by Din Merican
On Sep 25, a mainstream media front paged a honors conferred upon Temengong Kanang anak Langkas (left) a Sarawak Datukship. Also prominently featured is a endowment of a commando beret of VAT 69 to Apot Saad.
Kanang as well as Apot have been inland bumiputeras, a former from Sarawak as well as a latter from Perak. Both honours have been for aplomb as well as flattery in fighting a communists during a Emergency (1948-1960). They positively deserved a honors as heroes of a country. No complaints about that.
The Criminal Defamation Charge Against Mat Sabu
But given weren't these heroes honored many earlier? Why usually now? Has this to do with Mat Sabu, Deputy President of PAS, who was charged for rapist insult last Wednesday Sep 21. Is UMNO- BN creation domestic mileage of history?The assign opposite Mat Sabu followed weeks of debate after he pronounced which there were many alternative leisure fighters who have been all forgotten.
Mat Sabu afterwards drew a courtesy to Mat Indera who played a distinguished purpose in a 1950 conflict upon a Bukit Kepong military station. This was immortalised in a film played by a mythological actor-director Tan Sri Dr. Jins Shamsuddin. The Policemen were portrayed as heroes who fought opposite a communists who were portrayed as villains as well as traitors. Thus, Mat Indera, who was allegedly a communist cadre , was expel as a traitor. However, a book by a Johor su! pervisio n in 2004 named Mat Indera as an mutinous leisure warrior as well as distinguished him as a Johor hero. So, was Mat Indera a favourite or a diabolic ruffian?
This stereotyping of Malaysians in to heroes as well as villains shows a failure as a republic to accept
chronological contribution as well as a miss of high regard for humanistic contributions.
And a moment politicians get involved in chronological discourses as well as debates, afterwards egghead duplicity creeps in as well as story is distorted for domestic as well as alternative self portion ends.The law of story becomes irrelevant. Sir Winston S.Churchill once pronounced : "History will ! be kind to me for you intend to write it."
For this reason, you am grateful to my friend, lawyer Rosli Dahlan, who insisted which you should read a writings of Tunku Zain Al'Abidin Muhriz, founding boss of a Institute for Democracy as well as Economic Affairs (IDEAS) in his book, Abiding Times.
It seems which Rosli is an fervent suitor of this immature royalty whose hands he declared politely to me he would straightforwardly kiss, notwithstanding their age difference. Having usually read Tunku Zain Al'Abidin's piece, Roaming Beyond a Fence(see couple :http://malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/guest-columnists/43492-lets-reclaim-history-for-ourselves), you can right away assimilate given Rosli is impressed with this immature man's intellectualism as well as maturity.
Yam Tuan Antah of Negri Sembilan
The egghead probity as well as capacity of Tunku Zain Al'Abidin (left) in evaluating story is suggested when he compared his ancestors, Yam Tuan Antah, as well as his great great grandfather, Tuanku Muhamad, whose son,Tuanku Abdul Rahman, became a initial Yang Di Pertuan Agong (YDPA).
Yam Tuan Antah had waged fight opposite a British in 1875 which invited a British plea by an artillery force which cannon-shot which destroyed ! Yam Tuan Antah's camp. The British advanced to Seri Menanti where they burnt down a Istana. Subsequently, Yam Tuan Antah was recognised usually as Yam Tuan of Seri Menanti, rather than of Negri Sembilan as a whole. Yam Tuan Antah is distinguished in a same exhale with Datuk Maharaja Lela as well as Mat Salleh as valiant defenders of their race, sacrament as well as nation.
Reclaim History for Ourselves
Yet, his son, Tuanku Muhammad, enjoyed many improved family with a British. He was educated at a English High School in Malacca as well as even perceived compliments from a British Resident, Sir Frank Swettenham, who wrote which he was an "example of a many appropriate sort of intelligent, straightforward Malay Raja".
Thus, Tunku Zain's square raised a many pertinent question as well as you quote a immature Prince: "Clearly, my dual ancestors employed opposite strategies in traffic with a British. Was a single a favourite as well as a alternative a traitor? No, they were merely individuals trying to abide by their adat while traffic with a exigencies of tellurian British powerThe usually way to fix this is for us to reclaim story for ourselves. Politicians contingency be private from a process of writing a curriculum, as well as professors granted a educational leisure to include controversial viewpointsMost importantly, a entire basis of a education complement urgently needs to change from a rote guidance of acceptable "facts" to a equipping of immature smar! ts to ap preciate as well as break down into parts opposite opinions."
Isn't this a same thing which Mat Sabu had said? So, given does Mat Sabu's statement consecrate rapist defamation? Did A-G Gani Patail not advise a supervision upon this? Or is A-G Gani Patail again personification governing physique with a comprehensive powers vested in him as a Public Prosecutor to dedicate selective prosecution?
That story contingency be put in its! proper viewpoint is again amplified in an article by my journalist-author friend as well as associate Kedahan, Tan Sri Zainudin Maidin , which appeard appeared upon page 8 of Mingguan Malaysia(September 25, 2011) under a title "Api ini terus menyala".
Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin
Zainudin wrote which in a 1930's, Utusan Melayu emerged from a very slight patriotic feelings as an countenance of anti-Indian Muslim as well as Anti-Arab sentiments given these dual races had flustered a Malays as well as exploited a Malay economy. The Malays by Utusan Melayu to illustrate labeled these dual groups as DKK (Darah Keturunan Keling) dan DKA (Darah Keturunan Arab).
On this platform alone, Dr Mahathir as well as many Penang Malays, including my ancestors, a Mericans, who have been DKKs would have been a rivalry of Utusan Melayu. And additionally all a Arab Syeds like Dato' Jaffar Albar as well as his son Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar who have been DKAs would additionally have been a "enemy"!
Malays contingency stop blaming others
Malays blaming alternative Malaysians for their state of affairs is therefore not new. Previously it was a DKK as well as a DKA. Now it is a DKC (Darah Keturunan China). This encircle mentality will have to stop if a Ma! lays hav e been to progress. There will always be a convenient bogeyman as well as dishonest politicians to foot who will always capitalize upon a competition card.
Dato' Onn Jaafar
It is to a credit as well as tasteful egghead probity of Dato' Onn Jaafar, a Malay of Turkish descent, which he had a bravery as well as benevolence to defuse as well as correct this slight ethnic prejudices. Dato' Onn rose to be a initial UMNO President, though died outside of UMNO when he was rejected for his ambitious plans to open UMNO to non-Malays.
This is what Tan Sri Zainuddin wrote:"Bagaimanapun Presiden UMNO yang pertama Dato' Onn Jaafar meluaskan takrifan itu dengan memasukkan keturunan Arab dan India sebagai Melayu kerana mereka berugama Islam dan mengamalkan adat-istiadat Melayu untuk membesarkan kelompok Melayu yang diperlukan untuk perjuangan besar bagi menentang Malayan Union dalam 1946. Tabir perjuangan Utusan Melayu berubah dari semasa ke semasa oleh tuntutan dan tekanan politik tetapi terbukti, baik ketika didukung oleh pejuang kiri atau ketika dikuasai oleh pejuang kanan, namun kejatian diri Utusan tetap tidak berubah malah lebih menyerlah dalam keadaan yang tercabar."
Even Dato' Usman Awang (later decorated as a National Poet Laureate) was considered a revolutionary 
in Utusan Melayuwhen he opposed a takeover try ofUtusan Melayu by UMNO. But a afterwards brand new UMNO President as well as initial Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, insisted upon a takeover to prevent
Despite once being UMNO's promotion chief, you praise Tan Sri Zainuddin for attempting a little egghead probity in his book "Api ini terus menyala" by divulgence a contribution as they have been to us.
We would be a improved republic if you can admit all a past, warts as well as all, instead of distorting story to fit a momentary needs, like a center overlay flavor of a month of a Penthouse magazine. That is how contrived you have turn to a border which you would repudiate which you were once colonized by a British. Is which what you wish to be a republic of liars?
If Prime Minister Najib truly wants to pierce a republic forward in implementing reforms, afterwards he should be confidant enough to accept Chin Peng's plea in his book "My Side of History" when Chin Peng concluded:
"I suspicion you would describe my side of story to make support of these years a little less lopsided you fought a liberation war. To ask either you would do it again is resting talk. you was a immature male in an wholly opposite setting though a realities as well as a lessons you schooled from which time comprised a physique of values you can share with a immature who might wish to demeanour over their palmtops as well as assimilate how story is shaped. you would like to be involved in a forum. It is a exchange of ideas ! which ult imately moved a world. The trade of views still exhilarates me. You can discuss it me you was wrong. You can discuss it me you failed. But you can additionally discuss it you how it was as well as how you tried."
Hegel is unfortunately right when he pronounced "What experience as well as story teaches us is which people as well as governments have never schooled anything from history, or acted upon beliefs deduced from it." We do not wish to know chronological truth, in stead you merrily go along with story as written by those in power.
No wonder, Churchill, writer of The History of The English Speaking Peoplesand History of The Second World War, was never bothered either story was kind to him given he was a author. Sir Winston patently knew his own people well as well as believed which by winning a Battle of Britain opposite Hitler as well as a Germans he had a credibility to discuss it his side of a story to adoring Britons. True to his words, he wrote story as he had intended.
That said, we should write story as it is given story is about who you have been as a people as well as a republic as well as a collective achievements as well as failures. By distorting it, you have been usually mean action ourselves as well as those after us, which is you have been fibbing to ourselves as well as deluding future generations.
E.H. Carr, a writer of What is History, had this to contend about! his tim e: "History is sick. But afterwards a multitude as well is sick". Is a story ill too? If so, what does which contend of us as a people as well as country?
Malaysians Must Know a TRUTH
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