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January 14, 2015
Tun Musa Hitam on his mentor, Tun Abdul Razak
To commemorate the 39th death anniversary of Malaysia’s second prime minister and “Father of Development” Tun Abdul Razak, The Malaysian Insider is running a series of interviews with his colleagues and close associates who, with Razak, steered Malaysia through the early days of rebuilding following the race riots of May 13, 1969.
Earlier today, we heard from four of Razak’s sons on his legacy and their personal memories of their father.
Tun Musa Hitam
In this article, former Deputy Prime Minister Tun Musa Hitam speaks about Razak’s leadership style and of his experience working with the man who brought him back to UMNO after his expulsion. Musa had been expelled from UMNO after the race riots over a fall-out with the then Prime Minister and UMNO President, Tunku Abdul Rahman.
Readmitted to the party by Razak, Musa went on to rise in UMNO and also held the post of Minister of Primary Industries in Tun Razak’s Cabinet.
Despite the political tension surrounding Tunku’s departure and Razak’s ascension as Prime Minister, Musa remembers his mentor for his gentleness, patience and consultative approach, coupled with his firmness t
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“The Germans are honourable and civilised people, and have done much good since they have been here.”
“My friend, they have eaten you.”
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), 42.
Afterlives, by Abdulrazak Gurnah, brings us the story of intertwined “little lives” in German-occupied Africa. The teutonophilic Ilyas who voluntarily joined the Schutztruppe, Hamza who was taken under the colonial wing of a military officer, and his wife – Ilyas’s sister Afiya, who loved her brother for ‘rescuing’ her from a life of abuse and drudgery. Gurnah illustrates the stories of these lives, and pins them to historical moments in Germany’s colonial history. He presents these characters as individuals, whose stories intersect yet remain their own – and he places them within an undeniable historical tapestry. It is important for white Germans to acknowledge a colonial history and their part in global colonialism. Furthermore, acknowledging colonial brutality should not be a choice dictated by what additional sins a German person can or cannot “bear” about their past, but rather one that considers the consequences of said brutality in the Global South.
“Germany doesn’t want to think about its colonial history for a variety of reasons,” In an event for A