September 25, 2011
Patriots as well as Pretenders: The Discourse continues
by Nigel Aw@www.malaysiakini.com
Sep 24, 11
5:48pm
At a time when a nation is grappling with a question upon its autonomy story was a nation ever colonised to proceed with educational Kua Kia Soong attempts to have clarity of a "patriots" as well as "pretenders" of a country's onslaught for freedom. independence.
So, who have been a patriots as well as pretenders? According to Kua, (left) a common folk were a patriots for they lay down their lives against a colonial masters while a pretenders attempted to take credit for a country's autonomy though shedding any blood.
"The loyalist have been those who shielded their nation with their lives as well as their freedom. They sacrificed themselves in during slightest two important wars, against a Japanese fascists in a second world war as well as against British colonialism.
"The pretenders have been a the single who did not lay down their lives though claimed which a country's autonomy was gained by them Independence was gained by a anti-colonial war movement made up of a workers, peasantry as well as a on-going middle class, people who were in AMCJA-Putera"
These were a groups which had demanded independence, long prior to UMNO, pronounced Kua during a launch of his ultimate book, "Patriot as well as Pretenders: The Malayan Independence Struggle" in Kuala Lumpur final night."
Also benefaction were Parti Sosialis Ma! laysia ( PSM) chairperson Dr Mohd Nasir Hashim, PKR vice-president N Surendran as well as Centre for Independent Journalism executive military officer Masjaliza Hamzah.
The 159-page book takes a category viewpoint upon a nation story as well as additionally looks during a unsung heroes of a country's onslaught for independence.
Text books arrangement communalistic intent
The book takes a particular seductiveness in a 1948 puncture period, with Kua indicating out some myths about which story perpetuated by school textbooks. Kua pronounced while a communist insurgents were mostly portrayed as a aggressors, though they had only spoken an armed onslaught 6 months after a British spoken a puncture in Malaya.
"After a puncture in Jun 1948 a colonial supervision went from a single repressive action to an additional as well as it took a CPM right up to December to declare a armed struggle. That is a fact."
Aside from pretenders, Kua who presented a lecture upon his book pronounced a country's story is additionally mostly manipulated for communalistic purposes particularly in courtesy to a emergency.
"More than 100,000 Malayans were killed by a Japanese, though you can forgive a Japanese, czar Hirohito is acquire in this nation though Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) leader Chin Peng cannot come to this nation to revisit his parents' graves there is a communal intent in a government's doing of a emergency," he said.
He combined which this is again reflected in a recent Bukit Kepong controversy where PAS emissary president Mohamad Sabu had praised Mohammed Indera who led a conflict upon a Bukit Kepong police station in 1950 as a freedom fighter.
"In recent years, practically during every ubiquitous election, a Bukit Kepong movie ! by Jins Shamsuddin will be aired upon television we don't see any Mat Indera who was ostensible have been heading a insurgents (in a film)all we see is Chinese," he said.
Historical selectivity's damage
Amid a fierce discuss upon who were a true fighters of independence, Kua took a National Professors' Council to task for suggesting which a nation had never been colonised.
"We see a problem of story in this country, it is not only a problem of UMNO mastery of our story as well as ideologues who have been asked to write them now you even have these professors who have been responsible for some of a many stupid understand of history," he said.
He challenged a professors to publish their points in internationally recognized journals, observant which they would spin in to jokes.
Kua additionally highlighted a selectivity in history, indicating out which a supervision had in a past consecrated a scholar to write upon a country's emergency, only to reject it later.
"Anthony Short* was a Universiti Malaya techer as well as was consecrated by a Malaysian supervision to write a story of a emergency, when he accomplished it was deserted Why was a supervision consecrated report upon story rejected?"
* He is a writer of The Communist Insurrection in Malaya, 1948-1960.
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