KUALA LUMPUR — The MCA told Utusan Malaysia today to respect the dead after the Umno-aligned newspaper alleged that Chin Peng’s date of death on Malaysia Day had been falsified.
MCA publicity chief Datuk Heng Seai Kie said Utusan Malaysia had gone overboard and called on the Malay-language daily to stop making comments that would hurt the feelings of the late Communist leader’s family.
“What difference does it make, whether he dies on Malaysia Day or not?” Heng told The Malay Mail Online today.
“Why should we be so suspicious and think so negatively about others? It shouldn’t be. Whatever it is – we should respect the death,” she added.
Mingguan Malaysia, the weekend edition of Utusan Malaysia, quoted an anonymous source today as saying that Chin Peng had breathed his last on September 15 in Bangkok, Thailand, and not September 16 as reported.
The newspaper also claimed that Chin Peng’s date of death on the 50th anniversary of Malaysia Day had been faked by certain quarters to make his passing a memorable event.
But Gan Ping Sieu, an MCA vice-president, told The Malay Mail Online today that no one chooses their time to die.
“Admire the extraordinary imagination ability of some,” Gan said sarcastically.
“Verify the truth, before making any wild comments. Can easily verify with the Thai authorities,” he added.
News of Chin Peng’s death first broke on Bangkok Post on September 16, with the Thai news portal reporting that he was pronounced dead at 6.20 am and that he had died of old age in a Bangkok hospital.
Chin Peng, whose real name was Ong Boon Hua, was 88 years old.
Putrajaya has insisted on prohibiting the former Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) secretary-general’s ashes from being interred in his hometown in Sitiawan, Perak.
But the MCA, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and even former Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor have told the federal government to respect the 1989 Hat Yai Peace Accord signed between Malaysia, Thailand and the CPM that allowed CPM members, who laid down their arms, to return to their homeland.
Lawyers have also said that there is no specific law that Putrajaya can use to prohibit Chin Peng’s ashes from being brought into Malaysia.
Criminal lawyer Amer Hamzah Arshad questioned earlier today how the authorities would be able to ascertain if the ashes in question belonged to Chin Peng and asked if a DNA test would be conducted Chin Peng will be cremated in Bangkok tomorrow.
P/S: DATE HAD BEEN FALSIFIED....WTF!!!
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