YOURSAY 'This is what Endless Possibilities is all about. While Umno is at it, they should also blame the Chinese for the collapse of the Greek, Roman, Persian, Ottoman and British empires.'

Nazri's opinion on May 13 sure to stir debate

your say Lamborghini: Just a day after Merdeka, and we have another reckless, irresponsible statement by another Umno minister. Tourism Minister Mohd Nazri Aziz, don't simply shoot your big mouth off and create more controversy and unease among the rakyat by blaming the Chinese for the May 13, 1969 riots.

As a minister, you should be working to unite the rakyat and speak from facts and truths, not from your own prejudice and personal opinions. Talk to people like Thamrin Ghafar and read what Tunku Abdul Rahman wrote and said about the May 13 incident, not Tanda Putera director Shuhaimi Baba's racially biased "creative" version.

James_3392: Nazri was quoted as commenting that the film Tanda Putera was well researched on its story line. It was pointed out by the audience that the director cannot even differentiate between the flag of the Communist Party of Malaysia (CPM) and the People's Republic of China (PRC); they used the five-starred red China flag as the CPM flag.

It will be interesting if Nazri could invite the ambassador from the PRC to watch the movie together with him. So much for those who made the film knowing about the recent history of Malaysia; and he calls it a well-researched piece of work. By Umno standards, maybe.

Samurai: First the filmmakers claimed that DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang urinated on the flagpole at the MB's residence, saying "these really happened", then now they say the urinating scene (minus Lim) is "creative license". Really, can anyone say for sure if the entire film isn't just one big lump of "creative license"?

Oriole: Go do your research and understand the nature of history as a contested truth, Nazri. And while you're at it, read Kua Kia Soong's book 'May 13' to get some perspective before shooting your mouth off.

Or perhaps you've read it and it is your terror of the truth that makes you so quick to pick on a minority to blame.

Senior: I choose to believe former home minister Muhammad Gazali Shafie's version of the riots. I was in Kg Baru during that time and the Malays who went on a rampage there were NOT from there, as I knew most of them as a kid. Who brought them in?

Clever Voter: It is a sheer waste of time to start any debate that has no winner at the end. The multiracial community has moved on from May 13, and many were not even born yet during the unfortunate incident.

It's the Umno politicians who continue to use this as a scare tactic, and a tool to fool the gullible rural voters to sustain their loyalty.

The reality is that income inequality in the country has worsened, and the same politicians have not delivered what they had promised, but continue to abuse their positions to enrich their wealth and power.

The quality of education has gotten no better, and international competitiveness is equally bad. The May 13 incident cannot and should not be used as an excuse.

Imran: The rakyat - the Malays, Chinese and Indians - have no grouses with one another. They get along just fine with neighbours and friends. They are very respectful and tolerant of one another's race, customs and religions.

It is only the politicians like this fellow Nazri who now and then try to incite the good rakyat for political mileage. Sadly we have a useless softie for a PM, who has no guts to tell his politicians off. They should have a law banning politicians from making racial slurs.

Onyourtoes: Whatever woes confronting us, whatever problems facing us and whatever animosity festering within us is due to those in Umno, for no one has governed a single day of this country except them.

Whatever progress we have achieved, whatever unity and cohesiveness we have attained as a nation are due to the good sense of the people despite Umno's machination and indoctrination to the contrary.

2 Tim 1:7: All these flagrant injustices committed by the religio-fascist kleptocratic regime and its underlings against non-Muslim minorities require from us a response of the same magnitude as the Boston Tea Party and the Storming of the Bastille.

Surely there are among us very intelligent and resourceful men and women who can help us safeguard our fundamental human rights.

Fair&Just: We should have a royal commission of inquiry on the May 13 incident, so that those many murdered souls would be able to finally rest in peace, for many were mercilessly mowed down in the riots and the nation has to provide accountability, or those poor souls will continuously pervade the nation with their unjust and bad karmic forces, which can culminate in some catastrophe to the nation.

Asitis: History is written by those who hang the real heroes.

Hello: May 13 - blame it on the bossanova, blame it on the Chinese, blame it on the Indians, but don't blame it on Umno. How sanctimonious can you get?

Toonarmy: This is what Endless Possibilities is all about. While Umno is at it, they should also blame the Chinese for the collapse of the Greek, Roman, Persian, Ottoman and British empires.

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