February 24, 2013
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Dr.Kua Kia Soong upon Tanda Putera
For a first time after 55 years of domination, UMNO's omnipotence has eventually been shaken. Through all these years of Alliance as good as BN rule, UMNO has been able to means it's relations success as good as cultural omnipotence by presenting their definition of being to a rank as good as file by a mainstream media newspapers, textbooks, TV as good as films.
They have tried to create a 'consensus' which a being they have created is a usually approach of seeing a universe as good as of observation chronological facts. Any groups who benefaction an pick view have been therefore marginalized for after all, "history is created by winners" as Alex Haley said.
Thus, before each ubiquitous choosing since May 13, 1969, a central promotion organs, generally a mainstream press as good as television, have without fail, saturated their coverage with a spook of disharmony as good as carnage should a antithesis win. This has been taken to a nauseating border when scenes of arson as good as corpses during a May thirteen incident have been used in central adverts by a ruling coalition, for example in a 1990 ubiquitous choosing in which I participated as a candidate.
Such adverts have been constantly accompanied by extremist explanation upon episodes such as a May thirteen pogrom, directed during engendering chauvinistic feelings between a infancy Malay race opposite a Chinese who have been portrayed in central promotion as a upstart "immigrants".
Why Always Show Bukit Kepong?
All these years, FINAS (the ! movie ho use paid for by Malaysian taxpayers) has provided usually one movie which has been shown during budding time before each ubiquitous election, namely, "Bukit Kepong". This was a part during a Emergency when a insurgents portrayed in a movie as wholly Chinese had attacked a military hire during Bukit Kepong. Not surprisingly, all a mata mata were all portrayed in a movie as Malays. The motive for display "Bukit Kepong" before a ubiquitous choosing was never spelt out, nonetheless a wanton intention to boar extremist hatred between a Malay rank as good as file toward a "Chinese communists" was crystal clear.
UMNO's "cultural hegemony" worked good for years, until a contradictions inherent in a Umnoputra-weighted New Economic Policy began to create lost fissures in a Malay community. Along came a agreeable PAS stalwart, Mat Sabu who introduced Mat Indera as a Malay leader in a Bukit Kepong assault to an erstwhile historically nave public. He further forked to a elephant in a room namely, which a Bukit Kepong assault by a Mat Indera-led insurgents was opposite a British colonial energy which controlled a nation during a time as good as should be viewed as a nationalistic act!
The even more tragic part in Malaysia's story is of course, a May thirteen pogrom. The central delivery has been to execute a events as a result of "Opposition" (read "Chinese") audacity as good as insensitivity to "Malay" feelings, as good as being Communist inspired. Thus, "May thirteen has been a most frequently used spook story (in a words of a Tunku) in UMNO's "soft" arsenal. The summary before each ubiquitous choosing was which "May thirteen carnage competence recover if a Opposition ever came to power.
Declassified Documents upon May 13
My 2007 title was an try to move to light a available documents on
a May thirteen incident as good as to yield an pick to a central chronicle which has right away been entirely discredited. The declassification of a central May 13th annals in a British Archives in 1999 had provided a welcome opportunity to investigate this unpleasant incident more thoroughly.
I would love to have identical access to a Malaysian Special Branch annals for a period, if usually they hexed a same firmness for chronological records. (Would a winning Pakatan Rakyat government declassify these annals in a name of clarity as good as leisure of information, I wonder?)
The British Foreign Office annals drawn from files of confidential memoranda, embassy exchanges, correspondents' despatches (banned in Malaysia during a time) certainly debunk a central Malaysian government's chronicle which a carnage was caused by "Chinese provocation" opposite Malays, which a communists had a palm in it, as good as which a fatalities usually numbered 137.
The thesis in my book is which a pogrom was orchestrated by a emergent state entrepreneur class in UMNO to secure their interests, which they have succeeded in you do until a benefaction day, not least because of a threats of nazi assault used as good as reused during suitable junctures since then.
Tanda Putera: For Malay eyes only!
Judging from a online talk since by a executive of Tanda Putera (TP), it is clear which this movie had been constructed in an try to opposite a stroke of my 2007 title. My authoritatively researched book invited Malaysians to review for themselves, a justification which debunked both UMNO's spook stories as good as a notion which antithesis votes in a 2008 ubiquitous choosing would lead to mayhem. ! The bein g was which a domestic tsunami happened as good as there was no mayhem.
Unfortunately for a makers of TP, as Abe Lincoln said, "We cannot escape history." Or as Peter Carey, a writer, has put it:
"History is similar to a bloodstain which keeps upon display upon a wall no make a difference how most new owners take possession, no make a difference how most times we paint over it."
Also, unfortunately for a Director of a movie (left), her movie has been unceremoniously put upon reason from ubiquitous release for domestic expediency. It seems her domestic masters cannot means to show this to a Chinese voters or it would be mess for a 13th ubiquitous election! Would an artist with firmness put up with such an indignity? Would an artist with firmness tolerate being treated with colour similar to a niggardly to be used during a whims as good as fancies of her paymasters for their own narrow ends?
We right away know which TP has not long ago been shown to a name serf assembly of Felda settlers who happened to be in Kuala Lumpur for an central function. While journalists were asked to leave, some by their veteran persistence, managed to stay as good as see a film. Thus we can usually go by their reviews of a film, viz. which a Chinese have been portrayed as a aggressors in a aftermath of a 1969 ubiquitous election; which a Chinese had left to Malay kampungs cheering conceited as good as insensitive slogans; a stage of Chinese girl urinating upon a flagpole during a Mentri Besar's residence; Chinese girl vandalizing campaign materials; a Chinese throng cheering "Malays go as good as die"; A Chinese throng disallowing two Malay girl upon motorbikes to pass through, claiming which Selangor belonged to them; which a communists had a palm ! in orche strating a mayhem; which unfamiliar correspondents during a time fielded unreliable despatches all red blood racing things to awaken Malay emotions.
May thirteen Tragedy, Tanda Putera Farce
Is Tanda Putera art? Will it win any Oscars? Is TP a grant to Malaysian history? If TP is ostensible to be objective, why is it usually fit to be shown to a Malay assembly as good as not open to open scrutiny?
Voltaire pronounced which "history can be good created usually in a giveaway country." Our nation is not even giveaway sufficient to screen a film! At a moment, it can usually be shown for "Malay eyes only".
From a review of a film, a webpage of a movie as good as a utterances of a movie executive so far, I would interpretation as Marx did in The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte:
"All great chronological contribution as good as personages occur, as it were, twice a first time as tragedy, a second time as farce."
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