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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37, No. 10. May 22, 1974

Concentration Camps

page 18

Concentration Camps

Dear Sir,

The letter written by Suara Ra'ayat is the greatest masterpiece indeed to quote William Chang's words.

I agree with Suara Ra'ayat that the articles "To be and not to be" and "Bed Time Story" are racist articles insulting the working people of being stupid and having no guts to tight injustice even though they are oppressed. This is irrelevant to reality. The author forgets that every year many people from all races are thrown into concentration camps for opposing injustice in Malaysia, Recently the bosses of MCA likw Tun Tan, Michael Chen etc. were calling for the Chinese to unite together to fight for their own rights and UMNO bosses are echoing the same thing. The UMNO bosses even accused the Chinese of controlling the economy. MCA bosses cooperate with the UMNO bosses in calling the Chinese to unite, but unite against whom, surely not against Michael Chen or Tun Tan or other Government heads, but against the other races. The point I want to stress is if the bosses really care for the welfare of the people, they should call on the races to unite rather than peddling racist lines.

In the letters to Salient criticising Suara Ra'ayat none of them dare clarify or deny this central issue, but only challenged him on minor points.

S.C. Lim