Operasi Lalang

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Operasi Lalang (atau dalam Inggeris, Weeding Operation; juga dirujuk sebagai Ops Lalang) telah dilaksanakan pada 27 Oktober 1987 oleh polis Malaysia untuk membanteras ketua pembangkang dan aktivis sosial. Operasi ini melihat penahanan 106 orang terkenal di bawah ISA dan pembatalan dari dua penerbitan harian berlesen, The Star dan Sin Chew Jit Poh dan dua akhbar mingguan, The Sunday Star dan Watan.

Diantara yang ditahan termasuklah ketua pembangkang dan DAP Setiausaha-Jeneral Lim Kit Siang, Presiden ALIRAN Chandra Muzaffar, Timbalan Pengerusi DAP Karpal Singh, Timbalan Presiden MCA dan Ketua Perak Chan Kit Chee, Dong Jiao Zhong Pengerusi (Chinese Education Assosations) Lim Fong Seng, Ketua Publisiti jawatankuasa Hak Sivil, Kua Kia Soong. Ketua Pemuda PAS Halim Arshat, MP UMNO untuk Pasir Mas Ibrahim Ali dan Pemuda Pengerusi Pendidikan UMNO Mohamed Fahmi Ibrahim. Walaupun kebanyakan orang tahanan telah dibebaskan samada bersyarat atau tidak bersyarat, 40 telah dikeluarkan perintah penahanan dua tahun. Termasuk adalah Lim Kit Siang dan Karpal Singh tambah lima rakan sekerja parti lain, sebilangan ahli PAS dan ramai aktivis sosial. Kategorisasi dari mulaan orang tahanan, bilangan 97, memberikan kerosakan berikut: parti politikal: 37; gerakan sosial: 23; individu: 37.




The political developments which brought this second largest ISA swoop in Malaysian history since the May 13 riots, were sparked ostensibly by mounting political tensions having strong racial overtones. According to the White Paper explaining the arrests, various groups who had played up "sensitive issues" and thus created "racial tension" in the country had exploited the government's liberal and tolerant attitude. This racial tension made the arrests necessary and further, forced the government to act "swiftly and firmly" to contain the situation.

The sensitive issues were brought on by what appeared innocuously enough as Education Ministry appointments of some 100 senior assistants and principals to vernacular Chinese schools. This provoked a storm of protest when it was learnt that those appointed were not Chinese (Mandarin)-educated. Politicians from the MCA, the DAP and GERAKAN, the major Chinese-based parties joined the protests and on 11 October 1987, the Dong Jiao Zong (Chinese educationists) held a 2,000-strong gathering at the Hainanese Association Building, beside the Thian Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur, which evoked racially provocative speeches from the Chinese politicians present. The meeting resolved to call a three-day boycott in Chinese schools if the government did not settle the appointments issue.

In the event, even though the boycott was called off, albeit at the eleventh hour, the stage was set for a mirror response from the Malays, led by UMNO Youth. A mass rally of 10,000 was held at the TPCA Stadium in Kuala Lumpur and, by then, UMNO politicians had began to condemn MCA leaders for their collusion with the Dong Jiao Zong and the opposition DAP. Amidst calls from both sides for the resignations of MCA Deputy President and Labour Minister Lee Kim Sai and UMNO Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim, UMNO announced the holding of a mammoth rally in KL to celebrate its 41st Anniversary, which it was claimed would see the attendance of half a million members.

The proposed UMNO rally was the ostensible reason for the Inspector General of Police to precipitate the 27 October crackdown. Had the rally been held it was not improbable that racial riots could be sparked by the incendiary speeches of UMNO politicians. To make matters worse, a tinder box situation was already created by the rampage of a Malay soldier who killed a Malay and two Chinese with an M16 rifle in the Chow Kit area, straddling two large Chinese and Malay communities. The pundits have it that the Prime Minster had to have a quid pro quo for cancelling the UMNO rally. Hence the arrests of prominent Chinese politicians. In retrospect, some of the culprits like Lee Kim Sai escaped arrest while many opposition members and activists with nothing to do with racial incitement were put in. Most of the government party people also saw early release while the dissidents generally served detention terms up to two years.

In any case, the incident provided Mahathir's government with the excuse to further tighten the executive stranglehold on politics by further restricting fundamental liberties. In the following year, the Printing Presses and Publishing Act was given more bite by a requirement that printers and publishers had now to apply for new licenses annually whereas they were only required to renew them yearly before. In addition if any license is revoked, it could not be challenged in court. A prison term was added that publication of false news could land a publisher in jail for up to three years. Amendments were also made to the Police Act making it practically impossible to hold any political meeting, including a party's annual general meeting, without a police permit. An illegal meeting could earn the person concerned a fine of RM10,000 and a jail term of one year.

[Sunting] Tahanan ISA Operasi Lalang

Seramai 106 orang orang umum, serta ahli politik pada masa tersebut, telah ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri 1960 ketika Operasi Lalang dijalankan. Berikut merupakan senarai orang yang ditahan:

  • Ketua Pembangkang dari DAP Lim Kit Siang
  • Presiden ALIRAN Chandra Muzaffar
  • Timbalan presiden DAP Karpal Singh
  • Pengerusi Dong Jiao Zhong Lim Fong Seng
  • Ketus Pemuda PAS Halim Arshat
  • Ahli Parlimen UMNO Kawasan Pasir Mas Ibrahim Ali

Dan lain lain.

[Sunting] See also

  • Internal Security Act
  • Internal Security Act (Malaysia)

[Sunting] References

  • Chow, Kum Hor (Nov. 6, 2005). "9/11 changed Hu's view of ISA". New Sunday Times, p. 8–9.
  • Mahavera, Sheridan (Nov. 6, 2005). "'When you play with fire, you will get burnt'". New Sunday Times, p. 9.
  • Othman, M. Husairy (Nov. 6, 2005). "Tajuddin bears no grudges". New Sunday Times, p. 9.
  • Tan, Choe Choe (Nov. 6, 2005). "Sim taught detainees Chinese during his stay". New Sunday Times, p. 8.
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