I have instituted legal proceedings against Annuar Musa not to threaten or to cow him but to clear my name as he linked me to the May 13, 1969 riots and alleged that I had caused the May 13 riots.
As the DAP MP for Kepong, Lim Lip Eng, asked yesterday, I had paid Annuar the supreme compliment of saying that the first thing Annuar did on joining PAS was to emulate the PAS President, Hadi Awang, but Annuar said he was planning to countersue me after I paid him the supreme compliment. He did not explain why.
Annuar Musa is trying to make himself a popular ceramah speaker on the PAS circuit by linking me to the May 13 racial riots, but this is my last statement on Annuar Musa and I will not mention his name until after the six state polls.
Why is Annuar behaving as if without focussing on Lim Kit Siang and May 13 riots, he has nothing to talk on the ceramah circuit?
Will Annuar and the Perikatan Nasional (PN) support the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the various Sultans who have emphasized that the most important task today is to ensure political stability and strengthen national unity in Malaysia?
Would PN enter into an electoral accord with all political parties that in the six state polls on August 12, all the political parties would not abuse the 3Rs and would not raise the May 13 spectre?
I have been accused of all sorts of things in my 58 years of political work. So was the case with DAP.
I was accused of being born in China and came to Malaysia when I was 16 years old, when I was in fact born in Batu Pahat in 1941 and went to primary and secondary schools in Batu Pahat.
I was accused of being anti-Malay, anti-Islam, spreading Islamophobia, a communist, but the accusers have never been able to substantiate these allegations from the millions of words I have uttered or written in my 58 years of political work.
The most bizarre allegations include:
- The allegations that I am anti-Malay, anti-Islam and spreading Islamophobia, when my son Lim Guan Eng sacrificed his Kota Melaka parliamentary seat in 1999 and went to jail in defence of the honour and dignity of an underaged Malay girl. Has any PAS leader made any sacrifice for any underaged Malay girl, let alone a Malaysian girl of another race or religion?
- The allegation that I am communist, although the communists wanted me to lose in the Bandar Melaka parliamentary seat in 1969, as they had launched a campaign to boycott the 1969 general elections to show the irrelevance of the parliamentary struggle;
- In 2017, that Mahathir Mohamad had bribed me RM1 billion to become the Pakatan Harapan’s Chairman and the money was paid to me in Hong Kong and Singapore;
- Before the 2013 General Election, the allegation that the DAP was paid RM1.2 billion by the Israelis in exchange for a naval base in Port Dickson;
- The allegation in the 2013 general election that the DAP was funding 3,000 cybertroopers in a Red Bean Army with a budget of RM100 million to RM1billion in the past six years.
It speaks of gross incompetence and ineptitude for the Malaysian authorities, security and financial, to allow such bizarre things to happen, and the Malaysian authorities are certainly not incompetent or inept on such matters.
Malaysian voters must prove to the world that they are not drowned in the tsunami of lies, falsehood, fake news and hate speech in the era of social media in the six state polls on August 12 and that they can differentiate the true from the false, what is right from what is wrong.
I am reminded of the film Tanda Putera in 2013 and the attempt to insinuate that I had urinated at the flagpole in the residence of Selangor Mentri Besar causing May 13 riots.
The former Perak Chief Police Officer Yuen Yuet Leng said at the time that the “urination”” incident at the flagpole in the Selangor Mentri Besar’s residence was totally fictional and remarked rightly that if there was any such a person who committed such an outrageous act, he would not have left the Selangor Mentri Besar’s residence alive!
Recently, I came across a poem which I wrote 66 years ago for my class magazine in Batu Pahat High School in 1957 when I was 16 in Form III, viz:
One for all and all for one
We care not what colour, creed or religion you belong
For aren’t each of us Malaya’s son
Then why let silly racial quarrels prolong?
This has always been my watchword throughout my public life, and I find it utterly abhorrent for anyone who is prepared to resort to such falsehoods as accuse me of being anti-Malay, anti-Islam, promoting Islamophobia, communist, etc.
Anyone in Malaysia who hate Malays, or for that matter, any racial or religious group in the country, whether Chinese, Indians, Kadazans or Dayaks cannot be true and patriotic Malaysians.
In my 58 years in politics, I have always regarded myself as a Malaysian first and last. I have never regarded myself purely as a Chinese, but as a Malaysian of Chinese ethnic descent whose loyalty is unswervingly to the Malaysian nation, having common cause with all Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region to build a better Malaysia for all Malaysians.