14 Arrested In Hunger Strike!

Confirmed arrest so far: YB.Keshvinder,YB.Sivakumar,YB.Thomas Su,YB.Leong Mee Meng, YB.Lim Pek Har, YB.Kula, YB.Chang Lih Kang and YB.Chan Ming Kai. 7 Aduns ( 5 DAP, 2 PKR ), 1 MP ( DAP ) and 2 DAP members, 2 Amal Unit & 2 onlookers arrested. 14 in total.

MEDIA STATEMENT BY DATO' NGEH KOO HAM ON 21ST MAY 2009

Media Statement


Response by Dato’ Ngeh Koo Ham, DAP Perak Chairman to the DVD produced by BN/MCA with regard to the incident on 7-5-2009 at the Perak State Legislative Assembly, at DAP Perak Headquaters, on 21st May 2009:

- Police and the Minister of Home Affairs practice double standard

- 10 reasons why BN/MCA DVD does not disclose the truth
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The BN/MCA have announced that they are producing 50,000 DVD for distribution with regard to 7/5/2009 incident at the Perak State Legislative Assembly.

I have viewed the DVD and it is clearly a biased reporting. The people must not be hood- winked by BN’s lies. Truth fears no counter explanation but BN fears PR’s reply. When PR showed the recording of the 7/5/2009 incident at a DAP dinner in Sitiawan on 9/5/2009 (Saturday) it was abrupted stopped by the police but MCA was free to show its distorted version of the incident at the MCA dinner on 17/5/2009 (Sunday) in Ipoh. When YB Ong Boon Piaw, the DAP State Assemblyman for Tebing Tinggi produced DVD on the 3/3/2009 Perak State Assembly sitting under the rain tree he was arrested by the police but when BN/MCA produce 50,000 DVD distorted version of the incident on 7/5/2009, they are free to do so. Is there any more law in this land? Why the double standard? The police and the Minister of Home Affairs, Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Bin Tun Hussein Onn are clearly pratising double standards. BN has to practice double standard to prevent the people from learning the truth.

The BN/MCA DVD refuses to explained the following:-

1. That the whole fracas on 7/5/2009 was due to the refusal by BN elected representatives and the 3 ‘frog’ elected representative to obey the instructions of V. Sivakumar the legitimate Speaker of the Perak State Assembly.

2. That Dato’ Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir and his 6 BN ‘exco’ members and the 3 frogs Assemblymen and woman had earlier been suspended.

3. That the motion to remove the speaker proposed by suspended members are invalid and have been rejected.

4. That it was the BN trying to conduct an illegal sub-Assembly involving only BN elected representatives in the State Assembly which prompted the response from the Pakatan Rakyat elected representatives to stop them from doing so after BN elected representatives failed the heed the repeated directives and warnings from the speaker not to conduct the illegal sub-Assembly within the State Assembly.

5. That Hee Yit Fong, the Assembly woman for Jelapang cannot chair a sub- Assembly when the Assembly was chaired by the Speaker, V. Sivakumar. Moreover, she is no longer an assembly woman as she has resigned.

6. That the State Assembly had never commence sitting at any point of time. Illegally and forcibly removing V. Sivakumar to install Dato’ R. Ganesan as speaker can never be legal.

7. That even if the State Assembly had commenced when the Regent of Perak gave his opening speech (which is denied as the lawful Speaker, V. Sivakumar had been unlawfully and forcibly evicted from the Assembly) no business was transacted after the opening speech as it was immediately adjourned.

8. It was not true that His Royal Highness the Regent of Perak reprimanded Dato’ Seri Nizar Bin Jamaluddin and myself. His Royal Highness called us up to the stage after Dato’ Seri Nizar Bin Jamaluddin complained to him the Speaker V. Sivakumar was forcibly evicted from the Assembly. His Royal Highness the Regent informed us that he does not want to get involved in this (politics) and asked that he be allowed to read out his speech and hope that we will respect that which we agreed as our opponent is the BN and not the palace.

9. The purported appointment of Dato’ R. Ganesan as speaker was invalid for the following reasons:-

(i) The State Assembly has never commenced.
(ii) The Sub-Assembly chaired by Hee Yit Foong was invalid.
(iii) His election was done at the Sub-Assembly conducted by BN and not at the Assembly chaired by Speaker, V. Sivakumar.
(iv) The election of Dato’ R. Genesan was done prior to the opening speech of the Regent of Perak.

10. It does not include the video footage of the speaker, V. Sivakuma being illegally and forcibly evicted from the state assembly.

I believe the people will be able to see the truth and not be deceived by BN/MCA.


Dated this 21st day of May 2009.
DATO’ NGEH KOO HAM
DAP Perak Chairman

民主行动党霹雳州主席拿督倪可汉于2009年5月21日，假怡保霹雳州总部，针对国阵马华公会制作的2009年5月7日州议会事件光碟发表声明：

- 警方及内政部实行双重标准

- 国阵/马华公会派发的光碟没有揭露事实的10个理由


国阵/马华公会宣布分发5万张2009年5月7日霹雳州议会事件的光碟。

我已经看过有关光碟且很明显是存有偏见的报道，人民不能被这个谎言欺骗。真正的事实不怕多次重复说明，但是国阵却害怕民联的回应。当民联在2009年5月9日于实兆远举行的民主行动党晚宴上播放摄录于5月7日州议会事件的光碟，警方马上鲁莽地制止；而马华公会却被允许在该党于5月17日在怡保举行的晚宴上播放。

行动党徳宾丁宜区州议员黄文标制作3月3日的大树下州议会光碟遭到警察的逮捕，而国阵马华公会却可以被允许发放5万张歪曲事实的光碟。马来西亚是否还有法律存在？为何双重标准？警察及内政部长拿督斯里希山慕丁很明显地实行双重标准。国阵为了阻止人民知道事情的真相而必须实行双重标准。

国阵/马华公会制作的光碟拒绝解释说明以下的事件：

1. 2009年5月7日在州议会内所发生的骚乱起因，在于国阵的议员及3个跳槽的“青蛙”议员拒绝服从霹雳州合法议长西华古玛的指示。

2. 较早时，拿督斯里赞比里、6名国阵的“行政议员”及3个青蛙议员已经被禁足进入州议会。

3. 由被禁足的议员所提呈的撤换议长的动议是无效的同时被驳回。

4. 在国阵议员拒绝遵守议长重复“不得在议会中进行不合法的会议”的指示及警告后，民联议员及时地反应制止国阵议员企图进行只有国阵议员的不合法会议。

5. 当议长西华古玛仍在议会内主持议会时，九洞区州议员许月凤无权同时再主持另一个会议，此外，她已经辞职且不具有州议员资格。

6. 由始至终州议会并没有被宣布开始举行。在非法及强硬地将西华古玛拖离议会厅下，拿督甘尼申的议长资格无论如何都是不合法的。

7. 即使在皇储宣读御词后，议会已经算是开始议程（被拒绝承认为合法议长的西华古玛在开幕御词宣读前就被强行拖离议会厅）议会在开幕御词宣读完毕后被立即宣布无限期休会，并没有执行任何议程，作出任何决定。

8. 有关皇储斥责拿督斯里尼查及我本身的说法是不正确的。当时拿督斯里尼查向皇储投诉议长西华古玛被强硬地拖离议会厅。皇储告诉我们他并不愿意涉入（政治）纠纷中，希望我们能够尊重并让他宣读开幕词。我们一致认为真正的敌对方是国阵而非皇室。

9. 以下原因将指明拿督甘尼申被委以议长职是无效的：
(i) 由始至终州议会并没有真正开始进行。
(ii) 许月凤主持的议会中的不合法会议是无效的。
(iii) 甘尼申不是在西华古玛主持的州议会，而是在国阵主持的不合法会议中被选出的。
(iv) 甘尼申是在皇储宣读开幕御词前被选为议长。

10. 光碟中并没有包括议长西华古玛被非法及强硬地拖离议会厅的片段。

我相信人民不会被国阵/马华公会所蒙骗及误导，能够明辨真正的事实真相。

MEDIA STATEMENT BY DATO' NGEH KOO HAM AT DAP PERAK HEADQUARTERS IN IPOH, ON 13 MAY 2009:

A stay order pending appeal does not affect the content of a Judgment

- Wrong for Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir to claim that he is now the rightful MB of Perak. He is in contempt of court.

- Suspension of State Secretary and State Legal Adviser from duties still valid

I feel ashamed for Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir who now claimed that he is the rightful Menteri Besar of Perak after the one Judge bench of the Court of Appeal granted him a stay pending his appeal with regard to the judgment of the High Court Judge, Justice Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahim who has declared Dato’ Seri Ir. Nizar Bin Jamalludin as continuing to be the rightful Menteri Besar of Perak from the day he was first appointed. The High Court Judge had ordered that Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir must not continue to present himself as Menteri Besar of Perak or act as one. Therefore, it is in contempt of court for Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir to claim that he is now still the rightful Menteri Besar of Perak.

It is without a doubt that until this High Court Judgment is reversed by the Court of Appeal Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir remains an illegally appointed Menteri Besar as has been declared by the learned High Court Judge.

The following simple illustration will help bring home the point.

A sues B for a debt of RM5,000-00 and B disputes the debt. After hearing, the court declares that B owed A RM5,000-00 and ordered B to pay the said sum to A. B then obtains a stay of the judgment pending appeal. Until the appeal is heard and the lower court judgment reversed, it remains that B owed A RM5,000-00 and has to pay this amount to A.

The stay order merely gave A an opportunity to get the opinion of a higher court with regard to the issue before the judgment of the lower court can be enforced.

Therefore, until the hearing of the appeal, Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir remains an illegally appointed Menteri Besar as has been declared by the High Court. He should not and cannot exercise the powers and the privileges of a Menteri Besar including going back to occupy the office of the Menteri Besar.

As Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir is still the illegally appointed Menteri Besar, he has no power to reinstate the State Secretary and State Legal Adviser who were suspended by the Pakatan Rakyat State Government through its Exco meeting on the night of 11^th May 2009 (before the stay order was granted to Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir).

With regard to the opinion expressed by the Chief Secretary to the Government, Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan that action cannot be taken by the State Government against the State Secretary and the State Legal Adviser, I would like to state that such an opinion is legally flawed. The State Secretary and the State Legal Adviser are Federal Officers appointed by the Public Service Commission and the Judicial and Legal Service Commission respectively. However, when they are seconded to and employed by the State Government, the State Government has the authority over them as their employer. Therefore, when they acted against the interest of the State Government or failed to cooperate with the State Government or commit acts of insubordination, they can be suspended from their duties pending formal complaints being lodged against them with the Public Service Commission and the Judicial and Legal Service Commission respectively and be dealth with under the Public Officers (Conduct and Discipline) Regulations 1993. Any other interpretation will mean that Federal Officers can lord over the State Governments with impunity. Therefore the Perak State Pakatan Rakyat Government has acted within what is permitted in law.

Dated this 13^th day of May 2009.

DATO’ NGEH KOO HAM

Coordinator of the Pakatan Rakyat legal

team cum the Senior Exco of the Pakatan

Rakyat Perak State Government

民主行动党霹雳州主席兼民联律师团协调人拿督倪可汉于2009年5月13日假怡保霹雳州总部发表声明：

上诉庭只是暂缓执行吉隆坡高庭昨日宣布尼查是合法大臣的裁决，并没有影响有关判决的内容

-拿督斯里赞比里自称是霹雳州合法大臣是错误的，他已经犯上藐视法庭的行为。

-州秘书及州法律顾问的职务终止令至今依然有效。

我为拿督斯里赞比里自称是霹雳州合法大臣感到羞耻，上诉庭仅仅只是批准他的申请，暂缓执行吉隆坡高庭法官阿都阿兹宣布尼查从被委任至今依旧是合法大臣的裁决。高等法庭已经指示拿督斯里赞比里不能继续以霹雳州务大臣自居。因此，拿督斯里赞比里依然自称是合法的霹雳州务大臣，已经犯上藐视法庭的行为。

高等法庭对于拿督斯里赞比里是不合法被委任的州务大臣的裁决是毋庸置疑的。

以下的例子可以协助说明事情的关键：

A起诉B欠债5000令吉而B反驳不认有关债务。经过聆审，法庭宣告B欠A 5000令吉并且指示B将有关数额欠款付还予A。随即B取得上诉暂缓执行有关判决。在上诉还没有获得审讯、以及较低级法院的判决没有被推翻的情况下，B依然欠A 5000令吉及必须付还有关数额予A。

“暂缓令”只是给予A在低级的法院判决可以获得执行之前，一个在较高级法院内获得重新检讨的机会。

有鉴于此，直至上诉聆审前，即使拿督斯里赞比里自诩为大臣，然而高庭的判决依然判他是不合法的大臣，因此他不能及不可以行使州务大臣的权力及特权，包括占有州务大臣的办公室。

同时，拿督斯里赞比里作为一名不合法的州务大臣，他也没有权力为州秘书及州法律顾问复职，因他们已被民联州政府在2009年5月11日晚上召开的行政会议上终止职务。（而这是在拿督斯里赞比里申请暂缓执行高庭判决之前所决定。）

针对政府首席秘书丹斯里莫哈末西迪哈山指出州政府不能对州秘书及州法律顾问采取任何行动的说法，我要指出，这个说法在法律上是无效的。

州秘书及州法律顾问是联邦政府公务员，由公共服务委员会与司法及法律服务委员会所委任。不过，当他们被州政府所支持及聘请，州政府就有权作为他们的雇主。因此，当他们的行为违反州政府的意愿、无法与州政府合作或犯下反抗的行为，通过正式向公共服务委员会、司法及法律委员会以及在1993年公务员（行为与纪律）守则下作出投诉，他们就可以被终止职务。霹雳州民联政府执行法律所赋予的权力，任何的解释说明将显示联邦公务员可以超越州政府的领导而免除被惩罚。

Nizar won MB court case today

Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur mengumumkan Datuk Seri Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin sebagai menteri besar Perak yang sah.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court today paved the way for a fresh round of battle in Perak by declaring that BN's Zambry Abd Kadir was not the legitimate menteri besar of Perak.

高庭基于霹州宪法没明文规定苏丹有权革除尼查的大臣职位，州议会没通过不信任动议推，尼查没辞职、以及大臣职位也没被悬空，裁决尼查仍是合法的霹州大臣。

Media Statement BY DATO NGEH KOO HAM AT DAP PERAK HEADQUARTERS IN IPOH ON SATURDAY, 9 MAY 2009:

Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir and BN elected representatives break the oath of office by colluding with the police and outsiders to forcibly take over the State Assembly and therefore must resign

All elected representatives of the Perak State Assembly took the oath of office to defend the independence of the State Assembly and the Perak State Constitution when they were first sworn in as State Assemblymen and women of the Perak State Assembly.

The need to have the separation of powers between the legislature and the executive is fundamental to our democratic system.

No police or army can be allowed to enter the sacred house of the legislature. Zambry and BN elected representatives had allowed the police to take over the Perak State Assembly for the sake of retaining their power instead of going back to the people for a fresh mandate.

The people must be vigilant and demand for the resignation of Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir and the BN elected representatives less we become a police state very soon. The people must also demand that the State Assembly be dissolved so that the rights to chose the State Government be reverted back to the people to solve the present impasse.

The State Secretary Dato’ Dr Abdul Rahman Bin Hashim is also involved in the scheme to take over the State Assembly by force by allowing the police to enter the State Secretariat Building which house the State Assembly.

The take over of the State Assembly by force was clearly preplanned as the police personnel came from Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kedah, Kelantan and Kuantan.

The independence of the Perak State Assembly is totally lost when we allow the police, a Federal department to take control of the Assembly by force.

Dated 9^th May 2009.

DATO’ NGEH KOO HAM

Senior Exco Member, Pakatan Rakyat Perak State Government, and

DAP Perak Chairman

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民主行动党霹雳州主席兼民联高级行政议员拿督倪可汉于2009年5月9日，假怡保霹雳州总部发表声明：

拿督斯里赞比里及所有国阵议员串通警察及外人以强烈地手段接管州议会，已经破坏了捍卫州议会尊严的誓约，因此必须辞职。

当所有霹雳州民选议员在霹雳州议会宣誓就职时，就已经宣誓要捍卫霹雳州议会及霹雳州宪法的独立性及尊严。

立法权及行政权的分立，是健全民主制度的基础。警察及军队都不被允许进入神圣的立法机构。赞比里及国阵议员为了保住他们的政权，不惜让警察介入接管州议会，也不要还政予民重新选举。

人民必须时刻警惕并要求拿督斯里赞比里及国阵议员辞职，因为他们已经把霹雳州变成了警察州。人民也要要求解散州议会，以便让人民重新选出他们心目中的政府，解决目前的僵局。

霹雳州秘书拿督阿都拉曼也是策划让警察进入议会厅接管州议会的共犯，并且清楚显示早有预谋，这些警察来自武吉安曼、吉隆坡、槟城、吉打、吉兰丹及关丹。

当我们允许中央管辖的警察以强烈的手段接管州议会，就已经标示着霹雳州议会的独立性已经完全崩解。

Let's wear BLACK on 7th May 2009

DAP Perak fully support speaker V. Sivakumar, all PR SAs and hoping Rakyat wear Black for 7th May 2009.

霹雳州民主行动党全力支持霹雳州议会议长西华古马，全体民联州议员，和同时呼吁人民穿黑衣向国阵以表示抗议和不满。

Thank You for your support on yesterday DAP 43rd Anniversary dinner.

Ribuan Terima Kasih atas sokongan anda untuk menjayakan Majlis Jamuan Makan Malam DAP Perak semalam.

霹雳州民主行动党感谢各界鼎力支持昨晚的千人宴成功举行。

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