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absolutely skin problem,mas selamat is welcome but ching peng is NO NO.

well said, zaid!

can you imagine the mentality of our information minister and defence minister (and of course not forget PM) - just because some chinese agree that ching peng should be allowed to return, these stupid ministers said they are reviving communism. so very very stupid!

btw, let's say if it were kwong wah or sinchew that campaign aggressively against rashid maidin and shamsiah fakeh, they would be slammed as being racist or the home minister will give them warning, but since it is umno's utusan malaysia that did it, nothing will happen to utusan.

The enemy is within...........

Ehhhh....I thought UMNO is Public Enemy No 1?....Poor Chin Peng, you have been the scapegoat of the public dissatisfaction towards BN....Just bear with it...time will prevail the truth eventually.....

If there is any inclination to revive communisim, it is Bn who are pushing the rakyat to take up arm struggle after all else fail.

So why are they scared. If only they are sensitive to the on going in the country especially what happen in Perak.

If indeed Chin Peng has committed war crimes, let him return and face a war crime tribunal. Let all witnesses come forward to testify.This call to allow him to return is secondary and NOT a racialist call. Rashid and Shamsiah were allowed to return. Good.... but they should also be tried to acertain their involvement in any criminal act during the communist insurgency.
Reviving communism in Malaysia ? Most countries are giving it up - slowly. Soviet broke up. CHINA IS now the largest capitalist/communist country.The Maoist in Nepal gave it up. Cuba will soon turn capitalist when their archaic leaders die off. Vietnam is slowly but surely going capitalist. So what is this talk of Malaysia going communist ? Rubbish !
You can ALWAYS depend on UMNO to be RACIALIST ! Even a year after March 2008, UMNO has not change. It still depend on extreme racial support - not RAKYAT support .

Here we go again...UMNO is trying to be racist and create racial tension while MCA just keep quiet and being the "yes man" as usual...
Datuk Zaid ..y not join PR ASAP to fight the same good cause..

Inilah sekelompok manusia yang sifat dan perangainya lebih teruk dan kotor dari yahudi. Rejim yang ada sekarang pula lebih teruk dan kotor dari komunis. RELA itu bukankah boleh disamakan dengan 'red guard' zaman Mao Ze Dong dulu. Bukankah mereka itu mata dan telinga kerajaan.

Why can't Chin Peng come home when the other communist can? Is it because he's a Chinese?

Let bygones be bygones forever
We'll fall in love once again
So let's tell the world of our new love divine
Forever and ever you'll be mine ...

Forever and ever, my heart will be true
Sweetheart forever, I'll wait for you
We both made a promise that we'll never part
Let's seal it with a kiss forever, my sweetheart.

According to the refrain of the song, while mindfully and painfully aware of the past, let us just move forward with forgiveness. The past is the past and nothing we can do will ever change this.

We must command the wisdom to show and shower human kindness to the vanguished.

If the Barisan Nasional expects the people to forgive the ruling coalition of its shortcomings, the Barisan Nasional must show and shower kindness when it is in a position to do so. In doing so, it will tell us that its "heart is true."

After all, what can a man in his late 80s do when he returns to Malaysia. As a wit once said, Chin Peng was never that smart. Had he been smart, the MPAJA will not come down from the mountains after the war to do what they did.

The MCP never had a game plan to take over Malaya. Fullstop.

Their struggle, if at all, was for Independence. They never had a game plan for post-Independent Malaya.

Hello, Inflammation Minister!

Nobody in his right mind in this age and generation wants to be a communist even though they are giving their views over this overblown issue.

Don't create ghosts when there is no ghost except like the Chinese says, "You see ghosts everywhere because there is one in your heart."

I think the Information Ministry is cursed with a jinx, why over the years there is no one capable and sensible minister, ever. After one ghost left, another takes over, (Sigh !)

Nothing sensible comes from the ministry except threats.....who wants to be a Communist nowadays? STOP BULLSHITTING ABOUT REVIVAL OF COMMUNISM !

Just some are sympathetic and arguing on humanitarian ground to allow the old man to return don't make them communists.

Our PM is visiting China soon, does it make him "sympathetic" to the Communism ideology?

No wonder some wise people said, "there is no cure for stupidity."

Thank Heavens, most Malaysians have matured faster compared to some of our medieval ghost-buster leaders from the BN. Clear the cobwebs in your mindset and you will see better. If not retire earlier.


I still think this ministry is a waste of taxpayers' money.

BN govt should STOP trade with China and BAN all travel to China ,including the PM!
Hypocrite!

“I wonder if Chin Peng were a Malay, would our stand and emotions be the same?” no need ask you know I know every malaysian even my six years old boy also know the answer

Communism will fail no matter in modern society and economy. It is applicable only to China which is now embracing and going towards capitalism more then ever.

For Malaysian Chinese, communism has no place in their capitalistic lifestyle now, so any attempt to paint racial content into Chin Peng would not hold water. BTW, Cuba & Russia are one chinese, so communism is definitely non racial.

The government should allow Chin Peng to return to Malaysia just to show the world that Malaysians are matured politically and is too strong in capitalism, and not afraid with one dreaming old man.

Typical UMNO.

"According to Rais Yatim and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi there is a new enemy — the group that wants to revive communism"

Hey you two, why is your boss going to meet with the communists in China? If communism is the most evil, like Rais said on TV, why bother trying to have greater ties with a country run by a communist party leadership? Two stupid morons living in the past !

That's why BN wants to keep Mat Selamat in Malaysia!

Right, what about Mas Selamat? Isn't he a cruel person? Why did the government allow him who is not even a Malaysia citizen to stay in Malaysia? Furthermore, he is young and capable of wreaking havoc if he gets away. This piece of junk should be sent back to Singapore without wasting the tax payers' money.

Why the double standard? I don't give a damn about Chin Peng. But I just can't stand the obvious hypocrisy of the ultra UMNO Malays. If Rais, Zahid, Abdul Rahman Sulaiman, and other UMNO goons so hate the communists, why don't you publicly declare your stand and stop any bilateral relationship with China...RIGHT NOW! This is the second time I dare you all. Yes, ban all business ventures of the Malay in China, too, if you will. Raise your Keris again and swear you will never waver to fight the communists (or actually the pork-eating Chinese) at all time.

Umno is obviously a racist party and it practises double standard.
Why don't allow Chin Peng to return when those Malay 'cruel' communist leaders have returned for years?
Let us give PKR the largest majority in our polling history to show our full support to PR!

This is good one....yet UMNO morons...won't understand it...pure double standard!

Chin Peng is no worst them many of the ministers that we now have. At least he believed in his cause and was prepared to die for it. He fought for the country's independence which was high jacked by Umno and the BN. Even SUPP was one time supported by many members who were of leftist learning. He is no worst than those who perpetrated the May 13 racial riot.

Well said. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Obviously UMNO is creating "Enemy of the State" to get Malay voters. It's a pitty that a seasoned and respected politician of Rais Yatim has gone so low. What happened to him?

The non Malays must now keep low profile and show them the colours when we cast our votes during the next general election.

As usual the government displaying their hypocrisy to the max. If the government is so anti-communist why are they doing business with China? Mind you China is still officially ruled by the communists. All I can say is that the government is showing its true face..the money face. Never mind that China is still a communist country run by the commies as long China is the largest economy in the world, UMNO/BN will want to do business and have guanxi with China. Hey, in fact if the richest country in the world is run by the devil, UMNO/BN will still want to do business with that country as long there is money to be made. That is UMNO/BN for you.

Zaid the people are sick and tired of UMNO politics. Their tone did not change for the last 50 years. They actually doesn't have any good idea to talk. I wonder these people know what is globalisation all about. Najib should send all his clowns in UMNO for globalisation training and shift in their pardigm. they think the rakyat are goons but in actual facts they are the one who are goons. ONly god can help them and nobody else.

I think Chin Peng has paid the price by serving a self exile.

At his age.. he would have come to learn to live and let live. If we Malaysians can forgive the Japanese for their atrocities during WW2, which was much worse then what CP has done. I

Just bcos, the bring money .. it is fine.

Also.. I believe that in any religion, it is always good to forgive. And as the ARMNO is such a goody goody follower of Islam, they should also learn to forgive. To learn to live and let live.

What is past is past. Communism by Marxist is over. Now is the age of COMMUNISIM by ARMNO is accepted!

Zaid, Malaysians need people like you to be our leader. I believe only leaders like you are able to bring Malaysia to progress as a developed nation by 2020. Rais and the likes are still stuck in 1970 mindset.

UMNO is worst than Communist!

Thats about right - another win-win comment from Rais! They are not very good politicians - lacks diplomacy, they forgot lots of Malaysians are doing business with Cuba, China and Russia (both communist countries). I suppposed, to Rais, doing business with the communist countries also means reviving communism. It is these kind of thoughtless mediocre attitude that often gets Malaysians into trouble with foreign countries. I do not begrudge anyone from hating "cruelty" to mankind. But if thats the case, Rais and Ahmad must hate the Japanese too. So is RTM going to show the cruelty of Japanese in Malaya. I am sure that will definitely improve foreign relations????!!!! There are good politicians and there are gutter politicians,

So I strongly urge Rais and Ahmad if you want to be relected to represent Malaysia, please come into the new millennium, let history remain in last century and learn to talk with logic and sensibility instead of just enjoying the sound of your own voice. Otherwise, we know who not to vote in the next election.
For the love of God, you two are suppose to represent the Govt of Malaysia and the Rakyat. Should have known what is diplomacy, shouldn't you - Former foreign minister?

Malaysian are fortunate to have people like Datuk Zaid Ibrahim who can see the big picture and are not holding on to the past. If we can not forgive each other and live as one big family, we are domed to live in fear and captivity in our own environment. Only the truth can set us free. The truth that we are one and the same in God's eyes. The truth of loving all that God has made, that includes our enemy. By our compassion and mercy towards others less fortunate, we show that we are truly the children of our God who love us first.

Let the grand old man come home to rest in peace and lie down in dignity as a human like all of us.
To the leaders of this nation, who teaches hatred and cruelty to a fellow human being who has repented, you are the worst kind and a stumbling block to reconcilation and unity of the people of a free Malaysia.

Shame on you who think you are a hero, but walk in unrighteousness and cruelty. A clear good example of hypocrisy would be our former member of UMNO, who resigned and became enemy number one of UMNO, but was allowed to return back, for the sake of its survival. A hypocrite is one who talk but doing the opposite. One who wish for a united and 1 Malaysia, but doing and putting up all the barriers that prevent it from happening.

Its so clear to the world ,what the Myanmar military government is doing to Aung San Suu Kyi and its people. Suppressing and opressing the people of Myanmar and yet they are unashame of their evil and wicked ways. Or is it that they are so blind and cant see their evil ways? As someone have mentioned, the evil and wicked will become mad before their dismissal. The similarity and happenings in Malaysia can be clearly seen.

China has progressed more under the reform policy of the communism for the last 30 years than Malaysia under the race based policy of Umno/BN's feudalism. Today, even the world most powerful nations like the US and Russia are queuing up at China's door steps for trades and investments. So what's wrong with communism??

It is absolutely strange for the ministers of information and defence to drum up anti-communism sentiment at a time when the prime minister is about to visit communist China to commemorate the anniversary of Malaysia/China relationship.

Isn't it a contradiction of sorts??

C'mon guys, let's get real here. Datuk Zaid is absolutely correct. Rais Yatim and Ahmad Zaid Hamidi (and by extension, UMNO and the Govt. of the day) is trying to make out a very very old man as the bogeyman here. Chin Peng just wants to come home to Malaysia to end his days here. Yes, he has committed crimes against the state although he may at that time have thought himself ideologically correct in taking up arms to bring change by forceful means. After all this is what exactly many communists like Mao and Lenin did and these Communist revolutionary icons are idolised by their motherland and certainly have not been villified by history. Many nationalists did the same (some have been labelled terrorists and others freedom fighters) and they too have found exalted positions in history.

I don't know what is the agenda of Rais Yatim and Zaid Hamidi in demonising Chin Peng but I suspect there are racial overtones to this as Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has said and it is a dangerous game they are playing for political mileage. Do these two senior Cabinet Ministers really and honestly from the bottom of their hearts believe that an old Commie (and more likely a reformed one by now who no longer believes in the cause) like Chin Peng is a security threat to this nation.

Give us a break, don't take us for fools please. For goodness sake, I can honestly say that there is not one single Chinese person in Malaysia who would advocate or even tacitly support a revival of Communism in this country. We have all got used to the good life that capitalism and democracy (although democratic principles seem to be sorely lacking in Malaysia these days) has brought us. By the way I am an average middle class and middle aged Chinese male, so I am sufficiently qualified to give a view on this.

We should also remember that there were Malays too in the Communist ranks and as Datuk Zaid has pointed out Rashid Maidin and Shamsiah Fakeh were allowed to return to Malaysia. Why, one might ask were they allowed to return and not Chin Peng. Can the Govt please enlighten us. Would he have been treated differently had Chin Peng been a Malay. Hmmm, I wonder.

I am certainly NOT a Commie sympathiser (in case anyone should even contemplate a witch hunt) but I just wanted to write a comment because of the absurdity of this whole issue. The Federal Court has ruled against Chin Peng's return, so let's just leave it at that and let the man live and die in peace in Thailand. This issue should now been a dead issue and not be whipped up by irresponsible quarters into a racial one.

As for Rais Yatim and Ahmad Zaid Hamidi, please lah go and comment on something more topical and important like the PKFZ scandal. Devote your energies to weeding out the multi-billion corruption in your Government ranks and the Malaysian public will wholeheartedly support you on this. We will all sleep soundly knowing that our Ministers are looking after our national wealth rather than looking for Commies under their beds.

The days of communism in Malaysia was a lifetime ago, long before most of us were born. What threat? I think the police who go around arresting innocent people are a bigger threat to society than an old man who just wants to return home.

He is an old man now. He cannot harm anyone anymore. Just let him come back and live the last few years of his life in his homeland. He gave up his armed struggle, it is about time others do the same by not invoking the race issue as and when it serves their political needs. So much for '1Malaysia'.

Let this MALAYSIAN home. It's funny how he fought the Japanese for your freedom (he was awarded an OBE for it, if the British can recognise his services why can't we?), fought for what he thought was the right way forward for the country and is now being cast a side now. He is not asking for compensation or a pardon. He just wants to be buried here, his Tanah Air.

Yes he conscripted with the wrong ideology, yes he fought against our government. But is he as bad as our previous leaders that have been running our country down to the ground?

Lets be the bigger person for once. Let him come back.

Bumiputera Malaysia

I wasn't born yet during the Jap's occupation but I knew that the CPM played a part in the fight against the Japs. Yes, the CPM was cruel and cold blooded in their quest to establish an Communist state but tell me, is there a thing called a kind war? War is about winning a battle; practically at all cost. Malayan government troops killed communists too. It's about looking at both side's struggle.

So to equate Chin Peng's sympathizers with Communist revival is truly unacceptable. Again, those rubbish papers are trying to flame racist thinking again. Hishammuddin should do something about this. If others, I think by now the writer or editor would be on their way for a all expenses paid holiday in Kamunting.

Also, Rais and Ahmad are real dupes. Never thought that Ministers can be so dumb. Nuff said!

//// Rais, the information minister, and Ahmad Zahid, the defence minister, both claimed this week there were moves to revive communism.

Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian have also been running anti-Chin Peng stories on a daily basis in what appears to be a campaign to whip up a sense of nationalism among readers.

Former security forces veterans are also being interviewed to rail against the “evils of communism”. ////


Rais, Zahid, Utusan, Berita Harian and all others who make claims that there are parties now and here in Malaysia TRYING TO REVIVE communism HAVE TO SUBSTANTIATE their claims with SOLID PROOFS and EVIDENCE.

If they CANNOT do so, they have to make A PUBLIC APOLOGY to ALL MALAYSIANS in ALL MAJOR newspapers for making BASELESS and UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS which are causing public unease and a sense of insecurity among the people.

ALL Malaysians must DEMAND that they STOP making senseless and baseless claims which are of use to us Malaysians.

The PM is visiting China soon. Is he going to tell THE CHINESE in Beijing that COMMUNISM is not needed in Malaysia and inform them that there are parties in Malaysia trying to revive the ideology locally?

If those Malaysians ministers and tabloids and other similarly-inclined interest groups are so concerned about the EVILS of communism, then they should tell PM Najib NOT to visit China, because he might be influenced by the communist ideology!!!

If there is NO TRUTH to all the craps they are harping on, then the PM must tell his ministers to STOP disseminating lies and creating unnecessary unease among Malaysians.

AND, LEAVE the old man Chin Peng ALONE!!!

Do the Malaysian SUPER MINISTERS seriously think that that old man could revive or cause to revive communism in Malaysia?? If he could, then China would be the FIRST to rush to Thailand to get the old man so that he could help them in their indoctrination exercises!

STOP being silly, MINISTERS AND INTEREST PARTIES!!!

You are making the biggest joke out of yourselves! It just goes to show your parochial and nincompoop MENTALITY! Just how could you qualify as ministers, one wonders.

Don't insult OUR mentality!

Datuk Zaid Ibrahim. I am waiting for you with all eagerness that one day you will lead this country
and there will be no malays, chinese, indians but malaysians. Patient is the virtual. When I was young,
little did I realised that my school mates were malays or indians. No one told us so. Now we have UMNO, representing the malays, MCA, representing the chinese and the MIC, representing the indians. WE DO NOT NEED YOU AROUND. We need Datuk Zaid Ibrahim.

Thanks Datuk Zaid for standing on your great pillars of equality and just.

Come on it is time we as blogger walk the talk as well. We must united together and make hag while the sunshine!

All these talk about threat by communism by UMNO, Utusan, Berita Harian and the few ministers are nothing but cock and bull stories. Only kids will believe them (their own kids especially).

I challenge them, if communism is the threat;

1. Please sever all relationships with China, Russia, Vietnam
2. Get rid of all Chinese students, tourist in Malaysia as these people may spread communism to the population
3. Revoke the citizenship of all Malaysian business tycoons that does businesses in China, e.g. (these people could be secretly funding communism)

This is UMNO's style, they create imaginative enemy to generate support. How many thing threats have been propagated by UMNO? Islam, Malay, Malay rights?.....

HELLO. Did you forget? You've got Gani Patail, Musa Hassan and what not; and you "bermaharajalela" with all the rubbish they can do for you. And now you are afraid of Chin Peng from coming back? Talk about being chicken, useless fellas.

Reminder to all Malaysians.

Chin Peng is not Malaysia's Public Enemy No 1.

Malaysia's Public Enemy No 1 are corrupted politicians looting the country's wealth.

Saya lebih menghormati Chin Peng daripada Rais Yatim. Zahid Hamidi dan Najis kerana orang yang telah insaf dan bertaubat lebih mulia daripada orang yang sombong dan bongkak seperti 'TIGA PENYAMUN' ini

After the stupid "Allah" restricting fiasco, now we have the non existence "revive communism" issues. If PR has governed the country, all these stupid home ministers should be locked for fanning all these unnecessary issues.

Communism is dead! China is communist country in name only, while Cuba is changing, only North Korea is considered Communist country, but she too is slowly changing.

We Malaysians (all races included) has been more or less "Demoncratic" for the past 50 years, is Rais Yatim sure that some Chinese will revert back to Communism?

My Foot!

If PM is serious about 1Malaysia, he should publicly caution Rais Yatim and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi for be racist. These two forgotten that they are Ministers for all Malaysian and not one race. If we have leaders behaving this way, how the country is going to unite.

Communism following the breakup of USSR and the opening up of China is failing. Look at North Korea and Cuba, they are still backward.

So why is these two Ministers making a fuss out revival of Communism. No body in the right frame of mind would like to embrace communism now and how could they be a treat in Malaysia. Chin Peng is an old man and he merely want to come home to die. I am sure those supporting his return are forward thinking people who want to close the last chapter of communism in malaysia.

Please to not and ever again incite racism in Malaysia. Malaysians want to live in harmony and we can do better without both irresponsible leaders like Rais Yatim and Zahid Hamidi. Shame on you and extremely dissappointed of PM for not doing anything.

When every rakyat has been enjoying the true spirit of democracy, it will be only stupid to think like Rais that peoples are happy to rekindle to communism and to go into the jungle to fight the guerrilla war like the past CPM already had become history!

People will only be forced into the jungle in retaliation to suppressive yet tyrannic rule of law!

No amount of self-edited drama series or documentaries will help to delude the rakyat anymore since every intellectual person has knowledge that CPM leaders were not only Chinese and Malay fighters whom they concurred to the ideology of the Communist party were inclusive and aplenty in memberships too!

In any confrontation of the war, lost of lives and casualties are inevitable. Just like 513, many lives regardless of races were lost for no known reason except the political egos of a bunch of power crazy and insane cheap politicians, had caused the tragedy! Can we retrospect to history and dig out the corpse of the demonic perpetrators and blame their race or the sons for having such evilly leaders and/or fathers?

Why not Rais also put such history in documentary form and airs through RTM to let all rakyat informed of how the 513 was plotted and who were the evil minds and how many innocent peoples had been killed brutally by their criminal instigation and sedition!

Yet the nerds granted them all sorts of eponym -father of some kind of sucks!

Zaid, thank you for speaking up. If I have the chance to meet you one day, rest assure I will be very pleased to shake the hands of a very fine human being. One whom I will be proud to know. My best wishes here and may God bless you in your endeavour to seek a platform upon which you xontribute further to the Malaysian community according to your beliefs and convictions.

Meantime, I shake my head in disbelief again at the consistent foolishness and illogic of UMNO's old and tired ministers. Why do they keep shooting themselves in the foot? They have about 3 - 4 years left to win non Malays - particularly the Chinese Malaysians - support by the time the general elections come round in 2013. Yet their racial overtones, especially anti Chinese ones, seems to be surfacing every now and then. Perhaps they can't change, being relics as they are from the narrow minded fuedal age.

Perhaps Najib ought to get rid of these two for non perforamnce or perhaps, misperformance of their roles : Rais Yatim for turning the Chinese even further away from UMNO, and Ahmad Zahidi for that bungling fiasco in Perak.

Shallow, silly and even stupid for these UMNO leaders to play on such trivial issues. It was an era past but these UMNO leaders just cannot let go... shows how immatured these people are. And they are ministers, oh my God! I pray for Malaysia.

heh, really funny.. in the actual fact, it's umno that's practicing communism in disguise. no free media, isa, no freedom of speech, no wearing black, bomb anybody they like, etc, etc.. umno should see the real threat is the person that they see in the mirror.
that, my friend is what i call communism.

Zaid I think you should wear serban and be the companian for nik aziz in attacking fellow muslim and malay. Try to find a slightest fault and bombard full swing so that there will be no more dignity for the malays and islam in their own country.

Rsahid Mydin and Samsiah Fakeh were allowed to return because the are bumiputera status don't matter if they communist, dictators, taleba, al-qaida, serial killers, child rapist.
What a crap mentality these bastards have. Why didn't they mention the fact that they fought against the Japanese and British prior to Merdeka.

When you have a fellow with a so-called doctor degree that talks like the American racist Right-Wingers with no intelligence in the head, then you begin to despair what this country is coming to. This ex-foreign minister is turning out to be like the rest of Umno- with no intellectual capacity and only good at street talks, nothing else. I often do not see any sense of purpose or usefulness in replying/rebutting what comes out of Umno trashes. As when you talk to those with incapacitated intelligence you are only wasting your breath and time. I have better things to do than doing idle chats with Umno kiddies.

Has anyone seen him in Hard Talk (BBC)? He's only good at interrupting without any need to answer any questions. And I suppose the Umno kiddies think he is good. That soft talk was as good as not going on the show as he did not allow any questions to be put to him.

All the Hoo-ha about Chin Peng. Personally I am ambivalent about the guy, Tup he was a feared (at times) and hated Communist leader but hey it's 40 years since the Emergency. And yes, I do really doubt that we Malaysians will accept the communist doctrine much lest adopt it. Do I care whether he comes back to Malaysia or not?? No I don't really care though I am prepared to accept the arguments made for and against his return. But then, I can't help asking the question - If we remain hating the guy and his party of Commies so much, why was there no objections and the media hype when his malay colleagues were allowed back iinto Malaysia> Has it got to be , again, a matter of race?
However, the build up against Chin Peng and the skewing of the media reports and comments really scares the shit out of me as Iit is vwey clear to me that this angle of "controlled/guided reporting" , at least to me seems to be slowly but surely "linking Chin Peng and Communism to the PR and prominent members of PR. Is it a surprise than or will it be a surprise than that we find all PR leadership all haiuled up on the so-called excuse that they are plotting to inroduce Communism into the country???
God help this country when we have desperate people working towards looking after their "rice bowl " and their cronies. We seem to be heading for a Titanic screw up of the nation.

This is the way umno wants to get malay support. Chin Peng has done so much damage to the country and by supporting Chin Peng, PR will definitely loose malay support, you know umno propaganda dan disinformation machines work?. Stay away from Chin Peng issue. Nothing to gain plenty to loose.

One of the rational points raised was how come the Japanese have been forgiven for their atrocities whereas Chin Peng is not. Perhaps it is because the Japanese were invaders and Chin Peng was one of our own. Perhaps.
Even today, the Malaysians who lived in the Japanese era, who are still alive (not many left), remember the Japanese atrocities and do not have kind words to say about the Japanese. They frown on their children or grandchildren going to study in Japan and they themselves will not want to have a Japanese as a friend.
Similarly, Chin Peng symbolises the face of the Communist Party of Malaya, which, in case we forget, only gave up its armed struggle against the Malaysian armed forces and uniformed personnel (police, Senoi Praaq, Sarawak Rangers, Police Field Force) in 1989 - 20 years ago and 32 years after we obtained independence from the British. Until it was weakened considerably in the 1980s, the CPM continued to ambush and kill Malaysian troops and police (who are not Umno or Barisan Nasional members) and therefore, memories are still not that old as compared to the atrocities suffered under the Japanese until they surrendered in 1945 (64 years ago).
There are many more Malaysians living today who have suffered the atrocities committed by the CPM led by Chin Peng and who resent the fact that he should be allowed to come back to our country to die.
It is easy to say lets forgive and forget. But who are the people saying let's forgive? They are those who do not have a living reminder in their family or friends' families - someone who lost his father to the communist; someone whose father lost his legs in a booby trap while keeping our borders and jungles safe from the communist threat; someone whose whole family was wiped out by the CPM during the Emergency years from 1948 to 1960 or even after that.
And its a fallacy to believe it is the Malays who don't want Chin Peng to come back. People get that impression because of the idiotic and unthinking comments made by Rais Yatim and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. People get that impression because of the chauvinistic and narrow racial tones expressed in Utusan Malaysia.
But none of these people - Rais, Ahmad Zahid or Utusan Malaysia - have credibility amongst Malaysians overall - be they Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans or Ibans. So why bother about them? They are not the cleverest of people. Why turn the Chin Peng thing into a Malay versus Chinese issue?
The communists killed thousands of Malaysians and others, such as the British, in their more than 40 years of terror. Chin Peng may have started the CPM to fight for freedom but why did he spurn independence even after the British gave it to us in 1957? Why did they continue to take up arms and kill thousands of innocents?
Want to know how cruel the Communists led by Chin Peng were? Go to the rarely visited Police Museum in Lake Gardens. See the historically documented facts about whom they killed, how they killed. And you will find the names of all those cruelly killed and murdered by the CPM - Sikhs, Indians, Eurasians, British and the majority are actually Chinese and Malays.
Ask the family of the late Chief Police Officer of Perak Tan Sri Koo who was murdered by the CPM in 1975. Ask the family of the Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Salleh, murdered in 1975. Ask the families of ordinary police constables gunned down brutally in Jalan Mountbatten in the 1970s. Ask the family of the soldiers gunned down cruelly and the communists laughing while they shot the injured in the head in the Weng and Gubir districts near the Baling, Kedah, side of the border with Thailand in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Then, pray tell, whether it is easier to let Chin Peng stay in Thailand or China, or to allow him to come back and re-open the wounds of our heroes and their children and grandchildren.
It is not about race, stupid. It is not about stupid Umno, or stupid DAP, or stupid Pakatan Rakyat. It is about putting salt on the wounds of those who gave their lives for this country, my country, your country - Malaysia.

The fortune tellers are painting a very bad picture of the situation. They are trying to frigthen the Rakyat through thier lies! Nothing is perfect for them! Luckily that Syed Hamid Albar is grounded or else he would talk through his anus! Shame on these brainless menteri!

Paul Ong may have used the right word here..."We Malaysians (all races included) has been more or less "Demoncratic" for the past 50 years, is Rais Yatim sure that some Chinese will revert back to Communism?"

Have we become DEMON-CRATIC for the past 50 years?

Whatever it is...what's the big hoohah and big deal over an 80+ year-old man who had caused so much hardship and heartaches for so many people and who had for most part of his life lived outside Malaysia and now wanting to return to what he claims to be his homeland? Go fly kites, Chin Peng. We have enough issues on hand and we don't need you to add one more to the list. The authorities just tell him to get lost and stay put where he is until he goes underground (literally). We don't care whether Rashid Maidin and Shamsiah Fakeh have been allowed to return. Chin Peng doesn't mean anything to Malaysia and Malaysians...and we don't welcome him and we don't want him. PERIOD. CASE CLOSED OK?

If Chin-Peng can't come back to home country due to his different political-stand fight with the government, then why all those Japanese are allowed to enter Malaysia as well. Japanese also invaded Malaysia and killed Malaysian civilians during the war and until now those Japanese still do not apologise to use officially!

Dulu Hindraf dikatakan ada senjata, mana dia senjata tu. Sekarang kata pula ada orang nak hidupkan semula komunis. Inilah alasan untuk menghalalkan dan mengekalkan ISA.

JaguhKampung really hit the nail on the head. If Malaysia is so scared of revival of Communism, they should not have any ties with Communist countries, send back all the Chinese students and stop any businessman from trading with China. The above 3 activities can have more potential to spread communism than the old man Chin Peng, whom many of us don't even know him.
But we all know, these BN crowns and ministers usually talk from the hole where they shit, with pea size brain. This is no wander the country is sliding from Asian Tiger to Asian Cat.
Let's hope China is gathering those anti-communism news from Utusan and Berita Harian and give that dump and shamless Najis a slap when he visit China. Now, basically the whole world including America has to bow to China for their super economy power.

Obviously Zaid was NEVER involved during the counter-insurgency. As such, his comments are as typical of most misinformed Malaysians. The Government should released the appropriate information; statistics of the deaths, with pictures/photo if possible. Who were the CPM or the CPMAL; Show to the Malaysians of the appalling scenes of human misery & catastrophic effects to the economy- all caused by the CPM/CPMAL or the so called KOMUNIS of Malaya.
The masses should be explained of WHAT is communism all about. Only then; (probably) they might have a different view on KOMUNIS Chin Peng.

Our country will be ruined by this bunch of imbeciles. Communism reviving? Bullshit! Is that easy? What a terrible way of thinking and evilly making up? These people have to go to hell.

Rais Yatim has got his own Facebook profile page. Why not direct all these comments to him...send messages to his inbox?? At the very least, he will know for a fact that Malaysians do not buy his brand of bullshit anymore. We're more savvy now ..more knowledgeable and know how to differentiate between right and wrong...between issues of substance and mere propaganda.

our information minister is not well informed... wad a shame!!! i demand ur resignation.....
CP cant come back bcoz he is a CHINESE...
the country’s Public Enemy No. 1 is UMNO/BN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To reform PDRM, society need to bring down BN. This is a only solution for us.

Najib is in china right now. Why isn't our information minister not worried that our PM will be brain washed by evil chinese communist and spread communism ideology upon his return?

"... the principles of freedom of speech and democracy were fronts to revive communism." - Another rubbish statement from Berita Harian/UMNO. I currently live and work in Australia. The freedom of speech here is far greater than BN-controlled M'sia. Yet there's no threat from communism. This is just another tactic by UMNO to create racism and divert people's attention from real issues, and taint the public perception of other parties.

Zaid's comments are spot on. Component parties in BN should question UMNO for the difference in treatment for Chin Peng compared to Rashid Maidin and Shamsiah Fakeh. Else, it just shows once again that they have no voice, no opinion, but mere lap dogs of UMNO.

These big time UMNO robbers calling this old man Chin Peng public enemy No. 1???? Ridiculous. Public enemy No 1 now is UMNO.

Who want to be a communist now?. Ask any Indian, Chinese or Malay in Malaysia. Even the poorest of the poor would not want to revive communism. What mumbo jumbo is Rai Yatim talking about?. He is getting old now and giving long boring comments. No cow sense. Time for him to retire gracefully and let the younger ones take over.

Racial overtones? My foot! If there is person who's skew in turning this ex-communist leader into racial hero then this desperado ex-umno politician is. He's the cuplrit. I wonder why he was quiet like a termite when chin peng made a similar request two years ago. Probably to many things were at stake!

Zaid, spot on! You have my respect, stand up and be counted. Those in UMNO led by Rais Anak Yatim and Zahid Hamidi are showing their true colors! Of course Najib will forever remain the 'great pretender' while he instigates his 'mah-chai' to do the dirty work while he looks good, does he at all?
Where we are today is because of batu-api like them still sticking around. They are infact worse than communists!

why are we getting so excited about Chin Peng ? Yes, I think all the arguments for or against his return are valid but please don't make it a race issue or him a hero...he is the guy who was willing to kill
his fellow countrymen in pursue of his political agenda...it doesn't matter he will be able to revive the communist ideology or not...but still he has committed the biggest treachery against his own country...same goes to Rashid Maidin.
UMNO knows Chin Peng/CPM is no more a threat...they are just using the issue as a political game...most likely the initial statement by the Gerakan chief is also part of their strategy to stir up the issue...if this is true, then its a more bigger threat than Chin Peng...
So don't get so hyped-up over the issue...compassionate maybe...but please remember the feelings of the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans etc whose family members were killed or wounded by the CPM...they are more important than Chin Peng....

Living overseas for 10 years, I can understand Chin Peng feeling about going home. Though we're not Malay but we're all deeply in love with this country. This is the only place we call it home. It's true that Chin Peng had done evil stuff to the people but we all should forgive this old person. Isn't this Malay culture of forgiving people? Also, didn't he fight the Japanese for the country he love?

ZI should not join any political party, being a partyless person will allow him to criticize both BN and PR. He should just stay independent and fight for fairness, justice and common sense. Salute!

@presley pan

"JaguhKampung really hit the nail on the head. If Malaysia is so scared of revival of Communism, they should not have any ties with Communist countries, send back all the Chinese students and stop any businessman from trading with China. The above 3 activities can have more potential to spread communism than the old man Chin Peng, whom many of us don't even know him.
But we all know, these BN crowns and ministers usually talk from the hole where they shit, with pea size brain. This is no wander the country is sliding from Asian Tiger to Asian Cat.
Let's hope China is gathering those anti-communism news from Utusan and Berita Harian and give that dump and shamless Najis a slap when he visit China. Now, basically the whole world including America has to bow to China for their super economy power."

Jesus. some people just don't get it. There is nothing wrong with us having relations with PR China or any other Commie country despite our official opposition to Communism. Again i remind people that the US and USSR had diplomatic relations with each other, and they were pointing nuclear missiles at each other!!!! And China spreading Communism?? Haven't heard that notion since the Mao days. Today China exports capitalism, just look at Africa. So no need to cut business relations with PR China. And do you seriously believe China gives a rat's ass about what other countries think of Communism? South Korea has outlawed all forms of Communism and is a largely anti-communist country, especially the military, yet they have a healthy economic and diplomatic relationship with China. Really some folks here just don't make sense

if we were worry about communism why are we trading with CHINA, isn't china a communism country? if I am not mistaken, china now is our 3 largest trading partner and we are looking forward for more foreign trades to improve our economy. We even have a newly appointed ambassor to china. China is a communist country. "Rais, the information minister, and Ahmad Zahid, the defence minister, both claimed this week there were moves to revive communism". Isn't trading with china is reviving communism? This 2 dumb balls are what we have as minister??? Zaid is 100+% to call them racist. I call them dumb and not a single cent of tax payer. A product of ketuanan melayu.

Thank you Zaid for saying what I wanted to say but dont have the courage. Yes I am Malay, but do not agree with the Govt view on banning Chin Peng from coming home.

Zaid zoom into the issue correctly. If the memories of those hurt by communism is the issue, why have the number of Malay communist leader/members already back in the country for so long?

I wonder if your dad, mom, sisters or brothers have suffered through this evil Chin Peng, you would have written the same garbage that most of you have written shamelessly. As for Zaid, he is hypocrite of a highest order. Many who knows him knows well. If he is sincere he should give back all the wealth that he acquired post UiTM days back to the people then he has the moral right. Just like Anwar, these all habitual plunderer who now makes armchair comments that excites defunct brains like you guys. Read on and be happy.

Utusan Melayu and Berita Harian are two Evil Mass Media that continuosly sow and stirr up Racial
sentiments, it is Mass Medias like this that should be Shut Down and be brought to Court for Sedition
and Racism Charges. Rias Yatim and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi are the two Biggest Racists and should be
charged for Racism.
If they accused that there are efforts to revive Communisn by certain Group surely then Najib would be
implicated as the Leader since he would be making an Official trip to China shortly, won't it be right ? Are they both trying to distract the Citizens from all the atrocious acts the Govt has been caring out
recently, this looks more like it. Well I think they have run out of Ideas and vicious Tactics of late. Their Brain Cells are degenerating at quite a rapid state judging from their recent comments in their speeches. Thats very irresponsible being Leaders of a country, instead of uniting the people they chose
to sow uncertainties and scare mongering. Shame on you two. So I hope Najib should abort the forth
coming trip to China if what Rais and Ahmad Zahid says is true, why Kow Tow to China, aren't you afraid
that China will support finiancially and Morally to the suspected rivival of Communisn in Malaysia?

Another set of dirty and disgusting game cards in UMNO bloody hands now, pui......you racist goons!!!

You are all morons here!!! The Federal Court Judge in his judgement make one very specific reason on why Mr Chin application to return back to Malaysia is being denied..Mr Chin could not prove that he is Malaysian Citizen at all...for those who really want to help, please assist Mr Chin relatives to relocate is misplaced birth certificate (if really he was born in Malaysia at all)..

sokong !

Dan... siapa yang racist sebenarnya ? org yg meyekat kepulangan Chin Peng sebab dia zalim atau orang yang mempersoalkan penyekatan tersebut sebab Chin Peng ni chinese ?

hakikat yang korang kena terima, Chin Peng zalim dan dia adalah pemimpin sebenar komunisme Tanah melayu. Dua pemimpin komunis melayu tu hanya pak turut bodoh.

Kalo Chin Peng di benarkan pulang, ia akan mengguris hati ramai mangsa dan keluarga dia. Bukan hanya melayu yang jadi mangsa dulu, bangsa lain turut serta. Walaupon majoriti ahli parti adalah chinese.

Kenapa perlu di fikirkan pasal Chin Peng ? He is the dark past... yg perlu dilupakan. kalo disebut tentu akan menimbulkan perasaan perkauman lagi.

Bior le dia mati kat Thailand, Malaysia bukan Tanah Air dia... dia hanya nak menubuhkan kerajaan komunis di tanah Melayu sebagaimana diarahkan oleh Kerajaan China masa tu. Dia tak kesah nak siksa orang, dia tak kisah nak bunuh ayah kepada anak anak, dia tak kisah nak rogol isteri kepada suami... dia Chin Peng. Dan orang yang macam tu menerima simpati di sini ?

isu sekarang bukan Chin Peng yang di persoal, yang dipersoal oleh kebanyakan disini, seorang chinese tidak dibenarkan pulang. Tidakkah itu racist ?

When the Bristish Commonwealth Forces LOST in the Gallipolli Campaign during World War 1, many British Commonwealth Soldiers died on Turkish Soil - enemy territory. The Turks having won the Battle & through the magnamity of the then Turkisk Prime Minister DID NOT ill treat the defeated captives but went even further to treat the Fallen Bristish Commonwealth Soldiers as not only "Sons of Turkey" but also alloted a hugh area in Gallipolli, Turkey as a Bristish Commonweath Soldiers War Memorial. THAT IS HUMANITARIANTISM practiced by a Predominantly Muslim Country & being Magnanimous to the highest degree. Turkey & its people who are predominantly Muslim is truly Magnanimous.

In parallel Communism has no place in Malaysia & is not embraced by its populace, however, being magnanimous has nothing to do with being sympathetic to Communism.

Zaid is a man who just love to ride a good wind... beneficial to him

Perhaps UMNO is looking for a scape goat to divert the attention of the 'rakyat' to the problems which UMNO had created in Perak and the economy.

Communism is dying a slow death and Chin Peng is a spent force and a dying man. What can he do to revive communism in Malaysia ? Can Rais and Zahid enlighten us on their rationals in denying an old man to die in his own home ? I hope both of you will not face similar situation as Chin Peng on your dying beds.

Chin Peng ni warganegara Malaysia ke bukan? Kalau bukan kenapa kita nak gaduh utk bawak dia pulang.

Zaid, why don't you also suggest to Obama to forgive Osama as he is an old and sickly man. After all there was no proof that Osama is the one who planned for 911. Some more the number of people killed were much lesser than those died during the communist insurgency.

Zaid is the racist here for playing the race card. While accuses UMNO of using Malay sentiments, he is also guilty of using the race card to stir the emotions of the Chinese.

What he is trying to do is to racialise a terrorist and criminal issue.

On a lighter note and a tad off topic, Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Kasturi, Hang Lekiu, and Hang Lekir, who shared the same family last name as the other super famous "Hang" family member… Hang Li Poh. And who was she? the princess of a Ming Dynasty Emperor who was sent to marry the Sultan of Malacca.
In reality the famous Malay warriors were Chinese or partly Chinense.

Interesting

Bumiputra Malaysia

The Dishonourable Ministers of Misinformation and Offence have succeeded in creating as huge storm in a little teacup: readers are offended by the garbage spewed by the two. I say let's drop further discussion on this non-issue lest it gets manipulated even more and blown inordinately out of proportion and be used as another weapon against opposition leaders and as a means of creating more racial and political issues. Our primary focus remains with the change and reforms necessary to get our country back on the right path of progress, righteousness, unity, mutual respect, etc which will hopefully truly lead us towards first-world status. I can't help putting in one little dig at the Hon Ministers though... the "commie"- line is a very old line that has been used in the past to lock opponents up under the despicable ISA ... for God's sake, don't repeat the mockery & pretence of protecting national security using that stale strategy of locking up suspected commies or commie-sympathisers under the ISA....not again!".

CP was the commander in chief of PKM and not the downliner thus to echo what Kedah MB statement there is no benefit in allowing CP to come here and furthermore he is not even Malaysian but a British citizen so what the hell we the Malaysian is fighting among ourselves which indirectly gave credit to this worthless old man for which the benefit of allowing him backed is only to CP benefit (unless there is still PKM members or sympathysier roaming among us) whereas by not allowing him back would protect the feeling of thousands of our ex serviceman/family and MALAYSIAN killed at the material time.

Zaid, for your info my uncle who was ind the field force was killed in an ambush in Perak in the 70's and i could still remember the tears of my auntie and her childrens as if it was yesterday. It is so easy for the PRO CP or PKM to welcome him back with open arms but not to my family due to the misery coz by PKM and it Commander In Chief.

This is not a question whether CP is Chinese or Malay as higligthed by Zaid in his blog, but whether he is a MALAYSIAN and on a balance of convenience the benefit of not allowing him backed outweight the welcome home party.

i think if this Zaid Ibrahim have family members who get killed by communist PKM will he forgive Chin PEng? This is not about MALAY,CHINESE or INDIAN, this is about CRIMINAL DONE by CHIN PENG..

Do you Zaid so DRUNK that you cannot differanciate between a CRIMINAL and a POLITICAL person??

Communism will not exist in Malaysia, with or without Chin Peng. The people of Malaysia, including the Chinese, will not accept communism. Do not create a non-issue, and divert the attention of the people. We are tired of all these political drama. Concentrate in managing our beloved country well, and lessen the burden of the people. We will say TQ when a good job is done.