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Chin Peng’s date of death on Malaysia Day had been faked so it would be remembered as a memorable event, Mingguan Malaysia alleged today, claiming the former Communist leader had actually died a day before the national holiday.

uoting an anonymous source, the weekend edition of Umno-owned daily Utusan Malaysia reported that Chin Peng had indeed breathed his last in Bangkok, Thailand, but did so on the evening of September 15, and not in the early morning of September 16 as reported.

“It is believed that the Monday date was chosen so that Chin Peng would be remembered by his supporters as dying on an important day for all Malaysians, who were celebrating the birth of Malaysia,” the source said.

“We got information that this was an agenda planned by certain parties, who supposedly wanted to link Chin Peng’s death to nationalism,” the source told the Malay-language daily.

News of Chin Peng’s death first broke on Bangkok Post on September 16, with the Thai news portal reporting that he was pronounced dead at 6.20 am and that he had died of old age in a Bangkok hospital. Chin Peng, whose real name was Ong Boon Hua, was 88 years old.

 The former secretary-general of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) had left a farewell note, in which he expressed his regret in being an absent father to his children. Putrajaya has insisted on prohibiting the ashes of Chin Peng from being buried in his hometown in Sitiawan, Perak.

 But the MCA, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and even former Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor have told the federal government to respect the 1989 Hat Yai Peace Accord signed between Malaysia, Thailand and the CPM that allowed CPM members, who laid down their arms, to return to their homeland.

 Abdul Rahim, who was then the Special Branch chief that led the peace talks between Malaysia and the CPM in the late 1980s, said Malaysia risked becoming a laughing stock to the world if it insisted on barring the burial of Chin Peng’s remains here.