KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 – Educating the public about the May 13th race riot through screenings of movies like Tanda Putera would be good for the nation, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.
"If we can we should educate the public about what had happened during May 13, it would be a good lesson if not the country would be unstable," he told reporters after speaking at a forum in University Malaya here.
"If only one race controls a certain interests while another race doesn't, there is anger and this is bad for the country," added the former prime minister(picture), referring to the mainstream argument behind what sparked the bloody clashes – that the Malays were angered by Chinese control of the economy.
The film has raised the ire of opposition politicians who say some scenes are not historically accurate.
But the film's director had stressed that the film is not a documentary, but a movie "with dramatic elements and creative licence responsibly exercised in its making" and with research done beforehand.
On Saturday, the movie was privately shown to a group of 600 students in an "invite-only" screening at Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIA), in what the opposition had described as a brainwashing programme.
According to a student group, it was mandatory for Police Undergraduate Voluntary Corps and Air Force Reserve Officer Training Unit (PALAPES) members to attend, while UIA's residential colleges have been asked to send six members each.
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