I jailed Kit Siang to protect national harmony, says ex-IGP

Updated 7 years ago · Published on 6 Sep 2018 10:52PM · 7 Comments

Former inspector-general of police Mohammed Hanif Omar says both DAP and PAS did not help in the fight against communists. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, September 6, 2018.

FORMER inspector-general of police Mohammed Hanif Omar had DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang jailed to protect the nation’s harmony, reported Sinar Harian.

The Bahasa Malaysia daily reported that Hanif, who was the nation’s top cop from 1974 to 1994, said this when he speaking as a panellist during a convention at Universiti Teknologi Mara earlier today.

He said he was always strict on the job, especially when it came to dealing with attempts to disrupt national harmony.

The 79-year-old said he would stop any such attempts, whether they were by Malays or Chinese.

Describing the May 13, 1969 racial riots as a “dark history” he would never forget, Hanif said the Alliance formed Barisan Nasional because the country was nearly destroyed.

“DAP wanted Malaya to be split in two. The east coast would be for Malays, and the west coast for Chinese.

“How did I respond to that? I put Lim in jail. He was in for two years. That was Hanif’s way of taking action as IGP,” he was quoted as saying.

Lim was detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for 18 months in 1969, the same year he was elected as Bandar Melaka MP. Hanif was then not yet IGP.

He took on the post only when Lim was arrested under ISA again in the 1987 Op Lalang crackdown and jailed for 17 months.

Throughout his political career, Lim, now 77 and Iskandar Puteri MP, has been blamed by BN for allegedly disrupting harmony and being anti-Malay.

Hanif said Lim’s party never helped fight against the communists during the insurgency from 1968 to 1989, also known as the Second Malayan Emergency.

He said DAP leaders never spoke about having an anti-Malayan Communist Party (MCP) policy when others were killed during battles to save the country from communists.

“When we were fighting the communists, DAP never helped. They didn’t speak of any anti-MCP policy.”

Hanif said the same could be said of PAS.

“When there were sermons on police and military lives lost in the fight against the communists – and they died as martyrs (mati syahid) – PAS said they died in vain (mati katak).” – September 6, 2018.

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  • Hello Hanif Omar... you sit comfortably in your luxurious home with high paying salary by Genting Berhad Group and become a mouth piece for UMNO. Please la, just stop playing up the DAP issue. Its akin to playing up and stirring up racial issue. Tan Sri, you maybe an ex-cop or ex IGP but please dont be a spokesman for UMBO and stir racial matter - insinuating that DAP is the cause! They should charge you for inciting the people and charge you in court!

    Posted 7 years ago by Thiruchelvam Thirunavukarasu · Reply

  • One more thing I like to ask you Tan Sri... who asked you to talk about the communist era? Umno? Nothing else to talk about? That happened more than 30-40 years ago.. our teenagers today probably wont know what communist means, in the first place!
    Tan Sri, you should be talking about the current new era of kleptocracy! Thats the in thing now! Perhaps in your next interview you would like to focus on kleptocracy!!

    Posted 7 years ago by Thiruchelvam Thirunavukarasu · Reply

  • Looks like this ex IGP is trying to justify his action and white wash his guilt. Wrong subject , wrong timing, wrong audience and definitely a guy in the wrong.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted 7 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • Terlalu banyak makan hasil perjudian munkin merosakkan pemikiran...........

    Posted 7 years ago by Azis Yusoff · Reply

  • Another hot air nonsense from Hanif. If hes indeed serious about the nations harmony, why not even a whimper from him when the extremists in UMNO were making inflammatory and racist comments in Pasir Salak recently?

    Posted 7 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • Encik berape lama dah duduk makan kat genting

    Posted 7 years ago by Hajat Sulaiman · Reply

  • DAP's politics never meant to split any community or the nation. Tan Sri simply failed to contain the anger of the rogue group of people and hence victimised DAP.

    Posted 7 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply