Kit Siang saman Utusan isu kencing...
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DAP Lim Kit Siang memulakan tindakan saman ke atas akhbar milik Umno
Utusan Malaysia yang membangkitkan semula dakwaan bahawa beliau kencing
di hadapan kediaman menteri besar Selangor sebaik sebelum rusuhan kaum
1969.
Lim juga mengemukakan saman ke atas bekas timbalan menteri Umno Mohd Puad Zarkashi atas kenyataan kepada akhbar berkenaan, serta bekas menteri penerangan Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin yang mendakwa dalam satu tulisan blog bahawa Lim menyebabkan rusuhan 13 Mei.
"Bagaimanapa seorang bekas timbalan menteri Umno berkata (demikian) dan Utusan Malaysia menerbitkan kenyataan palsu seperti ini sedangkan ini adalah penipuan paling tidak bertanggungjawab," kata Lim dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.
Beliau merujuk kepada kenyataan Mohd Puad dalam Utusan Malaysia bertarikh 7 September bahawa kritikan ke atas filem Tanda Putera hanya untuk menutup tindakan Lilm yang didakwa kencing di hadapan kediaman menteri besar.
Kontroversi tersebut bermula pada tahun lalu apabila laman facebook Tanda Putera menerbitkan gambar Lim dengan keterangan bahawa pemimpin DAP itu ditahan selepas kencing di satu tiang bendera.
Gambar berkenaan seterusnya dipadamkan namun filem tersebut mengekalkan babak kencing melibatkan beberapa orang pemuda.
Lim bertegas bahawa insiden seperti itu tidak pernah berlaku dan beliau berada di Sabah ketika rusuhan meletus pada 1969.-malaysiakini
Lim juga mengemukakan saman ke atas bekas timbalan menteri Umno Mohd Puad Zarkashi atas kenyataan kepada akhbar berkenaan, serta bekas menteri penerangan Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin yang mendakwa dalam satu tulisan blog bahawa Lim menyebabkan rusuhan 13 Mei.
"Bagaimanapa seorang bekas timbalan menteri Umno berkata (demikian) dan Utusan Malaysia menerbitkan kenyataan palsu seperti ini sedangkan ini adalah penipuan paling tidak bertanggungjawab," kata Lim dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.
Beliau merujuk kepada kenyataan Mohd Puad dalam Utusan Malaysia bertarikh 7 September bahawa kritikan ke atas filem Tanda Putera hanya untuk menutup tindakan Lilm yang didakwa kencing di hadapan kediaman menteri besar.
Kontroversi tersebut bermula pada tahun lalu apabila laman facebook Tanda Putera menerbitkan gambar Lim dengan keterangan bahawa pemimpin DAP itu ditahan selepas kencing di satu tiang bendera.
Gambar berkenaan seterusnya dipadamkan namun filem tersebut mengekalkan babak kencing melibatkan beberapa orang pemuda.
Lim bertegas bahawa insiden seperti itu tidak pernah berlaku dan beliau berada di Sabah ketika rusuhan meletus pada 1969.-malaysiakini
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Kit Siang urinates Utusan over 'May 13 urination'...
DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang has initiated legal action against Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia after the daily resurrected claims that he urinated in front of the Selangor menteri besar's residence just before the 1969 racial riots.
Lim is also suing a former deputy minister, Mohd Puad Zarkashi (left)
of Umno, for remarks he made to the daily, as well as former
information minister Zainuddin Maidin who accused Lim of causing the May
13 riots in a blog posting."How can the former Umno deputy minister say, and Utusan Malaysia publish, such dastardly falsehood when this is a most irresponsible and downright lie?" Lim said in a statement today.
He was referring to Mohd Puad statement in the Utusan issue of Sept 7 that DAP's criticism of the film 'Tanda Putera' was merely to mask Lim's supposed insolent act of urinating in front of the menteri besar's residence.
The 'urination' controversy began last year when the Facebook page of 'Tanda Putera' posted a photograph of Lim and said he was arrested after urinating on the flagpole.
The photograph was later removed but the film preserved the urination scene, which was done by some youths.
Lim reiterated that such an incident had never taken place and that he was in Sabah when the 1969 race riots broke out.
'Letter of demand sent'
Meanwhile, when contacted, Lim's lawyer, Karpal Singh confirmed with Malaysiakini that the letters of demand were delivered to Utusan Malaysia and Mohd Puad today.
The letters demand that the article be withdrawn and an apology be issued within seven days as mitigation for damages.
"It must be clearly understood that this opportunity given to you to mitigate damages by retracting and apologising is absolutely and strictly without prejudice to our client commencing legal proceedings against you for the very serious damage done to his reputation," the letter reads.- malaysiakini
If Tanda Putera blatantly lied about Kit Siang, what else is dangerous about this May 13 film?
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