GEORGE TOWN, Sept 15 – Penang Chief Minister who also DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said the effigy burned in UMNO Kota Baru is nothing new to him due to this was not the first time my effigy get burned by them. He said if they want to burn, then burn on, as long as you don’t burn down the country.
“If it is fun burning my picture, then do it. But don’t burn down the country also,” the Penang chief minister told reporters at his Komtar office today when he was commenting on reports and a video showing Umno members, led by Kota Baru division head Datuk Mohd Fatmi Che Salleh with burning his effigy and another of his father DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang. Both effigies were clad in Bersih 4 shirts.
Besides that, Lim also expressed sceptism the latest incident would be treated differently from similar incidents in the past, when his effigy and pictures were burned, despite Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar saying it would be investigated.
He said there were no action taken previously and how will this incident be any different, especially when the person involved is a former aide of the prime minister? Lim again took BN component party leaders to task for not criticising the police, the home minister and the prime minister over the planned “red shirt” rally by a Malay rights group tomorrow in Kuala Lumpur.
Meanwhile, Penang deputy chief minister I, Datuk Mohd Rashid Hasnon, said as a Muslim, he felt sad about the effigy burning, adding that it was something that should not have happened in a multiracial society. He said it was clearly a provocation which it also seemed that they wanted revenge over Bersih 4 but what they had done was off the mark.
