“When you’re fighting, you serve your country and you attack when you are attacked.
“But later, when I read about him, I learnt that he fought the Japanese, he fought the British, so he fought for the country, too,” he said.
Met at the Communist Party of Malaya secretary-general’s wake in Bangkok on Saturday, the RMAF man, who declined to be named, said this is the reason that he chose to pay his respects.
“The Peace Accord was signed. Let it be. I am here because I’m paying my respects to a Malaysian.
“Now the government is not even allowing his ashes in. What harm can ashes do?” he asked.
The government has refused to allow Chin Peng’s remains into Malaysia, claiming that he is not Malaysian and did not apply to return after the 1989 Haytai Peace Accord, which his family and friends refute.
Those opposing the return of his remains also say that this is in consideration of those injured and killed in the insurgency which started in 1948.
MPs, former Thai speaker pay respects
Other Malaysians who visited Wat That Thong temple yesterday were PKR vice-president and Batu MP Tian Chua and Jelutong MP Jeff Ooi, who is the second DAP MP to pay his respects.
Chua said he made the trip to Bangkok especially for the purpose, as “a friend and family” and to “represent a generation of Malaysians wanting to be fair to a historical personality”.
He said whether or not one agrees with Chin Peng’s ideology or method of struggle, one cannot deny that he had a role in shaping the map of South-East Asia.
“I hope people back home do not manipulate this for political gains... No Malaysian who has humanity, religion and values could put political interest above a simple wish of an old man (for his remains to be returned to his birthplace).
“Chin Peng’s death should be returned to sanity and rationality, and shouldn’t be used to deliberately hype up emotion for partisan interest,” he said.
DAP’s Klang MP Charles Santiago and former senator P Ramakrishnan paid their respects on Friday.
Phokin Polkul, former Thai home minister and former parliamentary speaker also paid respects by sending a wreath in his capacity as chairperson of the Thai Chinese Cultural and Economic Association.
By Aidila Razak
SHAME SHAME SHAME UMNO COLONIAL RACISTS & BRITISH RUNNING DOGS & COLONIZERS OF SABAH SARAWAK!
ReplyDeleteChin Peng to the very end did the noble and right thing for us in Sabah and Sarawak.
He had he last words by making a black mark on "Malaysia formation day" on 16 September 1963.
The CPM like the Sarawak people and other countries also had opposed Malaysia as a neo-colonial creation in the 1960s.
We the people of Sabah and Sarawak will forever remember 16 September as Occupation Day or alternatively Chin Peng Day and not Malaysia Occupation)Day.
This is one date UMNO can never re-write or hide!
Why?
Malaysia was formed in breach of the UN De-colonisation Declaration and Resolution 1514 (XV) 1960 which say that all peoples and countries have an inalienable right to self-determination free from foreign interference.
Why is it that Britain and Malaya both foreign countries have any right to interfere with our inalienable right to self-determination?
Britain as the colonial master was under UN decolonization directives to give us real Sabah and Sarawak independence respectively but not the phoney "independence in Malaysia".
We now know from recently released secret colonial documents that Britain and Malaya agreed to form Malaysia to deny Sabah and Sarawak real independence by transferring their sovereignty to Malaya.
They colluded to deny us even a referendum.
This is seen in how UMNO refused to acknowledge "Malaysia Day" on 16 September for 46 years.
Jeffrey Kitingan & co should see this point and accept that Malaysia Day was not recognized by the Malayan imperialist government which insisted on celebration of Malayan Independence Day on 31 August.
It only proves that Malaya intended to make Sabah Sarawak colonies of Malaya.
Thank you Chin Peng.
correction:
DeleteWe the people of Sabah and Sarawak will forever remember 16 September as Occupation Day or alternatively Chin Peng Day and not Malaysia Day.
chin peng never fight for malaysia independent, but fight for malaya freedom..
ReplyDeletechin peng ash should be return to malaya land ....
Correct.... Chin Peng's CPM opposed formation of Malaysia as a imperialist scheme to expand Malayan territory.
DeleteMalayan government ministers are all just half educated racists.. who should be locked up...for being brain dead..
FYI Malayan government never officially recognised "Malaysia Day" until 2009...
So folks that means in reality Malaysia did not exist and 16 September is just the date the Malayans occupied Sabah and Sarawak .
Totally agreed what all of you said.Bravo!
ReplyDeleteTotally agreed what all of you said.Bravo!
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