Build a monument, get leaders to pledge never again, says May 13 eyewitness
- 5 years ago
An eyewitness to the May 13, 1969 riots proposed a monument be built in Sungai Buloh to remember the fallen victims and also serve as a site for leaders to make an annual pledge for the incident not to repeat.
Foong Yee, who was a 24-year-old probationary police inspector when the riots happened, said this is how he thinks the country should remember what happened on that day.
“We have so many monuments remembering fallen soldiers but here we have fallen victims of a bloodbath so let's have a monument where ministers and government leaders are present on a specific date to tell everybody else, never again,” he said during Malaysiakini’s May 13 forum yesterday themed ‘An Inter-Generational Conversation’ in Kuala Lumpur.
Foong Yee, who was a 24-year-old probationary police inspector when the riots happened, said this is how he thinks the country should remember what happened on that day.
“We have so many monuments remembering fallen soldiers but here we have fallen victims of a bloodbath so let's have a monument where ministers and government leaders are present on a specific date to tell everybody else, never again,” he said during Malaysiakini’s May 13 forum yesterday themed ‘An Inter-Generational Conversation’ in Kuala Lumpur.