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MIC Youth & Simpang Renggam – do they have the clout? ; Mahathir – Kg Medan War Criminal?

Re: Tun Mahathir – see the Police Watch statement questioning his credibility to lead a War Crimes Commission. They quoted an IHT article which young fellas like me found new and disturbing.

The Star carries MIC Youth chief SA Vigneswaran’s plea to the police to stop using the Emergency Ordinance to send Indian’s to Simpang Renggam. [...]

Selamat Hari Raya! (and today’s NST)

Selamat Hari Raya al-Adha!!

Sorry for the late greeting, hope it’s turning out well for all!
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Guess it’s a tough one for flood victims though :(

I think at this point, I will discontinue updating my original flood post, and try to blog about developments as they occur.
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It’s not every day you’ll hear me urging you to get [...]

Abdullah blames it on us kids

NST -

“We need to identify our strengths and weaknesses. One weakness that we have is that the present generation does not share the spirit of independence.”

Abdullah said the young generation were like children born into wealth who could not understand their parents’ struggles because they had air-conditioned houses and were chauffeured around in big cars.

“Today, [...]

Ops Lalang Forum – Nov 6 ‘06, Najib Tun Razak’s keris wielding past

I attended a forum on Ops Lalang last night, and got a taste for pieces of history I’m still quite ignorant of.

The speakers were Dr. Kua Kia Soong, Sonia Randhawa, Sivarasa Rasiah and Lim Guan Eng.

Dr. Kua spoke first, and introduced an observation all speakers later concurred with – the correlation of an ISA arrest [...]

happy 49th, malaya; perjuangan belum tamat

Much has been said today, maybe I’ll only add this (hopefully not duplicating anyone).

Looked at one way, Merdeka can be thought to be a rather colonial-centric celebration, much like the academic discipline of post-colonialism.

Granted, born over 20 years after the fact, I am in quite a position to take for granted the freedoms that came [...]

education; history, communists, loans, language, non-bumis. phew.

In today’s NST:

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said Malaysians should learn about both good and bad events in the country’s past to understand the proper context of why the events happened, and why certain decisions were made.

I couldn’t agree more DS. I’m not sure we would agree as to the reasons behind every [...]

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