Secondary 1 student reveals: Sinkie gabrament and SCM have been spreading lies

You don't have to be a rocket scientist or President Scorer to be able to tell that the Sinkie gabrament and the SCM (state-controlled media) have been distorting Sink-a-pore's history.

A 13-year-old student's letter to the Forum, The Straits Times, March 4, 2015, page A25, debunks the popular but fabricated story that Sinkieland was a sleepy village pre-Raffles' time.

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Old Singapore not a sleepy village

Based on my research, Singapore was not a sleepy village before the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819.

The oldest recorded map of Singapore, created by Johannes Theodore de Bry an dated 1607, depicts a naval battle in our waters between Dutch Vice-Admiral Jakob Pietersz Enkhuisen and Portuguese Captain Estevao Teixeira de Matos.

This shows that it was definitely not peaceful then.

Another bit of evidence would be the 14th-century gold armlets and rings--in East Javanese style--found at Fort Canning Hill, which prove there were probably Javanese traders who made stopovers here.

The 15th-century Malay Annals, which is the only available account of the history of the Malay Sultanate, claims Singapura was a thriving trading port under Sang Nila Utama.

Amid the SG50 celebrations, let us take time to appreciate how Singapore has come to prosper, and let us study its roots more.

Liyana Afiqah Modh Faizal, 13,
Secondary 1 student

who actually believe in the fishing village bullshit?

well, many ball-less sinkies who only follow signboard and rules without using their brain do so..

i wonder if they have a brain to begin with..

well done!

this is a Malay writer and he or she is sponsored by USA or Israel to destablize PAP government

this is simple. from Raffles point of view. the so-called thriving trading port under Sang Nila Utama was just a sleepy village.

Precisely. Just as the 1987 'Marxist Conspiracy' was a US funded Catholic Church plot to violently overthrow the PAPzi government.

gingerlyn said:

this is a Malay writer and he or she is sponsored by USA or Israel to destablize PAP government

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I came across this article on that naval incident in The Diplomat. Here it is below.

Singapore's history indeed goes further back than what has been popularised. I grew up in Bedok, Mata Ikan to be exact. It was a largely Malay settlement and it was there that I came to know that Malays are quite a diverse lot. They comprise of Javanese, Bugis, Boyanese, Sundanese, and a host of other tribes. Many have relatives in Bintan, Palembang, Sulawesi and there were even warring factions among them years ago. If history were a bigger subject (than what we were taught), there would be volumes of chapters to be studied, different architectural styles, boat/shipbuilding styles. What is known about the region is very little. History would be a great subject here actually. Too bad its been focused on more recent "political" achievements by one man.

Cheers!


http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/the-one-moment-in-singapores-history-you-should-know-about/

The One Moment in Singapore’s History You Should Know About

As the nation marks its 50th anniversary, here’s one moment we should all reflect on.

By Prashanth Parameswaran
March 03, 2015

As Singapore celebrates the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence this year, there has been a lot of emphasis on reflecting on the past. For instance, the Institute of Policy Studies conducted a survey which revealed some interesting things about which domestic events Singaporeans remember (and, more interestingly, don’t remember) in their history.
But there is one important global moment that Singaporeans – and the international community more generally – should remember this year. On February 25, 1603, in the midst of the Eighty Years’ War, ships commanded by Jacob van Heemskerk of the Dutch East India Company seized the Santa Catarina, a Portugese merchant ship, without explicit authorization to do so. To defend the seizure, the Dutch hired a 26-year old lawyer named Hugo Grotius (yes, that Hugo Grotius), who astutely claimed that it was a legitimate challenge to Portugal’s monopoly on commerce with Asia.
The rest, as they say, is history. His idea of the freedom of the seas, which he elucidated in Mare Liberum (Free Sea) was subsequently enshrined in the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). And while it is difficult to summarize his overall influence on the direction of international law (and other fields as well, including international relations, political theory and philosophy), the fact that the term “Grotian Moment” is used by some today to describe “a paradigm-shifting development in which new rules and doctrines of customary international law emerge with unusual rapidity and acceptance,” should give you an idea.
Today, many people have at least encountered Grotius in passing, and some may know the background to his emergence. But as Navin Rajagobal wrote in an opinion piece for The Straits Times last week commemorating the 412th anniversary of the sinking, few – including many Singaporeans – are aware of Singapore’s role in this major event. As Rajagobal notes, the incident happened off Singapore’s upper east coast, near Changi, where the Santa Catarina was anchored after sailing from Macau to Malacca. Furthermore, Johor-Riau, the local authority at the time, played an important role in helping van Heemskerk seize the Santa Catarina as many of them had fled the Portugese conquest of Malacca in 1511. This is not just a historical footnote: the Dutch alliance with the local authority was a major part of Grotius’ legal justification because he claimed that van Heemskerk was not a pirate but an agent of Johor-Riau.
The Grotian moment also has broader significance for Singapore and the international community as well. Today, his Mare Liberum (Free Sea), along with the counterarguments it inspired (most pointedly Mare Clausum (Enclosed Sea) by John Selden in 1635) inform the current discussions we have on territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea. As Rajagobal notes, China’s ‘nine-dashed lines’ map might be construed by some as more in line with the mare clausum principles that the Portugese favored in the 1600s rather than the mare liberum principles championed by Grotius. History may not repeat itself, Mark Twain is said to have once noted, but it sure does rhyme.

dun mix up sleepy village wif fishy village ...

a fishy village may not b sleepy n vice versa ...

po2wq said:

dun mix up sleepy village wif fishy village ...

a fishy village may not b sleepy n vice versa ...

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there's much old shit buried underneath fort canning.

http://www.worldoftemasek.com/index.php/article/archaeology

Come on fellas which island has no fishing activity so its obvious there are fishing villages every where not just Singapore the fact of the matter is that fishing is not the only activity that the vile pappies want you to believe, there are trade and commerce too. Fuck the PAP la.

Yes. I also discovered when I was in Sec 3 at Toh Tuck Secondary School.:o

Froggy said:

Come on fellas which island has no fishing activity so its obvious there are fishing villages every where not just Singapore the fact of the matter is that fishing is not the only activity that the vile pappies want you to believe, there are trade and commerce too. Fuck the PAP la.

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palembang dominated the archipelago 700 years ago, and temasek became temasick and reverted to a fishing village, with tiong trade and pirates moving to palembang. after the ming destroyed the tiong pirate colony at palembang, sumatran and javan chieftains took over. and one of their descendants rediscovered temasick and made it whole again. :p

tonychat said:

who actually believe in the fishing village bullshit?

well, many ball-less sinkies who only follow signboard and rules without using their brain do so..

i wonder if they have a brain to begin with..

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You must first believe that Singapore was originally a swamp or sleeping village, so the accomplishments of you-know-who could be magnified.


It's the same with religions e.g. Christianity. You must first acknowledge that you are sinful and have a sin nature and no good deeds will save you. Only then will you seek that 'salvation' from an external source.

The narrative of the premise is very important.

eatshitndie said:

palembang dominated the archipelago 700 years ago, and temasek became temasick and reverted to a fishing village, with tiong trade and pirates moving to palembang. after the ming destroyed the tiong pirate colony at palembang, sumatran and javan chieftains took over. and one of their descendants rediscovered temasick and made it whole again. :p

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The ah tiong pirate colony is led by 陈祖义？

This would be more believable were the writer not a malay for the simple reason that they will try to distort facts just to prove a point.

@rmadill0 said:

The ah tiong pirate colony is led by 陈祖义？

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yes, the pirate leader was 陳祖義, chen zuyi.