Press Statement By DAP Secretary-General And MP For Bagan Lim Guan Eng In Kuala Lumpur On 4.3.2018.
MCA President Liow Tiong Lai should be smarter and not tell lies that can be immediately exposed. Liow claimed that DAP does not represent the Chinese community. Let me remind Liow that DAP aspires to represent all Malaysians regardless of race and religion from Peninsular Malaysia to Sabah and Sarawak. Is Liow correct to say that it is MCA that represents the Chinese community, when 80% of the Chinese electorate rejected MCA in the 2013 General Elections?
Liow also claimed that DAP or myself had not scolded UMNO Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz for his ill-mannered personal attacks against Malaysian magnate Robert Kuok. Again this is false. DAP leaders had condemned both UMNO and its leaders, including Datuk Seri Nazri. The latest statement by me was on 2nd March 2018, one day before the MCA’s 69th-anniversary celebration on 3 March 2018.
However my 2nd March statement was not published in the BN media. Liow is now hammering me for not condemning UMNO when his own media did not print it. DAP would not allow MCA to white-wash UMNO’s racist and extremist attacks against Robert Kuok by reducing this to an act of one single person(Nazri Abdul Aziz), when it is an all-out assault by UMNO as a party.
Let me reiterate DAP condemns not only UMNO Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz, but the entire UMNO, for their fake news, dishonesty and vitriolic attacks against Malaysian business icon Robert Kuok. MCA shluld not try to white-wash UMNO’s racist and extremist attacks against Robert Kuok by reducing this to an act of one single person(Nazri Abdul Aziz) when it is an all-out assault by UMNO as a party.
Not only Nazri Abdul Aziz but key UMNO leaders ranging from Deputy UMNO Minister Tajuddin Abdul Rahman, UMNO Ministers Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, Nazri Abdul Aziz and Azalina Othman to make vicious personal attacks that has no basis against Robert Kuok. Even the Prime Minister himself got into the act to reprimand Robert Kuok.
UMNO is most ungrateful when they have benefited by receiving donations from Robert Kuok. Instead they have falsely attacked DAP for taking donations from Robert Kuok, when DAP did not receive any. This is what Robert Kuok said in his memoir released last December.
“I was often asked to give substantial donations to the ruling parties, UMNO and MCA, after independence in 1957. I gave willingly, happily and freely.”
For Robert Kuok giving willingly, happily and freely to UMNO, UMNO repaid Robert Kuok not with gratitude but so much bullying and hatred. Malaysians, particularly the Chinese community, are angry and will not easily forget how UMNO exploits such fake news and ferocious personal attacks with calls for removal of citizenship, and bullying an iconic Malaysian entrepreneur.
This is not just the whole top UMNO leadership attacking Robert Kuok, but also state leaders such as UMNO Johor Assemblyman for Kempas Tengku Putra Haron Aminurrashid Tengku Hamid Jumat calling MCA “racist” for defending Robert Kuok. Why is MCA still wasting time collaborating with UMNO and hanging on to BN when UMNO has utter contempt for MCA?
If MCA is a principled party defending truth and justice, MCA should first condemn UMNO for the fake news and racist attacks against Robert Kuok and the DAP. Secondly they should break off ties with UMNO and withdraw from BN in protest against UMNO’s refusal to withdraw the fake news and apologise for their racist attacks.
This is a dishonest act of deception by MCA, when they were so many top UMNO leaders who attacked Robert Kuok. Clearly, by not pulling out of BN, both MCA and Gerakan are putting principle ahead of position of power, right ahead of wrong, fairplay ahead of bullying.
LIM GUAN ENG
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民主行动党秘书长兼峇眼区国会议员林冠英于2018年3月4日 在吉隆坡发表声明：
马华公会不应该试图为巫统针对郭鹤年的种族主义和极端主义攻击进行漂白，把它降级变成纳兹里个人的攻击性行动，事实上这是巫统做为一个政党倾巢而出的所做所为。
马华总会长廖中莱应该聪明一点，不要制造那种“此地无银三百两”的谎话。廖中莱说行动党不能代表全体华社。让我提醒廖中莱，行动党立志代表全体马来西亚人，不论是马来半岛还是沙巴、砂劳越的马来西亚人，不分种族、宗教。我想请问，80%的华裔选民在2013年全国大选中拒绝了马华，廖中莱还说马华公会代表全体华社，是否成立？
廖中莱也说行动党或我本身没有针对巫统部长拿督斯里纳兹里对大马富商郭鹤年的无视人身攻击责骂纳兹里，他一错再错。行动党领袖曾经骂过巫统及其领袖，包括拿督斯里纳兹里。我最近一次在2018年3月2日发表的声明，即马华公会在2018年3月3日庆祝建党60年前一天。
但是，国阵媒体并没有刊登我于3月2日发表的声明。当廖中来自己的媒体没有刊登我的声明时，他却反过来指责我没有谴责巫统。行动党绝不会让马华得逞，他们企图为巫统针对郭鹤年的种族主义和极端主义攻击进行漂白，把它降级变成纳兹里个人的攻击性行动，事实上这是巫统做为一个政党倾巢而出的所做所为。
让我重申，民主行动党不只要谴责巫统部长拿督斯里纳兹里，还要同时谴责整个巫统制造假新闻、诬赖及恶毒地攻击大马商界典范郭鹤年。马华不应急着为巫统漂白他们对郭鹤年进行的极端种族主义攻击，企图将这项攻击行动指向只有纳兹里一人的行为，实情是巫统整个政党正在倾全力羞辱郭鹤年。
不只纳兹里一人，巫统领袖尚包括巫统副部长塔祖丁拉曼、巫统部长东姑安南、纳兹里及阿莎丽娜皆以人身攻击群起围攻郭鹤年。甚至是首相自己也插一脚训斥郭鹤年。
巫统是最忘恩负义的，因为获得郭鹤年捐款受益的就是巫统。反过来他们竟然还毫无根据的攻击不曾获捐的行动党获得郭鹤年的捐款。郭鹤年白纸黑字在其去年12月推出的自转中承认他曾捐献巫统及马华，在此截取自其英文版自传第260页如下：
“自1957年独立以来，我常常被要求捐款给执政成员党即巫统与马华。我很愿意、开心且大方地捐款给他们。”
郭老对巫统的“愿意、开心及大方”，最终换回来的不是感激之情，反而是霸凌与憎恨。对于巫统制造假新闻无的放矢，并群起攻击郭老，甚至放话要取消郭老这位大马标志性企业家的公民权，马来西亚人，特别是华人社群感到无比的生气，这笔帐必定不会轻易忘却。
攻击郭老的已不是巫统高层而已，连州级领袖如巫统柔州甘拔士区州议员东姑布特拉哈伦也加入阵容，他攻击马华，指马华“种族主义”，理由是马华捍卫郭鹤年。人家都已经如此鄙视马华了，为何马华还要留在国阵，浪费时间来和巫统合作？
如果马华是一个有原则的政党，捍卫真相和公义，马华应该谴责巫统，制造假新闻、还对郭鹤年与行动党进行种族攻击。第二，他们应该与巫统决裂，退出国阵，以抗议巫统拒绝拒绝撤回假新闻，并为自己的种族性言论道歉。
这就是马华极不老实的狡辩，攻击郭鹤年的可是一众巫统最高领袖呀！很明显，马华与民政就是不敢退出国阵，因为在他们来说，权位重于原则、错重于对、欺凌重于公平竞争。
林冠英