According to an editorial in the New Straits Times, the Chinese in Malaysia " is a community that traditionally keeps their thoughts and feelings on issues to themselves" and "they rarely open up" but I saw no New Straits Times reporter or writer present yesterday at the public launching - which was conducted mainly in Prince Andrew's mother tongue which the newspaper's reporters and writers understand anyway - of Dr. Kua Kia Soong's May 13 - Declassified Documents on the Malaysian Racial Riot of 1969 (Petaling Jaya, Suaram, 2007) held at the Kuala Lumpur-Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall. There is also no news report of the book launch or even the existence of such an important book in the New Strais Times today.New heaven, new earth for Zainuddin Maidin
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posted by James Wong Wing-On at 1:46 PM
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Hi James,
Basic Information control textbook.
Step (1) Deny - pretend no such event is occuring. In the old days newspapers and TV were pretty much the only mass communication tool this was often good enough.
Step (2) Denigrate - They will criticise the book as "inaccurate", "politically motivated"
Step (3) Delegalise - The book will be banned.
Step (4) Detain - In the bad old days the author may "disappear".
Goebbels, Stalin, Mao , were all experts at this, our local practitioner is Lord Zam.
You don't remember Senator Joseph McCarthy and his supporters in the US in the 1950s, General Pinochet in Chile in 1970s-1990s, Chiang Kai Sek from 1949 to 1976 in Taiwan, General Suharto in Indonesia from 1965 to 1998? With due respect, I must say your Cold War or one-sided bias has not been totally erased yet.
and Marcos in the Philippines from 1969 to 1986
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