Monday, September 16, 2013

chin peng once a hero cpm took it away



Ong Boon Hua aka Chin Peng borrowed malaysiakini.com






Ong Boon Hua passed away
In Bangkok on Malaysia Day
Chin Peng once a hero
Fighting the British and Japanese for independence

He was the secretary general of CPM
Fighting the Malaysian forces and police
When terms were squeezed by the Alliance
With it his deeds were forgotten

Bee Anne government signed the peaceful agreement
Allowing the CPM members to return and lay down arms
Rashid Mydin and Shamsiah Fakeh allowed to return
Chin Peng was forever banned from returning home

It could be his skin colour and his ideology
But Bee Anne broke the agreement with him
When the document was sealed and delivered
Chin Peng was thrown aside without a glance
He fought through courts
The judges never found in his favour
The judges never looked into the peace agreement?
It was just the way Bee Anne wanted it

He was an old man
In his twilight year to return
Amno leaders refused to let him
Even the police and army officers did the same

They don't honour the agreement
The sins of the past, today and tomorrow
Sadly they allowed dead Malaysian terrorists to bury here
Killing innocent lives in Indonesia




The honour of agreement
The Bee Anne government ignored
The hero of the premerdeka years
The history has accorded his exploits

Fighting the British and Japanese soldiers
In those years to gain independence for the nation
Chin Peng and his party members hit and ran
The tactics of war killing some losing some too

During the time fighting with Malaysian forces
Chin Peng and his gang became the outcasts of the nation
Many had suffered in his hands and his soldiers
When his party was outlawed by Britain and Malaysia

Those were the years
The emergency came and gone
The death tolls and suffering
Both sides paid the price

The peaceful agreement inked in 1989
Brokered by the Thailand signed in Haadyai
Chin Peng comrades allowed to return home
But Chin Peng was an outcast throughout his life

He died on Malaysia Day
He lived his colourful life to the end
Narrated a book about his life
Once a hero until CPM took it away


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