December 12, 2012
The Baling Incident of 1974 commemorated
by Terence Netto (11-12-12)@www.malaysiakini.com
In the historical catalog of events which have turn signposts for the raising of tellurian rights consciousness among Malaysians, the Baling situation of December 1974, which saw university students have common cause with bankrupt peasants, has turn an event rather similar to the 1955 Montgomery train boycott was for the US civil rights movement.
Both events drew knee jerk repression from custodians of the status quo, whilst both the national assembly as well as the watching world stood riveted by the philharmonic of courageous rebuttal as well as the gamut of oppression it provoked.
Both episodes threw up charismatic leaders Anwar Ibrahim in the Malaysian example as well as Martin Luther King Jr in the American one who would go on, with their statures extended by the travails they had to endure, to lead their rudimentary movements to respective denouements, yet in Anwar's box the perfection is the little way from its vindicatory apotheosis.
Thus, the decoration of the 1974 Baling situation which Parti Keadilan Rakyat inaugurated to organise during the Dewan Sivik in Petaling Jaya yesterday in as well as with the imprinting of the World Human Rights Day was apposite for reasons during once elementary as well as profound.
These were encapsulated by one of the commemoration's speakers, Syed Hamid Ali (left), who was! concern ed in the Baling situation as well as was detained underneath the ISA for his pains.
"For me, the stress of the Baling situation lies in the elementary truism: Where there is oppression there will be opposition," intoned the PKR personality who is the younger brother of Senator Dr Syed Husin Ali, the former deputy president of PKR who also spoke during the event.
Syed Hamid elaborated: "The Baling situation was just the mystic effusion of the array of lead-up incidents during the early 1970s which culminated in university students as well as expertise members determining which they could not stand detached from the sufferings of peasants in the rural areas as well as the labouring classes in towns who were feeling the goods of depressed rubber prices or were hungering for housing as well as other basic needs."
Earlier, speakers Kamarazaman Yaakob as well as Professor Gurdial Singh Nijar, who were both held underneath the ISA for their parts in the episode, any related vignettes of their involvement, the former, the Universiti Malaya student personality during which time, the some-more evocative orator for reason of his emotive recall of as well as reflections upon aspects of distress endured by the arrested students, expertise members as well as NGO leaders who demonstrated their await for the peasants strike by the high tumble in rubber prices.
Senator Syed Husin Ali (right), then an Associate Pprofessor during University of Malaya who was held for six years underneath the ISA for his impasse the longest span of apprehension suffered by the victim of the ISA dragnet which year also spoke during yesterday's memorial.
Syed Husin opined which his concept of tellurian rights entailed working to have certain which people had occupations with the be! arable s alary as well as affordable housing.
The last orator was PKR confidant Anwar Ibrahim, who said which the concern for tellurian rights should comparison bounds of race as well as religion as well as which moral courage was the sine qua non of the quarrel opposite man's inhumanity to man.
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