Little enthusiasm for May 13 truth commission

 

Rahmah Ghazali | May 19, 08 4:00pm

Pakatan Rakyat’s Proposal for a truth and reconciliation commission to uncover the facts behind the May 13 racial riots has found no support among older Malaysians.Deputy premier Najib Abdul Razak said yesterday that this should be left as an episode in history that must not be repeated, and that [...]

The ’social contract’ and May 13

Joe Fernandez

 

The current debate over the ‘social contract’ is not the first time that attempts have been made to revise history for reasons of political expediency.
Nearly 40 years ago, after the searing Sino-Malay race riots of Friday, May 13, 1969 in Kuala Lumpur, many historians attributed the bloodshed to the ‘breakdown’ of the ‘social contract’ [...]