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Friday, 05 September 2008 10:32

DALAM rangka penyelidik dan membuat memperakukan mencalonkan Abdul Samad bin Ismail untuk Anugerah Magsaysay pada tauhn 1993/94 saya merujuk kepada buku The Voices of Asia karangan James A Michener.

Dalam buku yang dicetak oleh Random House pada tahun 1951 itu, Abdul Samad adalah antara suara Asia baru yang diketengahkan oleh Michener.

Michener (1907-1997) adalah penulis terkemuka Amerika yang menghasilkan karya seperti Tales of the South Pacific, Return to Paradise dan Centennial menemui Abdul Samad di Singapura.

Dalam cacatannya, Michener berkata berapa hari selepas pertemuan itu dia mendapat berita bahawa wartawan muda Melayu itu ditangkap dan dipenjarakan oleh penjajah Inggeris.

Abdul Samad atau lebih dikenali dengan panggilan Pak Samad menerima Anugerah Magsaysay pada tahun 1994.

Lama sebelum namanya menjadi sebutan harian di Malaysia, Singapura dan Indonesia dia sudah dikenal pasti oleh Michener sebagai suara Asia baru dan oleh penjajah Inggeris sebagai nasionalis Asia yang berbahaya.

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written by cwy, September 05, 2008 10:53:23
Pak Samad is a great Malaysian!
May his soul rest in peace!
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written by cheekhiaw, September 05, 2008 13:07:38
SAMAD'S REMINDER

To silence the people that do not agree with them, people in power conveniently tag their nemeses with vouge labels used by super-powers to hide their evil designs.

'Communist' was the convenient tag in the 20th century, and 'terrorist' in the 21st.

As a result, many souls were not just incarcerated without due process or access to fair trial, but were to live the rest of their lives not only in anonymity but with the 'evil' labels assigned to them but the abuser.

It was the abuse of local power hitching a ride on global fears perpetuated by the rich resources of the global super powers.

Only those close to them would ever know who they really were and what they truly stood for.

That is why non-laws like the ISA are so evil.

So whatever people like Abdul Samad Ismail stood for, their contributions should at least be to remind us that such non-laws serve only the purposes of the evil and should be done away with.

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