The
Malays don’t forget easily. Only Malays who have not experienced it
will forget. The non-Malays would sure forget.
The
title above is based on a
quote made in 2013 by someone who forgets everything easily.
Free
Malaysia Today, 4th May 2013
Lim Kit Siang of late has been trying to distance himself from the 13 May 1969 incident by saying that he was in Kota Kinabalu when the incident happened.
It is true that Kit Siang was arrested in Kota Kinabalu after making a speech inciting the Sabahans to hate the government and spreading lies that the government does not recognise the status of Sabahan Bumiputeras as equals to the Malays in the Peninsular. However, we know that the seeds of hatred had been planted long before that.
On 25 January 1969, Kit Siang slammed the United Democratic Party (UDP) for behaving like the MCA turning its back against its struggles with the DAP to establish the Universiti Merdeka and to champion the Chinese language, and to not accept the policy where the Malaysian culture must be based in the Malay culture; the Malaysian literature must be written in Malay; and multilingualism is not allowed as only Bahasa Malaysia is allowed.
He
accused the government then of failure to establish and implement the
fundamental concept of Malaysian Malaysia where the country does not
belong to one single race and the use of a single language and single
culture is an oppression against the other races.
You
can read his speech titled ‘The
Crusade for Malaysian Malaysia‘
so
you do not forget easily like Kit Siang’s best friend who now
champions Kit Siang’s struggles in order to destroy what have been
protected in the Federal Constitution since the formation of this
country.
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