September 7, 2011
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Political Jester Mat Sabus insensitive remarks upon Bukit Kepong
by Tunku A. Aziz*
MOHAMAD Sabu, or Mat Sabu, is always good for a laugh as well as we must contend we find his speeches upon a hustings delightfully shallow.
You might contend that he is entitled to his opinion as well as we agree. However, when facts have been twisted, so much so that they limit upon lies, he constantly invites, as well as deservedly so, innuendos as well as strictures.
It is in his interpretation of a attack by 180 communists of a 4th Independent Company of a Malayan Races Liberation Army upon a remote military hire during Bukit Kepong upon Feb 23, 1950 that Mohamad has succeeded in serve reducing himself to a sad figure of fun as well as ridicule.
He is, to a discerning, no some-more that a domestic jester, a single of a most that a complement has thrown up in all of a domestic parties. we contend this some-more in sorrow than anger.He has resorted to spinning his tangled yarn in a treasonable approach as he tries to worm as well as wriggle his approach out of a preposterous, cruel as well as insensitive avowal that a terrorists who mounted that dishonourable attack upon a lonely armed forces during Bukit Kepong in Johor were a real autonomy fighters.
He said he did not make use of a word communists to describe a attackers. The actuality is they were communists. we concur his right to his opinion, but when Mohamad is who he is in a Pas hierarchy and, therefore, a personality of Pakatan Rakyat, a bloc right away posturing itself as impatiently watchful in a wings to run a country, afterwards he cannot verbalise as a jester. He is no longer amusing.
There is right away an added! dimensi on to his domestic life. The people have a right to examine him some-more closely for signs of impression def! ects. He has to reconsider his assessment of events in a some-more honest, scrupulous as well as obliged way.
These Brave Malay Men were not British Agents, Mat Sabu
Unlike Mohamad, we proportion a jingoist leisure fighter, whatever his politics, with chivalry. According to a single of a communists, Ching Moit Chai, (see Gallant Last Stand during Bukit Kepong by Datuk J.J. Raj Jr, Brian Stewarts Smashing Terrorism in a Malayan Emergency as well as J.W.J Morans Spearhead in Malaya), there was complicated resistance by a twenty Malay policemen opposite some 180 to 200 terrorists.
Chings leader, a Malay terrorist, became desirous as well as ordered them to attack a living quarters, a weakest spot in a compound. As a make a difference of interest, Ching was tempted to obey later, as was a box with hundreds of other leisure fighters, by a awaiting of getting his murderous hands upon a prerogative income being offering by a government.
One of a policemens wives attempted to run to a hire but my comrades held her. They asked her to travel to a hire as well as ask a group to surrender. She refused as well as she told my comrades that there were usually dual people left alive in a tied together quarters, a policemans mother as well as daughter. My comrades shot her as well as called upon a a single in a buliding to surrender. She refused as well a! s announ ced that both she as well as her daughter elite to die. So my comrades set fire to a quarters. Then they threw a physique of a other mother into a blazing building.
Could a equates to just! ify a end? we consternation either Mohamad has a dignified bravery as well as firmness to simulate dispassionately upon this, a height of bestiality as well as timidity by people whom he had sought to enhance as a true heroes of Merdeka.
The communists were aliens to a male as well as due no loyalty solely to China. They fought a British with a solitary purpose of branch Malaya into a Chinese communist state, a heavenly body of a Communist Party of China. The Malays in their thousands volunteered their use not, as Mat Sabu implied, to strengthen British interests in Malaya but, in team-work with a colonial power, to defend a usually nation they ever knew as well as their religion opposite a irreverent alien ideology.
I am in risk of being accused of racism, but we am articulate of events in a opposite era. In this struggle to better communism in Malaya, there were most officers as well as group of non-Malay start who fought with good gallantry.
Some of a names that come to mind have been Tan Sri Yuen Yuet Leng, Datuk J.J. Raj Jr, Datu Tagore, Goh Chin Hee (once a clergyman during Klang High School), Leong Chee Woh as well as Tan Tiew Siew, my classmate during Klang High School. He as well as Datu both won a George medal, a municipal homogeneous of a Victoria Cross. They were a real heroes together with tens of thousands of other constant group as well as women of all races.
I come from a military family as well as am proud of a vital contributions of a police, afterwards as well as now, to a peace as well as confidence of a nation.
* Tunku A. Aziz is Deputy Chairman, Democratic Action Party (DAP) that is a component party upon Pakatan Rakyat as well as a Senator for Penang
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