‘Chinese Go Home’ rekindles another emergency atrocity

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From Kua Kia Soong“Chinese Go Home” is a fresh endeavour into filmmaking by University of Cambridge historian Rachel Leow. Screened to a Malaysian/international audience on International Women’s Day by Hikayat art space, the 20-minute film recounts the harrowing stories of banishments and deportations (euphemistically called ‘repatriations’ by the colonial power) as told by two women whose family members were deported at the start of the Emergency. Refreshingly so, Leow allows this story, too often framed by male narratives, to be told by women.As a Malaysian who grew up during the Emergency, this racist slogan “Chinese Go Home” bandied around by politicians as well as racial supremacists through the years leading up to independence still rings in my head.This is because its communalist intent is still present in present-day Malaysian politics as the Johor sultan’s recent admo…