Annuar Musa has joined PAS and the first thing he has done is to emulate PAS President Hadi Awang to make wild, preposterous and unsubstantiable allegations.
In linking me to the May 13, 1969 riots, Annuar said: “In the 1969 general election, he (DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang) campaigned under the banner of DAP, and then the bloodshed of May 13, 1969, occurred. DAP had a significant stake.
“If you open the book that compiles Lim’s speeches, it includes one when the killings took place in Kampung Baru. Lim was giving a speech in Kota Kinabalu, still fanning the flames for bumiputera and non-bumiputera issues,” he said.
According to Malaysiakini, Annuar made the claims in front of some 1,000 people who gathered for a PAS ceramah in Bachok, Kelantan.
There is no such book. It is a figment of Annuar’s imagination.
I have instructed my lawyers to institute action to clear my name.
It is not that I had not repeatedly stated that I had no links with the May 13, 1969 riots
This is proof that PAS is using lies, falsehood, fake news, and hate speech in the six state polls in Penang, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Kedah, Kelantan, and Terengganu on August 12 and that PAS under Hadi does not accept the original nation-building principles for a plural Malaysia as set out in the Constitution and Rukun Negara which the nation’s founding fathers (which included the first three Prime Ministers — Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, and Hussein Onn), have written into the Constitution and the Rukun Negara — constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, rule of law, an independent judiciary, Islam as the official religion of the country and freedom of religion for other faiths, good governance, public integrity with minimum corruption, a clean and honest government, meritocracy, respect for human rights, an end to the various injustices and inequalities in the country, a world-class economic, educational, health and social system, and national unity, understanding, and harmony from our multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural diversity.
This is also the reason why PAS disagree with the objective to make Malaysia the role model of the world in inter-ethnic, inter-religious, inter-cultural and inter-civilisation dialogue, understanding, tolerance and harmony.
I was originally slated to contest in the Bukit Bintang parliamentary seat in the 1969 general election, but with electoral understanding with Gerakan on the eve on the general election, I was slated to contest in Damansara parliamentary seat. At the last minute, however, I was sent to contest in Bandar Melaka, where I started my parliamentary journey.
If I had contested in the KL/Selangor areas in Damansara, it would have been much more difficult to rebut the wild and preposterous allegations that I was involved in the May 13,1969 riots.
It is strange that I am now accused of being a communist although the communists, who launched a boycott of the 1969 General Election, wanted me to lose Bandar Melaka seat in 1969, and that I am further accused for causing May 13, 1969 riots when I was not in Kuala Lumpur at the relevant.
In actual, I was never in Kuala Lumpur on May 11, 12 and 13 of 1969, as on the morning of May 13, I flew to Kota Kinabalu to help the independent candidates as polling day in Sabah and Sarawak was scheduled later.
Annuar Musa did not know, but the police and the Special Branch at the time knew.
And Annuar Musa did know that in my first parliamentary speech in February 1971, I called for Commission of Inquiry to “learn the lessons of May 13 racial riots and the 21 months of NOC rule, and point the solution to a united, just and equal Malaysia”, “to find out the cause of the May 13 racial riots” and to make recommendations as to how to prevent a recurrence of the May 13 racial riots and arrest the racial polarisation in Malaysia.