DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has vowed to "soldier on" during the next general election regardless of relentless attacks against his character in recent months.

"The high-powered well-orchestrated campaign by Umno and BN leaders to demonise and destroy me will have the effect of hardening my resolve not to succumb to such 'dirty politics' of hate, fear and intimidation.

"If I finally decide to soldier on during the next election, I have to thank the BN's 'dirty tricks department' for their high-powered and well-orchestrated campaign of lies and falsehoods to try to destroy and break my spirit," he said in a statement today.

Lim said that in recent months, he has been subject to near daily attempts to paint him as "anti-Malay and anti-Islam" by government-controlled media organistions...