Mahathir and his ‘my version of history’

By MT Webmaster Last updated May 19, 2016

And Mahathir is now the man who is supposed to save Malaysia, and is now the de facto opposition leader, and is going to join DAP and contest the Kuala Kangsar by-election as Pakatan Harapan’s candidate. These DAP leaders should suffer the same fate as what the Chinese-based Communist Party of Malaya did to the Japanese ‘running dogs’.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

DAP has proposed that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad be fielded as the candidate for the Kuala Kangsar by-election, saying that the old man would probably be able to win that seat. Does that mean they are so short of candidates that they need to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find a candidate?

And will Mahathir be contesting as a DAP member or an Amanah member? I doubt Mahathir would lower himself by joining Amanah and PKR, for sure, will not take Mahathir as its member — unless Azmin Ali wants to defy Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and admit Mahathir as a member. But then Azmin would still need the PKR supreme council to approve Mahathir’s membership, which I do not see that happening.

This can only mean Mahathir will have to become a DAP member and DAP will accept Mahathir as a member since they are the ones proposing that Mahathir contest the Kuala Kangsar by-election. DAP hopes that once Mahathir joins their party then they can garner the support of the young Malays who do not know Mahathir’s history and many of these young Malays would join DAP as members.

DAP wants to split the Malays and the video by ‘Superman’ proves this. DAP’s strategy, as revealed in that video, is to use the Malays to screw the Malays. And that is what they want to do in Kuala Kangsar. In short, DAP wants Mahathir to do what he did back in 1969 when he used the Malays to screw the Malays by triggering a race riot to topple the then Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman.

DAP, therefore, would get Azmin to invite PAS to contest Kuala Kangsar (which is why DAP has thus far kept very quiet and has not said a word regarding Azmin’s invitation to PAS). And then Mahathir would contest as a DAP member and the Pakatan Harapan candidate. This will not only split the Malays but will split the Malay votes in Kuala Kangsar as well.

DAP knows that PKR is not able to split the Malays. PAS, however, can. So they need to play along with PAS even if PAS is not a member of Pakatan Harapan. And DAP can even work with the devil if it suits them, so tacitly working with PAS is no big deal (they did this in 1990 as well).

Basically, the end result would be that Mahathir will strengthen DAP and will help in getting more support from the young Malays while PKR and PAS will split the Malays. There is no other choice if DAP wants to stop depending on its partners such as PKR and Amanah for the Malay votes. This way DAP can ‘deal direct’ with the Malays and no longer through ‘middlemen’.

Last night, Mahathir said, “The party has brought much development to the country. As expected, they served the nation, and it progressed to a point where the people were better off than before independence. When the time came for them to go, they went. There were no riots to bring down the prime minister.”

I have read Chin Peng’s book titled ‘My side of history’. What makes this book very interesting is that it reports exactly what happened and relates all the events in history, as what the history books have recorded. However, it gives Chin Peng’s opposite interpretation to these same events.

(I will skip the details, though, or else this article is going to be too long).

Mahathir has his version of history as well. And if you have been following his speeches and talks over the last 35 years since 1981 then you will know that his side or his version of history is always twisted. And Malaysians born after 1980 most likely have very little understanding of events of the 1960s and 1970s and Mahathir’s role in those events.

And this is what DAP is hoping to capitalise on and the reason why they want Mahathir to join DAP and contest the Kuala Kangsar by-election as their candidate.

On 17th June 1969, Mahathir wrote this letter to Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman:

You have told me yourself that you had prevented riots by stopping the death sentence on 11 subversive Chinese. But it is this action of yours, which led to the riots and resulted in scores of deaths since May 13.

You have always compromised, giving in to the Chinese’s demands. The core of this compromise was revoking the abovementioned death sentence. This caused great anger among the Malays.

The Chinese consider you and the Alliance government cowardly and weak and could be pushed around. This is why the Chinese are no longer afraid to reject the Alliance and the Malays also do not favour it.

This is why the Chinese and Indians behaved rudely towards the Malays.

So there you are — the Mahathir who DAP wants as its member and as its candidate to contest the Kuala Kangsar by election is a downright racist and Chinese-hater.

And what was Tunku Abdul Rahman’s response?

He is an irresponsible man. He cares nothing for class, for law, for order, for the constitution. What suits him, he just does it.

You remember once he said that you must be loyal, you must not idolise the leader? But what did he do? He called everybody to parliament to swear allegiance to him. Now he is going round the country on a so-called campaign . . . campaign for what? To support him, not to support the party.

There is no law, no justice, no freedom of speech. Anybody who speaks out goes to prison. So he has got all the members of the opposition in prison.

This is what worries me and all the responsible citizens of this country, no matter what race they come from. We are all worried. The country is drained, dry, no more capital. People are saying in this country today, there are three big robbers – UMNO robs the bank, MCA robs the co-operative societies and MIC robs the highway.

There is no more democracy. You say anything, you are put in jail and you are not allowed to reply nor allowed to hold rallies to defend yourself. Only Mahathir can go from place to place to attack us.

They set up a dictatorship. To be a complete dictator, you’ve got to take control of everything. But the judiciary is still independent. There’s only one thing blocking his way, the independent judiciary. Now he wants to compromise that independence.

Yes, Bapa Merdeka or ‘the Father of Independence’ has said it very clearly long before many of you were born. Many of those born in the 1940s or 1950s will tell you the story of how May 13 happened and the role Mahathir played in that darkest period in Malaysian history. Is DAP trying to help Mahathir to rewrite the history of May 13?

Raja Petra Kamarudin RPK