Home Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi said the decision was to prevent any group from building a memorial in his recognition.
"We need to take into consideration the feelings of army and police veterans and their families who were the victims of Chin Peng's atrocities when he headed the party," he told the media at the Parliament lobby here today.
He said furthermore Chin Peng had never taken the opportunity to return despite two offers from the National Registration Department to do so after the Hatyai Treaty on Dec 2 1989.
Chin Peng, whose real name was Ong Boon Hua, 90, died of old age in a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand on Sept 16.
On the same day, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced that the government would not grant permission for Chin Peng's remains to be brought back to Malaysia due to the atrocities he committed.
Meanwhile, queried on the competition he is facing in defending his Umno vice-presidency post on Oct 19, Zahid placed his fate in the hands of the delegates to make the best choice for the party.
16 SEPT IS NOW CHIN PENG'S DAY FOREVER!
ReplyDeleteUMNO CHICKENS ARE RUBBER CHICKENS- ALL HOLLOW & NO BRAINS
WHILE CHIN PENG CPM MEMBERS DIED FIGHTING JAPANESE, UMNO LEADERS WORKED FOR JAPANESE INVADERS!
An excerpt from Kee Thuan Chye's article: (The link to the picture of Najib's father in Japanese uniform has been deleted from the internet- so who is behind this???)
"That this was so is affirmed by our first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, in his book Lest We Forget: “Just as Indonesia was fighting a bloody battle, so were the Communists of Malaya, who, too, fought for independence.”
The Japanese, on the other hand, were invaders, and they tortured and killed thousands more of our countrymen during their invasion, and yet we have forgiven them their atrocities. In fact, the Japanese are now our friends, and they are a people we look up to, thanks to ex-premiere Mahathir Mohamad’s Look East policy. So why is it that we cut them more slack?
Is the Government hard on Chin Peng because it feels embarrassed that Umno, the party that it has heaped so much credit on for winning independence, did not fight any bloody battles for it, like Chin Peng and the CPM did? And that, also, one of Umno’s revered leaders of the past, Abdul Razak Hussein, actually worked for the Japanese?
Well, in the book Tun Abdul Razak: Potret dalam Kenangan, a collection of reminiscences by people who knew the country’s second prime minister, there is a mention of his having been an administrative officer for the Japanese. It is in the chapter entitled ‘Saya Mendayung, Dia Mengemudi’ (I Rowed, He Held the Helm), written by former Cabinet minister Ghazali Shafie.
And in a study called ‘Sejarah Penubuhan Universiti Teknologi Mara UITM’
(http://coredev.fsktm.um.edu.my/servlet/sreport.sReportShow?report_id=154&xslFile=all), there is a photograph of Razak with three others dressed in Japanese uniform with the rising sun insignia pinned on their shirt pockets. This apparently depicts the time he was being trained by the Japanese.
To be sure, Ghazali also mentions in his chapter that he and Razak were actually nationalists. “We felt that since we had known the British much longer … it was easier to stand up to them than the Japanese, whom we had not got a full measure of yet … Therefore, we felt we had to master [the] Japanese [language] and at the same time, we had to look for channels to contact the British … so as to obtain their assistance in fighting the Japanese.”
From his account, it looks like the strategy adopted by him and Razak was a pragmatic play-both-sides one that is different from the direct warfare approach opted for by Chin Peng.
In view of this, do we still say that Chin Peng doesn’t deserve to even have his ashes brought home to the country he wanted to return to and die in?"
And we have one instruct men on guard to block even his ash from return with our tax payer's money.Play with the ash as much like in politics....!How to understand with positive mind?
ReplyDelete