Media statement by Lim Guan Eng in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 11^th May 2012: 

By failing to act against the "Burger Protest", BN and DBKL is subjecting Datuk Ambiga to undue harrassment, intimidation and invasion of privacy 

DAP condemns the "burger protest" by pro-BN and anti-Bersih supporters, which set up an illegal burger stall outside Bersih co-chairperson Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan's house to protest against their claims of purported loss of income suffered due to the Bersih 3.0 rally on 28 April 2012. Is rule of law in Malaysia now replaced by rule of the jungle?

I fail to understand how DBKL can allow a burger stall to be set up outside a private residence with impunity in Kuala Lumpur? By failing to act against the "burger protest" set up illegally outside Datuk Ambiga's house, BN and DBKL is subjecting her to undue harrassment, intimidation and invasion of privacy. Will DBKL allow a similar protest outside the private home of Ministers or the DBKL's Mayor residence?

Such an act of harrassment, intimidation and invasion of privacy has no place in our peaceful country, where Malaysians live together in mutual harmony and respect. Moreover, the symbolic act of setting up burger stalls and cooking meat as a protest outside Ambiga's home is extremely disrespectful considering that the former Bar Council president is a vegetarian.

As Ambiga herself noted yesterday, such acts have "never happened in Malaysia, except to Lim Guan Eng. Now (he) and I have had our homes violated." Yesterday, my own family's privacy was invaded by a group of Perkasa members who performed a "funeral rite" intruding on my private space, by placing on my gate a garland of flowers over a framed photo of me to signify my "death".

Clearly this is the first time that such a death "wish" or death "threat" is made against a Chief Minister. What is equally clear is that the police present were indifferent and did not stop the Perkasa members from violating my private space.

It is the right of every Malaysian to be able to protest his or her own issues, but to do so by intruding into personal space and invading the privacy of family homes or wishing for the death of anyone is utterly vile, completely disrespectful and contrary to the basic tenets of democracy.

DAP calls on BN and DBKL to immediately remove the stall outside Datuk Ambiga's home as a mark of respect towards not only to democracy and rule of law but to establish and uphold civil society.

*Lim Guan Eng, DAP Secretary General & MP for Bagan