By Kim Quek
If you do not hold which Umno has already upheld the expiry date as the manly domestic party, all you need to do is to watch how the complete leadership as well as the complete propaganda machineries have been entirely intent in the past week to indulge in an bacchanal of attacks opposite Mat Sabu PAS' emissary president.
It's OK if Mat Sabu has finished something wrong. But the awful law is which he has finished zero wrong.
Mat Sabu has usually exposed the parable which Umno is the usually the single who fought as well as gained Malaya's autonomy from the clutches of the colonial power.
His illustrative discuss of Muhammad Indera (fondly well known as Mat Indera) as an autonomy fighter was usually in the context of lambasting Umno for ritualistically rambling the Bukit Kepong attack situation upon every Merdeka Day for Umno's self-glorification as if it is the usually body accountable for the country's independence.
MAT SABU BASHING
Pouncing upon Mat Sabu's certain discuss of Mat Indera, Umno bays for Mat Sabu's 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 the republic in to the republic.
While the complete competence of Umno has been unleashed upon the uninterrupted a! ttack up on Mat Sabu's alleged advocacy of communism, has any the single of them paused to reflect which the word "communist" or "communism" was never referred to by Mat Sabu in his complete speech?
For the consequence of truth, let us rec! apture t he relevant part of Mat Sabu's speech, delivered in the ceremah during Tasek Gelugor, Penang, upon August 21:
"When it's nearby Merdeka Day (television programmes) upon Bukit Kepong will be aired. The military who died in Bukit Kepong have been military who belonged to the British.
"Those who pounded Bukit Kepong were the ones fighting for independence. The the single who pounded Bukit Kepong was Mat Indera (Muhammad Indera). He is the Malay, though this is not in the story books.
"Jins Shamsudin made the movie (about this). Jins Shamsudin is from Umno. (His movie on) Bukit Kepong criticised (the attackers) as the villains.
"The military have been British police. Before independence, the republic was ruled by the British. But in the film, the heroes were the British as well as the (insurgents) were terrorists."
Mat Sabu additionally criticised in his debate how Umno had perverted the hint of Merdeka Day in to self-glorification as well as abandoned non-Umno elements which had additionally contributed to the country's independence.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
For the improved understanding of the issues, let me put the Bukit Kepong situation in the proper chronological perspective.
The time was 1950, dual years after the stipulation of Emergency (to understanding with the armed rebellion by the Malayan Communist Party) as well as 7 years prior to the republic gained the independence. It was during the tallness of the guerilla quarrel waged by the MCP to seek autonomy from the colonial master Britain.
One night, upon 23rd Feb 1950, the band of guerilla fighters pounded the remote military station during Bukit Kepong, Johor, as well as killed twenty-five persons who were mainly policemen as well as! their f amily.
The attack was led by Mat Indera, the Malay, as well as the policemen were additionally Malays, portion the British colonial government.
This situation was usually the single of countless skirmishes within in the larger quarrel staged between the autonomy fighters led by the MCP upon the a single side, as well as the British colonial supervision dynamic ! to prote ct the colonial rule upon the alternative side.
NO FACTUAL BASIS
The subject you wish to put to Umno is: given this is the 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 the policemen who died belonged to the British? Weren't they portion the colonial government? Didn't they quarrel to strengthen the colonial power?
Since no "communist" or "communism" was ever mentioned, how did Umno come to the end which Mat Sabu was praising communists or glorifying communism? Haven't Umno leaders as well as Umno propangandists been receiving the big flight of anticipation to conjure up the PAS Communist nexus?
Isn't it loyal which all Mat Sabu was observant was simply which Umno had used the wrong analogy to self-glorify upon the fake explain which it alone has brought Merdeka?
What Mat Sabu has uttered has zero to do with communism. Neither was such uttering intended to downplay the accede to of Malay leaders to the country's autonomy movement as wrongly indicted by Umno leaders.
With regards to the purpose of MCP in the autonomy struggles, you have to say this. While you competence not similar to communists or determine to the comrade ideology, there is no denying the actuality which the MCP fought for Malaya's independence. In fact, it was the tall toll caused by the MCP armed insurrection which had stirred Her Majesty's Government (Queen Elizabeth) to digest the passing from one to another of energy to the hand-picked successor! s to ens ure continuity of the legacy. In which sense, the MCP onslaught had hastened Merdeka.
And even underneath the metal cover of the MCP, not everyone was the communist, as most had assimilated the guerilla crusade not to serve the beliefs of communism, though to quarrel to get absolved of colonial rule.
CONFLUENCE OF FORCES
As for Umno's explain as the sole energy which has brought this republic independe! nce, thi s is the far cry from the truth.
Apart from MCP, alternative jingoist forces had been during work right after World War II (even prior to Umno was formed) to onslaught for an independent Malaya. These were grouped underneath dual umbrella bodies, namely, PUTERA (Pusat Tenaga Rakyat) comprising Malay-based organisations, as well as AMCJA (All-Malayan Council of Joint Action), the bloc of multi-racial bodies as well as unions, which enclosed the MCP. These dual umbrella bodies fast assimilated forces afterwards to press the British colonial supervision to accede to autonomy to the afterwards Malaya, for which even the breeze People's Constitution was due in 1947. But the British deserted this proposition.
In the successive crackdown upon this joint domestic movement, during which most leaders were arrested, the little Malay jingoist leaders, together with Mat Indera, assimilated forces with MCP to go on their autonomy struggles by armed insurgency. As referred to earlier, it is this armed struggle, which began in 1948 when Emergency was declared, which had served as the constant prod which pushed the British in to the speedy hand-over of power.
Thus, it was the connection of forces which had brought Merdeka in 1957. Admittedly, the Alliance the bloc consisting of Umno, MCA as well as MIC as the domestic organisation favoured by the British, had played the vital purpose in the traffic which led to independence. But for Umno to explain sole credit for this autonomy achievement, as it has finished in the country's central chronicle of history, t! o the os tracism of even the own bloc partners MCA as well as MIC, would be to do the 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 well as the MCP, had additionally made poignant accede to towards the speedy fulfilment of Merdeka.
From this perspective, Mat Sabu in raising the Bukit Kepong example has finished the republic the good use in awakening! the cou ntry from the good exaggeration of story perpetrated by Umno.
A DESPERATE UMNO
As for Umno's stream campaign to vilify Mat Sabu, it is sheer coarse propaganda aimed during critically deleterious the electoral support for of PAS as well as by it, the complete opposition alliance of Pakatan Rakyat, as Umno's indictment is zero though mixture of disfigured accounts, unsupported by facts or logic.
That Umno has to resort to such childish as well as untenable plan to deliver the unsafe domestic happening clearly indicates which it has already lost the potency as the domestic force it has neither the substance nor the certainty to compete upon the bona fide domestic platform. Malaysia For All
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
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