THE ‘TIGER’ THAT ROARED IN J.J RAJ JR

Retired police commisioner Tan Sri John Joe Raj Jr is just shy of turning a perfect 100.

He took the name J.J Raj Jr as his late brother, who was 10 years his senior, also carried the same name – but as Datuk J.J Raj Sr.

Both siblings served the police forced – Raj Sr retiring as federal criminal investigations department director and Raj Jr as management director.

The junior Raj, who turned 98 on July 27, has seen and done it all.

“I have lived through World War 2, witnessed the Japanese Occupation (of Malaya) and their surrender, the British reoccupation, the uneasy period of the Malayan Union and the formation of the Federation of Malaya.

“I saw the rebellion of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) and how close they were realising the establishment of the Communist Republic of Malaya.

Then, there was the struggle for Malayan independence and the subsequent formation of Malaysia,” said Raj, at the “Malaya at War” conference recently.

In his 30-year police career, one incident is firmly etched in his mind – the massacre of 23 policemen and their families after a three-hour standoff at the Bukit Kepong police station on Feb 23, 1950.

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Source: New Straits Times