(MMO) – Former Malayan Communist Party leader Chin Peng was dead and it mattered not that his ashes have been scattered in Malaysia, said Padang Serai MP M. Karupaiya.

Commenting on the controversial move to lay the dead communist leader to rest in the country, the PKR MP pointed out that Chin Peng, who was born Ong Boon Hua, was born in what is now Malaysia.