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