“It is an admission that Utusan has committed seditious, incendiary and inflammatory articles and they justify by saying that 'siapa dulu memulakan provokasi' (who started the provocation).”
“We deny completely that we had anything to do with the various allegations made in this defence...we did not provoke them. We had nothing to do with all the things reported in this article,” Lim said at a press conference at the party’s headquarters here, referring to a piece titled “Siapa mula provokasi dahulu? (Who started the provocation first?) by the Malay-language paper’s columnist Zulkifli Bakar.
In the column, senior editor Zulkifli Bakar claimed that DAP should be held responsible if chaos erupts, in a statement that echoes past warnings of a possible repeat of the May 13, 1969 race riots.
“The DAP should not be evasive in this matter and attack Utusan Malaysia.
“And they must be ready to be responsible if the country erupts into chaos because it was them that started the extreme political provocation to influence the Chinese to reject BN,” Zulkifli had written when defending Utusan’s choice of 'Apa Lagi Cina Mahu? (What more do the Chinese want?)' as its frontpage headline yesterday.
During today’s press conference with other DAP leaders, Lim also urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak not to “play with fire”.
Lim said the key issue was Najib’s stand as the country’s prime minister, while the suing of Utusan would be a secondary issue.
Lim said the Attorney-General must take action against Utusan if he is “professional and independent”.
The police started investigating Utusan Melayu for sedition yesterday, hours after the Umno-owned daily sparked a nationwide uproar with its incendiary front page report seen to blame the Chinese for the BN’s weaker score in Election 2013.
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