OPERASI SABAH SELAMANYA : RAHSIA MALAYSIA SELAMANYA

Black Ops: Operasi Sabah Selamanya

NOTA PENULIS : Artikel ini ditulis untuk bangsa saya, untuk saudara2 kita di Sabah yg sedang hebat diracun dengan perpecahan ia juga ditulis untuk para pejuang Islam Melayu Moro dan pasukan komando kita yg sentiasa mendapat tempat di hati saya.

Ini merupakan kali pertama dalam sejarah, operasi penuh getir angkatan tentera kita yg tidak diketahui umum diceritakan penuh detail oleh Shahpaskal. (Google tak akan jumpa punya).
Saya fikir sudah sampai masanya artikel ini ditulis, tambah lagi, saya lihat elemen2 untuk menghasut rakyat Sabah dan Sarawak semakin kencang bertiup dalam internet termasuk Facebook. Saya kesal kerana petualang2 ini masih berleluasa dan saya harap kerajaan bertindak sekeras2nya terhadapa elemen ini.

Artikel ini juga ditulis untuk menyedarkan generasi muda Sabah punca2 kepada suara2 hasutan ini berarak dalam dunia siber dan banyak lagi pendedahan akan menyusul selepas ini, Insya Allah.
1. Apabila Persekutuan Tanah Melayu merdeka pada tahun 1957, dunia antarabangsa berkata sesama sendiri bahawa negara ini akan musnah dan terjerumus dalam konflik berdarah akibat rasnya terbahagi kepada tiga iaitu Melayu, Cina, India serta bumiputra yg lain.
2. Tidak ada negara dalam dunia yg akan kekal aman apabila kaum2 minoriti ini dari segi bilangan mengampiri jumlah kaum majoriti dan kuasa ekonomi pula dikuasai oleh bukan anak bangsa.
3. Sri Lanka juga merdeka dalam tempoh yg sama, negara pulau ini akan berjaya kerana masyarakatnya Sinhalese dan Tamil berkongsi jurai keturunan yg sama – itulah kata mereka (Sri Langka kemudian terjerumus dalam kancah perang perkauman selama berpuluh tahun)
4. Di Selatan Filiphina, bangsa Melayu yg dikenali sebagai orang Moro tersepit dan dijarah dengan penjajahan budaya serta agama.
5. Dihimpit dari pelbagai arah, akhirnya orang2 Melayu Moro ini bangkit dengan kekuatan senjata, menentang ketidakadilan dan berjuang dengan titisan air mata dan darah untuk “survival” bangsa, budaya dan agama.
6. Pelbagai doktrin kejam dikenakan ke atas mereka tetapi akhirnya impian mereka menjadi nyata apabila kerajaan Filiphina dan MILF digandingkan oleh para pemimpin kita seperti Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Dr Zahid Hamidi bertemu untuk berdamai.
7. Berbalik kepada Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, akhirnya catur yg mereka (kuasa besar) mainkan gagal, dengan izin Allah, Persekutuan Tanah Melayu terus wujud aman dan negeri2 jiran yg berada di bawah naungan British, mahu masuk ke dalam persekutuan itu apabila dikhabarkan sebuah negara baru akan terbentuk iaitu MALAYSIA.
8. Minat Singapura, Brunei, Sarawak dan Sabah yg mahu memasuki Malaysia seolah2 tidak dapat dipercayai oleh negara jiran lain seperti Filiphina dan Indonesia.
9. Sarawak, Sabah dan Brunei yg berada jauh dari kuasa pusat iaitu Kuala Lumpur seharusnya berada di bawah Indonesia ataupun Filiphina.
10.Sekarang dunia menggosok mata apabila akan muncul sebuah lagi negara baru, Filiphina dan Indonesia yg merupakan “key player” di rantau ini menjadi kelam kabut, laungan peperangan dan permusuhan mula dipalu dan menuduh bahawa Malaysia ini merupakan sebahagian dari permainan imperialis penjajah.
11.Indonesia yg mana presidennya sedang dipengaruhi komunis mula melancarkan konfrontasi.
12.Konfrontasi perang yg kononnya dibuat untuk menghalau penjajah Inggeris dari bumi Sarawak dan Sabah akhirnya ditumpukan pula ke atas orang2 Melayu sendiri di Semenanjung Malaysia melalui pendaratan askar payung terjung Indonesia ke Labis, Johor tetapi mereka kesemua habis ditangkap atau dibunuh oleh askar2 Melayu ketika itu.
13.Askar2 Melayu yg sedang berkhidmat di bawah Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu (PBB) di Kongo, Afrika terpaksa dipanggil balik ke tanahair untuk mempertahankan ibu pertiwi.
14.Secara amnya, kuasa tentera termasuk askar Melayu dan pasukan tentera British, Australia yg berada di Sarawak dan Sabah tidak mencukupi untuk mempertahankan negara baru ini dari serangan Indonesia yg ketika itu merupakan satu kuasa yg cukup besar di Asia Tenggara.
15.Dengan izin Allah sekali lagi, askar2 Melayu ini berjaya menghalau kebanyakkan tentera Indonesia dan gerilanya, sejarah dunia mengiktiraf kejayaan askar2 Melayu ini menewaskan Indonesia.
16.Presiden Soekarno akhirnya diguling dan Indonesia kemudian bergolak pada peringkat dalaman, pertumpahan darah terjadi di antara mereka, jutaan rakyat pro komunis kemudian diburu dan disembelih oleh pihak tentera dan rakyat yang pro kepada ABRI.

SABAH DENGAN CINTA TIGA SEGINYA
17.Indonesia sudah cedera parah dan hampir K.O.
18.Kini Filiphina mencuba nasib, apabila Indonesia melancarkan perang, Filiphina tidak mengangkat muncung senjatanya ke arah Malaysia, Filiphina hanya berani memutuskan hubungan diplomatik.
19.Menjelang hujung 60an, askar2 Inggeris yg berada di Sarawak dan Sabah juga sudah beransur kurang dan negara baru Malaysia pula sedang bergelut dengan ancaman komunis termasuk di kawasan sempadan Kalimantan.
20.Filiphina tahu bahawa sejarah Sabah mempunyai kaitan dengan Kesultanan Sulu.
21.Negara itu berada dibawah seorang presiden yg berkaliber dan bercita-cita tinggi iaitu Ferdinand Marcos.
22.Beliau mahu mendapatkan Sabah yg kaya dengan pembalakkan tetapi kekurangan kekuatan angkatan tenteranya merupakan faktor penghalang.
23.Dengan mengambil kira kelemahan Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM) serta kedudukan Kuala Lumpur yg agak jauh, pihak presiden merangka satu operasi sulit yg paling rahsia dalam sejarah Filiphina.

OPERASI MERDEKA : SABAH HARUS DIRAMPAS
24.Misi rahsia ini diberi gelar kod sebagai “OPERASI MERDEKA”.
25.Marcos kemudian memujuk seramai 300 pemuda dari anak bangsa Melayu Moro untuk dilatih sebagai pasukan khas dan akan melaksanakan tugas2 sabotaj serta clandestine di Sabah termasuk dengan tujuan untuk menyemarakkan api permusuhan di antara rakyat Sabah ke atas kerajaan persekutuan di Kuala Lumpur.
26.Mereka semua dilatih di sebuah kem khas di Pulau Corregidor, Filiphina dan Marcos menyangka para anak bangsa Melayu Moro ini akan gelap mata dengan kisah2 dogeng bahawa kegemilangan kesultanan bangsa mereka akan berjaya ditegakkan di Sabah.
27.Siang malam para pemuda ini dilatih dan pemikiran mereka didoktrinkan dengan kebencian ke atas Malaysia serta kegemilangan bangsa Melayu Moro jika Sabah berjaya ditawan.
28.Sehinggalah pada satu malam…………
29.Segalanya terjadi dengan izin Allah, yg mengasihani kita semua dan mahu memelihara negara ini dari segala api kebencian kerana sudah tertulis, negara ini akan muncul untuk membantu banyak bangsa dan umat Islam yg teranianya dari Bosnia sampailah ke Rohingya, sudah tertulis bahawa tanah2 milik Melayu ini akan memberi perlindungan kepada mereka yg dizalimi.
30.Para pejuang ini menyedari bahawa ada sesuatu yg tidak kena apabila memikirkan tidak ada satu titis noda dosa pun yg ditimpakan oleh para saudara mereka di Sabah, khususnya Malaysia ke atas orang2 Melayu Moro ini.
31.Mengapa perlu sebab mereka menentang dan membunuh saudara2 Islam dan sebangsa mereka di negara baru ini iaitu Malaysia.
32.Mereka kemudian nekad untuk balik ke kampung halaman masing2 di Mindanao walaupun mendapat tentangan dari jurulatih dan komander Filiphina mereka.
33.Pasukan komando dan tentera Filiphina kemudian memburu mereka, dengan senjata terhunus, peluru2 tidak bermata ini menembusi tubuh2 pejuang bangsa Moro tadi, gugurlah mereka syahid di tanahair sendiri.
34.Hujan turun lebat pada malam itu, membawa aliran darah yg tersimbah untuk mencuci bumi dan menghilangkan tangisan air mata dari para pejuang yang tidak putus2 menyebut kalimah “La Ilah Ha Il Allah” di saat2 menahan peri penderitaan dan kesakitan akibat tubuh dan nyawa yg sedang nazak untuk ditarik Malaikat Maut.
35.Akhirnya 299 pejuang yg berani itu gugur syahid dalam peristiwa hitam yg dikenali sebagai “Pembunuhan beramai2 Jabidah” yg berlaku pada tahun 1968.
Pejuang Moro, adakah anda tahu bahawa sayap pertempuran dan politik mereka ditubuhkan di bumi Malaysia???
36.Musuh-musuh dan para pembunuh ini fikir mereka mungkin mampu menyembunyikan dosa hitam mereka tetapi mereka tidak menyedari, seorang dari mangsa pembunuhan berama2 ini berjaya menyelamatkan diri dalam keadaan cedera parah untuk balik ke kampungnya.

37.Habis dipanggil seluruh kampung dan masyarakat serta orang2 tua, para ustaz dan ulamak bangsa Melayu Moro berkenaan untuk mengetahui pembunuhan dan sembelihan beramai-ramai 299 pejuang mereka yg ditipu oleh tentera Marcos.
38.Akibat dari kejadian ini, masyarakat Islam dan Melayu Moro bangkit dengan sejata dan pada zaman itu, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) ditubuhkan di lokasi yg dirahsiakan di Malaysia.
39.MNLF kemudian diganti dengan Moro National Liberation Front (MILF).

MALAYSIA STRIKES BACK
40.Tahun 1981, Tun Mahathir Mohamad mula berkuasa sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia menggantikan Allahyarham Tun Hussein yg meletak jawatan.
41.Tun tahu bahawa para pejuang Moro ini sudah lama meminta bantuan Malaysia dan Tun tahu, Tun Abdul Razak (ayah Najib) sudah menjalinkan hubungan yg istimewa dengan para pejuang Moro ini.
42.Tidak ada tempat lain untuk para pejuang yg teranianya ini untuk mengadu nasib dan meminta perlindungan, latihan serta senjata kecuali kepada saudara2 mereka yg berada dalam Malaysia ini.
43.Bantuan yg dihulurkan oleh kerajaan Malaysia terus diberi tetapi harus dirahsiakan kerana ini akan menjejaskan hubungan diplomatik di antara Kuala Lumpur dengan Manila malah jika ia bocor, ia akan memberikan imej yg kurang menyenangkan mengenai negara ini di mata dunia.
44.Rakyat tidak ramai yg mengetahui kisah ini dan saya seringkali merasa sedih kerana ramai rakyat mudah memperlekehkan pemimpin sendiri, negara sendiri dan angkatan tentera kita.
45.Di bawah Mahathir, hubungan kerajaan Malaysia diteruskan untuk membantu para pejuang Moro dan pada malam dingin, bot2 laju milik komando Malaysia bergerak membelah ombak dan mengharungi pekat malam dengan berpandukan bintang di langit untuk menghantar bekalan senjata dan peluru kepada saudara2 mereka di Mindanao dan pulau2 di sekitarnya.
46.Para pejuang dan para komander mereka di bawa balik ke Semenanjung Malaysia untuk dilatih di kem2 rahsia milik tentera dengan taktik peperangan gerila yg baru sahaja membantu Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM) menundukkan ancaman pengganas komunis.
47.Ya saudara2, Amerika Syarikat (AS), Peranchis dan banyak lagi negara tersungkur di bawah kaki komunis, tetapi Malaysia, kita menjadi satu2nya negara yg berjaya menewaskan para petualang tanahair ini.
48.Anak isteri tidak tahu ke mana suami2 mereka bermalam, ayah dan ibu tidak tahu ke mana anak2 mereka ini bermain sebagai anggota tentera.
49.Para komando ini tahu, jika tertangkap, mayat mereka akan berkubur di laut atau ditanam di tanah bumi asing tanpa sebarang kibaran bendera, tanpa sebarang tanda kecuali tangisan isteri dan anak2 yg bakal kehilangan suami serta bapa2 mereka dengan alasan yg mampu diterima akal.
50.Amanah negara harus dipegang….saudara Islam yg teranianya harus dibantu.
51.Tun juga tahu dari maklumat yg disampaikan oleh para pejuang Islam Melayu Moro ini, bahawa Filiphina masih mahu menuntut Sabah dan mempunyai bukti serta dokumen2 yg kukuh untuk mendapatkan Sabah hasil dokumentasi yg diperolehi apabila kesultanan Sulu berjanji dengan Syarikat Hindia Timur dulu.

OPERASI SABAH SELAMANYA
52.Tun Mahathir kemudian memanggil komander2 komando ini untuk memberikan amanat penting demi untuk menyelamat negara dari terjebak ke dalam satu kancah yg akan memberikan impak besar kepada penubuhan Malaysia.
51.Perdana Menteri itu sudah mendapat tahu dokumen mengenai Sabah dari Kesultanan Sulu wujud dan ia perlu diambil, apa sekali pun, operasi itu dikenali sebagai OPERASI SABAH SELAMANYA
52.Operatif2 dan agen rahsia Malaysia sudah pun berada di Manila untuk mencari dokumen tersebut dan melalui tawaran rasuah ratusan ribu dollar AS, dokumen tersebut yg tersimpan rapi dalam Istana Presiden iaitu Istana Malacanang, Manila berjaya di bawa keluar oleh para pengkhianat Filiphina.
53.Sekarang Tun Mahathir mengarahkan komando2 ini untuk berjumpa dengan kontek dan membawa keluar dokumen tersebut dengan selamat.
54.Maka pasukan komando menghantar 7 orang anggota terbaik pada zaman itu ke Manila untuk membuat hubungan dan menyelamatkan dokumen tersebut, mereka semua sudah berlatih dalam model istana tiruan Malacanang yg dibina khas untuk tujuan penetrasi di Pahang.
55.Kehadiran komando ini dibuat melalui jalan laut dengan bantuan para pejuang Moro kerana kedatangan secara rasmi sebagai pelawat akan mendedahkan komplot tersebut.
56.Dokumen bertukar tangan tetapi tanpa disedari, malangnya, pasukan khas Filiphina sebenarnya sudah mula menghidu rancangan rahsia ini.
57.Para komando Malaysia itu terperangkap.
58.Tujuh lelaki Melayu yg gagah berani terpaksa lawan puluhan mungkin ratusan komando dan para pengawal Istana Presiden.
59.Peluru berganti…tembakan bertalu2 dilepaskan…jerit pekik dan kekalutan berlaku, trafik dari saluran keselamatan tentera Filiphina tiba2 menjadi kelam-kabut dan penuh aktiviti.
60.Pihak perisikan ATM yg memantau saluran radio tentera Filiphina mula berasa tidak kena, jantung mereka berdengup kencang kerana nasib negara bergantung kepada tujuh lelaki Melayu tadi.
61.Segala2nya menjadi sengal, tiba2 keadaan yg pada mulanya berpihak kepada negara kita kini hampir berpusing 360 darjah apabila para komando Malaysia yg gagah berani ini terkepung.
62.Masa hadapan negara kita benar2 “TERGANTUNG” dalam keadaan yg sangat bahaya dan kritikal jika para komando ini tertangkap.
63.Bekalan peluru yg sangat sedikit tidak memungkinkan para komando Melayu ini membuat perhitungan yg lebih jauh.
64.Dengan segenap tenaga yg ada dan dengan izin Allah juga, para komando kita berjaya menyelamat diri dan seterusnya membawa pulang dokumen yg sangat2 penting untuk kestabilan Malaysia.
65.Sebelas orang yg terdiri dari pengawal Istana Presiden dan komando Filiphina terkorban dalam insiden yg berlaku sekitar tahun 1980an itu.

SENGKETA YANG LAMA AKHIRNYA PUDAR
66.Kejayaan ini Malaysia menyelamatkan dirinya dari malu besar disambut secara kecil2an dikalangan orang2 kepercayaan pihak tentera dan Perdana Menteri.
67.Filiphina berterusan menuntut Sabah sehingga ke hari ini tetapi ibarat ayam berkokok, kokoknya dipandang sinis, sehingga sekarang negara itu tetap menjalankan perang sarafnya tetapi ini episod lain yg akan saya cerita kemudian hari.
68.Ferdinand Marcos kemudian diguling rakyat selepas beliau terlibat dalam pembunuhan seorang ahli politik Filiphina iaitu Benigno Aquino dan beliau serta isterinya melarikan diri ke AS.
69.Presiden yg kejam itu akhirnya mati dalam buangan pada 28 September 1989 di Hawai, AS.
70.Segalanya hampir selesai, kini masalah Sabah sudah diselesaikan dan Filiphina pula terus dihantui oleh serangan siang malam para pejuang Islam Moro Filiphina.
71.Kerajaan Melayu Islam di Kuala Lumpur pula tidak pernah melupakan penderitaan saudara2 mereka di Mindanao, usaha damai dirintis malahan, kerajaan Malaysia tidak lokek untuk menghantar askar2 ke Selatan Filiphina untuk memastikan kedamaian wujud, walaupun penghantaran ini tidak mendapat tajaan dari PBB.
72.Perdana Menteri kita Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak pula, beberapa kali mengarahkan Zahid Hamidi untuk bertemu dengan para pejuang dan juga kerajaan Filiphina untuk mengukir damai.
73.Sudah terlalu lama, umat Islam Moro ini menderita api peperangan dan penderitaan, beratus tahun mereka berjuang menentang penjajahan Sepanyol, kemudian AS dan pada sejarah moden, terpaksa menentang kerajaan sendiri yang menzalimi mereka dengan penganiayaan dan pembunuhan beramai2.
74.Akhirnya, melalui usaha kerajaan dan para pemimpin Melayu Malaysia, kedua2 pihak yg sudah bertelagah lebih dari 30 tahun itu akhirnya duduk semeja menandatangani rangka perjanjian yg akan membawa pemerintahan berautonomi di Selatan Filiphina.
75.Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak bersama Presiden Filiphina Benigno Aquino III melihat perjanjian bersejarah itu termeterai pada 15 Okt 2012 di Manila.
76.Benigno Aquino III pula adalah anak kepada ahli politik yg telah dibunuh oleh Marcos yg saya ceritakan pada para ke 66 tadi.
77.Najib tersenyum kesyukuran kerana bantuan yg mulakan oleh ayahnya dengan membenarkan para pejuang Moro membentuk MNLF di bumi Malaysia akhirnya terhasil.
78.Wilayah autonomi itu akan dikenali sebagai tanah BANGSAMORO.
79.Akhirnya ayat ini, mailah kita sedekahkan Al Fatihah kepada 299 pejuang Islam Moro yg syahid itu tadi serta kepada tujuh komando kita itu, syabas, kalian benar2 pejuang negara.

Sumber  :  http://www.blogammar.com/black-ops-operasi-sabah-selamanya/
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UMNO Failed Us From The Start – Free For All, Grab What You Can Now Under Najib

on September 22, 2012

Many of us may have asked when and why did the racial divisions in Malaysia start and who is to blame? Obviously, the racial divide did not exist in old Malaya, where the different races could live together in harmony in the kampongs (villages) and small towns. Now, it seems that we are forever at the brink of racial tension or even racial war. In fact, jihad (holy war) has been declared several times by the UMNO-linked Perkasa against the Christians as well as the Chinese.

We should also ask why a-still-young-nation with all the potential to be prosperous could so quickly face impending bankruptcy. Also, what has happened to patriotism; did it burn out or was it never really instilled into our hearts? To find out, we have to go back in history.

The Starting Point

When UMNO was formed, the late Onn Jaafar who was one of the main founders and who was the then president, had to leave the party because a group of new faces disagreed and fought with him over the political direction to be taken. They insisted their ideas were better than his and this inevitably led to the changes in policies, rules and objectives.

Whereas Onn Jaafar was more for uniting the Malays from all walks of life, with the Chinese, Indians and other migrants under one organsation, and then jointly struggle for independence, the group of UMNO leaders led by the late Tunku Abdul Rahman was more interested in meeting the qualifying terms set by the British for achieving independence – no matter how onerous.

The Idea of a Non-communal Political Party

Onn Jaafar – the grandfather of current Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein - had indeed been farsighted and visionary. He felt the need for racial harmony and a non-communal political party was the best way to secure a prosperous future for Malaya. No doubt the British did create the Malayan Union comprising all races with equal rights, and even diluted the powers of the Malay rulers, but the British were not really sincere at all.

The British did not really want Malayans to be united as one, like in Onn’s vision. Neither did the British really want the Malayan Union to succeed. So the Malays were led into rejecting the Malayan Union, paving the way for its dissolution.

Had the British been sincere, they would have backed Onn’s idea. Instead the British supported Tunku when he was elected the new UMNO president after Onn resigned. Onn had to quit after failing to garner the majority support from the delegates on his multiracial vision after his speech in the UMNO General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur in August 1951 backfired. The Malays have never been united since then.

The Idea of Non-communal Political Party Still Lives On

But did Onn Jaafar really have so little support? The answer is no, he had the support of the Malays all over the country and at the grass root level. In fact when Tunku tried to manage UMNO, he found out that most of the people were not aware that Onn had left the party. The staff manning the UMNO offices were also reluctant to work with Tunku as they still supported Onn. In the end, Tunku had to abandon the old UMNO office bearers and create a new set-up, appointing his own people to manage the party and its activities.

Further proof of the British ill-intent was when they told the Malayan entourage negotiating for independence consisting of UMNO, MCA and MIC that Malaya could not be given independence since the three major races were not united! Onn’s multiracial proposal was the best and it still is and the British also knew that. Yet, they managed to convince the Malayan delegates to agree on an Alliance with UMNO, MCA and MIC the pioneer members.

To their discredit, all three of them fell for it. Presumably this had been outlined by the British for Tunku to implement.

UMNO Failed Us From The Start

Here UMNO has thus failed twice. Firstly, to unite the Malays and consolidate their political power and losing the opportunity to unite the various races under one non-communal party. Secondly to really lead a more meaningful struggle. Unlike the other true independent struggles seen all over the world, UMNO just negotiated for a walkover from the British.

UMNO may argue that it was the ingenuity of their leaders that helped Malayans gain independence without bloodshed. This is not true! There was indeed a lot of bloodshed but not amongst the UMNO people. What about the struggle led by other groups and individuals? Let us also not forget that during this period there were many other groups and individuals struggling and fighting for independence and with the inevitable bloodshed. We were not informed about their struggle as if the Alliance was the only one who struggled. PAS deputy president Mat Sabu had exposed this one-sided history for us. Besides the Communists, there were many others from all the races.

Nations that experienced, endured and managed to overcome all obstacles leading to the true sense of independence are usually of a different breed. The struggle instills real patriotism and their citizens really value what they have achieved unlike Malaysians too, who need to be lured to fly the Jalur Gemilang almost every time we try to celebrate the National Day.

In the end, the UMNO-BN celebration of the 31st August National Day has become something of a mediocre, wasteful, and meaningless effort, without zeal and substance, without the real feeling of patriotism at all. The annual procession is just for show as the number of people flying the Jalur Gemilang keeps dwindling year after year till the number of road vehicles flying the national flag can even be counted on our fingers. The national day celebrations are only being looked forward to by the Mat Rempits and the like, including their bohsias.

UMNO and Malaysia Under Tunku Abdul Rahman: Going Nowhere

Malaysia under Tunku was not really independent, it had to depend on the British and they were more than willing to maintain their support, mainly due to economic reasons. The British had invested so much in Malaya in plantation, mining, banking, media and education. Furthermore, Malaya was one of the growing markets for everything English.

After gaining independence, the Tunku was not able to really achieve anything more substantial. He was not even able to defeat the ragtag Communists, and Malaysia was still backward in every sense of the word. The young democracy and new nation was just at its infancy and without any coherent policy, objectives, vision and actions although there were some sort of localized economic activities in the towns, and racial harmony in the kampongs.

With the Communists still active not only in the jungles but also in the urban areas and their ideology spreading in the University of Malaya, real peace and unity as a nation were not attained during his reign. Even Singapore was separated from Malaysia. The economy was not doing well since Malaysia was more on a commodity-based economy, and at the mercy of the British who controlled prices and the trade itself.

At this stage of the nation building, Malaysians had nothing to celebrate or cheer about. There was nothing to hold on to, nor was there a sense of belonging. Not only were the business, finance and money still under the British, the Supreme Court was also in Britain. Nothing substantial belonged to Malaysia. The Malays in particular had nothing except for the small plots of land in the kampongs and the Malay rulers to be proud of. Tunku did not have any real plans for the Malays despite UMNO being so-called the United Malays National Organization.

Racism During Tunku’s Period

The Tunku fell into the trap set by the British when the racial based Alliance was formed. He had not done enough to set any solid foundation for the country and he realized too late how fragile the racial harmony was when after the 1969 general election. The Gerakan and DAP had celebrated their wins with a victory parade in KL on 12th May 1969. Then UMNO led a counter march the next day, and this is when the racial riot known as the infamous May 13 racial riots erupted. May 13 also led to Abdul Razak Hussein taking over the nation’s leadership.

But was it really a racial riot? Were both the Gerakan and DAP really so insensitive to the political situation that they organized the march and failed to control their members? The Alliance managed to win 77 out of 140 seats in Parliament; UMNO still held power. Furthermore it was very interesting to note that Malay opposition parties saw a sharp increase in votes in the peninsula, rising drastically from about 15% in 1964 to 25% in 1969. UMNO did not have the full support of the Malays and apparently the Malays did not agree fully with UMNO even then!

UMNO Under Razak: His Inaction Led To Next Stage of Failure

Razak, the father of current Prime Minister Najib Razak, was quite thoughtful and managed to bring about some changes. He started the process of nation building by introducing the word “pembangunan” which is development. For this, he was eventually bestowed the title of “Bapa Pembangunan”. After the infamous May 13 racial riot, he introduced the New Economic Policy (NEP) which had good and noble intentions although it was miserably abused to the core in later years.

The NEP was meant to re-engineer the wealth of the society, encompassing education, business opportunities, employment and preferences to eradicate poverty amongst the entire population and across all racial boundaries. But UMNO leaders took advantage of this policy to fatten their coffers leaving both the Malays and other poor Malaysians to continue being deprived of all that were intended for them. We can clearly see and understand the situation now.

Razak also empowered FELDA (which was formed by the British in 1956 for their own reasons) to aggressively embark on opening new land schemes and making Malays do something to upgrade and improve themselves. The FELDA story is still unfolding now.

As the Malays were earning some extra income, Tabung Haji (the brainchild of Professor Ungku Aziz) was formed to inculcate the habit of savings for the rainy days and to help save enough money to perform the haj. Sad to say, as has been reported, Tabung Haji was not safe from the dirty hands either.

The siphoning of money that we see now, the unscrupulous civil servants and their abuse of power and unchecked corruption also started during Razak’s premiership.
He was not able to closely monitor all the things that he had implemented.

One glaring example is the construction of the wooden houses for the FELDA settlers. But instead of houses, the settlers got what were basically just pieces of sawn wood nailed together with some sort of roofing to protect the inhabitants from the elements of nature. Yes, the “house” was just a shed. These houses can still be seen in the FELDA settlements as a testimony to the plundering of the allocations by unscrupulous groups of people.

This was the beginning of the money-making schemes, and those in UMNO saw the doors opening to all the golden opportunities that had never existed for them before. The government officials too found the opportunity and took what they
could and as much as they could.

When RISDA was formed to help the rubber small holders, they were provided with free fertilizers, weed poison and other incentives like the money to keep the rubber plantation clear of all other plants, shrubs and small trees. This was to ensure improved rubber production, easy maintenance, safety and prevent the rubber plantation to be any form of hideouts for vermin, wild animals and the communists.

While they were supposed to be given the items free of charge, the officials still demanded money from the small holders and a substantial amount of the fertilizers and poisons went into the wrong hands and were eventually sold to the hardware shops to be re-sold to others. The money-making schemes were carried out openly to the extent the RISDA emblem on the sacks could be clearly seen. Yet, the authorities did nothing to stop the corruption.

Almost all the projects awarded to the UMNO-putras during this period was executed as Ali Baba schemes leaving the UMNOputras with just 5 percent of the profit which was too little. Since they were not real businessmen, they spent extravagantly within a few months finished all their gains. Thus more projects had to be given out to fulfill their lust. The Ali Baba business trend began here.

It was the same with other government projects and procurements. The instant noodles supplied as army ration were paid by the Ministry of Defense at RM0.65 per packet while the market price was just RM0.25 each.

The police and the army were also in a world of their own with free cigarettes, cheap alcohol, partying in their messes. They were oblivious to their surroundings. The police were so callous in their duties that the IGP was shot dead point blank by two assailants on a motorbike when his car halted at a congested road on his way to the office.

The inefficient civil servants were preoccupied with so many tasks in their offices. Hospitals and medical staff were few in numbers, and the school teachers were the most respectable group of people in society then. But unfortunately not anymore now.

The Biro Siasatan Negara (National Bureau of Investigation) was operational but they did nothing. At this stage, the UMNO government ignored all the warning signs of blatant corruption, misuse of funds and pilferage. As such, the next stage of failure was inevitable and more so under Hussein Onn, who was Razak’s brother in law.

First Huge Scandal Under Tun Hussein Onn

Hussein Onn was like Abdullah Badawi. He was not able to fit into Razak’s shoes. Hussein Onn left the country on auto-pilot. Thus, more corruption and wrongdoing spread all over the country including to Sabah and Sarawak which had huge amounts of natural resources especially timber.

Sandakan in Sabah once held the world record of the highest numbers of millionaires (from the greedy rampage and corruption of the timber industry) per square mile. Sabah is now without a virgin forest except at the national reserve. This too will not be spared for long and Sabahans still remain poor today.

The first huge scandal for UMNO which was the RM2.5 billion losses by Bank Bumiputera Malaysia Bhd, which began in 1976 with its wholly owned Bumiputera Malaysia Finance (BMF) lending money to property developer Carrian Group in Hong Kong. The mess unfolded in 1983 kicked off the UMNO plundering tradition on a huge scale.

You see, no one was punished for the crime. UMNO leaders condoned such debacle creating a precedent that when one is a strong UMNO man and with proper connection, one can get away scot-free. The bailout tradition too began from this point on.

Since Malaysia was on auto-pilot, the ordinary citizens had to survive on their own.

Mahathir: All Forms of Failure and Sad Lack of Vision

This was a very interesting period for UMNO. There were failures galore – all and every form of failure that could happen did happen. There was systematic failure at all levels of government to understand the magnitude of the situation, from stripping the Malay rulers of their powers, using the full force of the ISA on the opposition, breaking up UMNO, looting the nation’s funds, antagonizing the West, full-scale bailouts of cronies, destroying the integrity of the police and judiciary to being a dictator. Obviously, this resulted in resentment throughout the entire society leading to the formation of Pakatan Rakyat.

Mahathir was the one who broke the national piggy bank, blazing the trail to unmitigated government borrowings. He failed to provide enough funds for rainy days. Many of his supporters boasted that he was famous for his vision, but time has proven that Mahathir in fact lacked it. He lacked vision simply because he was not able to see beyond himself.

Mahathir failed to understand the inherent economic cycle and be prepared for eventual downturns. He knew Lee Kuan Yew had special funds to be used under the power of the President. But Mahathir siphoned out the only real funds we had in Petronas, thus even the once rich Petronas has to borrow money now.

The police under Mahathir was for most of the time working for him and not much for the rakyat. The police was used to defeat the opposition, harass individuals, put people in jail using the ISA and determining the most suitable time for a general election. Crime was high since the PDRM was preoccupied with UMNO and Mahathir. Lawyers were know to be unscrupulous but it was during his time that the judiciary system was turned into shambles and judges could be openly bought, thus ending the integrity of the entire law and order of the country.

Mahathir also failed to uphold the monarchy by stripping the Malay rulers of their powers. The Malays have lost their last bastion of pride and for the rest of the Malaysians the last bastion of justice, as can be seen in the awkward position of the Sultan of Perak being manipulated by UMNO in the Perak power grab of 2009.

The Perak Sultan sanctioned UMNO’s coup d’etat, while the Agong only had enough power to acknowledge BERSIH as legitimate, while the Sultan of Selangor had to play safe in the JAIS -DUMC case with UMNO breathing down his neck.

Mahathir in his endeavour to make Malaysia a developed nation by 2020, failed to safeguard the nation from being plundered by refusing to prevent and take action against corrupt people. This could be because he was himself a cohort in some, if not most of the fiascos. The Tajuddin Ramli-MAS scandal is an example and a living testimony to the failures of the Mahathir-era, while the RM12.5bil PKFZ scandal is still unfolding.

Mahathir also failed to see the inept capability of Badawi and the hopeless Najib who both have no real ability of their own. Nonetheless, one cannot turn back time or erase the systematic failures Mahathir caused. In any case, he was ready to pass the baton to Abdullah Badawi by 2003.

Badawi Sleeping Away

Badawi was not able to fit in the shoes of Dr. Mahathir. He tried to undo several of questionable projects started by Mahathir. But even this, he fumbled and bungled.
Badawi tried to create some economic corridors, have some fancy slogans like working together with him and Islam Hadhari, which he himself found difficult to explain. Till now, the questions ring: what are the corridors, the slogans and Islam Hadhari really all labout?

The economy became stagnant and to spur development Malaysia had to borrow more money. He was able to create some sense of economic activities but just for the elections.

Fortunately for him but unfortunately for the rakyat, he had the fourth floor goons headed by his beloved son-in-law, Khairy Jamaludin who made things worse. Our nation was in jeopardy because it was being managed by a twenty-something de-facto prime minister. Although Khairy was an Oxford graduate, he was not savvy enough to run a country much to the disgust of Mahathir. Both the nation and UMNO are now in disarray. A classic example of a Khairy deal gone awry is the failure of the Shahrizat-linked Gemas NFC debacle.

Badawi did form the MACC but for what? They are just the same people from the Anti Corruption Agency (ACA) in different uniform.

Free For All, Grab What You Can Now Under Najib

Najib is long on ideas but short on action, thus has no results to show. Basically, this is due to his ideas being copycats of other systems, such as the Pakatan’s Buku Jingga or economic blueprint.

Najib’s Vanity

But first of all since he was not elected to his post and his image was tarnished by the useless and unsinkable Scorpene submarines that also led to the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaaribuu. Possibly influenced by his mischievous wife, Najib decided first and foremost to restore his image.

He engaged APCO and FBC Media for a full scale image makeover, spending at least RM55 million of tax-payers’ money for expensive propaganda to glorify himself, his government and his policies and having it screened on international channels like CNN, CNBC and BBC. This is utter stupidity of the highest level and Najib has failed miserably.

To repair the damage to his image, Najib should have rectified the mistakes and not try to whitewash them and incurring further blunders in the process. There is really no point in putting on thick make up during the day when everyone can see the thick layer of paint and powder.

Transformation Programs That Go Nowhere

Then Najib went on to try to transform several major things but he failed to see what the causes were that led to past failures. All the sounds and bombast of hisEconomic Transformation Program may have seem rather impressive to the layman, but what are the results so far? Unfortunately we have not been able to feel good about anything that Najib and his ETP people have announced.

His main showpieces are the six National Key Results Areas (NKRA), twelve National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) – all part of his Economic Transformation Program. On 23rd November, Bernama reported that Najib underlined six high impact programs to boost the growth of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to 8.7 by 2020 but, what about now or next year?

The economic policies that the UMNO-BN government under Najib have been undertaken but show no improvement in the economy. Thus, until now, it has been “nothing for nothing Najibnomics”.

As for Najib’s Political Transformation Program, it has proven to be a farce – heavy on proclamations and full of doublespeak as in the recent Peaceful Assembly Bill, which actually restricts our freedom and not grant greater democratic space as he had promised.

Old Habits Die Hard

Even at this very critical juncture, in the last lap to the “Mother of all Elections”, UMNO still continues to award contracts without following the proper procedures. At present there are several projects under the various ministries that have been allocated to their cronies and when the time comes, by hook or by crook, these projects will come to light whether UMNO-BN wins the GE-13 or not. So too will all the money-making schemes planned with guarded secrecy, the PKFZ scandal, the Scorpene scandal and the Gemas NFC debacle.

The Najib government has also told the rakyat that it will not be involved in financing the mega-projects he has announced. They are mostly under the Private Financing Initiatives (PFI), he assures. But we were not told that the Umno cronies will have to borrow from the banks and none of the clear minded private banks would ever lend them any money.

The private banks know that these projects are just money-making schemes without any guarantee of success and will eventually need bailouts. Thus all the burden of financing has been given to Bank Pembangunan, the government bank, with money from the government. Still the money will be taken from our already depleting EPF and Tabung Haji or borrowed somewhere and bringing Malaysia closer to becoming another Greece.

Chaos At The Ministries

The Ministry of Defense has set the plan moving for the purchase of new fighter planes from Russia as reported in a defense magazine but Ahmad Zahid Hamidi denied this recently. The ministry will also continue with the building of the exorbitantly expensive naval ships and boats.

The Ministry of Education has embarked on building several campuses in Perlis and Pahang and even the HUKM pediatric hospital in KL and being awarded to their cronies.

The Ministry of Transport has already approved the KVMRT project, the Integrated Transport Terminal in Subang Jaya with another going to be in Gombak and in Melaka and as we all know Malaysia Airports Holding Bhd has a free hand to impose any charges on passengers and complete the KLIA2 tour at whatever cost.

The Ministry of Agriculture will eventually bail out the failed Gemas NFC project and the wasteful rice bowl “National Rice Bowl” project in Sarawak will get more money – some to be reinvested and the rest pocketed.

The Ministry of Finance will continue paying the PKFZ thieves and continue dumping more money into MAS despite the purported win-win share swap with AirAsia as MAS has already announced RM400 in losses recently. Petronas has been set to bail out TNB by absorbing the gas cost.

The Ministry of Tourism too have their money-making schemes through various advertisement projects, while the Ministry of Information uses FINAS through the loans and grants issued for movie productions and the misuse of FINAS assets for some influential individuals.

The other ministries too have their problems and these could be revealed later.

Enough Is Enough

Najib has turned Malaysia backwards by not trying to reject the wrong doings of UMNO-BN. Where his father was too busy, Najib’s problem may be because he has his own scandals. Thus a change of government is the only true means of saving this country. The recent UMNO AGM showed the country the party’s true colors. Its racists / fascist bent and the fact that it had no real agenda for the country.

So after tracking through the 6 prime ministers, all of whom came from UMNO, it is clear the party is the cause, the main ingredient, the catalyst and the main element of all the failures that have befallen the nation.

We have had enough and enough is enough!

Written by Nawawi Mohamad, Malaysia Chronicle

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