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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Dr. Mahathir's Request, and Future Generation's too~

I've got this article from the Star, and I was attracted to it..

 Dr M: Divided Malays risk facing a dim future

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malays will remain weak and their future dim if they continue to be divided by different political ideologies, said former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
He said the Malay community is in a weak position because they are now divided into three groups, namely Umno, PAS and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).
“The present situation will inevitably affect our future,” he said at a “Discourse with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on the Malays and Their Future” held at the Tun Hussein Onn Memorial, here, on Monday.
Dr Mahathir said Malay unity was challenged the first time with the setting up of PAS, a breakaway group from Umno.
“However, we could still control the political situation in the country then, but many (from Umno) who were disappointed later formed other splinter parties like Semangat 46 and PKR.
On how to unite the Malays, Dr Mahathir said: “It’s easy, knock Nik Aziz (Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat) and Anwar (PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim) on their heads because they are the ones who brought the disease”.
Dr Mahathir also described the efforts to unite the Malays as coming to a dead end as the two leaders had no desire to see it happen.
“Their intentions are just to secure a place, Anwar with his intention to capture Putrajaya while Nik Aziz is an opportunist,’’ he said.
“When we were poor and weak and had no status, we knew that only unity could give us strength. But today, when we are better off, some feel there is no need for unity; so we end up fighting among ourselves,” added Dr Mahathir.
The former premier said there were also Malays who were so confident of being able to stand on their own that they rejected the New Economic Policy which was created to assist them.
“There are those who say there’s no need to be identified with the Malays, that ‘we are Malaysians, we can reject efforts to help us, we want to throw away the crutch and we want to stand on our own’, without realising that they are still ‘limping’,” he said.
On the issue of Malay supremacy, Dr Mahathir said Malays need not continue claiming that they were “masters”, when in fact they were the “servants” of others. — Bernama

To be exact, what the former minister want is o gain back our unity as a powerful Malay race.. Like he said before,
'Melayu Mudah Lupa'..
Yes, some of the Malays and Bumiputras forgotten their roots, their history..
Their ancestor's effort to get Independence, and many lives were lost
to get what we have now.

I'm not going to be a politician, I won't.
I'm a person who loves her nation, her country,
and history~
I will continue this someday, just wait for the next article..~

1 comments:

Beautiful Dawn. said...

haniss~!! ko x post speech Dr.M yg wawasan 2020..eh tu ka yg ldv.. :p