Saturday September 2, 2006
Former top CPM leader dies at 89 in Narathiwat
BANGKOK: A former senior leader of the defunct Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), Rashid Maidin, died in southern Thailand yesterday. He was 89.
A Thai military spokesman said Rashid died at about 9am at his daughter’s home in Sisakoin, Narathiwat, and was buried after Friday prayers.
Rashid, who was born in Kampung Gunung Mesah, Gopeng, Perak, on Oct 10, 1917, joined the Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya (PKMM) in 1951 along with several Malay nationalists such as Ishak Mohamad (Pak Sako), Ahmad Boestamam and Abdullah C.D. in Perak.
After the PKMM was outlawed by the British administration, Rashid opted to join the CPM and was entrusted by then CPM secretary and main leader Chin Peng to lead the party’s 10th regiment in Bentong, Pahang.
When pursued by the authorities, Rashid fled into the jungle along the Malaysia-Thailand border.
He had left his wife back in Gopeng and married a CPM member by the name of Latifah.
Rashid first came into the limelight at the Baling Peace Talks in 1955. – Bernama
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