Not
many know this, but Chinese of Kuantan should be thankful to Tun Razak.
After he went underground to join Wataniah forces which was part of
Force 136, he was assigned to lead a group of men to save the Sultan of
Pahang. Japanese tried to capture the Sultan (circumstances unknown why
the Japanese wanted to capture the Sultan and how he evaded the
Japanese), but couldn't find him after Japanese forces clashed with
communist forces. Japanese forces, angry at not being able to capture
the Sultan, spread leaflets in Malay in the area claiming the Sultan was
killed by Chinese. Tun Razak's unit arrived to find the Sultan after
the Japanese left and found the leaflet. He instructed his men to
collect all leaflets and destroy them.
My
father too knew Tun Razak. He says that TR was not racist. During WW2
he would give my dad lift to Central Market (sell chickens/eggs) and on
his way back pick-up to Bentong. They used to go swimming with other
boys some of whom not Malay.
Tr was also close to another Ajit, whose house he visited often and always made a beeline to the kitchen to scoff on the chapattis there.
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