By Michael Chick
Nestled
deep in Minangkabau Country, in Sumatera, lies a small town called
Pariaman. This quaint hamlet today is quiet, and uneventful. However,
words cannot decribe the horror of the bloodbath which occurred here
exactly 50 years ago. 25 Chinese families were brutally murdered in
their sleep in cold blood. They had their throats slit with sharp Zinc
roofing shards. Every single one of the 180 odd Chinese residents were
butchered this day 50 years ago. Their bodies thrown into the sea left
to rot.
The 25 families were guilty of one and only one crime.
They were successful business people. And for that, they paid with
their lives. Today, as a result, Pariaman is economically decadent.
Shops barely stay financially afloat. Most shops barely make enough to
pay rent and utilities. Crime rates skyrocket. Corrupt Police Officers
leech off the residents, who already barely make ends meet. Citizens
steal, rob and plunder from each other, and many shopkeepers have to
sleep in their stores just in case "Kedai kena Maling" (shops get
robbed), as one elderly resident so aptly put it. Dark shadowy figures
stagger, engaged in Glue Sniffing, Narcotics, and shifty Drug Pushers
ply the streets after dark. Women and children are preciously locked at
home after nightfall, for fear of their lives. You will never see them
after dark.
The penniless children of Pariaman wander to Malaysia, hoping to make a few bucks. Instead, they are beaten, raped, and dumped overboard at sea. Left to drown in the Straits of Malacca by the Malaysian Police.
Pariaman Residents thought that to win the economic race, was to obliterate their competitor. What they failed to realize, was that in fact it was not the 180 Chinese throats that they slit, but their own. Their genocidal act is still felt by the entire Commuunity today.
http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/8148/1/
you reap what you sow..........today the Indonesians are still at it........refuse to sell us sand when they got thousands of uninhabited islands........etc.
They will never learn
pass the bomb pls