Just a quick heads up, Gerak Budaya are hosting an event this weekend that's always been very intriguing for me: A People’s History of the Malayan Emergency.
Date: 27 - 29 July 2018
Time: A fair bit of the day
Venue: KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall
Entry is free.
More details on Facebook.
Hats off to those of you who attend every single programme, but I think I am going to pick just a few.
The obvious question that has been bandied about is should we rewrite our textbooks -- what we glean from this will help us make an informed decision.
See you there!
MCP helped to speed up Malayan independence. The British handed over political
ReplyDeletepower to conservatives of the UMNO-MCA-MIC Alliance in 1957.
But we democrats should not follow the local hard Left and glamourise them (especially the
top MCP cadres ).
I agree there is no point in glamourising them as they had their faults too; one of them being that they stopped a train from Singapore to KL, lined up some choice passengers in a row and had them shot. One of them was my grandfather. My mother was just over one year old when that happened.
ReplyDeleteBut I think we need to know the facts, our history and be able to analyse the situation for ourselves.