Beg your pardon, Mr DPM?

But your comments today are symptomatic of an administration which has a cavalier attitude towards the law and the sanctity of contracts. Is it any wonder why Malaysians have little faith in the enforcement and judicial arms of the government?

THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER

Beg your pardon, Mr Deputy Prime Minister, did we hear your correctly? No forgiving Chin Peng, you say?

Perhaps matters of the state, changing the education system’s medium of instruction back to Bahasa Malaysia and settling the issues of your ally, the MCA, has got you befuddled?

It isn’t really about Malaysia forgiving Chin Peng, the nom de guerre of one Mr Ong Boon Hua – Public Enemy Number One, secretary-general of the Communist Party of Malaya and holder of two British war medals.

The country is past that already. Chin Peng won’t be forgiven for waging war against Malaya, and subsequently Malaysia. Thousands of soldiers and civilians have died in the Emergency and he balked at surrendering at the 1955 Baling Talks with Tunku Abdul Rahman.

That is our history and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, you remember it well. As do most of us who read History in the Malaysian education system.

Be that as it may, this time allowing Chin Peng back to Malaysia is about legal obligations. It is about honouring the peace agreement signed in Hatyai on Dec 2, 1989. And the agreement reads that those who laid down their arms can return home.

Even one of the signatories on the Malaysian side, the former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Rahim Noor, had agreed to testify on Chin Peng’s behalf about provisions of the peace agreement. Therefore Chin Peng’s request is not unusual and within his right.

But your comments today are symptomatic of an administration which has a cavalier attitude towards the law and the sanctity of contracts. Is it any wonder why Malaysians have little faith in the enforcement and judicial arms of the government?

After all, your government can’t even honour an agreement made with its former enemies.

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