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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, No 15. July 3 1974

Racism another government plot

Racism another government plot

Dear Sir,

It is indeed encouraging to see that so many Malaysian students turned up for the forum conducted by Robert Pui, The overwhelming attendance and enthusiastic response strongly showed the discontent and the anger of Malaysian students towards their fascist government. I hope this sort of unity will bind all Malaysians tighter in their struggle for democratic rights and political freedom in the future!

The purpose of the forum was to discuss Kirk's statement on the implementation of the Malay Language Test requirement for all Malaysian students intending to come over to NZ from 1976 onwards. Unfortunately the meeting strayed from this main theme. It created a misleading idea that the implementation is not fair just to East Malaysian students (as if it is fair to West Malaysian students). A lot of time was spent on the discussion on whether the implementation should be postponed or not. The deviation from the main issue was further accelerated by some bloody swines.

It is very clear that our fascist home government is extending its long-practised racist policy into NZ and the implementation implies that Mr Kirk has agreed to supply the tool for, shit-stirring racial disunity among Malaysians! All these years, overseas students coming here are subjected to the quota system of passing the LATOS test set by the NZ Government; not the Malaysian authorities have decided to implement the Malay Language Test as a pretext to take complete control over those intending to come here in the future so that the students would be highly selective to suit the purposes of the Malaysian government. While fighting against this implementation, we mustn't fall into the trap set by the government aiming to create racial hatred among Chinese, Malays and Indians.

Let us not fail to see that such steps undertaken by the Malaysian government coincide with the recent arrest of Khoo Ee Liam and the ever advancing progress of the Malaysian students movements to fight for the civil liberty and the freedom of expression!

Ali bin Ahman