As Tunku saw it: Maintaining the Merdeka spirit for a multi-racial Malaysia


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 31 Aug 2013

As we celebrate 56 years of the collective blood, sweat and tears of our ancestors and our peers, it seems that a simple love of this land and of each other is what is needed. And surely no one person exemplified that more than our first Prime Minister.

"But to me, his strong and principled stand as to what Malaysia represented made all the difference.

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Merdeka , History , Tunku Abdul Rahman , Politics

   

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