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DECEMBER 1, 2019 BY SEADEMON

Dog Eat Dog

A parade of members of the Communist Party of Malaya

Perak-born Che Dat bin Anjang Abdullah, otherwise known as Abdullah CD, was
a top ranking member of the Communist Party of Malaya. He was once captured
during the early months of the First Emergency (1948-1960) in Pahang and was
sent to an internment camp in Melaka. As the camp was new, Abdullah CD and
other detainees were tasked as labourers to complete the construction of the
camp. There he met with a Malayan Civil Service official who was transferred to
the camp to supervise its construction. Abdullah CD became friendly with this
official and they frequently had casual talks. That night, Abdullah CD escaped.
He went on to form the 10th Regiment of the Communist Party of Malaya and
continued to wreak havoc until the Hat Yai Peace Agreement was signed on 2
December 1989.
When Dr Mahathir commented on the issue of Chin Peng’s ashes being brought
back to Malaysia he said that if the likes of Shamsiah Fakeh and Rashid Maidin
could be brought back home without any hassle, why can’t Chin Peng’s ashes be
brought back too? What could his ashes do? Mahathir is known for his display of
malingering amnesia, usually seen in people who fake amnesia to commit
insurance fraud or to avoid criminal punishment.

Shamsiah Fakeh joined the CPM after PKMM, API and AWAS were declared
illegal by the authorities. After eight years of struggle, she was ordered to go to
Beijing where she operated the Siaran Melayu Radio Beijing Antarabangsa,
otherwise known as Suara Revolusi Malaya (I used to listen to it over short wave
frequency when I was a teenager). In 1965, she was in Indonesia where she
formed the Malayan National Freedom League, when Suharto launched a coup
and Sukarno was deposed. As a result, Shamsiah Fakeh was arrested and spent
two years in prison.

She returned to China in 1967 to find that the CPM had split into three – the
CPM, the CPM Revolutioner and the CPM – Marxist Leninist. She and her
husband Ibrahim became strong critics of the CPM and were eventually
expelled from the organisation. This was probably one of the reasons that she
was brought back by the Prime Minister’s Research Department on 23 July
1994; psychologically she was already against the CPM. Who was the Prime
Minister who allowed her to return then?

Were Rashid Maidin and Abdullah CD allowed to return home as claimed by

Mahathir? The answer is no. However, they were granted visit passes as agreed
in the Hat Yai Agreement. Each time that they wanted to enter Malaysia to visit
relatives they would have to inform the police first and a pass would be issued to
them. Rashid Maidin died in Amphoe Si Sakhon, Changwat Narathiwat in
September 2006 while Abdullah CD still lives in Amphoe Sukhirin, Changwat
Narathiwat and is 96 years old. Who was the Prime Minister and Minister of
Home Affairs who denied them citizenship and a chance to return to Malaysia?

Remember how Abdullah CD escaped from an internment camp in Melaka after

speaking to the Malayan Civil Service supervisor? He would not have made it to
the apex of the CPM if he cannot convince people and turn them over. Chin Peng
was also good at psychological warfare.

It was in the mid-1980s when my father who was the Inspector-General of

Police asked Sarawak Police Commissioner Yuen Yuet Leng if it was a good time
to ask the CPM to surrender. Yuet Leng replied, “Sir, I believe the CPM is very
tired. If you give them a pillow, they will go to sleep.”

It was around this time that Abdullah CD wrote a letter to then Encik Ghafar
Baba asking to negotiate for peace. The police then assigned Rahim Noor who
was the Director of Special Branch then to handle the issue. The police asked
permission from Ghafar to assume his identity and correspond with Abdullah
CD. In the end, the CPM agreed to receive someone who would be in the
position to make decisions on behalf of the Malaysian government. For this, the
police extended the service of a Chinese police officer who was on the verge of
retirement (not Yuet Leng as the CPM knew him) to pose as this senior official.
This senior police officer was then brought to Mahathir’s office for a photo of
them together to be taken and shown to the CPM. The CPM took the bait and
allowed Rahim and the Chinese police officer to negotiate with them, with Yuet
Leng in the background advising.

Spending too much time with Chin Peng can make you sympathise with him
easily, just as Abdullah CD was with the MCS supervisor. One day Rahim came
to my father and asked if it would be okay for him to bring Chin Peng to speak
directly to Mahathir as how he had spoken directly with Tunku Abdul Rahman in
1955.
“Who is Chin Peng to speak to Mahathir? Tunku was not a Prime Minister when
Chin Peng spoke to him. Chin Peng is only at your level. That is why I sent you to
speak to him,” said my father to Rahim.

Judging by Rahim’s attempt to get Chin Peng to meet with Mahathir, and his
recent comment on the issue of the former’s ashes, it is of no surprise that
Rahim could be suffering from the Lima Syndrome which is the total opposite of
the Stockholm Syndrome. How can a former Inspector-General of Police who was
also a former Director of Special Branch have forgotten the sacrifices of the men
of the Royal Malaysian Police fighting with this monster? How could he, as the
Director of Special Branch, allowed himself to be used by Chin Peng?

And as for Mahathir the political chameleon, it is evident that in order to score
political points, he would say just about anything short of “come and lynch me”. It
never matters to him who died, who had lost a husband, sons, brothers be they
Malay, Chinese, Iban or Indian, fighting the communists, as long as he is seen
‘rationale’ in the eyes of those who had wanted Chin Peng back in this country.
The epitome of dog-eat-dog.

I only have one word to describe Mahathir and Rahim – disgusting.

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