紀念會上火箭的嘉賓是這麼評論的
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Malaysia's second prime minister was a man who rose to the challenges of his time and worked hard to rebuild the nation torn apart by the bloody May 13 race riots in 1969, PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar said.
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Tun Abdul Razak’s former aide Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad, who was at the same forum, cited the late leader’s success in bringing together Malaysians after the May 13 riots as one of his “greatest legacies”.
“Tun Razak is a great unifier, he united the various races. If you want to remember, that's one of his greatest legacy,” the 78-year-old told a forum here titled “Remembering Tun Razak” last night.
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TMI: What kind of person was Tun Razak to you? Lim(注:林吉祥): He was very hardworking, a patrician. He was very serious about his responsibilities. He was not as open and jolly as the Tunku (Malaysia's first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman) but he was very serious and committed to his responsibilities.
TMI: How do you evaluate Tun Razak's economic and social integration policies, particularly through the NEP, in the light of the last few decades – has the policy succeeded? What went wrong? What needs to change? Lim: As far as the NEP is concerned, DAP supports the two prongs of the policy whose overall objective is to bring about national unity. And the two objectives are to eliminate poverty regardless of race and to restructure society so that there is no identification of race with economic function. These two objectives are noble and we fully support it. The only problem is over the years (注:誰執政最久?), the elimination of poverty has been supplanted by the second objective which is to restructure society, and this has been seen as a Malay agenda rather than a Malaysian agenda, and secondly, even worse, it has been seen as an Umno-putra agenda rather than the Bumiputera agenda. As a result, it benefits the Umno cronies and warlords resulting in a disparity of haves and have-nots.
TMI: What is Tun Razak's legacy to Malaysia today? Lim: His commitment to democracy, a commitment to a greater politics of inclusion and the basis of the Federal Constitution as a secular state. I think these are policies that put Malaysia on the middle path. He was committed to democracy and the restoration of democracy after the May 13 tragedy. Setting up BN to replace the Alliance was an acknowledgement of a need for a greater politics of inclusion rather than of exclusion, but it had to be followed through with a full acceptance of multiracialism and not be just a front.
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