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Press Cutting – Why Chin Peng Failed In Malaya - By Dato Seri Yuen Yuet Leng
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Subject :Press Cutting – Why Chin Peng Failed in Malaya - By Dato Seri Yuen Yuet Leng
Published By : The Sun Weekend Newspaper
Location : Malaysia
Estimated Year : 2005
Media Type : Article
Source : Dato Seri Yuen Yuet Leng
Remark : A page from Dato Seri Yuen Yuet Leng’s album with an article entitled written by him, ‘Why Chin Peng failed in Malaya’ which appeared in the Sun Weekend Newspaper dated August 6th/7th 2005.
In the article Yuen views Chin Peng's efforts in creating a communist Malaya as a lost cause, for reasons not fully understood and realized by the rebel leader. It was his youthful idealism that first drove him to fight a cause that would prove futile in the end.
But Yuen contends that youthful idealism may not all be a bad thing. “ Chin Peng’s Book ‘My Side of the Story’ has stimulated some measure of romantism in the minds of our idealistic youth. Hopefully they will continue to nurture their idealism and work for society and not deviate into corruption, malpractices and misgovernence.”
Yuen expresses hope that the day will come when Malaysia will be more generous with our multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious background which will not oppose the legalising of an acceptable, restructured, Communist Party without violence, that no longer works on a premise that the end justifies the means.
Chin Peng had failed to understand and appreciate the complexities of multi-cultural Malaya. His war was planned on a China pattern; for the Chinese in China, designed by a Chinese mind; which made it totally unsuitable for a completely different Malayan environment.
To find out more about “My Side of History” (English Version), click here.
To find out more about “My Side of History” (Chinese Version), click here.
To read more about Dato’ Seri Yuen Yuet Leng, click here.
In the article Yuen views Chin Peng's efforts in creating a communist Malaya as a lost cause, for reasons not fully understood and realized by the rebel leader. It was his youthful idealism that first drove him to fight a cause that would prove futile in the end.
But Yuen contends that youthful idealism may not all be a bad thing. “ Chin Peng’s Book ‘My Side of the Story’ has stimulated some measure of romantism in the minds of our idealistic youth. Hopefully they will continue to nurture their idealism and work for society and not deviate into corruption, malpractices and misgovernence.”
Yuen expresses hope that the day will come when Malaysia will be more generous with our multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious background which will not oppose the legalising of an acceptable, restructured, Communist Party without violence, that no longer works on a premise that the end justifies the means.
Chin Peng had failed to understand and appreciate the complexities of multi-cultural Malaya. His war was planned on a China pattern; for the Chinese in China, designed by a Chinese mind; which made it totally unsuitable for a completely different Malayan environment.
To find out more about “My Side of History” (English Version), click here.
To find out more about “My Side of History” (Chinese Version), click here.
To read more about Dato’ Seri Yuen Yuet Leng, click here.
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