The truth about May 13 vby Dr. Goh Cheng Teik
Now Malaysians know the truth about the May 13th 1969 incident.
It was not a race based issue but rather an UMNO internal plot to
ouster the Tunku by a group of UMNO leaders led by Dr Mahathir as
alleged by Dato' Tamrin Ghaffar at a political ceramah in Johor on
29/4/2013.
This sly and slimy Mahathir together with a few UMNO leaders including
Dato' Harun Idris wanted the Tunku to resign and allow Tun Razak to
take-over. So they used the poor election performance of the Alliance
party in 1969 to start the planned incident. They did not realise that
the small incident on 13th May 1969 could blow up into such
proportions.These are evil people with evil intentions.
Subsequent to this, Tun Razak was installed as the new PM and later
Mahathir was appointed as the Minister of Education.
However, to cover up and deflect the whole affair, UMNO blamed the
incident on the Chinese and in particular the DAP for initiating the
racial riots. This plot was used to unite the Malays under UMNO and
was hatched by none other than Dr. Mahathir. Dato' Tamrin Ghaffar was
very specific on this.
With the historians like Dr Goh Cheng Teik who was also a former
Deputy Minister in BN now coming out to corroborate what Dato' Tamrin
said and the revelation by the Tunku in the Star column " As I see it
" clearly points to the fact that the May 13 incident was a plot
hatched to remove the Tunku from office.
A Gerakan veteran emerged today to back PAS president Abdul Hadi
Awang, who accused Umno of masterminding the May 13 racial riots in
1969. Hadi told a political rally in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, on Monday
that the bloody racial riots 44 years ago were orchestrated by Umno to
cling on to power.
"May 13 was not an ethnic phenomenon. It was a political occurrence,"
former Gerakan leader Goh Cheng Teik told Malaysiakini. "Only those
who were members of Umno or associated with it were involved.
PAS members had nothing to do with May 13."Goh, 70, who served as a
deputy minister and a Penang executive councillor 25 years, had done
extensive research on the riots when he was a lecturer at Universiti
Malaya and published a book, ‘The May Thirteenth Incident and
Democracy in Malaysia', in 1971. He joined politics three years later
and was appointed parliamentary secretary to then prime minister Abdul
Razak Hussein.
According to Goh, the riots in Kuala Lumpur started even before the
counter-procession was held by Umno in response to opposition victory
marches in the wake of the unprecedented gains by PAS, DAP and Gerakan
a ruling party that prides itself in upholding the rule of law rioted
before the start of a ‘victory' procession in front of the official
residence of the Selangor state chief minister," he said. ( NB. The MB
of Selangor then was Dato' Harun Idris whose official residence was at
Princess Road )
A day of shame and sorrow
Goh still believes there was no need for the nationwide declaration of
the State of Emergency as the violence was localised, much like the
recent militant incursion into Lahad Datu in Sabah, and argued that
the riots were mostly politically-driven. "That is why the
disturbances were not national in character, according to (then prime
minister) Tunku Abdul Rahman, but virtually confined to Kuala Lumpur.
"No serious breach of the peace or act of violence took place in any
other part of Peninsular Malaysia on or after May 13." The declaration
of Emergency paved the way for the suspension of Parliament.
Goh, who holds the distinction of being Malaysia's first Harvard
scholar, is currently an adjunct professor with Sunway University.
Asked why he was speaking out on the issue now, he said young people
today should know the truth behind May 13, an issue repeatedly raised
in the ongoing campaign for Sunday's general election. "May 13 was not
a day of glory for Malaysians. It was a day of shame and sorrow,"
lamented Goh.
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