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Articles, Opinions & Views: Revolutionary with a Heart for the Common Man! By James Ritchie

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Afganistan's plains and

the women come out to cut up what remains,
Just roll to your rifle

and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur

" “We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace,
for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."

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Revolutionary with a Heart for the Common Man! By James Ritchie
Friday, January 27, 2023
Tun Ahmad Zaidi

If my father were alive today, he would be exactly108 years old!

A posthumous child of a 1st World War Scotsman and Thai-Chinese mother, Johnny Ritchie was Malaysia’s first local Sarawak constabulary Commissioner. Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman had sent my father to Kuching and told him: “John, keep an eye on Ahmad Zaidi who is a key person ….” The Tengku had good reason to make this remark because Zaidi, Malaysia’s most sought-after anti-Malaysia politician, was on the run.

Even though Zaidi was the most qualified bumiputera student holding a Masters degree from Robert Gordon Technical College from Aberdeen, he had joined the Indonesian revolution after the first World War. The adopted son of Wan Adruce and Sharifah Mai, the daughter of the renowned nationalist Sharif Mashor who had been exiled to Singapore, he was a brilliant student.

At the age of five, he studied at the Mandarin-medium Chung Hua Primary school and Abang Ali in Sibu and by 12 had passed his standard seven exams at St Thomas’ in Kuching. After his Junior Cambridge, the 15-year-old left for the Anglo-Chinese school in Singapore where he was the only Sarawak Malay to pass the Senior Cambridge School Certificate examination.

In 1940 he was sent to Sultan Idris Teachers College in Tanjong Malim where he was among the youngest students. His adventure started after this; he returned to Japanese-occupied Singapore and was indoctrinated by a Malay nationalist Pahang’s Ibrahim Yakub who was the head of the Malayan Kesatuan Muda Melayu (KMM).

I had the opportunity to pen Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce’s memoir-- Son of Sarawak”–the fifth Governor of Sarawak. My journey to Kuching started in 1967 after I completed my senior Cambridge exams at Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Star.

During my time the Cambridge exams results were based on six subjects and I enrolled with St Thomas’s with “flying colour”-three distinctions A1 in English, A2s in Geography and three Credit C3s with total aggregates of 17—not bad for a form 5D student who was destined to fail!

I arrived during the during the tumultuous era when Sarawakians were divided on the issue of whether their leaders had made the correct decision to become a part of the Malaysian Federation. A socialist and political idealist, Zaidi led one faction that was opposed to formation of Malaysia. A Sibu Melanau of poor famers, Zaidi was the son of Muhammed Noor and Siti Sadiah; was born in a sampan as his pregnant mother was being rushed across the Rajang River to the home of a “bidan” midwife.

Given away for adoption, his foster father was Wan Adruce who was married to Sharifah Mai, father of the legendary rebel Sharif Mashor who was banished to Singapore by James Brooke. After the Japanese occupied Malaya. Zaidi left for Java to study at Buitenzorg veterinary College in Bogor. Only 20, Zaidi was caught up in Indonesia’s Independence struggle against the Dutch in August 17, 1945, where his peers included President Sukarno, Indonesia’s first vice president Mohammad Hatta and army chief General Radin Sudirman.

On January 24, 1948 after his two years as a seasoned revolutionary who fought against the Dutch, he return to Sarawak he became one of first six teaching pioneers at Batu Lintang college in Kuching under M.G.Dickson. A year later he attended Robert Gordons College in Aberdeen before returning to Kuching in 1955 to join the Education department. In 1956 he joined the anti-British struggle of Barisan Pemuda Sarawak (BPS).

Zaidi was among the first Sarawakians to hold talks on the formation of Malaysia with Tunku Abdul Rahman and Home Minister Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie in Sibu. On the anti-cession movement assassination of Sir Duncan Stewart, he said: “I told Robert Jitam (one of the BPS vice presidents) that the anti-cession movement was not the right vehicle for the Independence…

“There was no difference being ruled by the Brooke family or the British government because they were both neo-colonialists”. Initially Zaidi agreed to the formation of Malaysia but circumstances led to his abhorrence of colonists such as the Brooke family who usurped Sarawak from the Sultan of Brunei.

However, Zaidi was opposed to armed struggle having been involved in the bitter Indonesian revolution as a young man. On June 30, 1957 and the newly-elected BPS president Zaidi spoke about the impending communist threat and the British plan to amalgamate the Borneo states with Malaya into a Federation.

He realised a large majority of the educated elite in Sarawak were pro-British and the only way to protect the natives from the Malaysia plan was to team up with Indonesia because the people shared a common border and culture. He said: “If the more affluent communist -influenced Chinese took control, I fear it will be a matter of time before there was a bumiputera uprising.

“Even though these groups (of communists) were also fighting for independence, their new society meant switching from British imperialism to Chinese communism.” On January 3, 1963 heard the news that the government had framed charges against him as the Special Branch kept a close watch on his movements.

In early September 1963 he received news that Indonesian Defence Minister General Haris Nasution had organised a rescue plan for him to leave Sarawak for Jakarta. At dusk on the eve of Malaysia Day, a group of armed Indonesian volunteers arrived at his hideout in Telok Simpor and ushered him to a creek. He met a Chinese friend, Heng Hua fisherman Lim Poh Leong who owned a “kotak” boat and they left for Pontianak together.

As the kotak weaved through the maze of mangroves and nipah palms to the open sea, they merged with other “Heng Hua” fishermen in dozens of boats waiting to send their respected VIP friend.
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