MERDEKA!
5.00 am, 31st of August, 1957. People from all walks of life - royal families, government officials, and peasants - all attended the Independence Day Parade. At 5.00 am, dukes, duchesses, kings, queens, princes, princesses, government officials, and many others lined the platforms built specially for important people. Tunku
Abdul
Rahman
stood
proudly
on
the
magnificently decorated Stadium Merdeka, proclaiming to all that Malaya was independent and free!
“Merdeka!� the cry rang out and echoed throughout the stadium. Cheers erupted. Merdeka! It was a glorious moment.