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MCA Publicity Bureau chairman Heng Seai Kie today said the ashes of Chin Peng should be allowed to be brought home, contrary to party president Dr Chua Soi Lek’s statement on Tuesday that Chin was a “personality who undermined national security for decades”.
Chua had not directly dismissed Chin Peng’s return, but acknowledged the call by former special branch deputy director Yuen Yuet Leng and had said: “I don’t have (any reasons). He (Yuen) may has his information which is not made available to me.”
“Whether Chin Peng is a hero or not is not an issue here. In fact, you do not need to be a hero to be allowed a burial in Malaysia,” Heng said in a press statement.
“The BN government does not need anymore bad publicity of being seen as making decisions based on racial lines,” she added.
Heng justified her statement with the “decent burial” of suspected terrorists Dr Azahari Husin and Nordin Mohamad Top – two individuals wanted by the Indonesian governments for several deadly bombings – in Jasin and Pontian, respectively.
“Born and bred in Malaya, everyone, including Chin Peng has the right to be interred in Malaysia. On humanitarian grounds, we should honour this nonagenarian’s last wishes,” she said.
“On the other hand, there are no laws in this country which forbids anyone who intends to have last rites and his resting place here,” she added.
“After all, what harm can his ashes do to the country?” she asked.
Heng further said the government should honour the clauses agreed upon in the Haadyai Peace Accord “so as to uphold the integrity and credibility of our government”.
“Since other Communist Party of Malaya leaders like Syed Hamid Ali and Shamsiah Faekah were allowed to return to reside in Malaysia, why not the same be applied to Chin Peng?” she questioned.
On Thursday, MCA vice-president Gan Ping Sieu said the government should not succumb to political pressure nor act in a vindictive manner over the return of Chin’s ashes.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak welcomed Chin Peng sympathisers to legally challenge the government’s decision of barring the latter’s remains from entering Malaysia should they feel the government has got no legal rights to do so.
Najib was responding to a FMT report which quoted several legal experts as saying that the ashes of Chin was his family’s individual property, should the former Communist Party of Malaya secretary-general be cremated.
Earlier yesterday, former Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan said was a terrorist and there is no need to acknowledge his death.
ALL MALAYANS WILL NOW FOREVER REMEMBER MALAYSIA DAY ON 16 SEPT AS "CHIN PENG'S DAY"
ReplyDeleteCHIN PENG HAS LAST LAUGH ON UMNO MALAYAN COLONIAL RACIST MASTERS
UMNO may continue its vindictive and malicious racist campaign against the CPM and Chin Peng.
However, Chin Peng has the last LAUGH because by dying on 16 Sept. 2013, all "Malaysia Days" will also now be Chin Peng's Day!
All Malayans will now forever remember Chin Peng!
NAJIB'S FATHER WORKED FOR JAPANESE OCCUPIERS WHILE CHIN PENG'S FIGHTERS SHED BLOOD & DIED FOR MALAYAN FREEDOM!
ReplyDeleteUMNO- WHO ARE THE REAL TRAITORS & REAL PATRIOTS OF MALAYA?
Excepts from "Chin Peng Deserves a Place in His Country"
By Kee Thuan Chye
"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."
(The website with Razak in Japanese Uniform is blocked...)