In commemoration of ANZAC Day, here is a picture I took last year of Australian veterans who fought for Malaysia during WW2, the Communist Insurgency and the Konfrontasi Period.

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I would rather discuss the big issue here which is that the ANZAC weren't innocent heroes sacrificing themselves for the good of poor Malayan people. They were here to enable their colonial owners to extract natural resources from Malaya with maximum profit.

You'd be sadly and horrendously mistaken, implying a master-servant relationship where none existed. Both Australia and New Zealand (but especially the former) had no "colonial owner", indeed Australia had ceased formal subordination to Imperial chains of command well before the end of WW2.

Indeed in the latter years of WW2, Australia clashed with Britain frequently on strategic resource deployment, and Australia had famously switched it's focus as a "subordinate partner" to the US as early as 1943.

By 1948, the Australian government was desperate to secure the US as an ongoing ally, an aim that would drive foreign policy in Australia for the next two decades afterwards, forming the basis for its choice to be involved in Korea, SEATO and Vietnam.

Australia had no reason to mindlessly do the bidding of Britain in return for protection it couldn't give, given Australia had recently fought off the Japanese with comparatively little British help.

Australia also had (and continues to have) zero interest in Malaysian resources for itself, given there are very few resources Malaysia has that Australia either does not have itself, or cannot get elsewhere more cheaply and more easily.

Your blind and baseless assumptions on these soldiers' motives and misrepresentation of basic historical facts (that are well documented in countries that don't subject themselves to racist fairytales) would indicate that you simply can't accept that the "all the colonialists fault" koolaid is bullshit (Malaysia hasn't been held back for 70 plus years by Britain, it's been held back by its own nepotism, corruption and lack of accountability to its own people), that someone other than Malaysians actually helped shape the country's future, that not all ang mohs were or are out to oppress you. Being grateful for something an Ang Moh did for you must really burn ah?

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