THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT MAY 13 Ex-Umno man defends DAP against May 13 charge

April 30, 2013 at 3:26 am Leave a comment

Ex-Umno man defends DAP against May 13 charge

Kuek Ser Kuang Keng 9:58AM Apr 30, 2013

JOHOR Ex-Umno strongman Mohd Tamrin Abdul Ghafar has become an unexpected ally in Pakatan Rakyats bid to counter the claim that DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang was behind the May 13 riots in 1969. The former Batu Berendam MP, who is also the second son of former deputy premier Abdul Ghafar Baba, has claimed that the incident was the outcome of a mini coup orchestrated by Umno leaders including Dr Mahathir Mohamad. What (then home minister Muhammad) Ghazali (Shafie,) told (PKR de facto leader) Anwar (Ibrahim) and me, when we were in Umno Youth, was that the incident was a mini coup planned by Umno men, and that Mahathir was involved, Tamrin said during two Pakatan ceramahs in Gelang Patah last night.

(First prime minister) Tunku (Abdul Rahman) wrote in his column As I See It in The Star two years before he passed away, that the incident was a deliberate seizure of power by Umno leaders who then blamed it on DAP and the Chinese. Lim Kit Siang is running in Gelang Patah, against incumbent Johor Menteri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman, in the hope of extending Pakatans 2008 political tsunami to Johor.

Tamrins disclosure supports the argument of academician Kua Kia Soong that the racial clash in 1969 was the result of a coup dtat by then deputy premier Abdul Razak Hussein against the Tunku, and that Mahathir supported it. Tamrin recalled that the Tunku had expelled Mahathir from Umno after the latter wrote an open letter calling for the Tunkus resignation after the riots. After the Tunku stepped down and Razak took over the premiership, he took Mahathir back into Umno and appointed him as education minister. This shows that Razak was grateful to Mahathir (for pressuring the Tunku to step down), he explained, adding that Kit Siang (left) was not in Kuala Lumpur during the clashes. He said the continued reference to the incident by Umno, in order to frighten Malay voters, indicates that the BN is desperate. With anti-establishment sentiment growing rapidly among Chinese Johoreans to Pakatans apparent advantage, Umno has flashed the race card to consolidate its support among the Malay electorate in Johor. Its campaigners have been found distributing publicity material to Malay voters accusing DAP and Kit Siang of causing the May 13 riots. To counter the charge, Pakatan has brought in several former Umno leaders including exlaw minister Zaid Ibrahim and former Selangor menteri besar Muhammad Muhammad Taib to defend DAP and Kit Siang.

Which is the racist party? Speaking at his first ceramah in Taman Skudai Indah, to a mixed crowd of 300, Tamrin contrasted the track record of DAP and MCA to prove that DAP is not a racist party. Since its formation in 1966, DAP has had more than 10,000 Malay, Indian and Punjabi members. During its first party polls, Daeng Ibrahim, a Malay leader, was elected as vicechairperson. Since the formation of the party up to the last general election, a total of 55 Malay candidates have contested parliamentary or state constituencies on the DAP ticket. However, Tamrin (left) noted, MCA has never allowed a single Malay or Indian to become its member since its formation in 1951. So which is the racist party? he asked. I have known Kit Siang since I became a MP in 1986 he has never gone against the rights of Malays. He has fought for the principle of a Malaysian Malaysia. How is that different from 1Malaysia? What is the difference? The difference is that Kit Siang is not corrupted. Tamrin urged the Malays to thank DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng (right), who had been jailed for three years after speaking out for a Malay minor who was allegedly raped by an Umno leader.

UMNO cetuskan tragedi 13 Mei?

KUALA KANGSAR Walaupun sejarah telah mencatatkan bahawa tragedi 13 Mei bermula daripada provokasi pembangkang, tetapi Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang dilihat cuba membela rakan sekutunya apabila menuduh UMNO mencetuskan rusuhan kaum pada 1969 itu. Dalam satu ceramah di Arena Square di sini malam tadi, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang mendakwa persengketaan antara kaum itu didalangi oleh UMNO untuk mengekalkan kuasanya. Pas pernah bekerjasama (dengan UMNO) dari 1970 hingga 1978 selepas 13 Mei, kita menyedari 13 Mei adalah provokasi yang dibuat oleh UMNO, kekacauan untuk mengekalkan kuasanya. (Tragedi) 13 Mei tidak berlaku di Kelantan, tidak berlaku di Terengganu dan tidak berlaku di Kedah. Kekacauan berlaku di Kuala Lumpur dan Pulau Pinang, negeri tempat BN perintah masa itu, katanya. Dalam ceramah yang dihadiri kira-kira 1,000 penyokong pembangkang itu, Abdul Hadi juga cuba menidakkan kebaikan Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) dengan mendakwa pendekatan itu sebagai tidak bijak. Ketika rakyat khususnya golongan berpendapatan rendah menyambut baik pemberian BR1M, Abdul Hadi pula mendakwa kononnya bantuan itu bermotif politik. Abdul Hadi sekali lagi melemparkan tohmahan apabila menyatakan kononnya BR1M hanya diberi ketika dekat pilihan raya sedangkan kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) sudah menyalurkan bantuan itu sejak tahun lalu lagi. Peliknya, selepas memburuk-burukkan tindakan kerajaan menyalurkan BR1M, Abdul Hadi mengalu-alukan orang ramai untuk mengambil bantuan tersebut. Dia bagi BR1M, ambil. Itu duit kita tetapi kalau kita sudah kaya, bagi dekat orang miskin. Kalau tidak jumpa orang miskin, bagi dekat kami, kami buat bendera banyakbanyak, katanya. -utusan.com

13 Mei angkara Dr M mahu rampas kuasa Tunku - Tamrin

Abdul Aziz Mustafa,

30 Apr 2013

JOHOR BAHRU: Rusuhan kaum 13 Mei berpunca dari percubaan untuk merampas kuasa dari Tunku Abdul Rahman yang dilakukan oleh pemimpin-pemimpin Umno termasuk Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, kata Tamrin Tun Ghafar (gambar). Anak bekas Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tun Ghafar Baba itu berkata, perkara tersebut diberitahu sendiri kepada beliau dan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim oleh bekas Menteri Dalam Negeri, Tun Ghazali Shafie. (Menteri Dalam Negeri ketika itu) Ghazali (Shafie) memberitahu Anwar (Ibrahim) dan saya, ketika kami berada dalam Pemuda Umno, bahawa kejadian itu adalah percubaan kecil untuk merampas kuasa yang dirancang pemimpin-pemimpin Umno dan Mahathir turut terlibat, kata Tamrin dalam ceramahnya di Gelang Patah malam tadi. "Tunku telah menulis dalam kolum As I See It dalam akhbar The Star, dua tahun sebelum beliau meninggal dunia, bahawa kejadian itu adalah percubaan merampas kuasa yang sengaja dilakukan pemimpin-pemimpin Umno yang kemudiannya menyalahkan DAP dan Cina," katanya lagi.

(Tun Ghafar dan Tunku Abdul Rahman) Pendedahan Tamrin itu sama dengan apa yang didapati oleh hasil kajian Pengarah Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram), Dr Kua Kia Soong tentang peristiwa berdarah 13 Mei itu. Menurut Dr Kua, peristiwa 13 Mei adalah akibat dari percubaan merampas kuasa dari Tunku yang dilakukan oleh Timbalan Perdana Menteri pada masa itu, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein yang turut disokong oleh Dr Mahathir. Tamrin seterusnya menceritakan, Tunku telah mengusir Dr Mahathir dari Umno kerana menulis surat menuntut Tunku meletak jawatan selepas rusuhan itu. "Selepas Tunku berundur dan Razak mengambil alih jawatan Perdana Menteri, dia membawa Dr Mahathir masuk Umno semula dan melantiknya sebagai Menteri Pelajaran. "Perkara itu menunjukkan Razak terhutang budi kepada Dr Mahathir (kerana menuntut Tunku berundur)," kata beliau sambil menambah Lim Kit Siang tidak ada di Kuala Lumpur ketika rusuhan itu berlaku. Tamrin berkata, tindakan Umno menakut-nakutkan orang Melayu dengan peristiwa 13 Mei membuktikan parti itu begitu terdesak kini.

Hadi Awang dakwa 13 Mei provokasi Umno

28 Apr 2013 01:28pm

Gambar oleh: Mohd Nor Syafiq Safian Oleh Azizul Osman (azizul@abnxcess.com) KUALA KANGSAR Presiden Pas, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang membangkitkan tragedi 13 Mei dengan mendakwa ia adalah provokasi Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk mengekalkan kuasa di negara ini. Katanya Pas keluar daripada BN pada 1970 disebabkan oleh tindakan yang diambil kepimpinan BN pada masa itu untuk menimbulkan kekacauan pada tahun 1969. Ujar beliau kekacauan pada tarikh itu hanya berlaku di negeri-negeri di bawah BN seperti Kuala Lumpur dan Pulau Pinang. Mengapa tak boleh kerjasama dengan Umno? Tahun 70 Pas pernah kerjasama. Selepas 13 Mei Pas menyedari adalah provokasi yang dibuat oleh Umno kekacauan untuk mengekalkan kuasa dia, 13 Mei tidak berlaku di Kelantan tak berlaku di Terengganu tak berlaku di Kedah negeri yang kuat Pas. Kenyataan Hadi itu dibuat di hadapan lebih 5,000 penduduk Kuala Kangsar dalam majlis lawatan beliau ke Perak.

Sehubungan itu, katanya Pas bertindak mengadakan kerjasama dengan parti politik lain untuk membentuk kerajaan lain. Permuafakatan antara tiga parti pembangkang, katanya adalah sangat berbeza di mana masih mengekalkan identiti parti masing-masing. Kerjasama Pas dan DAP, kerjasama DAP dengan Pas bersama PKR tidak sama dengan BN. Kerjasama BN menghilangkan jati diri Umno , menghilangkan keperibadian MCA, menghilangkan kewibawaan orang India kerana dipengaruhi oleh politik wang politik menyeleweng , politik yang penuh dengan kepalsuaan dan kemungkaran. Beliau menegaskan mengikut ajaran Islam, ia membentuk golongan muslim untuk bekerjasama dengan bangsa lain tanpa mengira perbezaan agama. Hadir sama Pengerusi Pakatan Rakyat Perak, Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin.

Gerakan stalwart backs Hadis May 13 stand

May 1, 2013 at 12:34 pm Leave a comment

Gerakan stalwart backs Hadis May 13 stand

5:04PM May 1, 2013 A Gerakan veteran emerged today to back PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, who accused Umno of masterminding the May 13 racial riots in 1969.Hadi told a political rally in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, on Monday that the bloody racial riots 44 years ago were orchestrated by Umno to cling on to power. 8

May 13 was not an ethnic phenomenon. It was a political occurrence, former Gerakan leader Goh Cheng Teik told Malaysiakini. Only those who were members of Umno or associated with it were involved. PAS members had nothing to do with May 13. Goh, 70, who served as a deputy minister and a Penang executive councillor 25 years, had done extensive research on the riots when he was a lecturer at Universiti Malaya and published a book, The May Thirteenth Incident and Democracy in Malaysia, in 1971. He joined politics three years later and was appointed parliamentary secretary to then prime minister Abdul Razak Hussein. According to Goh, the riots in Kuala Lumpur started even before the counter-procession was held by Umno in response to opposition victory marches in the wake of the unprecedented gains by PAS, DAP and Gerakan in the 1969 general election. Members, supporters and well-wishers of a ruling party that prides itself in upholding the rule of law rioted before the start of a victory procession in front of the official residence of the state chief minister, he said. A day of shame and sorrow Goh still believes there was no need for the nationwide declaration of the State of Emergency as the violence was localised, much like the recent militant incursion into Lahad Datu in Sabah, and argued that the riots were mostly politically-driven. That is why the disturbances were not national in character, according to (then prime minister) Tunku Abdul Rahman, but virtually confined to Kuala Lumpur. No serious breach of the peace or act of violence took place in any other part of Peninsular Malaysia on or after May 13. The declaration of Emergency paved the way for the suspension of Parliament. Goh, who holds the distinction of being Malaysias first Harvard scholar, is currently an adjunct professor with Sunway University. Asked why he was speaking out on the issue now, he said young people today should know the truth behind May 13, an issue repeatedly raised in the ongoing campaign for Sundays general election.

May 13 was not a day of glory for Malaysians. It was a day of shame and sorrow, lamented Goh.

Explain your role in May 13, Kit Siang to Dr M

April 30, 2013 at 5:50 pm Leave a comment K Pragalath | April 30, 2013 Picking on Thamrin Ghaffars allegation, the DAP stalwart tells the former premier to clear the air. VIDEO INSIDE

KUALA LUMPUR: DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang today alluded that former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad is one of those behind the May 13 racial riots. Yesterday during two ceramah in Johor, former deputy prime minister Ghafar Babas son Thamrin revealed that the May 13 was due to a mini-coup by a group of men in Umno to topple Tunku [Abdul Rahman]. Former foreign minister Ghazali Shafie in the 1980s said that Mahathir was involved. This shows that I am not involved in the May 13 incident. I was not even in KL from May 11 to 13, 1969. I was in Sabah, he said during a press conference at the DAP headquarters. Lim also urged Mahathir to clear the air on Thamrins revelation. On the same note, the DAP leader took a swipe at Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak for reminding the people of this lie Lims involvement. They even have a candidate who keeps saying this lie in and out of Parliament Zulkifli Noordin. Najib is saying 1Malaysia but he is dividing the people, he said.

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Lim is also disappointed that BN is playing the race and religion cards against him. There are rumours that I am anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Malay monarchs. These are all lies. This shows Najibs insincerity in signing the Transparency International Malaysias integrity pledge, he said.

TAMRINS VIDEO CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uI7xB3d2rNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9Dbu0fxSRuk (The above may have been blocked or censored) TUNKUS OWN WORDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOh3rszJ3sk

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