FAP Erects Memorial On "Fight Against Commies" While Bedding PRC Commie Army

[h=1]TWO MEMORIALS TO BE ERECTED TO REMEMBER FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISTS AND KONFRONTASI[/h]


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Lawrence Wong, the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, unveiled in Parliament yesterday that there would be 2 new memorials put up at Esplanade Park to commemorate the fight against communists and the Konfrontasi.
Explaining why they were going to be putting up the memorials, Mr Wong said that it is important to have tangible landmarks so that the younger and future generations can understand how the country got to where is it today.
The marker will be placed along Queen Elizabeth Walk and will be unveiled on December 8.
Mr Wong highlighted that the location of one of the memorials is near the Cenotaph, the Lim Bo Seng Memorial, the Tan Kim Seng Fountain and other historical memorials.
The other memorial about the Konfrontasi will be placed on Dhoby Ghaut Lawn opposite MacDonald House which was bombed on March 10 1965. This day, Mr Wong explained, is remembered by many as “the darkest day of Konfrontasi” a bomb planted by two Indonesians killed 3 civilians and injured another 33.
Former President S R Nathan will be the guest of honour at the event on December 8[SUP]th[/SUP] to unveil the markers
Mr Wong said that the two markers are strongly supported by both the community and the Government.
"As Singapore prepares to celebrate 50 years of independence next year, it is important to reflect on our collective past, and the struggles that we underwent to build today's safe, secure and prosperous Singapore," he said. "The Government and the people must continue to work together to instil in all of us, especially the younger generation, an awareness of the history that underpins our shared identity as a nation."







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However, despite his claim that there is community support for the markers, this is actually the first time that most of the public have even heard of the plans to put the memorials down.
How could there be a lot of “community support” without knowledge of the memorials in the first place.
There is at least some disagreement from prominent filmmaker on political and social issues, Martyn See, who highlighted in a Facebook post that commemorating the “fight against communists” and glorifying it is also ignoring the ugly acts committed by the Singapore government and the British in Singapore during that time:

Mr See also highlighted several facts about history which are conveniently glossed over by the government:


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[h=1]TWO MEMORIALS TO BE ERECTED TO REMEMBER FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISTS AND KONFRONTASI[/h]


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Lawrence Wong, the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, unveiled in Parliament yesterday that there would be 2 new memorials put up at Esplanade Park to commemorate the fight against communists and the Konfrontasi.

Explaining why they were going to be putting up the memorials, Mr Wong said that it is important to have tangible landmarks so that the younger and future generations can understand how the country got to where is it today.

The marker will be placed along Queen Elizabeth Walk and will be unveiled on December 8.

Mr Wong highlighted that the location of one of the memorials is near the Cenotaph, the Lim Bo Seng Memorial, the Tan Kim Seng Fountain and other historical memorials.

The other memorial about the Konfrontasi will be placed on Dhoby Ghaut Lawn opposite MacDonald House which was bombed on March 10 1965. This day, Mr Wong explained, is remembered by many as “the darkest day of Konfrontasi” a bomb planted by two Indonesians killed 3 civilians and injured another 33.

Former President S R Nathan will be the guest of honour at the event on December 8[SUP]th[/SUP] to unveil the markers

Mr Wong said that the two markers are strongly supported by both the community and the Government.

"As Singapore prepares to celebrate 50 years of independence next year, it is important to reflect on our collective past, and the struggles that we underwent to build today's safe, secure and prosperous Singapore," he said. "The Government and the people must continue to work together to instil in all of us, especially the younger generation, an awareness of the history that underpins our shared identity as a nation."








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However, despite his claim that there is community support for the markers, this is actually the first time that most of the public have even heard of the plans to put the memorials down.

How could there be a lot of “community support” without knowledge of the memorials in the first place.

There is at least some disagreement from prominent filmmaker on political and social issues, Martyn See, who highlighted in a Facebook post that commemorating the “fight against communists” and glorifying it is also ignoring the ugly acts committed by the Singapore government and the British in Singapore during that time:



Mr See also highlighted several facts about history which are conveniently glossed over by the government:


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[h=1]New documents reveal cover-up of 1948 British 'massacre' of villagers in Malaya[/h]Foreign Office intervened to halt an investigation in the 1990s by Malaysian authorities into the deaths of 24 unarmed villagers

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Communist prisoners are held during the Malaya emergency of the late 1940s. Photograph: Jack Birns/Time & Life Pictures


The Foreign Office intervened to stop a criminal investigation into the alleged massacre of 24 unarmed villagers by British troops, in a cover-up that puts Britain's colonial past under renewed scrutiny. Newly disclosed documents reveal that in the 1990s UK officials pressured Malaysian authorities into aborting a police inquiry into the alleged killings by Scots Guards in Malaya in 1948.

They reveal that Malaysian police officers contacted Interpol and were due to visit the UK in 1993 to interview soldiers involved in the shootings, only for the Foreign Office to pressure the country's high commissioner into halting the visit. One memorandum states that senior Foreign Office officials later met Malaysian police chiefs to discuss closing the inquiry shortly before it was aborted.

The documents, released by Malaysian sources ahead of a judicial review related to the massacre, also reveal how a Metropolitan police investigation in 1970 into the allegations was "terminated" because an incoming Conservative government did not want the darker aspects of Britain's colonial past exposed.

The plantation workers were shot in cold blood by a 16-man patrol of Scots Guards in December 1948. Many of the victims' bodies were found to have been mutilated and their village of Batang Kali was burned to the ground. No weapons were found when the village was searched during a military operation against Chinese communists in the post-second world war Malayan emergency.

The British government has refused to apologise for the incident or offer reparations, and last November it said it would not hold a public inquiry into an incident that campaigners dub "Britain's My Lai massacre". A recent letter from Treasury solicitors indicates that the government is not prepared to discuss whether the killings were lawful or not.

News of the suppressed investigations follows last week's disclosure of government reports in the high court revealing the extent of British brutality during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya.

Four Kenyans who allege that rebels were sexually abused, castrated and beaten while detained under colonial rule in the 1950s will continue their claim for compensation this week.

A separate legal challenge over allegations of colonial brutality will shortly commence, with the Bindmans law firm launching a judicial review over the government's refusal to hold an independent inquiry into the Malaysian killings.
The case is being brought on behalf of four survivors, including one whose father was allegedly beheaded. The government's refusal to reopen the matter has provoked claims that it is carrying on a cover-up that has lasted more than half a century.

Documents released by Tan Kai Hee, founder of the Action Committee Condemning the Batang Kali Massacre, also show that the lead investigating officer in the 1970 Scotland Yard inquiry, Detective Chief Superintendent Frank Williams, had major concerns "over a political aspect to the case".

The defence secretary, Denis Healey, had instructed the Met to investigate the incident and arranged for Williams to travel to Malaysia to interview other witnesses and disinter the bodies for forensic examination.
However, the inquiry was abruptly stopped. Previously unreleased documents citing Williams's investigation state: "It was patently clear that the decision to terminate inquiries in the middle of the investigation was due to a political change of view when the new Conservative government came into office."

Author Ian Ward, who wrote an account of the massacre, Slaughter and Deception at Batang Kali, said: "Personally I was appalled at the cover-up that was instituted and has been systematically renewed year after year since it occurred."
Speaking from Malaysia, Ward said that, since his book was published in 2009, he had obtained notes of a 1994 meeting between two senior Foreign Office officials and a police chief in Malaysia during which they discuss winding up the investigation.

The four Malaysians represented by Bindmans are Loh Ah Choi, who was seven at the time and claims to have witnessed his uncle being shot dead; Lim Kok, whose father's corpse was allegedly beheaded by the soldiers; Chong Nyok Keyu, whose uncle was allegedly shot and killed; and Wooi Kum Thai, whose father was also killed.

John Halford, a partner at Bindmans, said: "This case is all about questions which, when they are finally answered, will bring about accountability for a massacre that was as immoral as it was unlawful. For six decades successive governments have gone to extraordinary lengths to evade answering these questions."

A letter seen by the Observer reveals that the government is threatening the four claimants with legal costs of up to £100,000 if the quest for an inquiry fails. "Many will question whether that is something a government with nothing to hide and confidence these killings were legal would resort to," said Halford.

Tan Kai Hee said the British government's decision to refuse a public inquiry into the allegations had left him shocked and deeply disappointed. He added: "Many of us had believed for much of our lives that Britain stood for openness, fairness and honour. The current impasse is neither honourable nor moral."

The official British position maintains that the villagers were killed as they attempted a mass escape into the jungle, having been warned they would be shot if they tried. Some of the troops involved have, however, claimed that there was no escape attempt and that they were ordered to take the men out in groups and shoot them.

The original investigation, in December 1948, amounted to a "superficial cover-up", according to Halford. Conducted by the Malaya attorney-general, Sir Stafford Foster Sutton, it did not question any survivors or carry out forensic examinations. An undated memo records the attorney-general's view that there "was something to be said for public executions".

[h=2]A BRUTAL CONFLICT[/h]Three years after the end of the second world war, Commonwealth forces became embroiled in a bitter jungle war against a resolute army of Chinese communists whose attacks on industry and rubber-tree plantations threatened Britain's colonial interests.
At stake was control of the new Federation of Malaya, a patchwork of states on the Malayan peninsula which were then British colonies. The federation was the successor to British Malaya, the loosely described set of states that were brought under colonial control between the 18th and 20th centuries.
Had the guerrillas prevailed, Malaya would have become a communist republic, tied to China, but after 12 years of fighting the insurgency was defeated.
The British government classified the conflict as an "emergency", in deference to the British owners of Malaya's lucrative rubber plantations and tin mines, who were insured for losses from theft, but not for those incurred in wartime.
During the first five years alone, the British dropped 545,000 tons of bombs in 4,500 air strikes. More than 500 British personnel, including the high commissioner, Henry Gurney, 1,300 Malayan police and 3,000 civilians were killed. In addition, the British interned 34,000 people and sprayed hundreds of acres with defoliant.

What took them so long to erect this memorial? 50 years!!!

Not sincere leh!

When are they going to build the 3rd memorial for the fight against Sinkies? :oIo:

These guys are seriously losing the plot. Whose numbskull idea was this ? We spend good money paying these guys millions so that they can glorify themselves while supposedly preserving history ? In particular , the konfrantasi monument is a tit for tat. Jokowi will see it as an affront and a test. Nice going dudes.

British also used collaborators during the Emergency.....

sochi2014 said:

What took them so long to erect this memorial? 50 years!!!

Not sincere leh!

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How else for the PAP to haolian 50th anniversary of getting kicked out of Malaysia?

Troops of the Malayan Communist Party came from both Malaya and Singapore.....

The Malayan Communists were allied to the British in their fight against the Japanese in the jungles of Malaya. They turned against each other after World War 2.

The British then handed Malaya to the Malays of UMNO, playing out the Chinese wholesale...... ( Ironically, many Malays were Jap supporters during WW2)