{"id":5937,"date":"2013-09-05T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T06:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2013-09-05T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T06:49:11","slug":"quit-duping-the-people-through-historical-revisionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/quit-duping-the-people-through-historical-revisionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit duping the people through historical revisionism"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Steven Sim Chee Keong<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I am disappointed by the arrest of Sasterawan Negara (National Laurate) A Samad Said or more fondly known as Pak Samad on 3 September following the arrest of two other activists, Hishammudin Rais and Adam Adli a day before him.<\/p>\n

The reason for the arrests was that the trio raised the \u201cBendera Sang Saka Malaya\u201d on the eve of National Day at Dataran Merdeka.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time police acted upon such excuse. Last year, a blogger was also investigated for raising the \u201cBendera Sang Saka Malaya”.<\/p>\n

Bendera Sang Saka Malaya, is the flag of Malaya (Tanah Melayu) proposed by the independence movement AMCJA-PUTERA which consisted of prominent figures who struggled for our country\u2019s freedom from colonial rule, some even way before any leaders from UMNO or Parti Perikatan.<\/p>\n

Hence, to intimidate a well-respected Malay figure such as Pak Samad and the other activists just because they were commemorating a part of our country\u2019s history of independence struggle is a despicable act of historical revisionism by the ruling regime, Barisan Nasional.<\/p>\n

Historical revisionism refers to the distortion of historical facts to give a false account of what actually happened. Such act is usually done by regimes trying to pervert history for the sake of their own political interests.<\/p>\n

One other example of recent historical revisionism is the film Tanda Putera, which received funding from the government to show a distorted version of history from the narrow political perspective of UMNO-Barisan Nasional.<\/p>\n

Hence, I urge the Barisan Nasional government to quit spreading its political propaganda through historical revisionism, including in the subject of Sejarah (History) in schools. The government should not manipulate history as a political tool to ensure the survival of the ruling party. And finally, I also urge that all the above charges on Pak Samad, Hishammudin Rais and Adam Adli be dropped immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Steven Sim Chee Keong I am disappointed by the arrest of Sasterawan Negara (National Laurate) A Samad Said or more fondly known as Pak Samad on 3 September following the arrest of two other activists, Hishammudin Rais and Adam Adli a day before him. The reason for the arrests was that the trio raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}