'Stand by your promises on Chin Peng'

Honour your promises and don't try to milk the death of communist party leader Chin Peng for political mileage, a constitutional expert today told the Umno-BN government.

Abdul Aziz Bari said the government would lose its authority if Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Inspector-general of Police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar continued to vehemently oppose Chin Peng's final wishes for his ashes to be interned in Malaysia.

He reminded them that the 1989 ceasefire agreement between the government and the Communist Party of Malaysia (CPM) was signed by former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad, with their respective predecessors in tow.

"Stop manipulating the emotions of the army and police veterans. Just put up or shut up!" Abdul Aziz (right), a former professor at the International Islamic University of Malaysia said in a press statement.

Khalid had said all checkpoints are being watched to ensure that Chin Peng's body was not smuggled in as Chin Peng was responsible for the death of many police and army personnel during the Emergency.

"Khalid should just shut up or ask his own predecessor as to why the police agreed to sign the truce with the communists," Abdul Aziz retorted.
'Wrong to reject application'
Abdul Aziz said that with the signing of the 1989 document, Malaysia had tacitly recognised the communists.

"The court was wrong to reject Chin Peng's application to come back. The judges asked for documents to prove his citizenship, like a birth certificate. But they knew that it was during the height of emergency and Chin Peng - rightly or wrongly - was a fugitive," Abdul Aziz said.

He added that the court had asked the impossible from Chin Peng, who had fought British rule.

Noting that even some ex-Umno and BN leaders were also detained in the past for communist activities, Abdul Aziz said that the party should stop "demonising" communists and communism.



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No way Chin Peng’s remains can return to Malaysia, says former police chief Hanif

"We don't owe Chin Peng anything. He caused Malaysia and its people a lot of harm which resulted in more than 10,000 deaths and untold misery for the families of those who died," said former Inspector-General of Police Tun Hanif Omar (pic) in dismissing calls for the remains of the former Communist Party of Malaya leader to be brought back to Malaysia.

According to Hanif, Chin Peng and his followers had refused an offer to return to the country within a year of signing the peace accord in 1989.

"When Chin Peng finally applied in 2005 to return to Malaysia, the boat had sailed and there was absolutely no reason to admit him back into the country unless he could prove that he had applied to return within that one-year window, which he couldn't," Hanif told The Malaysian Insider in a text message yesterday.

The former IGP who served from 1974 to 1994 instead called for more focus on those who had fought and defeated Chin Peng and his party, insisting that the families of security personnel who fought the communists should be looked after.

"Chin Peng and his followers refused the chance we gave them to return to Malaysia in 1989 and 1990, so they should be left outside our country.

倾听人民对母语诉求，勿迫人民政府渐行渐远

保母语正义诉求，华裔无需惧怕表心声

华裔捍卫华教有理

魏家祥“焕然一新，大义灭亲，敢怒敢言！”

1.爱心基金会主席丹斯里彭茂燊赞赏拿督魏家祥，弥来频频挺身而出为优秀华裔莘莘学子争取国立大学学额，凸显他关心华裔子弟的前途。

2.他指出，魏家祥为民请命，倾全力协助华裔优秀生进入国立大学深造，展现他“忧国忧民”的爱国情操。

3.他发表文告说，尽管许多政治人物往往以“不在其位，不谋其政”的大道理来推卸责任，包括他们之前曾经作出的承诺，也烟消云散；不过魏家祥却“泱泱大度”地表现出他秉持“以民为本”的从政宗旨，体现“不入阁”的他仍然心系华裔学子。

4.鉴于魏家祥自1980年代末出道以来，即热衷于协助不得其门而入的华裔优秀生争取国立大学学额，因而累积了丰富的经验，因此彭茂燊期望魏家祥全力以赴协助华裔优秀生圆梦。

5.不过，彭茂燊感到纳闷的是，既然魏家祥为华裔优秀生争取国立大学学额的经验丰富，并担任副教育部长期间，华裔优秀生无法进入国立大学的问题，从魏家祥从政出道至今，依然年年发生。这不禁令人怀疑在位时不能解决，不在位时又如何解决？

6.彭茂燊说，基于有人批评魏家祥最近的言论宛如反对党议员在发言，并质疑他的诚意，因此魏家祥必须拿出成绩来，以证明他的确是为了华裔优秀生而据理力争，并不是为了即将来临的党选而争取支持。

7.他认为，魏家祥在505大选后，一反过去担任副部长时对政府施政“唯唯诺诺”的“当家不当政权”态度与形象，改以“大义灭亲”、“敢怒敢言”进谏政府政策的“焕然一新”英雄形象横空出世，诚属可喜可贺！

8.他表示欣赏魏家祥已“大彻大悟”及“觉今是而昨非”，并勉励他再接再厉，好好地干！

9.不过，他语重心长地提醒魏家祥，一旦党选成功“更上一层楼” 出任马华高职，并再度“入阁”，切勿忘记“没入阁”时对华社所作的承诺。