KOTA BARU: Umno's former Ketereh MP Tan Sri Annuar Musa is now a Pas member and ready to face legal action from retired DAP leader Tan Sri Lim Kit Siang.

In his Facebook post tonight, Annuar said he had been informed that Lim wanted to sue him related to his speech in Bachok.

"If this is true, l am ready and welcome him to take action (against me). He can tell me which part in my speech l have breached the law," said the former Ketereh MP.

Annuar, also Muafakat Nasional chairman, said he would instruct his lawyer to take appropriate steps in accordance with the law.

"Perhaps, this is an opportunity for me to give more detailed information about the principles, the struggle and the actions of Lim Kit Siang and DAP.

"Also about his political struggle and the impact on the country's political atmosphere. InsyaAllah (God willing)," he added.

Yesterday, Lim Kit Siang said he had directed his lawyers to begin legal proceedings against Annuar, who claimed the former had actively incited violence during the May 13, 1969 riots.

Lim said Annuar appeared to be emulating his new party president, Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang, in fabricating baseless allegations when the former Umno leader claimed a book compiling Lim's speeches that said the DAP leader was fanning racial unrest during the race riots.

"There is no such book. It is a figment of Annuar's imagination. I have instructed my lawyers to institute action to clear my name," Lim said in a statement.

Lim reiterated the events from 1969, saying he was originally supposed to contest the Bukit Bintang parliamentary seat during the general election that year but was sent to contest in Bandar Melaka at the last minute.

"It is strange that I am now accused of being a communist although the communists, who launched a boycott of the 1969 general election, wanted me to lose the Bandar Melaka seat in 1969, and that I am further accused for causing May 13, 1969 riots when I was not in Kuala Lumpur at the relevant (time).

"In actual, I was never in Kuala Lumpur on May 11, 12 and 13 of 1969, as on the morning of May 13, I flew to Kota Kinabalu to help the independent candidates as polling day in Sabah and Sarawak was scheduled later," he said.

Fifty-four years ago, on this date, a racially-charged incident began in Kampung Baru in what is widely believed to be the initial outbreak of violence of the May 13 riots of 1969.

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