The ugly truth.

"If it had not been Teoh Beng Hock’s brother-in-law that day but instead it had been a Malay with a songkok wearing an Umno or Perkasa shirt, these Chinese would have quickly stepped aside and would not have even dared stare at the chap."

The above is a quotation from Raja Petra's 'No Holds Bar' in Malaysia Today. I copied it as there is so much truth in those few lines. It is most unfortunate that due to the positions certain Chinese leaders(?) hold, they forget they are in the same position as every non-Bumiputra in the country. They know their 'step-children' status yet they would not dare to question and fight for the rights of those their party is supposed to represent. One day, I hope their children and grandchildren would question them about this. Yet, these very Chinese leaders would allow their followers to beat up another Chinese just because those weak, outnumbered Chinese were fighting the cause of a dead opposition man.

Why was there the need to beat up a person; and there is no possibility of denial that such a thing took place as a photograph of the MCA deputy minister watching unperturbed as the incident took place can be seen in the Malaysian Insider; when those bereaved people were merely seeking justice for a dead person. And those people seeking such justice were Chinese. Should not the MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) be listening to these Chinese even though the dead person was an opposition man?

The deputy minister with his big group of supporters could have just ignored them if that deputy minister had not wanted to be of any help to the three men and one lady. Well, the MCA people had sufficient people to bully these four helpless people. Furthermore, like Raja Petra said: They were not Malays, UMNO (United Malays National Organisation) big brothers or Perkasa (a non-government Malay group which is racial in its rantings) people who they would not even dare to stare at. I know many would agree with these words of Raja Petra as this is true.

The brother-in-law and sister of the dead man as well as the two friends who accompanied them to approach the MCA were bold as they knew their number was small. They faced an unfriendly crowd but to achieve their fight for justice, they must have thrown caution to the wind and so received the consequences of their action; being beaten up.

Who are the real heroes? Would the winner of that scuffle have dared to beat up an UMNO or Perkasa man? No! It happened because the MCA crowd knew those poor Chinese were not capable of putting up a fight.