Malaysia's WARRIORS' DAY

Last week on 31st July, 2008, Malaysia celebrated this annual event to commemorate the struggles and sacrifices of our soldiers and policemen in defending against external aggressions and maintaining peace and harmony in the country. But who were these warriors ?

As a nation we seem to be unwittingly glorifying those mortals, Malays just like ourselves, who had fought under and for the British colonial power against Japanese occupation and the communist insurgency respectively. For all intent and purposes they were truly British soldiers fighting to preserve British sovereignty in Malaya and certainly they did not deserve the annual commemoration.
I would only want to celebrate the occasion to remember the sacrifices of those who had fought valiantly to liberate our country of British colonisation.