The beauty of celebrating diversity

Mohamed Arshad (second from left) shaking hands with a soldier involved in disarming Cambodian forces.

Unlike his peers who wanted to be doctors or even astronauts, Brig-Jen (Rtd) Datuk Mohamed Arshad Raji had set his sights firmly on joining the military since he was a young boy.

“I grew up at a time where I was always surrounded by soldiers. Whenever I returned to Hulu Langat for the school holidays, I could see Australian and British soldiers patrolling our village as it was in the midst of the first Malayan Emergency,” recalled Mohamed Arshad, 79.