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Monday, October 7, 2013
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Walimah anak skot Suhaimi Mohd Zuki, Wardieburn Camp , 6th Oct 2013
Photo Credit to Skot Aziz Din, Skot SecGen 34, Skot Ir Abdul Rahim Mohamad and Skot Nasir Ishak with thanks
'Lapor ni, nak makan cendol!'
'Burppp... gendang gendut tali kecapi, kenyang perut suka hati... aduuhh ngantuk pulak dahhh!'
Telly Savalas as Kojak!
The bride and groom
"It's a bird , its a plane, its HAMID SASEMAN!'
Grand old man, Abdullah Yusoff
'Hang amik gambaq aku ka, bagi sempoi sikit naaa..'
Ghombau most wanted!
yiowww!
yiowww!
Airforce wallahs on the left skot Amir Hashim & Skot Azizan, Skot Kamarudin n Skot Zain Salleh
Pilah blues Nasir Ishak left most, Abdul Rohim seated & Nasri Suhaimi rightmost
'wuwaaaiii ...lain macam jo waghih ni letak tgn kek bahu den... soghammm'
'And they lived happily ever after, yeayyyy...'
Mej (R) Shakri Salleh, RAMD
Saturday, October 5, 2013
And not even a pipsqueak....
"Despite that, the brave efforts of the ’19 Melayu Diraja Mekanise’ troop was so unrecognised and underplayed in the international media that it seemed like the Malaysian army played an insignificant, if not, an almost non-existent part in the mission. On this date twenty years ago, over 100 Malaysian soldiers put their lives at risk to rescue trapped American rangers in the war torn city of Mogadishu, Somalia." ~ link
Black Hawk Down! Newly-released footage from the Battle of Mogadishu shows the moment helicopter was shot down stranding US troops in enemy territory
- Twenty years after the Battle of Mogadishu, new footage sheds light on how a mission to kidnap two Somali lieutenants went awry
- The mission was 'flawless' until the men were ready to be airlifted out of the Somali capital
- That's the moment when two black hawk helicopters were shot down, stranding soldiers in the city hours
- Nineteen U.S. servicemen died in the overnight battle in enemy territory
- The 2001 film Black Hawk Down was based on the event
By Ashley Collman
Yesterday marked the 20 year anniversary of the Battle of Mogadishu. Two decades later, never-before-seen footage has been released of the operation that was depicted in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down. The footage was obtained by CBS' 60 Minutes and will air this Sunday as part of a special segment on the mission that went awry in the capital of Somalia. From 1993 to 1995, the United Nations had an operation in Somalia to create enough peace to continue humanitarian operations for civilians. < More.. >
Friday, October 4, 2013
'Umar Farouk namanye ' - 9th Jul 2013
Mabruk to Skot Abd Razak Abdul Rahman on being conferred his first 'Datukship'
Thursday, October 3, 2013
HUT GGK 48th Birthday Bash - 28th Sept 2013
Photo Credit to 'Flickr : Tentera Darat Malaysia'
Skot Zainal leftmost
Skot Muhammad Yusoff front row, 2nd from Left
Skot Zainal Mat 2nd row , 9th from left
Kesatria Angkatan Tentera , 3rd Oct 2013
Photo courtesy of Sec Gen 34 with thanks.
Photo below courtesy of 'Portal Rasmi Tentera Darat Malaysia'
Photo below courtesy of 'Portal Rasmi Tentera Darat Malaysia'
20 Years Ago, This Date....
Article courtesy of Astro Awani dated 3rd Oct 2013
Maj Gen Dato Md Rozi Baharom was the adjutant in RMC in 1979 with the rank of Captain.
Maj Gen Dato Md Rozi Baharom was the adjutant in RMC in 1979 with the rank of Captain.
The untold story of Black Hawk Down
T K Letchumy Tamboo | Updated: October 03, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR: On this date twenty years ago, over 100 Malaysian soldiers put their lives at risk to rescue trapped American rangers in the war torn city of Mogadishu, Somalia.
The rescue mission, carried out along with United States Rangers and the Delta Force commandos, left many including Malaysian Corporal Mat Aznan dead and nine other Malaysian soldiers injured.
Despite that, the brave efforts of the ’19 Melayu Diraja Mekanise’ troop was so unrecognised and underplayed in the international media that it seemed like the Malaysian army played an insignificant, if not, an almost non-existent part in the mission.
On this date twenty years ago, over 100 Malaysian soldiers put their lives at risk to rescue trapped American rangers in the war torn city of Mogadishu, Somalia.
In fact, the roles of the Malaysian troop during the incident which saw Somali militias shooting down two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, were so discounted in the 2001 American film Black Hawk Down that it hurt the Malaysian soldiers’ feelings.
One such person is retired major general Datuk Md Rozi Baharom.
The Deputy Commander for the Malaysian Battalion was only 42-years-old when he co-led the Malaysian troop to the streets of Mogadishu to extract Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his men.
He said his men, armed with 34 Armoured Personnel Carrier (ACP) and heavy firearms, aided the American soldiers to extract 70 trapped rangers while risking their lives.
Claiming to have suffered from severe injustice as depicted in the film, Md. Rozi prompted to write a book about the actual incident.
He also turned to film director Ahmad Yazid Ahmad Puad for help to produce a feature documentary to relate the other side of the story.
Ahmad Yazid, said he developed a keen interest in the story and agreed to produce the documentary.
“I am producing this documentary for the cinema in Malaysia. It will be the first local feature documentary to be shown in Malaysian cinemas.
“I have gotten British film and television producer, John Smithson to come on board as executive producer of the documentary.
“If everything goes well, the documentary will hit local cinemas towards the end of next year,” he said.
Smithson in recent years produced the Hollywood movie, 127 Hours, which was directed by Danny Boyle.
In 1993, famine and civil war have gripped Somalia, resulting in over 300,000 civilian deaths and a major United Nations peacekeeping operation.
On October 3rd, 1993, the United States army assembled a rescue team consisting of their own personnel and the United Nation mission peacekeeping troops including Malaysians.
In the next 12 hours, they fought their way to the battleground in the Bakara Market and successfully rescued over 70 trapped US soldiers.
T K Letchumy Tamboo | Updated: October 03, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR: On this date twenty years ago, over 100 Malaysian soldiers put their lives at risk to rescue trapped American rangers in the war torn city of Mogadishu, Somalia.
The rescue mission, carried out along with United States Rangers and the Delta Force commandos, left many including Malaysian Corporal Mat Aznan dead and nine other Malaysian soldiers injured.
Despite that, the brave efforts of the ’19 Melayu Diraja Mekanise’ troop was so unrecognised and underplayed in the international media that it seemed like the Malaysian army played an insignificant, if not, an almost non-existent part in the mission.
On this date twenty years ago, over 100 Malaysian soldiers put their lives at risk to rescue trapped American rangers in the war torn city of Mogadishu, Somalia.
In fact, the roles of the Malaysian troop during the incident which saw Somali militias shooting down two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, were so discounted in the 2001 American film Black Hawk Down that it hurt the Malaysian soldiers’ feelings.
One such person is retired major general Datuk Md Rozi Baharom.
The Deputy Commander for the Malaysian Battalion was only 42-years-old when he co-led the Malaysian troop to the streets of Mogadishu to extract Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his men.
He said his men, armed with 34 Armoured Personnel Carrier (ACP) and heavy firearms, aided the American soldiers to extract 70 trapped rangers while risking their lives.
Claiming to have suffered from severe injustice as depicted in the film, Md. Rozi prompted to write a book about the actual incident.
He also turned to film director Ahmad Yazid Ahmad Puad for help to produce a feature documentary to relate the other side of the story.
Ahmad Yazid, said he developed a keen interest in the story and agreed to produce the documentary.
“I am producing this documentary for the cinema in Malaysia. It will be the first local feature documentary to be shown in Malaysian cinemas.
“I have gotten British film and television producer, John Smithson to come on board as executive producer of the documentary.
“If everything goes well, the documentary will hit local cinemas towards the end of next year,” he said.
Smithson in recent years produced the Hollywood movie, 127 Hours, which was directed by Danny Boyle.
In 1993, famine and civil war have gripped Somalia, resulting in over 300,000 civilian deaths and a major United Nations peacekeeping operation.
On October 3rd, 1993, the United States army assembled a rescue team consisting of their own personnel and the United Nation mission peacekeeping troops including Malaysians.
In the next 12 hours, they fought their way to the battleground in the Bakara Market and successfully rescued over 70 trapped US soldiers.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Death of a one time adversary...
Chin Peng, Malaysian Rebel, Dies at 88
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: September 16, 2013
Chin Peng, a Communist guerrilla leader whose tenacious, bloody struggles for an independent Communist Malaysia pitted him against Japanese invaders, British colonialists and finally the government of what had become his own newly sovereign nation, died in exile on Monday in Bangkok. He was 88.
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: September 16, 2013
Chin Peng, a Communist guerrilla leader whose tenacious, bloody struggles for an independent Communist Malaysia pitted him against Japanese invaders, British colonialists and finally the government of what had become his own newly sovereign nation, died in exile on Monday in Bangkok. He was 88.
Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, said the cause was cancer, quoting a retired Thai military commander who had acted as a liaison between Mr. Chin and the authorities. Mr. Chin had lived in Thailand for many years.
Mr. Chin was the last surviving revolutionary leader to have successfully fought for independence from colonial rulers in Asia after World War II — a cohort that included Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Sukarno in Indonesia, Aung San in Burma (now Myanmar) and Norodom Sihanouk in Cambodia. When he finally laid down his arms in 1989, Mr. Chin was called “the world’s senior surviving guerrilla.”
Chin Peng was the nom de guerre of Ong Boon Hua, who had joined with the British to battle Japanese troops after they invaded what was then British Malaya in 1941. His honors for heroism included the Order of the British Empire.
But after the war, as the newly named head of Malaya’s Communist Party, he ordered an armed insurrection against the British colonial rulers, and when Malaya became independent of Britain in 1957, the insurgency morphed into a fight against the new government.
(Malaysia, consisting of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore, came into being in 1963. Singapore became independent of Malaysia in 1965.)
“I suppose I am the last of the region’s old revolutionary leaders,” Mr. Chin wrote in his 2003 memoir, “My Side of History. “It was my choice to lead from the shadows, away from the limelight.”
He may not have actually had a choice. By the mid-1950s, the British had effectively put down the Communist offensive, although a final peace agreement would not be signed until 1989. Mr. Chin disappeared, although his voice was heard on broadcasts of the clandestine Malaysian Revolution Radio. Then he fell silent, and it was assumed that years of living in the jungle had taken their final toll on him.
It turned out that in 1960 he fled to China, the principal backer of the Malaysian Communists, who themselves were mainly ethnic Chinese. He later moved to Thailand. After the 1989 peace pact, he tried to return to Malaysia but was refused entry.
Ong Boon Hua was reported to have been born on Oct. 21, 1924, in the Malaysian state of Perak. His father, an immigrant from Fujian Province in southeast China, made a good living selling and repairing bicycles, and sent him to English-language schools, where he excelled. Attracted to Communism as a means of fighting prejudice against Chinese-Malayans, he joined party youth organizations at 15.
Soon he left school and went to work for the party, which assigned him to lead three anti-Japanese organizations for students, teachers and shop assistants. After the Japanese invaded in December 1941, he became a liaison to British commandos. The Associated Press reported in 1989 that John Davis, a British officer, said of him, “Unusual ability, and commanded the natural respect of men without fuss or formality.”
After the war, Lai Teck, secretary general of the Malayan Communist Party, fled with most of its money after collaborating with both the Japanese and the British. Mr. Chin was placed in charge of investigating him, and was appointed to replace him in 1948 at age 24.
He ordered an armed struggle, perhaps on instructions from Moscow, and began by attacking two rubber plantations and methodically executing three planters. Twelve years of violence, which came to be known as the Malayan Emergency, ensued. A $250,000 reward was offered for information leading to Mr. Chin’s capture.
At the height of the conflict, some 70,000 British, Australian, New Zealand, Fijian, Gurkha and other British Commonwealth troops fought about 10,000 guerrillas. More than 10,000 fighters and civilians died between 1948 and 1960. Britain rescinded the Order of the British Empire it had granted him.
“I make no apologies for seeking to replace such an odious system with a form of Marxist socialism,” Mr. Chin wrote. “Colonial exploitation, irrespective of who were the masters, Japanese or British, was morally wrong.”
In 1955, Mr. Chin emerged from the jungle to negotiate with Malayan officials at a schoolhouse near the Thai-Malay border. Talks broke down after Malayan negotiators refused Mr. Chin’s demand to be part of a coalition government. Though the point was largely moot after Malaya’s independence in 1957, fighting sputtered on, with periodic escalations.
When it finally ended in 1989, some 1,200 guerrillas were allowed under the peace pact to returned to civilian life.
Mr. Chin thought the 1989 agreement provided for his own return to Malaysia, but he was denied in court on the grounds that he could not prove he was Malaysian, having lost his birth and citizenship certificates. Many said the real reason was a lingering resentment over the insurrection.
Information about his survivors was not available. Mr. Chin’s wife, Khoon Wah, is deceased. They had two sons. The Malaysian police have refused to allow his remains to be returned to his home country.
Mr. Chin was the last surviving revolutionary leader to have successfully fought for independence from colonial rulers in Asia after World War II — a cohort that included Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Sukarno in Indonesia, Aung San in Burma (now Myanmar) and Norodom Sihanouk in Cambodia. When he finally laid down his arms in 1989, Mr. Chin was called “the world’s senior surviving guerrilla.”
Chin Peng was the nom de guerre of Ong Boon Hua, who had joined with the British to battle Japanese troops after they invaded what was then British Malaya in 1941. His honors for heroism included the Order of the British Empire.
But after the war, as the newly named head of Malaya’s Communist Party, he ordered an armed insurrection against the British colonial rulers, and when Malaya became independent of Britain in 1957, the insurgency morphed into a fight against the new government.
(Malaysia, consisting of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore, came into being in 1963. Singapore became independent of Malaysia in 1965.)
“I suppose I am the last of the region’s old revolutionary leaders,” Mr. Chin wrote in his 2003 memoir, “My Side of History. “It was my choice to lead from the shadows, away from the limelight.”
He may not have actually had a choice. By the mid-1950s, the British had effectively put down the Communist offensive, although a final peace agreement would not be signed until 1989. Mr. Chin disappeared, although his voice was heard on broadcasts of the clandestine Malaysian Revolution Radio. Then he fell silent, and it was assumed that years of living in the jungle had taken their final toll on him.
It turned out that in 1960 he fled to China, the principal backer of the Malaysian Communists, who themselves were mainly ethnic Chinese. He later moved to Thailand. After the 1989 peace pact, he tried to return to Malaysia but was refused entry.
Ong Boon Hua was reported to have been born on Oct. 21, 1924, in the Malaysian state of Perak. His father, an immigrant from Fujian Province in southeast China, made a good living selling and repairing bicycles, and sent him to English-language schools, where he excelled. Attracted to Communism as a means of fighting prejudice against Chinese-Malayans, he joined party youth organizations at 15.
Soon he left school and went to work for the party, which assigned him to lead three anti-Japanese organizations for students, teachers and shop assistants. After the Japanese invaded in December 1941, he became a liaison to British commandos. The Associated Press reported in 1989 that John Davis, a British officer, said of him, “Unusual ability, and commanded the natural respect of men without fuss or formality.”
After the war, Lai Teck, secretary general of the Malayan Communist Party, fled with most of its money after collaborating with both the Japanese and the British. Mr. Chin was placed in charge of investigating him, and was appointed to replace him in 1948 at age 24.
He ordered an armed struggle, perhaps on instructions from Moscow, and began by attacking two rubber plantations and methodically executing three planters. Twelve years of violence, which came to be known as the Malayan Emergency, ensued. A $250,000 reward was offered for information leading to Mr. Chin’s capture.
At the height of the conflict, some 70,000 British, Australian, New Zealand, Fijian, Gurkha and other British Commonwealth troops fought about 10,000 guerrillas. More than 10,000 fighters and civilians died between 1948 and 1960. Britain rescinded the Order of the British Empire it had granted him.
“I make no apologies for seeking to replace such an odious system with a form of Marxist socialism,” Mr. Chin wrote. “Colonial exploitation, irrespective of who were the masters, Japanese or British, was morally wrong.”
In 1955, Mr. Chin emerged from the jungle to negotiate with Malayan officials at a schoolhouse near the Thai-Malay border. Talks broke down after Malayan negotiators refused Mr. Chin’s demand to be part of a coalition government. Though the point was largely moot after Malaya’s independence in 1957, fighting sputtered on, with periodic escalations.
When it finally ended in 1989, some 1,200 guerrillas were allowed under the peace pact to returned to civilian life.
Mr. Chin thought the 1989 agreement provided for his own return to Malaysia, but he was denied in court on the grounds that he could not prove he was Malaysian, having lost his birth and citizenship certificates. Many said the real reason was a lingering resentment over the insurrection.
Information about his survivors was not available. Mr. Chin’s wife, Khoon Wah, is deceased. They had two sons. The Malaysian police have refused to allow his remains to be returned to his home country.
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