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Media Lynching and Academic Collaborators
September 3, 2011
Media Lynching as great as Academic Collaborators
by Lim Teck Ghee@www.malaysiakini.com
September 2, 2011
1:02pm
Every once in a whilst a government-controlled or government-associated media engages in a open lynching of individuals which dare to challenge a UMNO-scripted law about a domestic system, religion, a kingdom or usually about any theme seen as melancholy to UMNOs domestic as great as ideological dominance.
The ultimate box involves Mohamad Sabu as great as a reason for his lynching relates to a discuss he finished in Tasek Gelugor on Aug 21, in which a PAS deputy boss touched on a Bukit Kepong situation of February 23, 1950.
In which incident, armed members of a Malayan Communist Party pounded as great as killed twenty-five police crew as great as a little of their family members. In his discuss reported by Utusan Malaysia, Mat Sabu allegedly glorified a MCP by claiming which they were a genuine heroes for fighting against a British as great as for heading a countrys onslaught for independence.
Following a Utusan report, a New Straits Times had four articles, together with an complete page by a group handling editor Zainul Arifin, attacking Mohamad Sabu (left) for allegedly rewriting story for domestic benefit (NST, Aug 28).
This has given been followed by Utusans Sunday book Mingguan Malaysia, which devoted ex! traordin ary coverage, swelling over six pages, to a excoriation of Mat Sabu.
Mat Sabu even featured in a Prime Ministers Aidilfitri-cum-Merdeka anniversary discuss where Najib Abdul Razak sanctimoniously lambasted any one who dared to discredit a sacrifices of a countrys forefathers as great as security forces in a trail to independence.
Missing from a Historical Narrative
At a finish of his article, a NSTs chief Zainul who surely contingency be wakeful which many people in a nation know entirely which not usually story though additionally media editorials as great as pieces, such as his, have been created for domestic benefit creates a plea for story to be debated by historians, as great as not politicians.
While he creates a current point which a relooking during story is important [and that] a little contend it is biased as great as a apparatus of domestic dominance, Zainul will know as great which those seeking for a discuss or a relook will not find it in a pages of his newspaper.
So what is a verdict of veteran historians on a communist insurgency as great as a contribution to a transformation for independence from which a genuine discuss as great as a chronological law can have a starting point?
There is not sufficient space in this square to imitate a assorted analysis though readers meddlesome in a MCP as great as a purpose in a onslaught for independence might wish to consult a following:
- CC Chin as great as Karl Hack, Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on a Malayan Communist Party
- Anthony Short, The Communist Insurrection in Malaya, 1948-1960
- Richard Clutterbuck, The Long Long War: The Emergency in Malaya 1948-1960
- Richard Stubbs, Hearts as great as Minds in Guerrilla Warfare: a Malayan emergency, 1948-1960
Especially useful is a ultimate erudite comment of a MCPs purpose as ! great as place in Malayan story which is found in a journal Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies), Vol. 27, No 1 & 2, 2009. It is! availab le online during http://web.usm.my/km/vol27(1&2)2009.html
In a volume, Richard Mason has an essay Re-visiting 1948 Insurgencies as great as a Cold War in Southeast Middle East which provides an general outlook on a almost coexisting revolt against colonial regimes in Malaya, Indonesia as great as Indochina. Also, 3 writers, C.C. Chin, Leon Comber as great as Abdul Rahman Ismail, yield brand new insights into a MCP as great as a tumultuous events as great as nationalist stirrings of a period.
What is noticeable about a NST media coverage is not usually a approach a paper has abandoned a genuine scholars who have undertaken a studies of a MCP though additionally a reliance on a elite modus operandi to run out what crop up to be justice academicians in a guise of Malaysian educational firepower to yield egghead fact for their open lynching exercise.
One such academician, Prof Emeritus Khoo Kay Kim (right) who is prominently featured in a NST as great as alternative supervision tranquil media should know better.
Mat Sabus Intellectual Honesty
Khoos field of specialisation is not a Malayan Communist Party or Chin Peng or recent Malayan domestic history. Although his PhD was on a topic The Beginnings of Political Extremism in Malaya 1915-1935, it does not cover a duration of a 1940s as great as 1950s when a onslaught for independence took place in earnest as great as during which time a MCP underwent assorted metamorphosis as great as change in ideological direction in a objective to! giveawa y Malaya from a colonial yoke of a British.
Khoo could have waited for clarification or reason from Mat Sabu, as great as for any fact a latter might have supposing for his views. Tha! t would have been a scold educational etiquette.
Or if Khoo was in haste, he could during slightest have relied on scholars who have finished more authoritative work on a MCP as great as by their studies supposing an educational as great as more truthful chronological context as great as reason for a Bukit Kepong situation as great as a communist fighters.
Instead, he was reported to have settled which Mohamad should not distortion to a people when a rakyat currently was easily led astray as great as misinformed (NST, p.10). Not usually has he dismissed Mat Sabus comment though checking with a plant of a open lynching though he has diverted a issue away from Mat Sabus focus on who were Malayas leisure fighters to a international origins as great as course of a Malayan Communist Party in a 1920s as great as 30s!
Readers can perspective Mat Sabus talk during this link. And, check out this link as well.Khoo is no educational trusting or virgin when it comes to press coverage. He contingency know which a New Straits Times has a knives out for Mat Sabu as great as alternative antithesis or polite multitude leaders who mount in a approach of UMNOs agenda.
He contingency know or during slightest he should know which there would be no satisfactory hearing as great as which a pursuit of educational contribution as great as egghead law is a furthest away from being a regard or priority of a NST.
Mat Sabu is feared by UMNO as great as a mouthpieces, a NST and Utusan for great reason. He is PASs thinking, progressive as great as committed face not simply a face though! someone who possesses not usually a egghead probity to raise worried questions about how a story is being created though additionally is prepared to take a discordant in front of to defend his take on chronological truth.
In doing so, Mat Sabu puts to contrition a educational hangers-on who are discerning to bray when called on by a government.
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