STOP THE HISTRIONICS, UMNO: Declassify the Special Branch files on May 13 if you dare

The call by a UMNO Youth leader for The Edge to retract their story about "May 13" is laughable when FINAS is usually about to release their much trumpeted movie Tanda Putera which is directed during reinforcing UMNO's chronicle of a incident. The executive of a movie has pronounced as much, which a movie is directed during contradicting a thesis of my 2007 pretension which a secular violence was a potential coup detat by a emergent state capitalists in UMNO against a aristocrats under a Tunku.

The one after another delay of a film's release is as perplexing as a one after another delay of a appeal by a dual men sentenced for a murder of a Mongolian lass, Altantuya. Is a supervision apprehensive about a disastrous greeting many Malaysians will have toward a film? Has a Special Branch already submitted their comprehension to a government, notice them which this tired aged central chronicle of May thirteen would usually serve to enhance anti-UMNO voting behavior?

The one after another delay for a release of this movie is a pound in a face of a movie executive who appears to have little, if any, artistic leisure in a project during all as well as who during a same time, seems calm to be a agreeable confederate in this historical cover-up.

WANT THE TRUTH? OPEN THE SPECIAL BRANCH FILES

Much has been done by non-academic UMNO hacks which my 2007 pretension relied upon declassified papers from (foreign) British sourc! es, as i f researchers have been unqualified of separating a contribution from fiction. Malaysian historians, either they have been a central apologists or a some-more radical, know which a British were some-more inclined toward ancillary UMNO as well as a Alliance than a communists or a antithesis as partial of a neo-colonialist resolution during Independence. In fact, in a book we pointed out a pomposity of a British in justifying an arms deal for a Home Guard when a outward world was condemning a secular violence as well as a inclination of a Malaysian security forces. Still, these papers reveal a innermost thoughts of a British officials as well as their own intelligence. They have been a homogeneous of a Wikileaks which have been done accessible to us to read today.

But let's speak about a elephant in a room a own personal papers upon a May thirteen secular violence of 1969. If UMNO is unequivocally meddlesome in a truth, certainly a simplest resolution is to declassify a own files, generally those kept by a Special Branch. we still recollect a cocky boast done by my Special Branch Interrogation Officers when we was detained under a ISA in 1987, which their repository during Bukit Aman have been improved than any university living room in a country. we can hold them.

So is a supervision meddlesome in what unequivocally happened in May 1969: who proposed a violence; who were a "hidden hands" alluded to in Said Zahari's immortal poem upon a incident; how many casualties were there really? Or have been they some-more meddlesome in their standing quo as well as peddling a same aged story which we no longer hold in?

Malaysians should give their votes usually to possibilities who have been committed to a enactment of a Freedom of Information Act as well as a dissolution of a Official Secrets Act.

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION

Our nation cannot trundle along in this way, relying upon Biro Tatanegara-type methods to execute history. We can no longer allow this dim episode in a history to be used as a domestic threat to dismay a people each time a standing quo feels challenged. In order for this issue to be laid to rest, all a relevant contribution need to be done manifest as well as a dead declared as well as honoured by a convening of a Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC). As with a South African TRC,

"... a law & reconciliation commission is a required exercise to capacitate (us) to come to terms with (our) past upon a morally accepted basis as well as to advance a cause of reconciliation."

Apart from a testimonies of all a people influenced by a May thirteen violence as well as their families, a May thirteen TRC needs to be since access to all a personal papers in a country, generally those in a reportedly glorious Special Branch living room as well as those in a possession of a Cabinet. Only then will we be means to lay to rest a ghosts of May thirteen as well as finally become a society during peace with itself

Dr Kua Kia Soong is a SUARAM Adviser

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