Hidden Heroes: Snapshots of A True Malaysian Patriot's Life (2018) Author: Lai Chee Seng Having gone through life hanging on a thread, living precariously one day at a time, having been shot in the thigh and miraculously surviving the communist terrorists' watchlist, S/Sergeant S. Kesavan would be the last person to empathise with the struggles of Chin Peng and his band of 'self-appointed' freedom fighters. In his eyes and the people of his generation, MPAJA and their successors can never be viewed as liberators of the land of Malaya from the Japanese and later the British colonial masters. No amount of facts and cajoling with the idea that history was written by victors and that the propaganda machine changed the psychology of the nation to look at them as the bad guys are going to going to convince S/S Kesavan of the genuine altruistic intentions of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM). He was there to experience the brutality of the members of CPM who decided...
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