Yesterday was June 4 寫在6/4廿三週年之後

Yesterday is 4th of June, 2012, the 23rd anniversay of 6/4 Tiananmen Square. It was strangely quiet on the news and the web. I had to search for the news about the memorial activities. And equally natural and normal, there is very little activities in Taiwan, The Republic of China. Just the usual annual speech on 6/4 from the president, and even that got very little news coverage in Taiwan. I actually had to dig on the web to see a little piece mentioning the speech, and no full text available. Looks like the memory of it is fading away, it is only still fresh in the memory of the parents of those who were killed on 4th June, 1989, at Tiananmen Square.

And of course, there is no news report about any memorial activities in Malaysia. Especially since Bersih 3.0 428, think the government is going remind itself of what people could do? And not to mention Malaysia is not going to ruin her diplomatic relationship with China.

The 23rd anniversay of Tiananmen Square reminds me of the other massacres, that happened in Malaysia during the WWII, and the massacres committed by Colonial British after WWII. The descendants, and survivors of the massacres committed finally take the UK crown to court in UK this year. But very little news coverage. And no follow-up coverage, naturally.

This is Malaysia, our journalism is still far behind what the journalists in countries like US, UK, Germany considered to be the norm, that is the newspapers, TV will actually send journalists to do follow-up reports on major issues, or investigate the organized criminal activites, case in point: BBC website posted a series by a journalist from Eastern Europe, who went undercover to investigate the organized criminal activites in human-trafficiking and arrangement of illegal workers from Eastern Europe to UK. While the government admitted human-trafficking is happeneing in Malaysia, we do not see any indepth report about that, much less undercover investigation.

昨天是２０１２年６月４日，六四的廿三週年，在網絡上，報紙，電視的新聞上都是靜悄悄的。在台灣的只看到中華民國台灣省的總統馬英九先生的年度演講詞，那也只是一則短短的新聞報導，全文也不見刋出。

在馬來西亞自然是甚麽活動也沒有。就算有也不會有任何新聞報導了，你以爲馬來西亞政府會讓人民聯想到４２８啊？當然也不要得罪控制大陸的中華人民共和國了。

天安門２３週年令我想到在馬來西亞在二次世界大戰時發生的多場大屠殺，還有戰後英殖民政府所幹下的。英殖民政府的屠殺的倖存者，受害人的後代今年終於到英國去告英國政府了；只有零星的新聞報導。自然也沒有追踪報導進展了。

這就是馬來西亞，新聞報導是不會有深入追踪跟進的。在英美，甚至德國等國家已經視爲平常的追踪，調查式的報導，在馬來西亞是看不到的。

我是失望的。這就是馬來西亞。