun 1984. Berikut adalah apa yang katakan (ucapan ini ada di laman web):

“DAP membantah Jawi sebagai mata pelajaran wajib di sekolah rendah kerana perkara ini jelas bertentangan dengan peruntukan Perlembagaan dalam Artikel 152 yang menjelaskan bahawa tulisan Rumi Bahasa Malaysia sebagai bahasa kebangsaan. Maka tulisan Jawi ini bukanlah sebahagian daripada bahasa kebangsaan atau bahasa rasmi.”

Pendirian DAP mengenai Jawi, sama ada pada tahun 1984, 2019, atau 2021 kekal tidak berubah.

Ada tiga perkara yang saya kemukakan di Salem pada bulan Ogos 2019:

–  Jawi bukan mata pelajaran wajib, tetapi pilihan, kepada pelajar di sekolah rendah jenis Cina dan Tamil, dan tidak akan ada paksaan dalam pembelajaran, atau peperiksaan untuk Jawi.

–  Rancangan untuk menyemak semula kurikulum untuk menyertakan Jawi dalam buku teks mata pelajaran Bahasa Malaysia darjah 4 pada tahun 2020 diputuskan oleh kerajaan Barisan Nasional pada tahun 2014-2016.

–  Kenyataan daripada Kementerian Pendidikan bahawa “Walaupun rancangan untuk memperkenalkan khat di sekolah akan diteruskan, pihak kementerian masih akan menerima pandangan pelbagai pihak untuk memastikan terdapatnya pertimbangan yang adil” menunjukkan yang Kementerian Pendidikan masih terbuka kepada pandangan dan rundingan daripada semua pihak yang berkenaan.

Bagaimanakah pendirian saya mengenai Jawi pada tahun 2019 telah berubah dengan pendirian saya pada tahun 1984?

Penting juga untuk diingati, bahawa kerajaan pintu belakang Perikatan Nasional yang tidak demokratik dan tidak sah sudah pun berkuasa selama lebih daripada setahun, di mana MCA dan Gerakan adalah sebahagian daripadanya. Mengapakah pengkritik ini tidak konsisten, kerana mereka tidak meminta tiga muka surat jawi dibuang daripada kurikulum sekolah rendah jenis Cina dan Tamil?

Fitnah dan putar belit yang sama digunakan dalam menuduh Guan Eng kononnya mengumumkan yang beliau seorang Cina apabila dilantik sebagai Menteri Kewangan sedangkan apa yang mahu ditekankan beliau adalah beliau akan menjadi Menteri Kewangan untuk semua rakyat Malaysia.

Sekali lagi, hanya mereka yang buta huruf atau mereka yang berniat jahat sahaja yang akan menggunakan taktik keji seperti ini.

Kerana inilah apabila saya cuba menjelaskan gambaran sebenar mengenai mengapa Sijil Peperiksaan Dipersatukan (UEC) tidak diberikan pengiktirafan dalam tempoh 22 bulan pentadbiran Pakatan Harapan sebelum ia ditumbangkan melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton, terdapat reaksi yang sangat kuat yang membawa kepada serangan tentera siber yang cuba mengatakan yang mereka tidak mahu mendengari sebarang penjelasan mengenai perkara ini.

Mengapakah begini?

Sekiranya apa yang saya katakan itu mempunyai kesilapan, dedahkanlah. Menutup mata dan telinga bukanlah satu tindakan yang rasional.

Saya telah memetik apa yang dijanjikan oleh Pakatan Harapan mengenai UEC dalam Buku Harapan, yang mengatakan:

“Pakatan Harapan akan mengiktiraf sijil UEC sebagai syarat am kelayakan untuk memasuki institusi-institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA) dengan syarat pemohon memiliki kepujian dalam mata pelajaran Bahasa Melayu di peringkat SPM. Untuk tujuan ini, sijil UEC akan dinilai agar setaraf dengan syarat am kelayakan sedia ada untuk kemasukan ke IPTA.”

Saya juga telah menekankan di pemukiman DAP pada tahun 2019, Perdana Menteri sewaktu itu, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad telah mengatakan yang kerajaan Pakatan Harapan kekal komited kepada janji untuk mengiktiraf UEC untuk kemasukan ke institusi pengajian awam selepas kaji selidik dijalankan. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim juga telah membuat komitmen yang serupa.

Namun penggulingan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan hanya selepas 22 bulan melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton telah membuatkan perkara ini yang sepatutnya dipenuhi dalam tempoh lima tahun, mustahil untuk dipenuhi.

Mengapakah pengkritik ini tidak meminta kerajaan PN, yang mempunyai MCA dan Gerakan, untuk memberikan pengiktirafan kepada UEC?

Saya mengakui yang harapan yang tinggi dan jangkaan selepas PRU14 untuk mengembalikan Malaysia ke arah menjadi negara hebat berkelas dunia — dalam kata-kata Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, untuk menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang kelam dan terganggu” — tidak berjaya dipenuhi sepenuhnya.

Marilah kita berbahas dengan jujur mengenai masa hadapan Malaysia dan DAP dan bukannya menggunakan penipuan, fitnah, dan putar belit fakta.

Tetapi kita tidak boleh berputus asa dengan Impian Malaysia untuk menjadikan negara kita negara hebat bertaraf dunia.

Marilah kita kembali kepada perkara asas, dan fokus kepada cabaran sebenar kita — untuk menghidupkan semula dan memberikan motivasi kepada rakyat Malaysia, baik di dalam negara atau di luar negara, memberikan harapan untuk mencapai Impian Malaysia untuk negara kita menjadi negara hebat berkelas dunia dengan memastikan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 dapat memenuhi cita-cita yang terbantut dalam PRU-14 yang lalu!

Kita telah menolak kleptokrasi dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14.

Marilah kita semua rakyat Malaysia menolak kakistokrasi dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15.

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 20 April 2021)

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Why Malaysia now ranks as the world’s 44th country with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases when we were ranked No. 85 on Nov.11 — while  China receded from No. 1 early last year to No. 95 today?

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With a daily increase of 2,078 new Covid-19 cases, Malaysia has for five consecutive days breached the 2,000-mark — Sunday’s 2,195 infections, Saturday’s 2,331, Friday’s 2,551 and Thursday’s 2,148.

Malaysia’s cumulative total of Covid-19 cases now stands at 377,132, beating Slovakia to be ranked No. 44 among countries in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

In contrast, China which was the worst country in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases early last year is now ranked No. 95 with a cumulative total of 90,510 cases.

Why is China, with 50 times our population, ranked No. 95 among countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, but Malaysia is ranked No. 44, especially when we were ranked No. 85 on Nov. 11 last year?

We continue to be among the worst performing countries in the world in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, fully justifying the hashtag #kerajaangagal.

This third daily statement on #kerajaangagal wants to ask why Malaysia is the worst country in ASEAN for “cases per million”, as Malaysia leads ASEAN with 11,534 cases per million, as compared to Philippines’ 8,540, Indonesia 5,834, Singapore 10,336, Myanmar 2,608, Thailand 625, Vietnam 28, Cambodia 415, Brunei 501 and Laos 8. (Worldometer).

Malaysia has an even higher ratio of “cases per million” than India, which has recently a deadly new Covid wave which enabled it to retake the No. 2 place in the world with the most number of cumulative total of Covid-19 cases from Brazil on April 10, 2021. India has a ratio of 11,011 cases per million of population as compared to Malaysia’s 11,534.

The word’s top 10 countries with the most cumulative total of cases from the world’s total of 142,687,727 Covid-19 cases are:

1. USA – 32,472,641

2. India – 15,314,714

3. Brazil – 13,977,713

4. France – 5,296,222

5. Russia – 4,710,690

6. UK – 4,390,783

7. Turkey – 4,323,596

8. Italy – 3,878,994

9. Spain – 3,428,354

10. Germany – 3,164,447

The first #kerajaangagal statement on Sunday called on the Health Minister, Adham Baba, to stop his game of semantics and focus on checking the rise in the daily increase of Covid-19 cases and bring the third Covid-19 wave down to double-digit figures before the advent of the fourth Covid wave or resign!

Clearly, one important reason why Malaysia is one of the nations with poor performance in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic is because of the suspension of Parliament and the removal of necessary check-and-balance mechanism of the Executive.

Will the Cabinet tomorrow decide that the Prime Minister should advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament and bring about a better performance in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Or will the biggest Cabinet in Malaysian history continue like the traditional three monkeys – eyes that see not, ears that hear not and mouths that speak not?

The second #kerajaangagal statement yesterday is on the Batu Pahat school segregating students for co-curricular activities based on race and gender – totally against the national objective to build a Bangsa Malaysia out of the diverse peoples in Malaysia.

The third #kerajaangagal statement today refers to three of teeming instances of a kakistocracy and a failed state, like:

1. The injustice of the incarceration of Simon Momoh, a Nigerian who is under detention pending deportation by the Immigration Department after having served his one-day jail sentence for drink driving when Momoh should be released immediately to reunite with his Malaysian family, wife Low Kar Hui and daughters Divine and Elisha. Will the Home Minister heed the cries of justice?

2. The failure of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government to heed the calls to ensure that heritage institutions like the 122-year-old Convent Bukit Nenas in Kuala Lumpur remain where they are by giving them permanent titles to their sites. Will the Minister for Federal Territories respond positively?

3. The lop-sided, biased and inaccurate secondary school history textbooks as exposed by Malaysian historian Ranjit Singh Malhi. Seventeen out of the 18 writers of Form 1 to 5 history textbooks represent one ethnic group resulting in the new generation in schools primarily learning Malaysian and world history from a particular perspective and specifically as viewed through the lens of one ethnic group. Will the Education Minister ensure an adequate, balanced and fair account of the emergence and growth of Malaysia’s plural society in the secondary school history textbooks?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 20th April 2021)

Mengapa Malaysia kini berada di kedudukan ke-44 sebagai negara dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes positif Covid-19 tertinggi di dunia, sedangkan kita pernah berada di kedudukan ke-85 pada 11 November — manakala China menurun dari tangga pertama tahun lalu kepada tangga ke-95 hari ini?

Dengan peningkatan kes Covid-19 baharu sebanyak 2,078 kes yang dicatatkan semalam, Malaysia kini telah memasuki hari kelima berturut-turut merekodkan jumlah kes harian melepasi paras 2,000 kes – 2,331 kes pada Sabtu, 2,551 kes (Jumaat) dan 2,148 kes (Khamis).

Jumlah keseluruhan kes positif Covid-19 di Malaysia adalah sebanyak 377,132, mengatasi Slovakia yang sebelum ini berada di tangga ke-44 dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes positif Covid-19 tertinggi di dunia.

Sebaliknya China, yang merupakan negara terburuk di dunia dengan kes tertinggi positif Covid-19 pada awal tahun lalu, kini berada di kedudukan yang lebih baik iaitu di tangga ke-95.

Mengapa China, yang mempunyai jumlah penduduk 50 kali ganda daripada Malaysia, boleh berada di tangga ke-95 sebagai negara dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes positif Covid-19 tertinggi di dunia, sementara Malaysia berada di tangga ke-44, lebih-lebih lagi selepas negara kita berada di kedudukan lebih baik iaitu di tangga ke-85 pada 11 November tahun lalu?

Kita kini menjadi antara negara yang menunjukkan prestasi paling buruk dalam melawan pandemik Covid-19. Maka memang tidak salah untuk melabel kerajaan hari ini sebagai #kerajaangagal.

Kenyataan harian ketiga berhubung #kerajaangagal hari ini ingin menyentuh persoalan mengapa Malaysia adalah negara paling buruk di ASEAN bagi “jumlah kes per sejuta penduduk”, kerana Malaysia memimpin ASEAN dengan 11,534 kes per sejuta penduduk, berbanding Filipina dengan 8,540 kes, Indonesia (5,834), Singapura (10,336), Myanmar (2,608), Thailand (625), Vietnam (28), Cambodia (415), Brunei (501) dan Laos (8).

Malaysia memiliki nisbah “jumlah kes per sejuta penduduk” lebih tinggi berbanding India, yang mana sebelum ini mengambil kedudukan kedua dari Brazil sebagai negara dengan keseluruhan kes positif Covid-19 tertinggi di dunia. India mempunyai nisbah 11,011 kes per sejuta penduduk berbanding Malaysia dengan 11,534 kes.

10 negara yang merekodkan keseluruhan kes positif Covid-19 tertinggi di dunia dengan jumlah keseluruhan kes sebanyak 142,687,727 kes adalah seperti berikut:

1. USA – 32,472,641

2. India – 15,314,714

3. Brazil – 13,977,713

4. Perancis – 5,296,222

5. Rusia – 4,710,690

6. UK – 4,390,783

7. Turki – 4,323,596

8. Itali – 3,878,994

9. Sepanyol – 3,428,354

10. Jerman – 3,164,447

Kenyataan pertama berkenaan #kerajaangagal yang dikeluarkan pada Ahad lalu, menggesa agar Menteri Kesihatan, Adham Baba, berhenti memainkan hujah semantik dan sebaliknya fokus terhadap angka kadar kenaikan harian Covid-19 untuk memastikan angka ini turun ke julat dua angka, jika tidak, beliau patut letak jawatan!

Jelas, salah satu alasan utama mengapa Malaysia merupakan salah satu negara yang menunjukkan prestasi terburuk dalam melawan pandemik Covid-19 adalah kerana tindakan menggantung Parlimen selain menghentikan mekanisme semak dan imbang terhadap kuasa Eksekutif.

Adakah Kabinet esok akan menentukan sama ada Perdana Menteri wajar menasihati Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk mengadakan semula sidang Parlimen dan sekali gus menjadikan negara kita sebagai antara negara yang menunjukkan prestasi yang baik dalam usaha melawan pandemik Covid-19.

Atau adakah Kabinet yang paling besar dalam sejarah Malaysia ini akan terus buta tuli dan buat-buat tak endah?

Kenyataan kedua berkenaan #kerajaangagal yang dikeluarkan semalam adalah berhubung tindakan sebuah sekolah di Batu Pahat yang mengasingkan pelajar mengikut kaum dan jantina untuk aktiviti kokurikulum – yang mana jelas bertentangan dengan objektif kebangsaan untuk membina sebuah Bangsa Malaysia yang meliputi pelbagai kaum di Malaysia.

Kenyataan ketiga berkenaan #kerajaangagal hari ini menyentuh tiga isu kakistokrasi dan negara gagal, seperti:

1. Tindakan tidak adil terhadap warga Nigeria, Simon Momoh yang ditahan untuk diusir oleh Jabatan Imigresen selepas menjalani hukuman penjara selama sehari selepas didapati bersalah memandu dalam keadaan mabuk sedangkan dia sepatutnya dibebaskan untuk pulang ke pangkuan keluarga mereka yang merupakan warga Malaysia, iaitu isterinya Low Kar Hui dan dua anak perempuannya Divine dan Elisha. Adakah Menteri Dalam Negeri akan masuk campur dan memberikan keadilan kepada Momoh?

2. Kegagalan kerajaan Perikatan Nasional (PN) mendengar desakan untuk memastikan institusi warisan seperti Convent Bukit Nenas yang berusia 122 tahun di Kuala Lumpur tetap berada di lokasi mereka dengan memberikan geran tetap. Adakah Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan akan memberi reaksi terhadap isu?

3. Buku teks sejarah sekolah menengah yang sepihak, berat sebelah dan tidak tepat seperti yang didedahkan oleh sejarawan Malaysia Ranjit Singh Malhi. Tujuh belas daripada 18 penulis buku teks sejarah Tingkatan 1 hingga 5 adalah daripada satu kumpulan etnik yang mengakibatkan generasi baru di sekolah-sekolah terutama mempelajari sejarah Malaysia dan dunia dari perspektif tertentu dan secara khusus dilihat melalui sudut pandang satu kumpulan etnik. Adakah Menteri Pendidikan akan memastikan laporan yang mencukupi, seimbang dan adil mengenai kemunculan dan pertumbuhan masyarakat majmuk Malaysia dalam buku teks sejarah sekolah menengah?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 20 April 2021)

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#kerajaangagal4 — the 18-rung fall of Malaysia in Reporters without borders (RSF) annual press freedom index 2021

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In my first #kerajaangagal daily statement on Sunday, I called on the Health Minister, Adham Baba, to stop his game of semantics and focus on checking the rise in the daily increase of Covid-19 cases and bring the third Covid-19 wave down to double-digit figures before the advent of the fourth Covid wave or resign!

Since then, the mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic has featured in every one of my #kerajaangagal daily statements.

Today is no exception, as more and more Malaysians have woken up to the fact that Malaysia is one of the worst national performers in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

We have for six consecutive days breached the 2000-mark in daily increase of new

Covid-19 cases, posing the question whether Malaysia would be faced with a fourth Covid-19 wave before we can bring the third Covid-19 wave under control by reducing the daily increase of new cases to double-digit figures.

We do not want to compare ourselves with the United States and the European nations who occupied eight of the 10 top spots for the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, but even in East Asia and Pacific region, we have trailed behind Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Vietnam in our performance as a nation in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Malaysia is the worst country in ASEAN for “cases per million” and has an even higher ratio of “cases per million” than India, which is facing deadly new Covid wave to retake the No. 2 place in the world with the most number of cumulative total of Covid-19 cases from Brazil on April 10, 2021.

The Health Ministry said yesterday that the spread of Covid-19 is a global phenomenon and not limited to Malaysia, and that neighbouring countries such as Thailand and Indonesia were also grappling with a surge in new infections.

Is there any explanation why Malaysia has a ratio of 11,606 for “cases per million population” while Indonesia is 5,855 while Thailand 646?

Why Malaysia is ranked No. 44 with a cumulative total of 379,473 cases, as compared Thailand, which has double Malaysia’s population, is ranked No. 107 with 45,185 cases?

But what must take the cake for the #kerajaangagal4 statement today is Malaysia’s 18-rung drop on Reporters Without Border’s (RSF) annual press freedom index 2021– with Malaysia dropping the most out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index.

Ranked 119, Malaysia is sandwiched between the Republic of Congo and Nigeria.

Malaysia’s best ranking was in 2020 (101 out of 180 countries ranked) while the worst ranking was in 2014 and 2015 (147).

RSF said that Malaysia’s press freedom situation improved dramatically after the 2018 elections, but things have gone in reverse since the Pakatan Harapan government was toppled in 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy bringing in a backdoor, undemocratic and illegitimate Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

“For the media, the restoration of more authoritarian rule in 2020 has led to prosecutions, police searches, expulsions (of journalists and a whistleblower) and flagrant violations of the confidentiality of journalists’ sources.

“To protect themselves against the government’s offensive, many journalists have had to censor themselves,” he said.

From macro to micro, the latter for #kerajaangagal4 will be malfunctioning of the 10 ventilators given to Sarawak hospitals in conjunction with the official visit of the Health Minister on April 13, as revealed by the DAP Sarawak State Assemblyperson for Bukit Assek Irene Mary Chang Oi Ling.

At least, the non-functioning or faulty ventilators can be replaced but can the 18-rung drop in Malaysia’s RSF Press Freedom Index 2021 be undone and improved on further by a backdoor, undemocratic and illegitimate government which had to depend on an emergency to prolong its rule?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 21st April 2021)

#kerajaangagal4 — kejatuhan 18 anak tangga untuk Malaysia dalam indeks tahunan kebebasan akhbar Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Dalam siri kenyataan #kerajaangagal pertama saya pada hari Ahad, saya menggesa Menteri Kesihatan, Adham Baba, untuk berhenti memainkan hujah semantik dan sebaliknya fokus terhadap angka kadar kenaikan harian Covid-19 untuk memastikan angka ini turun ke julat dua angka, jika tidak, beliau patut letak jawatan!

Sejak daripada hari tersebut, kegagalan menguruskan Covid-19 dalam negara menjadi tema harian siri kenyataan ini.

Tidak ada bezanya hari ini, memandangkan semakin ramai rakyat Malaysia telah menyedari bahawa negara kita adalah antara negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19.

Untuk enam hari berturut-turut, kita telah mencatatkan lebih daripada 2,000 kes baharu setiap hari, menimbulkan persoalan, sama ada kita sedang berhadapan dengan gelombang keempat wabak ini sebelum kita berjaya mengawal gelombang ketiga penularannya dengan menurunkan angka kes harian kepada julat dua angka.

Kita tidak mahu membandingkan negara kita dengan Amerika Syarikat atau negara-negara Eropah yang menduduki lapan daripada 10 tempat teratas di dunia. Tetapi, dia kawasan serantau Asia Timur dan Pasifik sekalipun, kita berada di belakang Singapura, Taiwan, Korea Selatan, China, Jepun, Thailand, Hong Kong, dan Vietnam dalam prestasi kita melawan wabak Covid-19.

Malaysia adalah negara dengan angka “kes per sejuta penduduk” yang terburuk di ASEAN, dengan nisbah “kes per sejuta penduduk” yang lebih tinggi berbanding dengan India — sebuah negara yang sedang berhadapan dengan gelombang baharu yang baru sahaja merampas semula kedudukan sebagai negara kedua dengan jumlah kes tertinggi daripada Brazil pada 10 April 2021.

Kementerian Kesihatan mengatakan semalam yang penularan wabak Covid-19 adalah satu fenomena global dan tidak terhad kepada Malaysia, bahawa negara jiran seperti Thailand dan Indonesia juga sedang bergelut dengan peningkatan kadar jangkitan.

Adakah sebarang penjelasan mengapa negara kita mencatatkan nisbah 11,606 kes per sejuta penduduk, berbanding dengan Indonesia dengan 5,855 dan Thailand dengan 646?

Mengapakah Malaysia berada di tempat ke-44 di seluruh dunia dengan 379,473 jumlah kes terkumpul, berbanding dengan Thailand yang mempunyai dua kali ganda jumlah penduduk yang mencatatkan hanya 45,185 kes di tempat ke-107?

Namun apa yang lebih utama dalam kenyataan #kerajaangagal4 hari ini mestilah kejatuhan 18 anak tangga untuk Malaysia dalam indeks kebebasan akhbar 2021 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) — dengan negara kita mencatatkan kejatuhan anak tangga terbesar dalam kalangan 180 buah negara di seluruh dunia.

Berada di tempat ke-119, negara kita berada di antara Republik Kongo dan Nigeria.

Kedudukan terbaik yang pernah disaksikan oleh negara kita adalah pada tahun 2020 (di tempat ke-101 daripada 180 buah negara) manakala tahun 2014 dan 2015 menyaksikan negara kita di kedudukan terburuk di tempat ke-147.

RSF mengatakan situasi kebebasan akhbar di Malaysia bertambah baik secara dramatik selepas pilihan raya umum 2018, tetapi perkara kini bergerak mundur ke belakang sejak kerajaan Pakatan Harapan ditumbangkan hanya selepas 22 bulan mentadbir melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton yang membawa masuk kerajaan pintu belakang Perdana Menteri Muhyiddin Yassin yang tidak sah dan tidak demokratik.

“Untuk pihak media, pengembalian peraturan yang bersifat lebih zalim pada tahun 2020 telah membawa kepada pendakwaan, serbuan polis, penghalauan (wartawan dan pemberi maklumat), dan pencabulan kerahsiaan sumber wartawan.

“Untuk mempertahankan diri mereka daripada serangan kerajaan, ramai wartawan kini telah menapis laporan mereka sendiri,” kata mereka.

Daripada skala besar ke skala kecil, dengan di skala kecil dapat disaksikan dengan 10 unit alat bantuan pernafasan yang tidak berfungsi yang diberikan kepada hospital di Sarawak sempena lawatan Menteri Kesihatan pada 13 April, seperti yang didedahkan oleh Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak untuk Bukit Assek, Irene Mary Chang Oi Ling.

Sekurang-kurangnya, alat bantuan pernafasan yang tidak berfungsi atau rosak ini boleh digantikan, tetapi bolehkah kejatuhan 18 kedudukan untuk negara kita dalam indeks kebebasan akhbar 2021 RSF ini diperbetulkan dan diperbaiki oleh sebuah kerajaan pintu belakang yang tidak demokratik dan tidak sah yang bergantung kepada darurat sebagai bantuan hayatnya?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 21 April 2021)

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Yes, it is true that in 2019, Mahathir wanted to sack Yeo Bee Yin as Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister over the Lynas issue  although this  eventually did not take place

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Malaysiakini today focussed on Liew Chin Tong’s book which revealed that in 2019, the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad wanted to sack Yeo Bee Yin as Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister over the Lynas issue although eventually this did not take place.

I was never involved in this but I learnt about it.

This incident indicates the complexities of the Pakatan Harapan government under Mahathir.

I have said that Pakatan Harapan has to learn the lessons of the 22-month PH government and its toppling by the Sheraton Move conspiracy which ushered in a backdoor, undemocratic, illegitimate and kakistocratic government.

One of these lessons is to be serious about out election pledges.

We have a Buku Pakatan which contained the Pakatan Harapan’s election promises in the 14th General Election.

Early in the Pakatan Harapan Government, it was the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad who said that the manifesto was not a bible.

As a result, even if 80 or 90 per cent of the election pledges had been implemented in the five-year mandate, damage had been done.

It was worse when the five-year mandate of the PH government was cut short after 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy.

The Pakatan Harapan Government was not a DAP government, but comprised four political parties – DAP, PKR, Amanah and Bersatu.

As Chin Tong recounted in his book, I met Mahathir as Prime Minister twice in his office, where I discussed the importance of restoring public confidence and having a coherent explanation about Pakatan Harapan’s manifesto and policies.

After our second meeting, Pakatan Harapan formed a manifesto review committee with Chin Tong as chairman to address the public perception about undelivered election promises. But the PH government was toppled by the Sheraton Move conspiracy before the PH manifesto review committee could finalise its report.

This is why I cannot understand those who refuse to listen to explanations why a particular election pledge had not been fulfilled, for instance the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) recognition issue.

The Buku Harapan promise on the UEC in the 14th General Election said:

“Pakatan Harapan will undertake to recognise UEC certificates to enter public institutions of higher learning (IPTA) provided that applicants have a credit in Bahasa Melayu at the SPM level. For this purpose, the UEC certificate will be assessed to be equivalent to the existing general qualification for entry into IPTA.”

At the DAP Retreat in 2019, the then Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said the Pakatan Harapan government was committed to the pledge to recognise the UEC certificate to enter public institutions of learning after an assessment. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim also made a similar commitment.

But the toppling of the Pakatan Harapan government after 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy made it impossible to fulfil the election manifesto which was to be fulfilled within the five-year term.

But there were critics who refuse to listen to explanations, shutting their eyes and closing their ears.

There are advocates who want DAP to return to the past and be an Opposition.

I have been in federal Opposition for 52 years and I have no fears about being in Opposition again. But we must aim to return to form a government, for it is when in power that things can get done.

One, however, must be realistic, that we must work with like-minded political leaders from other political leaders who believe in the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to be a world-class great nation as the DAP cannot on its own form a federal government in Malaysia.

However, DAP leaders must not be corrupted by power, whether in government or opposition, and throughout the 55 years of DAP history, the DAP leadership has not compromised on this important principle.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 21st April 2021)

Ya, memang benar, pada tahun 2019, Mahathir mahu memecat Yeo Bee Yin sebagai Menteri Tenaga, Sains, Teknologi, Alam Sekitar dan Perubahan Iklim ekoran isu Lynas walaupun perkara ini akhirnya tidak berlaku

Malaysiakini hari ini memetik satu bab dalam buku terbaharu Liew Chin Tong yang mendedahkan pada 2019 mengenai hasrat Perdana Menteri ketika itu, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad untuk memecat Yeo Bee Yin sebagai Menteri Tenaga, Sains, Teknologi, Alam Sekitar dan Perubahan Iklim ekoran ekoran isu Lynas walaupun perkara ini akhirnya tidak berlaku.

Saya tidak pernah terlibat dengan perkara, namun saya telah diberitahu mengenainya.

Kejadian ini menyerlahkan kerumitan dalam kerajaan Pakatan Harapan yang dipimpin Mahathir ketika itu.

Saya telah menyatakan sebelum ini bahawa Pakatan Harapan perlu mengambil iktibar daripada pengalaman mentadbir Putrajaya selama 22 bulan sebelum digulingkan oleh konspirasi Langkah Sheraton yang menubuhkan sebuah kerajaan pintu belakang yang tidak demokratik, tidak sah dan merupakan sebuah kakistokrasi.

Salah satu iktibar yang perlu dihayati adalah tentang janji yang dibuat semasa pilihan raya.

Kita menawarkan Buku Harapan sebagai janji-janji pilihan raya yang dibuat untuk Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 yang lalu.

Pada peringkat awal pentadbiran Pakatan Harapan lagi, Perdana Menteri ketika itu, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad telah mengatakan bahawa manifesto bukanlah satu kitab suci.

Kesannya, sekiranya Pakatan Harapan berjaya menunaikan 80 atau 90 peratus daripada janji-janji pilihan raya dalam tempoh lima tahun sekalipun, rakyat tentu akan sukar untuk mempercayainya.

Lebih buruk lagi apabila mandat selama lima tahun yang diberikan rakyat kepada kerajaan PH dirampas melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton.

Kerajaan PH bukanlah sebuah kerajaan DAP, sebaliknya, ia adalah kerajaan yang terbentuk hasil kerjasama erat empat buah parti politik — DAP, PKR, Amanah dan Bersatu.

Seperti yang dinukilkan Chin Tong di dalam bukunya itu, saya bertemu Mahathir sebanyak dua kali semasa beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri. Dalam pertemuan itu saya membincangkan mengenai kepentingan untuk mendapatkan semula keyakinan rakyat dan merangka satu penjelasan yang dipersetujui bersama berkenaan manifesto dan dasar-dasar Pakatan Harapan.

Selepas pertemuan kedua, Pakatan Harapan menubuhkan jawatankuasa khas semakan janji manifesto dengan Chin Tong sebagai pengerusinya yang bertujuan untuk menangani masalah persepsi awam berhubung janji-janji pilihan raya yang kononnya tidak ditunaikan. Malangnya, kerajaan PH digulingkan melalui Langkah Sheraton sebelum jawatankuasa tersebut dapat menyiapkan laporannya.

Inilah sebabnya mengapa saya tidak faham dengan sikap sesetengah pihak yang enggan mendengar penjelasan tentang mengapa janji-janji pilihan raya yang tertentu tidak dapat ditunaikan, sebagai contoh; isu pengiktirafan Sijil Peperiksaan Bersepadu (UEC)

Janji PRU14 berkenaan UEC yang termaktub dalam Buku Harapan menyatakan:

“Pakatan Harapan akan mengiktiraf sijil UEC sebagai syarat am kelayakan untuk memasuki institusi-institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA) dengan syarat pemohon memiliki kepujian dalam mata pelajaran Bahasa Melayu di peringkat SPM. Untuk tujuan ini, sijil UEC akan dinilai agar setaraf dengan syarat am kelayakan sedia ada untuk kemasukan ke IPTA.”

Semasa Pemukiman DAP pada 2019, Mahathir ketika itu berkata kerajaan PH komited untuk menunaikan janji bagi mengiktiraf sijil EUC. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim turut menyatakan komitmen yang sama.

Kini mustahil untuk PH melaksanakan janji tersebut selepas digulingkan konspirasi Langkah Sheraton.

Ada penyokong yang mahu DAP kembali ke masa lampau dan hanya menjadi parti pembangkang semula.

Saya telah menjadi pembangkang selama 52 tahun dan saya tidak sedikit pun gentar untuk kembali duduk di kerusi pembangkang. Pun begitu, kita harus mempunyai matlamat untuk kembali membentuk kerajaan semula, kerana hanya dengan kuasa segala pembaharuan dan reformasi dapat dilaksanakan.

Namun kita harus bersikap realistik, kita perlu bekerjasama dengan pemimpin politik yang sehaluan dengan kita, yang bersama ingin mengejar dan menjadikan Impian Malaysia untuk menjadikan negara ini sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia satu kenyataan, kerana DAP tidak akan mampu untuk membentuk kerajaan secara bersendirian.

Pemimpin DAP tidak harus termakan dengan godaan kuasa, tidak kira semasa menjadi kerajaan atau pembangkang, dan sepanjang 55 tahun sejarah DAP, pemimpin DAP tidak pernah sekalipun mengingkari prinsip keramat ini.

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 21 April 2021)

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#kerajaangagal5 — Seventh Day with over 2,000 Covid-19 cases

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Malaysia recorded 2,340 Covid-19 cases yesterday — the seventh straight day it has logged more than 2,000 cases, bringing the cumulative total tally to 381,813 cases.

We are ranked No. 44 among countries in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, and poised to overtake Bulgaria, which is ranked No. 43 with 392,913 cases and Saudi Arabia which is ranked No. 42 with 408,038 cases.

But only 1.4% of Malaysia’s population have been fully vaccinated, as compared to 55.2% in Israel, 33% in Bahrain, 29.2% in Russia, 26.4% in the United States, 16.1% in UK – and we are behind some 75 countries with regard to the percentage of the population who are fully vaccinated.

This should the priority concern of the Health Minister, the Cabinet and the Prime Minister.

Yet we have a Health Minister who is more preoccupied with semantics, arguing that there will be no fourth Covid-19 wave in Malaysia unless the third Covid-19 wave (probably the longest Covid-19 wave in the world) has reduced the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases to zero when Malaysians are worried that Malaysia will be hit by a fourth Covid-19 wave before the third Covid-19 wave could be brought under control.

And yesterday, the Cabinet met with no announcement of measures to prevent the country from being hit by a fourth Covid-19 wave while one epidemiologist had warned that Malaysia may face 50,000 active cases and beyond by Hari Raya Aidilfitri in mid-May.

Clearly, the Prime Minister was wrong to declare an emergency and to suspend Parliament when he should have spearheaded an all-party and full national mobilisation of Malaysians in an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach, through Parliament and the State Assemblies, in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

I call on the Prime Minister to reverse course and to advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to end the emergency and to convene Parliament and the State Assemblies to launch an “all-of-govern ment” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 22nd April 2021)

#kerajaangagal5 — Hari ketujuh dengan lebih daripada 2,000 kes baharu

Negara kita mencatatkan 2,340 kes baharu Covid-19 semalam — hari ketujuh berturut-turut negara ini mencatatkan lebih daripada 2,000 kes, membawa jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19 kepada 381,813 kes.

Kita berada di tempat ke-44 di antara negara-negara di seluruh dunia dengan jumlah kes terkumpul Covid-19 tertinggi, dan kita bakal mengatasi kedudukan Bulgaria yang berada di tempat ke-43 dengan 392,913 kes dan Arab Saudi di tempat ke-42 dengan 408,038 kes.

Namun, hanya 1.4% penduduk di Malaysia telah menerima vaksin sepenuhnya, berbanding dengan 55.2% peratus di Israel, 33% di Bahrain, 29.2% di Rusia, 26.4% di Amerika Syarikat, 16.1% di UK — kita berada di belakang kira-kira 75 buah negara dari segi jumlah populasi yang telah menerima vaksin.

Perkara ini patut menjadi kegusaran utama Menteri Kesihatan, Kabinet, dan Perdana Menteri.

Namun, kita mempunyai seorang Menteri Kesihatan yang lebih pedulikan hal ehwal semantik, dengan mengatakan bahawa kita tidak akan berhadapan dengan gelombang keempat Covid-19 di Malaysia melainkan gelombang ketiga wabak ini (yang merupakan antara gelombang penularan yang terpanjang di dunia) telah menurunkan kadar peningkatan hariannya kepada sifar, sedangkan rakyat Malaysia bimbang jika kita dilanda gelombang keempat sebelum kita berjaya mengawal gelombang ketiga sepenuhnya.

Dan semalam, Kabinet bermesyuarat tanpa sebarang pengumuman mengenai langkah-langkah untuk mengelakkan negara kita berhadapan dengan gelombang keempat wabak Covid-19 sedangkan seorang pakar epidemiologi telah memberikan amaran yang Malaysia mungkin akan mencatatkan lebih daripada 50,000 kes aktif menjelang Hari Raya Aidilfitri pada pertengahan bulan Mei.

Jelas sekali, Perdana Menteri silap dalam mengisytiharkan darurat dan menggantung sidang Parlimen sedangkan beliau sepatutnya mengambil pendekatan menggerakkan semua pihak dengan pendekatan dan strategi yang melibatkan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat”, melalui Parlimen dan Dewan-dewan Undangan Negeri dalam melawan wabak Covid-19 ini.

Saya seru Perdana Menteri untuk beralih arah dan menasihati Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk menamatkan darurat dan memanggil Parlimen dan Dewan-dewan Undangan Negeri untuk bersidang untuk melancarkan pendekatan dan strategi yang melibatkan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam melawan Covid-19.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 22 April 2021)

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I am still waiting for evidence as to how my stand on Jawi in 2019 had betrayed the rights, interests and future of the Chinese in Malaysia or that I have changed my stand on Jawi in 1984

It is already eleven days since I declared that DAP does not have any de-Chinese, de-Malay, de-Indian, de-Kadazan or de-Iban policy, but the very opposite,  wanting Malaysians to accept that they will have multiple identities – ethnic, religious, cultural, regional – but  that they are first and foremost Malaysians!

I am still waiting for evidence as to how my stand on Jawi in Chinese and Tamil primary schools had betrayed the rights, interests and future of the Chinese in Malaysia or how in 2019  I had changed my stand on Jawi from that of 1984.

I welcome  a honest debate about the future of Malaysia and DAP, but not lies, half-truths, fake news, falsehoods and distorted sayings.

There is a social media campaign which accused me of selling out the rights, position  and future of the Chinese in Malaysia and questioned why the DAP was not fielding only Chinese candidates in all DAP contested seats.

I invite them to prove that what I had said about Jawi in Chinese and Tamil primary schools is a sell-out of Chinese and Indian rights, interests and future in Malaysia.

I said in Salem, Tamil Nadu in August 2019 that I taught myself Jawi while I was serving my first detention in Muar in 1969 and that it did not “make me any less of a Chinese, and may have helped in making me more of a Malaysian”.

This has been distorted into my saying that one has to learn Jawi to be a Malaysian.

I had always opposed the introduction of Jawi as a compulsory subject for Chinese and Tamil primary schools as it is against the Constitutional provision in Article 152 which provides for the national language to be Rumi script of Bahasa Malaysia. This was what I said in 1984 and what I repeated in 2019.

In 2019,  MCA, Gerakan, MIC and SUPP leaders were the  loudest in condemning the introduction of Jawi in Chinese and Tamil primary schools, although this decision was taken by their Ministers four years ago in 2015, to be implemented yearly in the revised textbooks from 2017 – 2022.

The Jawi subject controversy was a legacy of the former government, as the final decision on the new textbooks for Chinese/Tamil primary schools to introduce the Jawi subject for Std. 4 pupils in 2020 was made by the Education Ministry Curriculum Committee chaired by the then Education Minister, Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid and attended by the then two Deputy Education Ministers, Datuk Chong Sin Woon (MCA) and P. Kamalanathan (MIC) in a meeting of Sept. 21, 2015.

After that it became an administrative matter for the relevant Education Ministry divisions to implement the policy decision of Sept. 2015.

If there had been no change of government in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018, the implementation of the Education Ministry decision on new curriculum in Sept. 2015 would result in the compulsory introduction of Jawi in Chinese and Tamil primary schools.

DAP Ministers ensured that instead of a compulsory introduction of Jawi, there was an optional introduction and that there would be  no compulsory teaching or examination.

Is this betrayal of the Malaysian Chinese and Indian rights, interests and future in Malaysia?

The Jawi incident was used by  MCA, Gerakan and SUPP elements as proof that the DAP Ministers have sold out the rights and interests of the Chinese and Indians.

At the same time, the Jawi issue was used by UMNO and PAS leaders at the time to show  that DAP was  the “true power in the Pakatan Harapan government”.

If the three-page optional introduction of Jawi in Std. 4 in Chinese and Tamil primary schools is so catastrophic, why are these critics so inconsistent  and unprincipled as they had never ask the three-page Jawi  to be completely removed from the Chinese and Tamil primary school curriculum although the  backdoor, incompetent, undemocratic and illegitimate Perikatan Nasional (PN) had been in office for over a year, where both the MCA and Gerakan are represented?

The Jawi controversy is a lesson to all Malaysians that we should be informed of the background facts of a problem and to take a Malaysian approach to all problems.

Now the Jawi issue has re-surfaced and used to attack me and the DAP leaershp as selling out Chinese interests, rights and future of the Malaysian Chinese.

I will like to know how?

Similarly, DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng had been accused of declaring that he was not a Chinese when he became Finance Minister in 2018, which is a lie as all he said was that he would be a Finance Minister for all Malaysians, regardless of race or religion.

Let me state that all DAP leaders and members are proud of their multiple identities – ethnic, religious, cultural, regional – but they are Malaysians first and foremost.

I am not aware  of any DAP leader who is ashamed or wants to  renounce his  or her ethnic, religious, cultural or regional identity although this is the cause celebre of demonization campaigns against DAP on the social media.

Let us rise above the fissisparous and centrifugal forces threatening to tear Malaysia apart and reunite to build a New Malaysia which is a top world-class nation of unity, freedom, justice, excellence and integrity.

Let us come out of our separate ethnic and religious shells, interact and appreciate the virtues and best values of each other’s ethnicity and leverage on Malaysia’s special position as the confluence of four great world civilisations and not to fall victim to those who only want to engender and incite suspicion, distrust, fear and hatred, pitting race against race and religion against religion, through lies, falsehoods, fake news and hate speech.

(Speech  by DAP MP for Iskander Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a meeting with DAP members in Cha’ah, Johore on Friday, 23rd April 2021 at 10 am)

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#kerajaangagal6 – US warns citizens against travel to fourth-tier  Malaysia over “very high” Covid-19 risk while Vietnam, Thailand, China and Taiwan in first tier of “very low” risk as well as   Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Cambodia  in second  tier of “moderate” risk

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My #kerajaangagal6 statement is on the United States warning against travel to Malaysia because in fourth tier of countries with “very high” Covid risk, while Vietnam, Thailand, China and Taiwan are in the first tier of “very low’ risk as well as Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Cambodia in the second tier of “moderate” risk.

Malaysia is in the United States’  fourth tier of “very high” ‘Covid risk – in the company of Indonesia and  Philippines, not to mention United States and the European nations which took seven places  of the 10 top nations in the world with most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

It is highly ironical that the United States, through the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is warning its citizens against travel to Malaysia.

Malaysia, with  384,688 cases, should be warning Malaysians from visiting the United States which topped the world as the country with the most cumulative total of  Covid-19 cases with 32.6 million cases and 584,004 fatalities.

Furthermore, the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases in the United States is still on the very high side of 51,737 cases (though not in the league of India which increased by 332,503  cases yesterday),as compared to 2,874 cases in Malaysia yesterday, though at one time, the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases in the United States was as high as 307,583 cases on January 8  this year!.

But Malaysia   has nothing to be proud to be ranked No. 44 among countries in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, when Myanmar is ranked No. 82, South Korea No. 86, China No. 95, Singapore No. 102, Thailand No. 105,  Hong Kong No. 144, Cambodia 155, Vietnam No. 177 and  Taiwan No. 192.

Yesterday’s 2,874  new Covid-19 cases was the eighth consecutive day Malaysia breached the 2,000-mark, narrowing the gap for Malaysia to overtake Bulgaria to be ranked No. 43rd in the world.

It is clear that the declaration of emergency and suspension of Parliament purportedly to combat the Covid-19 pandemic is an abysmal failure.

In fact, a strong case can be made that it is the emergency situation and the suspension of Parliament which were  the causes of the present plight  where Malaysia  may be hit by a fourth Covid wave before we can bring the third Covid wave – probably the longest Covid Wave in the world – under control.

Furthermore, a strong case can also be made that if the Pakatan Harapan government had not been toppled by the Sheraton Move conspiracy after 22 months in Putrajaya, ushering in a backdoor, incompetent, undemocratic and illegitimate government, Malaysia might be spared both the second and third waves of Covid-19 pandemic.

In the circumstances, it is bizarre that the Home Minister, Hamzah Zainuddin, could say yesterday that the declaration of emergency had allowed the government to better handle the Covid-19 situation in the country, and that without an emergency, “we would not be able to reduce the Covid-19 cases as fast as possible”.

It beggars the imagination that there is a senior  Cabinet Minister who could describe a six-day consecutive streak breaking the 2,000-mark for daily increase of new Covid-19 cases as “reducing the Covid-19 cases as fast as possible”!

We are  about half-way  mark of the emergency declared on January 12, 2021, and with the abysmal failure so far  to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, there will be voices calling for the extension of the emergency in August  on the ground of the worsening Covid-19 pandemic.

Will the Cabinet finally focus on the need to forge an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach to the Covid-19 pandemic to enable Malaysia to learn the new technique of living with the coronavirus, as the Covid-19 is going to be with us for many years, by  ending the emergency and reconvening Parliament?

Or will  the emergency be extended in August  till next year  and longer on the ground of worsening Covid-19 situation, so that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government can continue its backdoor and kakistocratic existence?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 23rd April 2021)

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#KerajaanGagal6 — AS meningkatkan tahap amaran, tidak menggalakkan lawatan ke Malaysia kerana “risiko tinggi” Covid-19, sementara Vietnam, Thailand, China, dan Taiwan berada dalam kategori “risiko rendah” manakala Singapura, Hong Kong, Korea Selatan, Jepun, dan Kemboja berada dalam kategori “risiko sederhana”

Kenyataan #KerajaanGagal6 saya hari ini menyentuh mengenai isu di mana AS meningkatkan tahap amaran, tidak menggalakkan lawatan ke Malaysia kerana “risiko tinggi” Covid-19, sementara Vietnam, Thailand, China, dan Taiwan berada dalam kategori “risiko rendah” manakala Singapura, Hong Kong, Korea Selatan, Jepun, dan Kemboja berada dalam kategori “risiko sederhana”.

Amerika Syarikat meletakkan Malaysia di “paras keempat” dengan risiko Covid yang “sangat tinggi” — bersama-sama Indonesia dan Filipina, dan juga Amerika Syarikat dan negara-negara Eropah yang mengambil tujuh dari 10 tempat di carta negara teratas di dunia dengan jumlah kes Covid-19 tertinggi.

Sangat ironi, Amerika Syarikat, melalui Pusat Pengendalian dan Pencegahan Penyakit (CDC), mengingatkan rakyatnya agar tidak melakukan perjalanan ke Malaysia.

Malaysia, dengan rekod 384,688 kes, seharusnya memberi amaran kepada rakyatnya agar tidak mengunjungi Amerika Syarikat yang mendahului dunia sebagai negara dengan jumlah kes Covid-19 yang tertinggi dengan 32.6 juta kes dan 584,004 kematian.

Tambahan pula, peningkatan harian kes Covid-19 di Amerika Syarikat masih berada pada tahap yang sangat tinggi iaitu 51,737 kes (walaupun tidak seburuk India yang mencatatkan peningkatan kes sebanyak 332,503 semalam), berbanding dengan 2,874 kes di Malaysia semalam, walaupun pada satu masa, peningkatan harian kes Covid-19 di Amerika Syarikat adalah setinggi 307,583 kes pada 8 Januari tahun ini!

Namun, Malaysia tidak harus berbangga berada di kedudukan ke-44 antara negara-negara di dunia dengan jumlah kes Covid-19 yang tertinggi, ketika Myanmar berada di kedudukan ke-82, Korea Selatan (86), China (95), Singapura (102), Thailand (105), Hong Kong (144), Kemboja (155), Vietnam (177) dan Taiwan (192).

2,874 kes baharu Covid-19 yang dicatatkan semalam adalah hari kelapan berturut-turut Malaysia mencatatkan kes positif wabak itu dengan lebih 2,000 kes, merapatkan jurang bagi Malaysia untuk mengatasi Bulgaria yang berada di tangga ke-43 dunia.

Jelas bahawa pengisytiharan darurat dan penggantungan Parlimen yang kononnya untuk memerangi pandemik Covid-19 adalah sebuah kegagalan yang luar biasa.

Sebenarnya, boleh disimpulkan bahawa keadaan darurat dan penggantungan Parlimen adalah penyebab berlakunya keadaan sekarang di mana Malaysia mungkin dilanda gelombang Covid keempat sebelum kita dapat mengawal gelombang ketiga Covid yang merupakan mungkin gelombang yang paling lama dunia.

Malah, boleh juga disimpulkan bahawa sekiranya kerajaan Pakatan Harapan tidak digulingkan oleh konspirasi Langkah Sheraton selepas 22 bulan mentadbir di Putrajaya, yang seterusnya menyaksikan pembentukan kerajaan pintu belakang, tidak kompeten, tidak demokratik dan tidak sah, Malaysia mungkin akan terhindar daripada gelombang kedua dan ketiga pandemik Covid-19.

Justeru itu, adalah pelik apabila Menteri Dalam Negeri, Hamzah Zainuddin, semalam berkata bahawa pengisytiharan darurat telah memungkinkan kerajaan untuk menangani situasi Covid-19 di negara ini dengan lebih baik, selain menambah, tanpa keadaan darurat, “kita tidak akan dapat mengurangkan kes Covid-19 secepat mungkin ”.

Terbayang di fikiran, entah menteri kanan mana yang boleh menjelaskan peningkatan kes harian Covid-19 yang melepasi angka 2,000 selama enam hari berturut-turut ini sebagai satu usaha “mengurangkan kes Covid-19 secepat mungkin”!

Kita telah menjalani separuh daripada tempoh darurat yang dikuatkuasakan pada 12 Januari lalu, dan dengan kegagalan sejauh ini untuk membendung wabak Covid-19, akan ada suara-suara yang menyeru agar darurat yang akan tamat pada bulan Ogos dilanjutkan dengan alasan situasi pandemik Covid-19 yang semakin memburuk.

Adakah Kabinet akhirnya akan menumpukan pada keperluan untuk membentuk strategi dan pendekatan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam usaha memerangi Covid-19 untuk membolehkan Malaysia mempelajari teknik baru untuk hidup dengan virus, kerana dijangakan bahawa pandemik Covid-19 ini akan terus menghantui kita selama bertahun-tahun, dengan menamatkan darurat dan memulakan semula sidang Parlimen?

Atau adakah darurat akan dilanjutkan selepas bulan Ogos hingga tahun depan dan lebih lama lagi dengan alasan keadaan Covid-19 yang semakin memburuk, sehingga Perikatan Nasional (PN) dapat memperkukuhkan kerajaan pintu belakangnya dan melindungi kakistokrat?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 23 April 2021)

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If I want to betray my principles for justice, freedom, integrity and Malaysian Dream, I should have done it fifty years ago in the 1970s when I could  become a Cabinet  Minister in my late  twenties  or early thirties and not wait until I am eighty years old!

I am in the rare situation for a Malaysian  – accused by extremist and irresponsible Malay politicians as anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty on the one hand and by extremist and irresponsible Chinese politicians on the other as having betrayed the Malaysian Chinese rights, position and future on the other.

At present, I am probably more attacked on the Chinese social  and mass media  in Malaysia  of having sold out the rights, position and future of the Malaysian Chinese than in the Malay social and mass media for being anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty.

I would like to know who is the second person in Malaysia who is the victim of such baseless pincer attacks – one and the same time of being  accused of being anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty while being  attacked for having sold out the rights, position and future of the Chinese in Malaysia!

In fact, I wonder how a person could do both such things at the same time.

But let me say at the outset, if  I want to betray my principles for justice, freedom, integrity and the Malaysian Dream, I should have done it fifty years ago in the 1970s when I could  become a Cabinet Minister in my late  twenties or early thirties  and not wait until I am eighty years old!

And there is no need for me to be detained twice under the Internal Security Act and to go through so many hardships  in my 55 years in Malaysian politics.

I have dedicated  55 years of my life to the pursuit of the Malaysian Dream – a Malaysia which is a world-class great nation where the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans,  Ibans and orang Asli come out of their own universes to interact with other communities; to learn, appreciate and accept that Malaysia is not to be identified with any one community but with all the different communities who have made the land their mother country!

In other words, a Malaysian is a Chinese who is not 100 per cent Chinese but has an extra dimension which could be described as Malaysia-plus; a Malay who is not 100 per cent Malay but with a Malaysia-plus dimension; an Indian who is not 100 per cent Indian and an Iban, Kadazan or Orang Asli who is not 100 per cent Iban, Kadazan or Orang Asli but with a Malaysia-plus dimension!

Eleven days ago,  I declared that DAP does not have any de-Chinese, de-Malay, de-Indian, de-Kadazan, de-Iban or de-Orang Asli policy, but the very opposite, we want Malaysians to accept that they will have multiple identities – ethnic, religious, cultural, regional – but that they are first and foremost Malaysians!

There is no “de-Chinese” DAP policy  to “dilute its Chineseness to belittle or degrade itself just to gain Malay support”, or de-Malay, de-Indian, de-Iban, de-Kadazan or  de-Orang Asli DAP policy.

A Malay, Indian, Iban, Kadazan or orang Asli  joining the DAP is not asked to de-Malay, de-Indian, de-Iban, de-Kadazan or de-Orang Asli  as we want Malaysians to be proud of their respective and different  ethnicity, religion, culture or region as Malaysians will have multiple identities but we want every Malaysian to accept  that he or she is  first and foremost a Malaysian!

I am not saying this only now as I have been pursuing this Malaysian Dream in my whole life.

On March 18, 2010 in Parliament during the Royal Address debate where I challenged Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who was then the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he was Malaysian first and Malay second, I had already stated in Parliament  that I was  a Malaysian first and Chinese second.

I am proud of my ethnicity but I have always believed that all Malaysians must rise above their ethnic, cultural, religious and geographic differences to seek a common bond with the Malaysian identity transcending all ethnic, cultural, religious and geographic identities.

DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng had been accused of declaring he was not a Chinese when he stressed  that he would be Finance Minister for all Malaysians and not just for the Chinese in Malaysia.

Only  the most mentally retarded would believe that any Malaysian would say that he or she is not a Chinese, Malay, Indian, Iban, Kadazan or Orang Asli when emphasising that he or she is a Malaysian.

No DAP leader would say he or she is ashamed of his  or her ethnic, religious, cultural or regional identity when stressing that he or she is a Malaysian first and foremost.

Let us have a honest debate about the future of Malaysia and DAP but do not  use lies, falsehoods, half-truths, fake news  and distorted sayings.

We must not give up our Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to be a world-class great nation.

We rejected kleptocracy in the 14th General Election.

Let Malaysians reject kakistocracy in the 15th General Election.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang to DAP members at Theatre Impian, Bukit Jalil on Friday, April 23, 2021 at 8 pm)

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