Dong Zong and MCA and Nazri

Dong Zong and MCA and Nazri

On 26 Sept, 2012, the Minister in Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz actually received the memorandum on behalf of Najib from five representatives of Dong Zong, led by its chairman Yap Sin Tian and vice-chairman Chow Siew Hon, at Parliament, in front of the press.

What is going on here? In front of the media, while receiving the memorandum, Nazri actually said something that sounds like supporting the cause of the of Dong Zong. According to theSun Daily (Malaysia, thesundaliy.my), Nazri actually said, “It is not wrong … We should not have any narrow views about them.”

Shudders, the moment I read this, and more shudders after I gave it a lot of thoughts.

For years Dong Zong, along with the Chinese community in Peninsular Malaysia have been campaigning to have an Independent Chinese Secondary School in Kuantan. And this years, out of the blue, the government gave a letter of approval for an Independent Chinese Secondary School in Kuantan. Rejoice! This is a generous gift from BN government, all Chinese in Malaysia are eternally in debt to BN for it and should be grateful for the rest of the eternity. And remember to vote for MCA in the coming General Election, for this is the fruit of the hard labour of the brave, selfless, relentless MCA , especially the Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Kai Siong, through his position in the cabinet; and THIS can only be achieved if the BN is in power.

Really? Show us the letter of approval, we want to see the details and fine prints, as we have learned from years of broken promises and deceits, especially from MCA. Bizarrely this time around, only Yap Sin Tian and Chow Siew Hon showed the mistrust by keep asking for the publicize of the letter of approval, while the columnists and reporters in Chinese news media, and the other factions in Dong Zong and Chinese communities are singing the same tune as MCA, that the letter of approval really granted a new Independent Chinese Secondary School to Kuantan. The people from Kuantan even said it publicly that they had personally read the letter of approval, there is absolute no problem.

After a few weeks of quibbling on the media, and internet, suddenly all Chinese newspaper published this news:

The letter of approval was posted on a blog, and according to the scanned copy of the letter of approval on that blog, the school to be set up in Kuantan must be conducted in Bahasa Malaysia(the official language of Malaysia, the Malay standardized by Malaysian government).

MCA came out to say that the details of the letter of approval is irrelevant, it is an Independent Chinese Secondary School, as long as MCA say so.

Naturally more quibbling followed, and then some group tries to topple Yap and Chow from Dong Zong (which is still not settled yet on 29 Sept, 2012), and naturally even more quibbling followed, leading to the point of Dong Zong placing advertisement in Chinese newspapers, calling for a gathering on Sept 26, to force Datuk Dr Wee to resign and to save the Chinese schools, and it ended with the “event” mentioned at the beginning of this post.

According to theSun, in the memorandum, Dong Zong made 8 demands to the Prime Minister. And according to the Chinese newspapers, Dong Zong made 8 pleas to the Prime Minister. Anyway, they are just the same 8 issues the Chinese Malaysian have been campaigning for years to be resolved, and they are actually just touching on the same old issues Chinese have been campaigning, lots of other issues either written or unwritten in the advertisement in the Chinese newspaper are missing, especially the call to force Datuk Dr Wee to resign. Typically Chinese behaviour.

Nazri actually showed some kind of support for Dong Zong. This is scary. Over the years, especially during the reign of Dr M, whenever Chinese communities said anything about setting up more Chinese school, sufficient number of teachers for Chinese schools, and all the other long standing issues, UMNO will come out to scold them, intimidating them, with MCA tagging behind, intimidating the people they are supposed to be representing/protecting.

Now Nazri, an important figure in UMNO, actually showed support for Dong Zong? I know Malaysia is bound by law to held General Election before mid 2013, and the suspense of when the parliament is going to be resolved is killing the politicians, those in the government offices and the opposition alike. But Nazri? What are they going to do to Chinese Malaysian after the General Election? Kill all of them? In 2007/2008, just a few months befoe the election, during the General Meeting of UMNO, they actually lifted up keris, as a war-cry statement. Officially that was not a war-cry, but everyone who saw it on the news knew the true meaning of it. So Malaysian Chinese, especially those in Dong Zong, remember the keris, and have nightmares after Nazri received your memorandum, they are not going to forgive you for making Nazri making this kind of statement. As for MCA? They can just jump into South China Sea and swim their way back to China, as their master UMNO had been telling them to do all these years.

Nazri showed support for Dong Zong? Shudders.