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