Isn’t ‘Malay tsunami’ as racist as ‘Chinese tsunami’, Najib asks Kit Siang


(FMT) – Najib Razak today accused DAP of hypocrisy for using the term “Malay tsunami” after previously labelling him as racist when he used a similar term to explain the Barisan Nasional’s (BN) performance in the 13th general election.

In a Facebook post, the former prime minister said DAP leaders took offence to the term “Chinese tsunami” that he used, with party supremo Lim Kit Siang calling it “inappropriate and downright racist”.

Najib had used the term “Chinese tsunami” to describe the swing in Chinese votes to the opposition in the 2013 general election.

BN won 133 of the 222 parliamentary seats and failed to regain its two-thirds majority in Parliament.

However, Najib said that DAP leaders, including Lim, began using the term “Malay tsunami” in the run-up to the May 9 polls which eventually saw BN’s shock defeat.

It was previously reported that the term was coined by Johor DAP chairman Liew Chin Tong in 2015 to predict the rise of Malay voters against Umno and BN – which Najib once led – in the country’s 14th general election.

Najib pointed out that Lim had used the term repeatedly in the DAP veteran’s blog post.

“I used the phrase ‘Chinese tsunami’ once and DAP said I was racist and had crossed the line.

“Yet, when Kit Siang and DAP leaders used ‘Malay tsunami’ repeatedly, they didn’t find it racist or inappropriate. Isn’t that strange?”



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