By Kim Quek
If you do not believe that Umno has already passed a expiry date as a potent domestic party, all you need to do is to watch how a complete care as well as a complete promotion machineries have been fully engaged in a past week to put up with in an orgy of attacks opposite Mat Sabu PAS emissary president.
Its OK if Mat Sabu has finished something wrong. But a horrible law is that he has finished zero wrong.
Mat Sabu has usually unprotected a parable that Umno is a usually a single who fought as well as gained Malayas autonomy from a clutches of a colonial power.
His scholastic mention of Muhammad Indera (fondly known as Mat Indera) as an autonomy warrior was usually in a context of lambasting Umno for ritualistically rambling a Bukit Kepong conflict situation upon each Merdeka Day for Umnos self-glorification as if it is a usually physique accountable for a countrys independence.
MAT SABU BASHING
Pouncing upon Mat Sabus certain mention of Mat Indera, Umno bays for Mat Sabus blood. It accuses Mat Sabu as well as by prolongation PAS of praising communists as well as glorifying communism as well as wanting to turn a republic in to a republic.
While a complete might of Umno has been unleashed upon a non-stop conflict upon Mat Sabus purported advocacy of communism, has any a sin! gle of t hem paused to reflect that a word comrade or communis! m was ne ver referred to by Mat Sabu in his complete speech?
For a sake of truth, let us recapture a applicable part of Mat Sabus speech, delivered in a ceremah during Tasek Gelugor, Penang, upon Aug 21:
When it's near Merdeka Day (television programmes) upon Bukit Kepong will be aired. The military who died in Bukit Kepong have been military who belonged to a British.
"Those who attacked Bukit Kepong were a ones fighting for independence. The a single who attacked Bukit Kepong was Mat Indera (Muhammad Indera). He is a Malay, though this is not in a story books.
"Jins Shamsudin made a movie (about this). Jins Shamsudin is from Umno. (His movie on) Bukit Kepong criticised (the attackers) as a villains.
"The military have been British police. Before independence, a republic was ruled by a British. But in a film, a heroes were a British as well as a (insurgents) were terrorists."
Mat Sabu additionally criticised in his debate how Umno had perverted a essence of Merdeka Day in to self-glorification as well as ignored non-Umno elements that had additionally contributed to a country's independence.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
For a improved bargain of a issues, let me put a Bukit Kepong situation in a proper historical perspective.
The time was 1950, two years after a stipulation of Emergency (to understanding with a armed rebellion by a Malayan Communist Party) as well as 7 years before a republic gained a independence. It was during a tallness of a guerilla quarrel waged by a MCP to seek autonomy from a colonial master Britain.
One night, upon 23rd February 1950, a band of guerilla fighters attacked a remote military station during Bukit Kepong, Johor, as well as killed twenty-five persons who were mainly policemen as well as their family.
The conflict was led by Mat Indera, a Malay, as well as a policemen were additionally Malays, portion a British colonial government.
This situation was usually a single of countless skirmishes inside of in a incomparable quarrel staged in between a autonomy fighters led by a MCP upon a a single side, ! as well as a British colonial supervision determined to strengthen a colonial order upon a alternative side.
NO FACTUAL BASIS
The question you wish to put to Umno is: given this is a guerilla quarrel for independence, in what approach was Mat Sabu wrong when he pronounced Mat Indera was fighting for independence?
And also, in what approach Mat Sabu was wrong when he pronounced a policemen who died belonged to a British? Werent they portion a colonial government? Didnt they quarrel to strengthen a colonial power?
Since no comrade or communism was ever mentioned, how did Umno come to a conclusion that Mat Sabu was praising communists or glorifying communism? Havent Umno leaders as well as Umno propangandists been receiving a big moody of anticipation to conjure up a PAS Communist nexus?
Isnt it loyal that all Mat Sabu was observant was simply that Umno had used a wrong analogy to self-glorify upon a fake explain that it alone has brought Merdeka?
What Mat Sabu has uttered has zero to do with communism. Neither was such uttering dictated to downplay a contribution of Malay leaders to a countrys autonomy transformation as wrongly indicted by Umno leaders.
With regards to a purpose of MCP in a autonomy struggles, you have to say this. While you might not similar to communists or determine to a comrade ideology, there is no denying a fact that a MCP fought for Malayas independence. In fact, it was a tall fee caused by a MCP armed insurrection that had stirred Her Majestys Government (Queen Elizabeth) to digest a passing from one to another of energy to a hand-picked successors to safeguard continuity of a legacy. In that sense, a MCP onslaught had hastened Merdeka.
And even underneath a metal cover of a MCP, not everybody was a communist, as most had assimilated a guerilla crusade! not to serve a beliefs of communism, though to quarrel to get absolved of colonial rule.
CONFLUENCE OF FORCES
As for Umnos explain as a solitary energy that has brought this republic independence, this is a distant cry from a truth.!
Apart from MCP, alternative jingoist forces had been during work right after World War II (even before Umno was formed) to onslaught for an independent Malaya. These were grouped underneath two powerful bodies, namely, PUTERA (Pusat Tenaga Rakyat) comprising Malay-based organisations, as well as AMCJA (All-Malayan Council of Joint Action), a bloc of multi-racial bodies as well as unions, that included a MCP. These two powerful bodies fast assimilated forces afterwards to press a British colonial supervision to accede to autonomy to a afterwards Malaya, for that even a draft Peoples Constitution was due in 1947. But a British rejected this proposition.
In a subsequent crackdown upon this joint domestic movement, during that most leaders were arrested, some Malay jingoist leaders, together with Mat Indera, assimilated forces with MCP to go upon their autonomy struggles by armed insurgency. As referred to earlier, it is this armed struggle, that began in 1948 when Emergency was declared, that had served as a constant prod that pushed a British in to a rapid hand-over of power.
Thus, it was a confluence of forces that had brought Merdeka in 1957. Admittedly, a Alliance a bloc consisting of Umno, MCA as well as MIC as a domestic group favoured by a British, had played a major purpose in a negotiation that led to independence. But for Umno to explain solitary credit for this autonomy achievement, as it has finished in a countrys official chronicle of history, to a exclusion of even a own bloc partners MCA as well as MIC, would be to do a good misapplication to all non-Umno Malayans who have contributed. Other jingoist movements, together with those led by prominent leaders similar to Burhanuddin al-Helmy as well as Ahmad Boestaman, as we! ll as a MCP, had additionally made poignant contribution towards a rapid fulfilment of Merdeka.
From this perspective, Mat Sabu in raising a Bukit Kepong example has finished a republic a good use in awakening a republic from a good exaggeration of story perpetrated by U! mno.
A DESPERATE UMNO
As for Umnos stream debate to vilify Mat Sabu, it is sheer coarse promotion directed during critically deleterious a electoral support for of PAS as well as by it, a complete antithesis fondness of Pakatan Rakyat, as Umnos indictment is zero though concoction of disfigured accounts, unsupported by contribution or logic.
That Umno has to review to such childish as well as illogical plan to deliver a unsafe domestic fortune clearly indicates that it has already lost a potential as a domestic force it has conjunction a piece nor a certainty to compete upon a legitimate domestic platform.
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
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