Kit Siang to sue Tanda Putera makers for defamation

A screen capture shows a portion of a sketch in subject upon a Tanda Putera Facebook page prior to its removal.

KUALA LUMPUR, August seventeen DAP parliamentary personality Lim Kit Siang will sue a makers of movie based upon a May thirteen race riots for insult after they labelled him as defensive over a design used upon a promotional site for a film.

Earlier this year, an director of filmmakers Pesona Picturess Facebook air blower page had posted a sketch of Lim being manhandled, with a heading asserting it was taken after a opposition personality allegedly urinated upon a flagpole in a then-Selangor mentri besars residential devalue in Kuala Lumpur prior to a May 13, 1969 riots.

The design was removed last month after personal attacks as well as threats were allegedly done opposite a expel as well as crew of a movie Tanda Putera.

Earlier today, executive writer Aida Fitri Buyong had told The Malaysian Insider progressing which a design as well as heading published upon a Tanda Putera Facebook air blower page were submitted by netizens as well as were already during large accessible prior to being posted upon a site. She afterwards described Lim as being defensive over a matter.

In response, Lim issued a statement currently saying which a accusations by Aida over a publication of a sketch upon a films official promotional page upon a amicable network was most scandalous, outrageous as well as offensive.

In view of a reckless indictment by Tanda Puteras executive producer, compounding a progressing insult opposite me upon a films official Facebook page, we am instructing my lawyers to hospital legal record relating to a defamation, he said.

Lim combined which he was unaware of any website apart from Tanda Puteras official Facebook page which had used a caption: Lim Kit Siang urinated during a flagpole temperament a Selangor dwindle during a afterwards Mentri Be! sar Haru n Idris residence,

[Such] a heading which is based upon a wild as well as reckless lie had ever been posted anywhere upon cyberspace, he added.

Lim has repeatedly forked out which he was only a young statesman in 1969 as well as had not been in a sovereign collateral during a riots.

Do a creators of a May thirteen movie expect me to keep wordless while they order lies about a May 13, 1969 riots, like a sum fiction about my urination during a afterwards Selangor Mentri Besars chateau inspiring May 13, 1969 riots when we was never in Kuala Lumpur upon May 11, twelve as well as 13, 1969? he said.

Tanda Putera is scheduled for ubiquitous screening upon November 17, but a 90-second trailer of a movie accessible upon a Internet has already sparked a little debate because it appears to indicate a Chinese community was to blame for a riots.

The movie was done during a cost of RM4.8 million as well as was entirely funded by a governments National Film Development Corporation (Finas) as well as a Multimedia Development Corporation (Mdec).


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