Merdeka! Merdeka!Merdeka!

Assalamualaikum everyone. Good morning I bid to all respected

teachers and my charming beautiful friends. My name is Umar Raziq
bin Badrul from 5 Cemerlang.

Today, Im going to deliver a speech entitled The History of

Malaysia. So, I hope all of you can lend me your ears and enjoy the
speech that I am about to tell you.

Friends,

Do you know that Malaysia was colonized by British?

Do you know that Malaysia was also known as Malaya or Tanah

Melayu during British ruling ? Do you know that Singapore used to be
a part of Malaysia?

Firstly, Im going to talk about the road to independence of Malaysia

or Kemerdekaan Malaysia .

Hundreds of years ago, Malaysia passed through many historical

periods, starting from the invasion from the Portuguese, Japanese
and ended with the British. During the colonial period, the Malay
people have struggled and fought to regain their land and rights until
the year 1957.

After the Japanese Invasion, the Malayan Union was proposed to

unify the peninsular Malaysia under one central administration. The
traditional power of the Malay rulers was restricted, and the large
immigrant populations, namely the Chinese and the Indians, were
given citizenship in the new federation.

However, Malay opposition to the Malayan Union proposal was

powerful, and the Malayan Union was quickly replaced with the
Federation of Malaya and preparations for self-government began.
But the Malayan Union gave rise to the United Malays National
Organisation or known as UMNO, then led by Dato' Onn Jaafar.

Next, In January 1956, the Mission from Malaya was sent off to
London by a huge crowd with high expectations. Their goal is to
attend the Independence talks and the London Independence Treaty
was finally signed on February 8, that year. It was nine-member
delegation led by Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Hajj.

Dear friends,

Then, in 31 August 1957 the independence of Malaysia has been

declared after several negotiations among Malaysians led by Tengku
Abdul Rahman and the British. In that day, Tunku Abdul Rahman
proudly declared the independence of Malaya (now Malaysia) by
shouting out "Merdeka!" seven times at the Merdeka stadium.

Lastly,

The independence of Malaysia is different from the independence of

other countries, because it is a peaceful independence achieved by
holding talks with the British. No other country has ever done that
before Malaysia. Additionally, the Malaysian independence was
achieved by three races with different culture and religion, mainly
the Malays, Chinese and Indian.

Tunku Abdul Rahman became the First Prime Minister of

Malaysia.After that Tun Abdul Razak,Tun Hussein Onn,Tun Dr.
Mahathir Mohamad ,Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and finally
our current prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tunku Abdul Razak.