“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace,
for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man." “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
It's a moral issue as well, says lawyer The Malay Mail October 23, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
The Defence Ministry should have granted Capt Mukhtiar Singh an opportunity to plead his case before he was denied his pension 30 years ago, said lawyer Ram Karpal. This, he said, was in line with the General Orders, which public officers, including servicemen, are subjected to. The General Orders, he said, specifies that government servants have the right to put in representation before they are subjected to any action. “For example, if a policeman is found guilty of committing a wrongdoing, he is allowed to defend himself before he is stripped of his pension. “Was this man (Mukhtiar) ever given the opportunity to do so? This is the question that has to be answered by the ministry,” he said. Mukhtiar was denied his pension on a technicality after he had failed to attend the “Platoon Weapons” and the “Young Officers Tactics Course”, deemed compulsory, prior to his retirement from the army. Yesterday, the ministry issued a statement, clarifying that Mukhtiar was ineligible for pension as he had not served the required years of service. “The ministry has no right to tell him that he has no right to a hearing. If you want to deprive a man of his right to a livelihood, in this case, his pension, the least you can do is grant him an opportunity to be heard,” he said. Ram said legal aspects aside, the authorities should also address the moral issues at hand. “This is the most obvious of moral cases. People appear to have lost sight of the simple question, which is: does he deserve it? “He served the nation for 30 years, and is certainly more deserving of it than most people.” The Malay Mail
