The DAP stalwart has repeatedly denied any involvement in the tragic May 13 incident.

Yesterday, Malaysiakini reported that Annuar, who recently joined PAS, had accused Lim of fanning racial flames.

The former minister had cited a “book” which he claimed contains a compilation of Lim’s speeches.

“It includes one while the killings were taking place in Kampung Baru. Lim was giving a speech in Kota Kinabalu, still fanning the flames for bumiputera and non-bumiputera issues,” he was quoted as saying at a PAS ceramah in Bachok, Kelantan.

But the former Iskandar Puteri  MP said 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.

In 2018, Lim filed a defamation suit against former inspector-general of police Hanif Omar for alleging that the DAP veteran “wanted to split Malaysia along racial lines”.

Three years later, Hanif made an official apology to Lim over the allegations and retracted his statement.

The ex-top cop said Lim’s arrest in 1969 was not on the basis that he called for the country to be divided according to racial lines.

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