Kuok was part of the Council of Eminent Persons that advised Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his Cabinet in the first 100 days of Pakatan Harapan’s election victory. — Picture by Mukhriz Hazim
“To me, that is a racist statement. It is true that the Japanese soldiers did not do as much harm to the Malays as they did to the Chinese,” he replied, when asked about such politicians.. But the Malaysian Chinese who were killed, are they not Malaysians?” he reportedly asked. “There is nothing I can say or do because I cannot change what you want to believe. All I can say is, what if the shoe is on the other foot? If your mother, your sister, your wife, your girlfriend, were brutalised?
The paper had interviewed him to share his experience of the fighting in the Asia-Pacific region during World War II.
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