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On May 11, 2020 Umno or the United Malay National Organisation, one of the main political party in Malaysia celebrated its 74th Anniversary. Umno was formed in 1946 during the colonial era with an objective of gaining independence for Malaya. I was born in 1939 and saw the development of the country from day one.  There is a few coincident here between me and Umno. To begin with the year 1946. It was the year when all schools in Malaya was reopen after the war and it was in January 1946 that I start schooling at the Sekolah Melayu Teruntun in Kuantan. I was then seven years old and been a Malay we all start our schooling at a Malay school. It the best thing that happens to me because not many Malay at that time got the opportunity to go to school. Thanks for the vision of my father I am among the few that got to have a good education.  Then one day in May 1946 and I now believed it had to be the 11th of May 1946, the day Umno was formed, that my father took me with him t...

During the Second World War the British Authority in Malaya was defeated by the Japanese Army in 1941, thus the Malay states in the Peninsular became an occupied territories of the Japanese Imperial Army. The Japanese Occupation only lasted till 1945 when the British Authority defeated the Japanese and return to continue their colonisation of the Malay states.  After the Japanese was defeated in 1945 and before the return of the British Administration back to Malaya there was a vacuum of power in the country for two weeks. During this time the MCP (Malayan Communist Party) decided to takeover the authority since they had the weapon. The local call this rebellion as the Bintang Tiga [three stars on their cap] and a frightening episode of their history.  Remember the MCP help the British Authority to fight the Japanese thus had weapons and they stashed it in the jungle  when the Japanese soldiers left; for future use. For two weeks it was mayhem and many people got kill...