作者/翻译：陈华彪 TAN WAH PIOW
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有多少新加坡人知道，“5.13”这个日子已经深深烙印在70年前受过华文教育的人们的集体记忆中？
1954 年 5 月 13 日，英国殖民者袭击了拒绝服兵役的抗议中学生。 他们拒绝充当外国大师的经典文件夹。
我将把这部分历史留给我们的历史学家 PJ Thum，让他在周六于伦敦举行的一次演讲中进行解释。
新加坡的学生抗议是划时代的事件。 它们发生在 1954 年和 1974 年。现在很安静，是一个停顿，但会持续多久？
在西方各国首都，1968年的反越战示威和校园占领对于他们的知识分子来说是划时代的时刻。 在全球范围内，它将美国打造成让人又爱又恨的国家。
经过很长一段时间的停顿后……美国成功地将自己重塑为民主的捍卫者。 但现在，美国对以色列对巴勒斯坦人的战争的支持，重新点燃了学生们为巴勒斯坦人伸张正义的热情。 1968年是越南人。
当前有关学生占领美国、伦敦和巴黎校园的电视新闻提醒着5.13一代，他们勇敢地参与了新加坡的独立斗争。 作为历史的创造者，他们在政治上被剥夺了权利，常常被执政党谴责为麻烦制造者和暴乱者。 5.13 一代的残余分子现在已年过 80 岁和 90 岁，他们大多过于虚弱，被剥夺了公民权，无法纪念他们的运动 70 周年。 他们是濒临灭绝的政治物种。
如果新任总理黄循财有一点历史感和政治想象力，他完全可以利用加冕礼向新加坡政治史上真正的先驱者——5.13一代致敬。 当然，还有他需要咨询的高级部长。
如果西方首都对正义的热情突破了新加坡的政治防火墙，我们甚至可以实现世界级的第一：5.13一代和“修正主义”历史学家占领社区中心进行历史教学。
上图：1954 年 5 月 13 日，新加坡
左下：1974 年 12 月，新加坡大学武吉知马校区学生抗议
底部中心：2024 年 5 月 14 日伦敦 LSE 学生职业
右下：MIMBAR（中英文版）纪念华校中学反对国民占领征兵‘513事件’70周年5.13 70周年纪念文章。
五一三 FIVE-ONE-THREE
How many Singaporeans know that the date “5.13” was seared into the collective memory of the Chinese educated 70 years ago?
On 13 May 1954, British colonialists attacked protesting middle school students who refused conscriptions. They refused to serve as canon folders for their foreign masters.
I shall leave that part of history to our historian PJ Thum to explain on Saturday at a talk in London.
Student protests in Singapore were epoch-making events. They occurred in 1954 and 1974. It’s quiet now, a pause, but for how long?
In Western capitals, 1968 anti-Vietnam war demonstrations and campus occupations were the epoch-making moments for their intellectuals. Globally it branded USA as the country people love to hate.
After a very long pause… the USA managed to rebrand itself as the champion of democracy. But now, US support for Israel’s war against the Palestinians has reignited students’ passion for justice for the Palestinians. In 1968 it was for the Vietnamese.
Current TV news of students occupying US, London, and Paris campuses reminds the 5.13 generation of their courageous involvement in the struggle for independence in Singapore. As makers of history, they are politically disenfranchised, often condemned by the ruling party as troublemakers and rioters. Remnants of the 5.13 generation, now in their late 80s and 90s, are mostly too frail and disenfranchised to commemorate the 70th anniversary of their movements. They are an endangered political species.
If the newly minted Prine Minister Lawrence Wong has any sense of history and political imagination, he could use his coronation to pay tribute to this 5.13 generation who are the real pioneers of Singapore’s political history. Of course, there is the Senior Minister he needs to consult.
If the passion for justice in the Western capitals breaches the Singapore political firewall, we may even be able to achieve a world-class first: Occupation of the Community Centres for history teach-ins by the 5.13 generation and ‘revisionist’ historians.
top: 13 May 1954 Singapore
bottom left: Dec 1974, Student protests at Bukit Timah Campus, Singapore University
bottom centre: 14 May 2024 student occupation at LSE, London
bottom right: MIMBAR（中英文版）纪念华校中学反对国民服役征兵‘513事件’70周年 Commemorative article on the 70th anniversary of 5.13.
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