People respect who have high moral principle!
Malaysian don’t owed any gratitute to so called UMNO!
They did not fought for our independence if not because of emergence (Community fight free from colony policy) that British want Malaya fell under democracy domination, the rest of Asia would quickly follow”

Invading from the north, the Japanese rapidly overran Malaya and took Singapore in 1942. After the war, in 1948, a Federation of Malaya was created under British protection, but British and Commonwealth troops had to put down a Communist insurrection, which lasted into the early 1950s. It was by now agreed that Malayan independence was the answer to the Communist claim that they were fighting to free the Malayan people from the British yoke. An election in 1955 was won hands-down by the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) by running Malay candidates in Malay-dominated areas, Chinese candidates in Chinese areas and Indian candidates in Indian ones. The UMNO’s leader Tunku Abdul Rahman became prime minister when the independent Federation of Malaya came into being in 1957.
http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/malayan-independence

Churchill as Prime Minister in 195l: “Churchill’s shrewd instinct grasped the fact that if Malaya fell under communist domination, the rest of Asia would quickly follow”
https://markcurtis.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/the-war-in-malaya-1948-60/

To further gain the “hearts and minds” of the non-Malays, who were the main source of communist support, Templer fought to grant Malayan citizenship to over 2.6 million Malayan residents, 1.1 million of whom were Chinese. Templer sought “political and social equality of all” Malayans.[26]
documentary video reported
The Malayan Emergency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJy6aG45CvE

Rising sun over malaya (WWIi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZq8HuhodxI

Malaya 1940 politic

All-Malaya Council of Joint Action (in video)

10 Years Before Independence – Malaya (Part 1 of 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ6oWhr7XP0