UMNO Subjugation & Suppression Policy

Ever since the May 13, 1969 racial riot, Malaysia has never been the same. The aftermath saw the formation of the National Operation Council headed by our late PM Tun Abdul Razak who was then the Deputy PM to Allahyaham YAM Tunku Abdul Rahman.

When Tunku appeared on TV in the evening of 13 May, 1969, he was in tears when he announced that the racial riot had broken out. His dreams to turn Malaysia into a peaceful and harmonious country was completely shattered. Never did the Tunku at any point in time ever expect that a racial riot would happen or take place in the country. All the while he thought that the people and the leaders of the Alliance were happy, tolerant and were prepared in concert to work together towards a better tomorrow for the people's children and children's children. That was his main reason to struggle for Merdeka.

I remember a curfew was soon proclaimed. The military was having a field day shooting those who broke the curfew. Many innocent died and property was gutted in fire in and around Kampung Baru. Numerous vehicles were overturned and torched. Corpses were seen lying the streets around the Chow Kit and Ipoh Road area as well as spotted flowing down the Klang River.

An analysis of the cause of the riot was conducted and much blame was attributed to the opposition party for its unruly it over jubilant victory procession which provoked the Malays and those supporters for the Alliance Coalition.

The British colonialist was blamed for its divide and rule policy with respect to vocation - Malays relegated to the padi fields and farms, Indians to the mines and railways while the Chinese to the business sector. As a result, the Malays remain subjugated and impverished.

The NEP was propounded with a view to eradicate poverty and address the economic imbalance among the Malays. The objectives of the NEP were noble but somehow in the course of three decades or so, UMNO became avaricious and found out that wealth was so easily realised through the corruption path. They found that majority of the Malays were poor and were unable to compete with the other races. Hence, many give-away policies were fomulated to help the Malays succeed in business, in education, in loans and scholarships, in lowering the entrance criteria for entry into public universities, issuance of APs, conception of GLCs and secured control in practically all the sectors of business, industries, civil, police, military. para-military and essential service sectors. Then, the non-Malay organisations were forced to offer 30% of their corporate equities to the Malays; many of the government services were privatised into the hands of the UMNO cronies. In addition, projects were proffered to the Malays without tender being called. In an ruthless manner to address the corporate sector, successful non-Malay run companies and public companies were acquired through public funds.

While the above multi-pronged actions were taken, the UMNOputras made use of Islam to control the Malay masses by introducing policies to compel compliance through punitive intimidation. Meanwhile, the islamisation and malayisation processes came into play. Many unkoranic policies and practices were introduced so that many found little space for exercising their freedom and rights as enshrined int the constitution. This mainly caused many Malays who graduated from abroad to stay back and refuse to return to serve the Government. Many did not even pay back their loans.

UMNO now try at all cost to maintain and perpetuate its power base as long as it is possible to govern the country. It must have realised without which, the leaders and cronies will not be able to gain access into plundering, siphoning and squandering the country resources.

The NEP has failed miserably because UMNO has failed to implement the main thrust of the NEP fairly, objectively and equitably. There is nobody to blame except the standtofish and corrupt UMNO leadership.

Power. UMNO has, abuse of which is and has been profusely blatant to the point of corruption. It makes use of all GLCs and national resources to corrupt the Malay masses by giving them the impression that without UMNO, they would lose everything.

Now some of the UMNO lackeys are now advocating Ketuanan Melayu and calling the other races pendatang and trying to justify their legitimacy to be the princes of the soil and robbing the resources of the country at their whims and fancies. It relaxes the importation of Indonesians, Bangladeshis and those from the middle east countries by the millions with a view to dilute the demographic ratio of the non-malays in the country. There were granted PR and given the blue identity cards. This practice is indeed "traitorous" and "anti-national".

The only way out now for UMNO is to subjugate the opposition and those who support the opposition parties through the draconian ISA. Besides, they apply the suppression strategy to the Malays through stiffer religious regulations and practices to leave Islam. Besides, it makes apostasy a crime for all other religions attempting to convert muslims away from Islam.

Subjugation and suppression cannot last for long. The truth must come out and the people must be set free to determine their lives. UMNO will continue to suppress the non-Malays through its discrimatory social economic policies. It will continue to stall the thousands of non-Malay applications for citizenship and permanent residency status. They will continue to discriminate the non-Malays from pursuing their desired courses in the public universities, the award of scholarships or study loans, employment promotional prospect in the civil, police and miliary services, business opportunities and government projects. It will rather give the projects to foreign companies than to local non-Malay firms who have the capabilites and competencies.

Let us see what wil happen to UMNO. The people must be prepared to effect a change of government. Look at Penang, Kelantan and Selangor and see what the Pakatan Rakyat have acheived during their terms of office.

Let us gauge the PR performance before casting our votes wisely.