Jeffrey, Jerry and Tony Francis overcame adversity and used journalism to help in nation-building.
Brothers Jeffrey , Jerry and Tony talking about the good times in the Straits Times four years ago.
The brothers shone in a pantheon of remarkable journalists of Tunku Abdul Rahman’s Malaysia that was grounded in, and centered on the beginning of a young nation. “Sometimes in her desperation, she would discard whatever was left of her dignity and stood in front of a coffeeshop to beg,” said Jerry. The rising sun flag, that was carried by soldiers and raised whenever enemy territories fell to Japanese forces, symbolised aggression and war crimes.
It is admirable that someone who is still haunted by the memory of a human head impaled on a stake, and left to rot by a main road in Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, during the Japanese invasion almost 80 years ago, became a top war journalist. “Our extensive coverage of the operations until the signing of the peace accord with the Communist Party of Malaya in 1989 was aimed at boosting the morale of the security forces.”
He said: “Never in the history of the country had there been any project that had faced such serious threats as those two projects. “It will also be a lasting tribute from a grateful nation for future generations to remember and appreciate the long and costly struggle for freedom,” he offered.Jeffrey, having established himself in the Straits Times, had a hand in his brothers joining him in the same media company.
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