18th anniversary of injustice茅草行动18周年纪念

Operasi Lalang (Weeding Operation)

I was too young at the time it happened, hence I don't have much memory of it.

What I do remember is that one day we were not able to buy SinChew anymore, and we had to switch to NanYang for as long as 2 years+. Is that the reason why SinChew is more "careful" on their news nowadays?

It was the first ISA swoop since May 13 riot on 1969. It was carried out by Malaysian police to crackdown on chinese educationists, opposition leaders and social activists. The operation saw the infamous arrest of 106 persons under the ISA and the revoking of the publishing licenses of two dailies, The Star and the Sin Chew Jit Poh and two weeklies, The Sunday Star and Watan. Among the arrested, 40 were detained for 2 years or more.

Since then, Malaysia has never been the same again.

我对这事件并没有太多的印象因为当时我还很小。

但我对《星洲日报》的停刊仍然有些印象。记得当时家人突然说已买不到《星洲日报》，接下来的两年多我们就只好转去买《南洋商报》。是否因而使到现在的《星洲日报》的报导变得越来越小心翼翼呢？

那次的茅草行动是自513事件以来首次的《内安法令》大逮捕，被逮捕的有反对党领袖、公会领袖、社会活跃分子、原住民、圆丘工人、基督教工作者、伊斯兰教基本教义者，以及华教人士，这也是首次《内安法令》被用来对付华教人士。

共有4为华教人士遭逮捕，他们是已故董总主席林晃升、教总主席沈慕羽、教总副主席庄迪君博士，以及当时身为华社研究中心主任的柯嘉逊。

除此之外，共有四家报社的执照被取消，其中包括《星洲日报》与英文报《星报》。

之后，有40人持续被扣留2年以上。

从此，马来西亚也变得再也不一样。

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