Chin Peng honours memory of Sybil Kathigasu


Although Mrs. K or Madam Sybil Kathigasu passed away in Scotland 14 years before I was born in Ipoh in 1962, she has never been a strange or alien character to me because when I was very young, grandmother had taught me to be forever grateful to the Christian Eurasian woman who gave father free medicines and treatment while he was a sickly and poor young refugee in Papan.

I also remember Uncle Ho Thean Fook @ Moru as a occasional customer of our coffeeshop in the 1970s.

Last August, many grateful residents of Ipoh gathered at the Yok Choy Old Boys' Association to pay respect to the great Christian in conjunction with the launching of the Chinese-language translation of her wartime memoirs No Dram of Mercy as well as the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese fascism and liberation of Ipoh.
Another 'Chin Peng book' held up
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/51364
Memoirs of Ipoh’s WWII heroine being reprinted
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/45452
May the name of Madam Sybil Kathigasu liveth forever more
http://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/38385
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