 Q35.24 . We have sent you [M] with the truth,
a bearer of timeless tidings and a warner; and there isn't a nation but a warner has come to the people.
[ Fa[t.]ir:24]
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Do we not care about the massacres of our lifetime?
December 1948 was just six months into a 12-year campaign
to crush ethnic communists, who were trying
to drive British occupiers out of the Malay Peninsular.
From 1874 to mid 1950s, the British struggled to suppress resistance to occupation. The brutality of some British forces in the Malay Peninsular
drove many ethnic Chinese to communism.
People who supported communists were literally fenced in.
People who opposed communism were co-opted
and their communities offered food, medicine and protection.
The guerrillas were starved out in the jungle with the gorillas.
Survivors recall
 
“Did the soldiers bring you outside all at once or in groups?”
“I cannot remember, I fainted. The spirits pushed me. They shot us.”
He was not well in his 70s. He went to the spot where he fainted and fell
from British bullets that killed 24 of his fellow workers 55 years before.
The rubber trees these deceased tapped were felled long ago.
Only stumps remain of the "rumah kongsi" that was once their communal home.
His wife had throat cancer. She could eat only un-spiced fish and vegetables.
She remembered the brutalities. She was 16 then, a fiance to the man.
Another survivor, in her 80s, could recall seeing her husband,
the estate supervisor, led out and shot in cold blood with the others.
“The British said that the man who had a receipt for fruit was supplying communists with food. " "They shot him." "I wanted to stay and die with them.”
“So cruel those British, so cruel.”
The British soldiers came in trucks and accused the villagers of helping communists. The men and women of the village were separated. The women were loaded onto trucks to be taken away. The younger woman asked where the men were. The soldiers said the men would have to be shot. She remembered watching as the men were led out in groups of four and five, told to turn around by the waiting troops and shot in the back. After two days, she returned to look for her fiance. The bodies had been mutilated, heads hacked off and genitals smashed.
This was 8 months after the massacre of 250 Palestinians on 9th April, 1948 in the village of Deir Yassin in the disrict of Jerusalem in British-occupied Palestine. The soldiers who made Batang Kali into a killing field in December 1948 were not illegal illegitimate immigrant thugs of the Haganah, Vladimir Jabutinsky's Irgon, Abraham Stern's the Stern gang, Palmach and Golani supported and funded by Anglo-American zionists in the premeditated and systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. They were British Scots Guards struggling to hold on to imperialism, colonialism and may be even zionism in the face of widespread resentment and resistance. This killing field in the Malay Peninsular as brutal as the Sharpeville massacre of 69 young demonstrators in apartheid South Africa in March 1960 was not unlike so many killing fields made by Americans up north in late 1960s. It was worse with the massacre of 150 unarmed Vietnamese at My Lai on 16th March 1968. It was so much worse with the massacre of at least 1000 unarmed Palestinian refugees in September 1982 at Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon ordered by Ariel Sharon as Israeli defense minister conspiring with Elie Hobeike's Lebanese Forces militia, and another Israeli proxy, Major Saad Haddad's South Lebanon Army after the American-backed invasion of West Beirut.
Justice was never seen to have been done about these massacres and many more. The killers are still at it in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan.
Are we not weaklings held to account for indifference or inaction?
These, our deceased, had the right of resistance; they might be labelled communists or terrorists, but they were our people, dead or alive; anytime anywhere they were braver than those people who shot them in the back.
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"orang asli" at Ulu Tamu, Batangkali
Medical staff who regularly visited his village
immediately sought treatment for Lasam and he was hospitalised for four
months.
Today he struggles to provide for his 12 children by tapping rubber for
RM10 a day.
The cases of TB or leprosy are worrying in view of these forgotten
diseases
returning in deadly, drug-resistant new strains.
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[ Let's address the natural needs of our "orang asli", not "blame game" ]
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The official account of the massacre at Batang Kali was that
the Chinese villagers had tried to escape into the jungle
having been warned that they would be shot if they ran.
But the official version of what was initially reported as
a victory over communists changed during the weeks that followed.
Early reports stated that the deceased ran into the soldiers' guns.
Subsequent reports added that the soldiers gave chase and opened fire.
There is no more dispute. The deceased were unarmed civilians.
Should we let him come home to die as he wishes?
82-year old "Chin Peng" born in 1922 at Kampung Kohat, Setiawan,
Perak, Malaysia; named "Ong Boon Hua" second son of a bicycle dealer
who migrated from Fujian, China.
How many of us were as brave to resist and repulse the Japanese
when they invaded and occupied our country towards the end of 1941?
The Japanese were as brutal as zionist invaders and occupiers
of Palestine and no less brutal than Anglo-American invaders
and occupiers of Iraq whom Japan supports with supplies of soldiers.
In the north during world war 2
general Aug San cooperated with the Japanese and then adroitly
with the British until post-war British prime minister
Clement Atlee who succeeded war minister Winston Churchill
had to guarantee independence from British domination in Burma
(Union of Myanmar since 1989) by 1948 January 4.
In the south
the Japanese occupied Dutch colonies soon after Germany occupied
the Netherlands. Some elites of the region then cooperated with
Japanese occupiers. By 1945 Sukarno headed a committee, backed by
Japan, planning for independence declared on 17 August 1945.
The Netherlands' army in concert with armies of the
Anglo-American-Australian Allies were mobilized to reoccupy
"the colonies". Indonesians battled on until 1949 December 27
when Queen Juliana of the Netherlands had to concede to Sukarno
independence of Indonesia from Dutch domination.
In the center,
"Semenanjung Tanah Melayu", during 1941-42, Ong Boon Hua
in his early 20s joined a number of patriots resisting and repulsing
invasion and occupation by foreign forces. They even fought
together with the British (Force 136) against the Japanese and
were later awarded medals and the Order of the British Empire.
Peter Tatchell - human rights activist
"Throughout the Second World War, in the colony of Malaya,
British soldiers fought side by side with the Malayan guerrilla army.
We trained them and armed them. We praised them as heroes
who helped us defeat Japan.
However, as soon as the war was over and the Malayans dared
to ask for independence from Britain, our government denounced them
as communists. British soldiers were turned against our former allies.
Thousands were massacred. Tens of thousands were interned without trial.
Hundreds of thousands were forcibly uprooted from their villages
and deported to barbed-wire encampments under British military control."
Post-war British policy
hinged on consolidating colonial territories according to carefully
controlled plans and programs designed in London for minimal disruption
to long-term British interests. Challenged by the "Malayan Emergency",
Britain had to change plans and adapt rapidly to local circumstances,
accommodating a willing coalition of local elites, to address
"internal rebellion".
Emergency
Britain exploited ethnic differences - "divide and dominate".
British propaganda and broadcast "ballooned" about rebellious "Chinese"
"communist" "bandits" "terrorists" ambushing and murdering "loyal" Malay
policemen and "loyal" Malay soldiers to encourage Malay indifference
to brutal counter-insurgency measures. But Britain was careful
not to alienate moderate Chinese opinion and hypocritically managed
relations between moderate Chinese leaders and Malay nationalists.
Why should they be asked to cut off clean any fondness they might
entertain about the great land of their ancestors? Many had families
or relatives there. The communists were fighting for oppressed people.
Ethnic divisions were very sensitive within Malayan societies.
The Malays flatly rejected the British proposal for "Malayan Union".
Few people supported British "devices" to create a multi-ethnic
political party. Britain had to accommodate the Malay elites
following the Malayan Union fiasco. Britain could not get any
broad-based, multi-ethnic Malayan political party amenable to
British persuasion. It had to choose a pro-Western, multi-ethnic
but Malay-dominated coalition of communal political parties instead.
Isthmus of Kra north of Malaya and "nuclear shield"
Scrapped pre-war "Operation Matador" plans to occupy
the Isthmus of Kra was resurrected after the war as plans for
a "Songkhla defence line" in the face of complex circumstances.
The French and the Dutch would not budge until the last moment
as radical anti-colonial forces boiled over amidst growing influence
and support from Communist China and Soviet Russia and moral
support and example from India's Mahatma Ghandi.
Communist Vietnam might over-run Malaya as the Japanese did before.
Malaya was valuable for Britain but expendable with internal rebellion.
So Britain planned to create a "nuclear shield" as deterrent,
using Singapore as key nuclear-capable British defence base.
We could have been so mercilessly "nuclearised" to oblivion.
That was and is the nature of colonial governments.
All of us are expendable in a global conflict.
"Britain was determined to maintain its great power status
and retain its influence in the region, even at the expense of
its military commitments in Europe. ..."
"In spite of US efforts, bordering on veiled threats at times,
to compel Britain to maintain its role in Southeast Asia
in line with American involvement in Vietnam, and US attempts
to shore up the pound, Britain ultimately capitulated
to financial reality."
Karl Hack
Defence and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia:
Britain, Malaya and Singapore 1941-68
(Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001)
"The American investment in Cold War South-East Asia -
which made possible the tyrannies of the Thai generals
in the period 1948-77, the Marcos regime in the Philippines,
and Suharto's endless Neues Ordnung ..."
From Miracle to Crash, , London Review of Books, Vol20, No 8.
Benedict R O'G Anderson
Professor of International Studies and Director of
the Modern Indonesia Project at Cornell University, New York.
Editor of the journal Indonesia,
That was more or less the scenario when Ong Boon Hua
took the alias "Chin Peng" in 1947 after appointment as
secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party
(outlawed since June 1948 when "emergency" was declared).
For a decade thereafer he became the British Empires's "most wanted"
- leading a guerrilla campaign in the resistance against
British occupation and "colonial rule". He and his comrades of
revolutionaries were determined to drive the British out.
Outnumbered 20 to 1 they challenged a force of more than
100,000 Commonwealth troops. At least 10,000 victims
including unarmed civilians were killed in conflict.
Between 1948 and 1952 the colonialists made 4,500 air strikes;
In 1952 the colonialists used chemicals as defoliants and
crop destroyers sprayed over 1,250 acres of roadside vegetation
at possible ambush points - lucrative for then British ICI.
34,000 people were held under drastic detention laws that,
according to the British Foreign Office, were meant to apply to
persons who were a "menace" to public security but could not
be brought to trial on account of insufficient evidence.
10,000 people were detained in concentration camps by December 1950;
and by March 1952 colonialists imposed curfews on whole villages,
stopped transport services, reduced rice rations by 40%
for 25,000 villagers, enclosed villages with barb-wire fences.
closed schools and banned villagers from leaving.
At least 500,000 squatters were forcibly removed to "new villages"
under the Templer mass resettlement programs.
709,000 lbs of bombs were dropped in 1956 and 1957 (up to May).
The looming sterling crisis and the "emergency"
impelled Britain to let Malaya have independence supposedly from
British domination by 31 August 1957.
But "Chin Peng" and comrades chose opposition from the jungles
of "utara Semenanjung Tanah Melayu" and "selatan Siam"
against "pro-Western capitalists" and aristocrats until 1989.
By 2003 Ong Boon Hua alias "Chin Peng" (not "Sinn Fein")
and some 500 comrades, having renounced violence and
armed struggle, wanted to return to and die in their "motherland".
They were barred from returning on account of the link to
a banned organization with a history of perpetrating "terrorism"
in our country.
We thought about loved ones lost to the conflict.
We thought about loved ones maimed for life in the conflict.
We thought about difficulties and discomfort during the conflict.
But that conflict involved many guilty parties.
Weren't we all parties to that conflict?
How many of us have yet to get over the anguish and anger?
We are peaceful and peace-loving. Often we are forgiving too.
We are constructively engaged with Europeans, Americans and
Australians in spite of imperial and colonial atrocities and
brutalities in our region based on lies, propaganda or
disinformation by their governments. We forget and forgive
that Britain and "Siam" divided our people and our territory
in order to dominate us while we were weak and defenceless.
We forget about "agent-orange" and "carpets of bombs".
We are constructively engaged with communist China,
communist Cuba, post-communist Russia and ex-communist states.
We are constructively engaged even with Myanmar as ASEAN member
although questions about governance have been raised internationally.
Are we constructively engaged against the illegitimate illegal Israel,
the darling of Anglo-American-Australian governments?
Zionist terrorists control Anglo-American-Australian administrations
pushing for endless wars of domination. Weren't the most modern
and best equipped submarines USS Thresher and USS Scorpion
mysteriously lost to them somewhere in the labyrinths of US underworlds?
Have we not learnt to accept people born in our country
as "of us and with us" good or bad or whatever they choose
to believe? Before they commit crimes against humanity
we restrain or even rehabilitate them with the technology
we can now develop. We do not vote for liars, deceivers or
fraudsters let alone war-criminals to form our government.
People do that elsewhere.
We are pragmatically and constructively engaged.
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We need to develop rigorously, even radically,
our beliefs about preventive "jihad" against foreign military presence
so that the duty of resistance and repulsion is done effectively
in response to specific messages of the Qur'an.
[ h. indicates the 6th letter of the Arabic alphabet ]
[ s. inducates the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet ]
Q4:78-79 Q30:41 Q42:30 Q57:22
Key Arabic terms therein:
"h.asanah" "saiyiah" "fasad" "as.aba" "mus.ibah"
equivalents: ? good evil mischief happen misfortune ?
Numerous other verses explain, amplify and point to examples,
cases and histories about strategy, preparation, treatment of children,
women, the sick, the elderly and enemies who ask for truce or peace etc.
The emphasis is always on faith, patience, perseverence, endurance,
fortitude, prudence and bravery which the prophet and Muslims of his
time exemplified to perfection. Relevant to Jerusalem and the crusades
was the example of S.alah.uddin of Tikrit. [Saladin]
Q3:7 warns that we restrain from imaginatively reading
hidden meanings
or interpreting messages of mercy and
warnings of wrath to suit our fancy.
Q4:78-79 is like an axiom which we cannot prove
but accept as premise though not self-evident as in geometry.
The proposition is that all things emanate from  ; whatever "good"
we get is 's gift in trust; and we ourselves draw forth whatever
"bad" that befalls us for letting ourselves be corrupted by "evil".
Here we are confounded by logic because we cannot define precisely
these entities.
Q4:78 is consistent with Q6:102 and Q39:62
created everything.
So we infer that everything is traceable
to -
the source the seed the root?
Q30:41 is from surah ar-rum.
The title sounds as if the chapter
were about Rome.
It is not even about ancient Greece to which the title
alludes.
The key term of verse 41 of this chapter 30 is "fasad" or
mischief.
The message is that humans corrupted by evil bring forth
to this earth
all the mischiefs of the air, on land and in the sea.
Q42:30 impresses upon us that misfortunes happen
because
we let them happen.
It implies that we could have prevented them
from happening.
It encourages us to strive ["jihad"]
finding
excellent ways to forestall misfortunes.
Q57:22 is consistent with Q4:78-79.
All misfortunes that happen are on record in detail and subjects of
decrees
whether they can happen unhindered or can be frustrated or
aborted.
Something like "mirror-agents" of events?
Q41:33-36 or surah h.amim sajdah of the Qur'an
Spiritually the long term approach to defense recommended
is not against persons but against hatred harboured by aggressors.
Whereas defense is not against persons,
defense is emphatically in the name of
for the security of all 's creatures everywhere.
It is not specific about weapons or means. It simply implies that
one can wear down hatred with "something excellent" ["ah.san"];
and the necessary condition for "ah.san" to be present
is by way of patience and restraint which is 's gift.
One of the key Arabic terms of Q41:34 is "[c]uduwah" -
literally meaning enemy.
The term is always alluded to
"iblis" or"shyt.an" or "satan" or "devil"
created from fire [ heat energy ? ].
(Q24:45 enlightens that "dabbah", beast, is created from water.)
Iblis was the greatest learned leader of angels
meditating and praying for long periods
that the angels under its leadership would not rebel against
;
but it never prayed for itself to be
graced with freedom from rebelliousness.
After Adam was created from clay,
iblis boiled over with arrogance
and hatred against everything human;
and the laws of heaven had devils and humans fall from grace.
Q6:12 and Q6:54 assures us that inscribed the rule of mercy.
Q7:27 reminds us as descendants of "Adam and Hawa" to be careful
and vigilant to avoid being deceived by followers of "Iblis".
[ shait.an (singular) - "shayat.yin" (plural) ]
These would watch us to lay ambush from positions we cannot see
or fathom. Can we not develop a global positioning system
to detect them and abort their plans.
We are assured safety and security from their "evil designs"
as long as we hold on to our faith and "jihad" against them.
Mindful of Q3:7 we risk associating the meaning and implication
of the notion "hatred" with the Arabic term "[c]uduwah" - enemy.
We think about the Vietnamese "repulsing" American invasion;
the aggressors were then full of hatred against Communists.
[ Are the aggressors now full of hatred against Muslims? ]
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our independence and sovereignty
BC3500 Sumerians; Ubaid culture at its best between Tigris and Euphrates
BC3000 to BC1500 great art from Harappa to MohenjoDaro across the Indus valley
BC3000 Orang Asli on gugusan pulau-pulau Melayu; Punan and Rungus
BC1500 to BC1027 ShangYin China: elegance with ceramics, jade and bronze
BC1000 Kerajaan Melayu; East-West trade
wood-carving, ikat, batik, silat and wayang kulit
BC0563 to BC0483 Buddha; salvation via enlightenment to nirvana
BC0550 to BC0480 Kung FuTse and moderation and reverence
BC0100 China, India and Hindu-Buddhist interaction
BC0004 to AD0029 Jesus Christ; from Nazareth to Palestine and miracles of healing; sublime over Judas Iscariot, Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate
AD0570 to AD0632 Makkah to Madinah; Seal of Prophets and the Qur’an
AD0700 Kerajaan Seriwijaya
AD1137 Islam at Kota Bukit Meriam AH531
AD1142 Kalha became Kedah Darulaman AH536
AD1377 Kerajaan Majapahit
AD1434 Khmer and Angkor Thom ruined after 800 years
AD1511 Portugese occupation of Melaka
AD1519 Mayans and Aztecs ruined by Cortes and Spaniards
AD1620 Puritans in Mayflower to America; unilateral ethnic cleansing
AD1746 The Dutch back to Pulau Pangkor
AD1770 Cook and convicts to Australia to rob and murder natives
AD1786 British occupation of Pulau Pinang
AD1789 Power to the people in France
AD1811 1833 1865 1888 struggle against slavery
AD1815 British occupation of Melaka
AD1819 British occupation of Temasek; Singapura
AD1874 British intervention in Kerajaan Melayu
AD1898 America took Cuba and Filipinas from Spain
AD1906 Langkasuka buried; Britain-Siam divide-and-rule treaty
AD1917 Power to the people in Russia; USSR
AD1918 World War 1
AD1942 World War 2; Japanese occupation of our land
AD1945 Malays let British colonialists reoccupy their home
AD1945 America returned the Philippines; rebellion since 1898
AD1945 to 1949 Indonesia's triumph driving away Dutch occupiers
AD1947 Mahatma Ghandi and India's jab at colonial British Raj
AD1948 State of emergency to counter our insurgency
AD1948 May 15 Arabs let Zionist immigrants rob Palestinian land
AD1949 Mao's mamoth march; China vs western imperialism
AD1954 7th May: Dien Bien Phu lifted our spirit
AD1957 31st August: our independence and sovereignty regained
AD1959 Castro and Cuba got rid of American puppets
AD1960 our end of emergency
AD1963 16th September: Malaysia formed; confrontation
AD1965 Singapore opted out of Malaysia
AD1965 American deployment of agent-orange and carpet-bombing on Vietnam
AD1966 End of confrontation by Indonesia and the Philippines
AD1967 ASEAN; EAG later?
AD1969 May 13: our racial riots that should never recur
AD1971 NEP our new economic policy to address imbalances
AD1973 29th March: Americans out of Vietnam
AD1974 Renewal of our relationship with China; in with NAM
AD1981 our Look East policy
AD1987 Asian finacial crisis
AD1990 End of apartheid in South Africa; still rabid in Israel
AD2000 Globalisation; neo-cons' neo-colonialism
AD2003 20th March Anglo-American crusade
AD2004 July warnings of HIV/AIDS epidemic
AD2005 US marines and killing frenzy in Selat Melaka?
governance of gangsters
on board with US=Israel
Did hardened zionists not plan and execute myths of al-Q and JI
and killings of 911 in New York and 1012 in Bali
and wars of terror against Islamic states?
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