February 23, 2013
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They come in all colours: Vishwaroopam, Psy, as well as Tanda Putera
by Mariam Mokhtar| Feb 22, 2013
If the rakyat cannot trust its Cabinet ministers to discuss it the truth, afterwards the skinny wall that protects us from commotion can simply be breached.Does Najib wish to emanate commotion in the last-ditch try to keep power?Mariam Mokhtar
As you proceed the 13th general choosing (GE13), Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's understand of "1Malaysia" gets some-more bizarre.
To herald in the Year of the Snake, Najib done the surprise announcement that the Chinese would be treated with colour to the special performance by the Korean entertainer Psy. Earlier this week, after many delay as well as heavy censorship, the Indians were eventually allowed to view the film, "Vishwaroopam".
The Malay masses, always upon the wrong end of the hang when it comes to UMNO's largesse, were forced to view the UMNO graduation movie "Tanda Putera".
Psy's performance allegedly price RM3 million for the mere 12 minutes. The anathema upon Vishwaroopam caused promoters to humour poignant financial losses. Much of the box-office takings were diverted to pirated DVDs that were openly sole via Malaysia.
"Tanda Putera" price RM4.8 million as well as is saved by the National Film Develop! ment Cor poration (Finas) as well as the Multimedia Development Corporation (Mdec) in alternative words, by the taxpayers.
We have been told that "Tanda Putera" uses the May thirteen secular clashes as the backdrop to the relationship in between the Prime Minister of the time, Abdul Razak Hussein, as well as the former Deputy Prime Minister as well as Home Affairs Minister,(Tun) Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman. For illness reasons, Ismail had retired from politics though Razak managed to persuade him to come out of early retirement to assistance finalise the crisis.
The screening of "Tanda Putera" was paid in instalments twice, final year. On Sep 13, it was claimed that there was insufficient graduation for the film, afterwards upon November 15, the Cabinet motionless that sure scenes were "inappropriate".
Were the bans written to emanate some-more hype around the movie as well as so increase the curiosity of the small members of the public?
Last Monday, around 3,000 Felda settlers who were in Kuala Lumpur to hear UMNO leaders including former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, received an astonishing serve to their programme. Najib systematic that "Tanda Putera" be screened as well as journalists were asked to leave the hall.
It is outrageous that Najib uses secular sentiments to scare the electorate into choosing by casting votes for UMNO. How can the wounds from May thirteen heal, if they have been continually being re-opened?
The movie was shown after Mahathir had told the FELDA settlers that they were beholden to UMNO. He said, "The joy today is due to tough work as well as the government's help, can't people be the small beholden as well as appreciative?"
Lessons from story ignored
The greatest! tragedy of the May thirteen riots is that UMNO ministers have not learned any lessons from history. The legacy of Mahathir equates to that his antipathetic influence still continues after he quiescent as Prime Minister.
In the book, "The Reluctant Politician" about Tun Dr Ismail, by Ooi Kee Beng, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah claimed that Ismail was the the single who longed for Mahathir expelled from UMNO as well as twice prevented Mahathir from being re-admitted into UMNO.
The book also states that Ismail criminialized offending papers criticising the Tunku from being circulated because law as well as sequence was breaking down, as well as he was austere that there would be "no manoeuvre in the country as well as no coups in the party".
Ismail was known for satisfactory play as well as correctness, as well as the book claimed that "every Malay colleague including Mahathir, feared Ismail". Ismail was always ready to debate as well as he was rarely principled.
Malaysia is still haunted by the May thirteen riots as well as each the single of us has to bear
the share of contrition as well as guilt. How many of us can truly call ourselves Malaysian?
Some of us demand that vernacular or religious schools be kept. Universities have special quotas to meet. Particular jobs, contracts or positions have been given to sure sections of the community. Are you prepared to dispense with all these secular policies?
Najib is playing the dangerous game in using "Tanda Putera" to try to pitch await for UMNO. The similarities in between 1969 as well as 2013 have been uncanny.
In 19! 69, it w as believed that there were two factions in UMNO the "ultras" who enclosed the immature Mahathir; as well as the "old guard" or the moderates who were led by Tunku. Today, the energy struggle exists in UMNO in between the aged Mahathir as well as Najib.
The communists were done the available victim for the May thirteen disturbances. In the past few years, the comrade element is again being blamed for troubles in Malaysia.
Even PAS leader Mat Sabu was accused of being the comrade sympathiser when he alluded to Malay leisure fighters who used comrade ideals to fight for independence of Malaya.BERSIH marchers were not spared when former Inspector-General of Police (Tun) Hanif Omar claimed he recognised comrade elements from video footage of people upon the march.
In 1969, the ruling Alliance celebration suffered the poignant decrease in support. In an relate of the past, the detriment of await that BN suffered in 2008 is predicted to go on to GE13.
The Opposition took carry out of Kelantan as well as Penang in 1969 as well as states like Selangor as well as Perak did not have the transparent majority. In 2008, Kelantan, Penang, Kedah, Selangor as well as Perak fell to the opposition although Najib after grabbed back energy in Perak.
In the 1960s, the Malays were suffering economically. Despite various programmes to assistance Malays in the lower income bracket, many of the benefits have been abused by UMNO Malays to assistance themselves, as well as not their poorer cousins.
'Ketuanan Melayu' myth
Foreign powers were wakeful of the taste suffered by the minorities, in the 1960s, though economic considerations done them look the alternative way.
There is no change today. Britain as well as France have been some-more interested in ! offered their weaponry than chastising the leaders for their tellurian rights abuses as well as racist policies.
Even prior to independence, the non-Malays had learnt to mount upon their own two feet while the Malays have always felt that Malaya was their "homeland" as well as they did not need to work as tough as the "pendatang".
Five decades later, the "Ketuanan Melayu" (coined by Abdullah Kok Lanas Ahmad) parable has caused the serve deterioration in the living standards as well as self esteem of the Malay.
It was claimed that in 1969, the Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) whose members were from the cross- territory of Malaysia, was the only security section that dispensed law as well as sequence but bias. Today, instead of attracting non-Malays into the security forces, the armed forces, like the polite service, have been predominantly Malay.
In 1969, the May thirteen troubles caused the Sarawak state choosing to be postponed. Today, you witness the Sulu militia intrusion in Lahad Datu as well as the revelations by the Sabah Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI). Would these be used to delay elections or declare emergency rule in Sabah?
In October 1969, Najib's father, (Tun) Abdul Razak, who was the head of the 
National Operations Council (NOC) questioning the May thirteen tragedy, constructed the inform that outlined the small of the tasks as well as choices they faced.
Razak said that Malaysia had to work tough to revive mutual trust as well as secular harmony. Has Najib taken mind of his own father's advice?
In new years, Malaysians have been subjected to many assault as well as many threats from the ruling party. If the r! akyat ca nnot trust its Cabinet ministers to discuss it the truth, afterwards the skinny wall that protects us from commotion can simply be breached.Does Najib wish to emanate commotion in the last-ditch try to keep power?
Mariam Mokhtar is the FMT columnist.
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