第26集：陈平最后绝笔：《我的遗愿》（告别信原文）

2011年10月初，东南亚多家媒体一度误传侨居泰国曼谷的马来亚共产党中央总书记陈平（王文华，Ong Boon Hua @ Chin Peng）病危入院。这场突如其来的舆论风波，促使当时年满八十七岁的陈平深感有必要在生前预先立下一份正式的书面遗言。他不愿在自己百年之后留下任何被曲解的空白，决定以最坦诚的笔触，向与他生死与共的战友、向马来亚各族同胞、向因革命而骨肉分离数十载的至亲儿女，作出最后的交代。2013年9月16日清晨6时20分，陈平在曼谷医院平静辞世；9月22日，治丧委员会代表李学智在曼谷达通寺（Wat That Thong）追思灵堂向全球媒体正式宣读并散发了这份分别以中文、英文与马来文撰就并由陈平亲笔签署的告别信：《我的遗愿》（My Last Wish / Hajat Terakhir Saya）。

《我的遗愿》以中、英、巫三语文本并列传世，文末均镌印着陈平苍劲的亲笔手迹（中文“陈平”与英文“Chin Peng”），并配以陈平早年造访英国伦敦海格特公墓（Highgate Cemetery）、肃立于科学社会主义创始人卡尔·马克思（Karl Marx）墓碑前的历史留影：墓碑上方镌刻着《共产党宣言》的不朽号召“全世界无产者，联合起来！”（WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE）。这幅照片与告别信中的铮铮誓言相互映照，凝练地概括了陈平自十五岁在霹雳实兆远投身反殖救亡运动直至八十九岁客逝曼谷、跨越七十四载而矢志不渝的信仰底色。

In early October 2011, several Southeast Asian media outlets erroneously reported that Chin Peng (Ong Boon Hua), Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) residing in Bangkok, was hospitalized in critical condition. The repercussions of those reports convinced the eighty-seven-year-old revolutionary leader of the necessity of preparing a formal written testament while still lucid. Refusing to leave his life's meaning open to post-mortem distortion, he drafted a deeply personal farewell addressed to his fellow fighters, his compatriots, and the children from whom revolutionary clandestine duty had separated him for decades. Following his peaceful passing at Bangkok Hospital at 6:20 a.m. on September 16, 2013, Funeral Committee representative Lee Hock Tee formally read out and distributed this trilingual testament, titled 'My Last Wish' (我的遗愿 / Hajat Terakhir Saya) in Chinese, English, and Malay, at Wat That Thong on September 22, 2013.

Presented in Chinese, English, and Malay, 'My Last Wish' bears Chin Peng's authentic handwritten signature ('陈平' in Chinese and 'Chin Peng' in English), accompanied by a treasured archival photograph of Chin Peng standing beside the tomb of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery in London, inscribed with the words 'WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE.' Together with the farewell letter itself, this visual pairing encapsulates seventy-four years of unwavering commitment from his boyhood awakening in Sitiawan, Perak to his final breath in Bangkok.

2011年10月初，东南亚多家媒体一度误传侨居泰国曼谷的马来亚共产党中央总书记陈平（王文华，Ong Boon Hua @ Chin Peng）病危入院。这场突如其来的舆论风波，促使当时年满八十七岁的陈平深感有必要在生前预先立下一份正式的书面遗言。他不愿在自己百年之后留下任何被曲解的空白，决定以最坦诚的笔触，向与他生死与共的战友、向马来亚各族同胞、向因革命而骨肉分离数十载的至亲儿女，作出最后的交代。2013年9月16日清晨6时20分，陈平在曼谷医院平静辞世；9月22日，治丧委员会代表李学智在曼谷达通寺（Wat That Thong）追思灵堂向全球媒体正式宣读并散发了这份分别以中文、英文与马来文撰就并由陈平亲笔签署的告别信：《我的遗愿》（My Last Wish / Hajat Terakhir Saya）。

《我的遗愿》以中、英、巫三语文本并列传世，文末均镌印着陈平苍劲的亲笔手迹（中文“陈平”与英文“Chin Peng”），并配以陈平早年造访英国伦敦海格特公墓（Highgate Cemetery）、肃立于科学社会主义创始人卡尔·马克思（Karl Marx）墓碑前的历史留影：墓碑上方镌刻着《共产党宣言》的不朽号召“全世界无产者，联合起来！”（WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE）。这幅照片与告别信中的铮铮誓言相互映照，凝练地概括了陈平自十五岁在霹雳实兆远投身反殖救亡运动直至八十九岁客逝曼谷、跨越七十四载而矢志不渝的信仰底色。

In early October 2011, several Southeast Asian media outlets erroneously reported that Chin Peng (Ong Boon Hua), Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) residing in Bangkok, was hospitalized in critical condition. The repercussions of those reports convinced the eighty-seven-year-old revolutionary leader of the necessity of preparing a formal written testament while still lucid. Refusing to leave his life's meaning open to post-mortem distortion, he drafted a deeply personal farewell addressed to his fellow fighters, his compatriots, and the children from whom revolutionary clandestine duty had separated him for decades. Following his peaceful passing at Bangkok Hospital at 6:20 a.m. on September 16, 2013, Funeral Committee representative Lee Hock Tee formally read out and distributed this trilingual testament, titled 'My Last Wish' (我的遗愿 / Hajat Terakhir Saya) in Chinese, English, and Malay, at Wat That Thong on September 22, 2013.

Presented in Chinese, English, and Malay, 'My Last Wish' bears Chin Peng's authentic handwritten signature ('陈平' in Chinese and 'Chin Peng' in English), accompanied by a treasured archival photograph of Chin Peng standing beside the tomb of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery in London, inscribed with the words 'WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE.' Together with the farewell letter itself, this visual pairing encapsulates seventy-four years of unwavering commitment from his boyhood awakening in Sitiawan, Perak to his final breath in Bangkok.

我亲爱的同志们、我亲爱的同胞们：
当你们看到这封信的时候，我已离开人世。
原本我打算将后事交由亲人办理并静静地离开，但 2011 年 10 月初媒体误传我病危造成的影响，使我感到有需要留下这封信。
自从我加入马来亚共产党并最终成为其总书记，我已将我的身心完全付托给党所代表的事业，即是：为建立一个基于社会主义理想的更公平、更美好的社会而奋斗。
现在，随着我的逝世，该是时候将我的躯体归还给我的家人。
我感到无限欣慰，孩子们愿意照顾一个在他们出世后就一直无法提供家庭关爱、温暖和保护的父亲。
可惜我只能在放下政治和公众责任之后，才能作为父亲回馈他们的爱，奈何那却是在我已再无任何剩余生命可以给与他们的时刻。
十分遗憾的是，他们是在长大成人后才见到恍如陌生人的父亲。我无权要求他们理解或原谅。
他们没有选择，必须面对那严酷的事实。就像许多烈士和同志的家属那样，他们要承受并非他们自己造成的艰苦和磨难，而那是由于我们决定挑战我们意欲改变的社会的残酷势力的后果。
很不幸地，我最终还是无法回到故乡实兆远去拜祭葬在那里的父母亲，也不能踏上我们为了反抗侵略者及殖民者而为之坚持战斗的可爱祖国的土地。
我和我的同志们为了政治信念奉献了一生，并承受由此而带来的一切代价。无论对我们自己、家庭和社会造成什么后果，我们都只能默默地接受。
归根结底，我只希望后人记得我是一个好人，一个可以向世界宣告他敢于穷其一生追求自己的理想、要为人民创造一个更美好社会的人。
究竟成功或失败，并没有关系，至少我做了努力。希望年轻一代会遵循我走过的道路并将它发展完善。
我深信社会公义和人文主义的火焰决不会熄灭。
永别了，我亲爱的同志们！
永别了，我亲爱的同胞们！
永别了，我亲爱的祖国！

My dear Comrades, my dear Compatriots:
When you read this letter, I am no more in this world.
It was my original intention to pass away quietly and let my relatives handle the funeral matters in private. However, the repercussions of erroneous media reports of me in critical condition during October 2011 had persuaded me that leaving behind such a letter is desirable.
Ever since I joined the Communist Party of Malaya and eventually became its Secretary General, I have given both my spiritual and physical self in the service of the cause that my Party represented, that is, to fight for a fairer and better society based on Socialist ideals.
Now, with my passing, it is time for my body to be returned to my family.
I draw immense comfort in the fact that my two children are willing to take care of me, a father who could not give them family love, warmth and protection ever since their birth.
I could only return my love to them after I had relinquished my political and public duties, ironically only at a time when I have no more life left to give to them as a father.
It was regrettable that I had to be introduced to them well advanced in their adulthood as a stranger. I have no right to ask them to understand, nor to forgive.
They have no choice but to face this harsh reality. Like families of many martyrs and comrades, they too have to endure hardship and suffering not out of their own doing, but out of a consequence of our decision to challenge the cruel forces in the society which we sought to change.
It is most unfortunate that I couldn't, after all, pay my last respects to my parents buried in my hometown of Sitiawan, nor could I set foot on the beloved motherland that my comrades and I had fought so hard for against the aggressors and colonialists.
My comrades and I had dedicated our lives to a political cause that we believed in and had to pay whatever price there was as a result. Whatever consequences on ourselves, our family and the society, we would accept with serenity.
In the final analysis, I wish to be remembered simply as a good man who could tell the world that he had dared to spend his entire life in the pursuit of his own ideals to create a better world for his people.
It is irrelevant whether I succeeded or failed, at least I did what I did. Hopefully the path that I had walked on would be followed and improved upon by the young after me.
It is my conviction that the flames of social justice and humanity will never die.
Farewell, my dear Comrades!
Farewell, my dear Compatriots!
Farewell, my dear Motherland!

— 陈平（马来亚共产党中央委员会总书记，《我的遗愿》，2013年9月22日曼谷治丧委员会公布） | Chin Peng (CPM General Secretary, "My Last Wish," Released by the Funeral Committee in Bangkok, September 22, 2013)

2013年9月16日（恰逢马来西亚成立五十周年的“马来西亚日” Malaysia Day）清晨6时20分，马来亚共产党最后一任中央总书记陈平因衰老与病症在泰国曼谷医院与世长辞，享年八十九岁。遵照其生前将遗体交还家人妥善料理的嘱托，陈平家属与生前友好在曼谷素坤逸路著名的皇家佛寺：达通寺（Wat That Thong）第15厅（Sala 15）设下庄严肃穆的追思灵堂，自9月20日至22日举行为期三天的公开吊唁，并于9月23日举行隆重的出殡与火化大典。

曼谷达通寺灵堂正中央，安放着镌刻精美泰式贴金浮雕的金色灵柩，灵柩前方供奉着陈平身着浅绿色衬衫、面露慈祥微笑的彩色遗照，四周簇拥着纯白与金黄色的菊花、百合及紫白兰花。尤为引人注目的是，泰王国朱拉蓬公主殿下（Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Walailak，泰南原马共人民军四个和平发展村即以“朱拉蓬公主发展村”命名）特派专使御赐一座饰有泰王室冕旒与“จุฬาภรณ”（朱拉蓬）皇家徽记的橘粉色椭圆形御用花圈，隆重安放于灵柩右侧的贴金木架之上。这一崇高王室礼遇，不仅体现了泰国王室对陈平推动泰马边境持久和平历史功绩的敬重，更再次印证了1989年《合艾和平协议》“尊严下的和平”的国际政治地位。

在为期三天的吊唁期间，1989年以泰国武装部队代理最高司令兼陆军总司令身份同陈平在合艾蠡园酒店共同签署《合艾和平协议》、后于1996至1997年出任泰国首相的差瓦立·永猜裕上将（General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh）身着黑色素服亲临灵堂致祭。这位昔日统帅百万泰军、后与陈平结为忘年挚友的八旬老将军，在陈平金色灵柩与遗照前深深鞠躬默哀，并同夫人坤仁潘可露·永猜裕（Khunying Phankhruea Yongchaiyudh）联名敬献鲜花圈（挽联泰文：พลเอก ชวลิต - คุณหญิงพันธ์เครือ ยงใจยุทธ）。差瓦立上将在灵堂接受大批马来西亚与国际媒体围访时动情表示，陈平是一位言出必行、真正热爱和平与人民的杰出领袖，马共在1989年签署和平协议后彻底履行承诺，为泰马两国边境带来了数十年的安宁与繁荣。与此同时，负责督导泰南皇家发展项目的泰国首相副秘书长兼皇家倡议项目工作组主席那蓬·汶塔陆军上将（General Naphol Boontap，挽联泰文：พลเอก ณพล บุญทับ รอง ลธน.-ประธานคณะทำงานโครงการพระราชดำริฯ）亦专门致送花圈致哀。

来自马来西亚各州、新加坡、中国香港以及泰南四个朱拉蓬公主发展村（和平村）的数百名马共老战友、烈士遗属与民主进步人士，不顾路途遥远与政治阻挠，纷纷赶赴曼谷达通寺送别老首长最后一程。年届九旬的马共中央委员会主席阿都拉·西迪（Abdullah C.D.）特别敬献署有“Abdullah C.D.”字样的花圈；陈平的至亲好友、霹雳怡保实业家兼历史学者拿督叶林生（Dato Yap Lim Sen & Associates）及“霹雳老友联谊会”等团体亦纷纷献上花圈。而在灵柩正前方最贴近遗照的位置，则摆放着陈平一对儿女及媳妇敬献的百合花圈，黑底白字挽牌上用中英双语深情写道：“永远怀念亲爱的父亲：孝男孝媳、孝女 / In loving memory, our dear father. Your children”，以及陈平在马来西亚的兄弟姐妹敬献的花圈（“IN LOVE MEMORY OF OUR DEAR BROTHER FROM... YOUR BROTHERS & SISTERS”），与《我的遗愿》中那段感人肺腑的家庭剖白遥相呼应。9月23日下午，在庄严的哀乐与老战友们含泪高唱的《国际歌》声中，陈平儿女与至亲手捧香炉、长明灯与父亲遗照，引领金色灵柩绕行火化台，完成了庄严而哀荣的曼谷告别礼。

At 6:20 a.m. on September 16, 2013 (coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Malaysia Day), Chin Peng, the last Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Malaya, passed away peacefully at Bangkok Hospital at the age of eighty-nine. In accordance with his wish that his body be returned to his family, his children and close associates established a solemn memorial hall at Sala 15 of Wat That Thong, the prominent royal monastery on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok. A three-day public wake was held from September 20 to 22, 2013, culminating in a grand funeral and cremation ceremony on September 23, 2013.

At the center of Sala 15 stood an ornate gilded Thai casket, fronted by a framed colour portrait of Chin Peng in a light green shirt smiling warmly amidst banks of white and yellow chrysanthemums, lilies, and purple orchids. Bestowing the highest mark of royal respect, Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Walailak of Thailand (patron of the four Chulabhorn Development Villages in southern Thailand where former Malayan People's Army fighters settled after 1989) conferred a royal ceremonial wreath bearing the crowned royal monogram 'จุฬาภรณ' (Chulabhorn), displayed on a gilded stand immediately beside the casket. This royal tribute underscored the enduring honour in which Thailand held Chin Peng's contribution to peace under the 1989 Haadyai Peace Accord.

During the three-day wake, General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, who as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army and Acting Supreme Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces had signed the Haadyai Peace Accord alongside Chin Peng on December 2, 1989, and later served as Prime Minister of Thailand (1996–1997), personally came to Wat That Thong dressed in black mourning attire. Standing before the gilded casket and portrait of his former negotiating counterpart and friend, General Chavalit bowed deeply in silent tribute and presented a floral wreath jointly with his wife Khunying Phankhruea Yongchaiyudh ('พลเอก ชวลิต - คุณหญิงพันธ์เครือ ยงใจยุทธ'). Speaking to Malaysian and international journalists gathered at the hall, General Chavalit praised Chin Peng as a leader of absolute integrity who honoured every word of the 1989 peace settlement, bringing lasting stability and prosperity to the Thai-Malaysian frontier. General Naphol Boontap ('พลเอก ณพล บุญทับ'), Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister and Chairman of the Royal Initiative Project Working Group, likewise sent a formal wreath of condolence.

Hundreds of former CPM guerrillas from the four southern Thailand Peace Villages, along with old comrades, relatives of martyrs, and well-wishers from across Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, travelled to Bangkok to bid farewell to their Secretary-General. Ninety-year-old CPM Central Committee Chairman Abdullah C.D. sent a floral tribute inscribed 'Abdullah C.D.'; prominent Ipoh philanthropist, author, and close family friend Dato Yap Lim Sen ('DATO YAP LIM SEN & ASSOCIATES') and the Perak Old Friends Association ('霹雳老友联谊会') also presented wreaths. Directly before the altar stood the deeply moving floral tributes from Chin Peng's family: the wreath from his two children inscribed in English and Chinese, 'In loving memory, our dear father. Your children / 永远怀念亲爱的父亲 孝男孝媳 孝女,' and the wreath from his siblings inscribed, 'IN LOVE MEMORY OF OUR DEAR BROTHER FROM... YOUR BROTHERS & SISTERS,' answering the poignant words of paternal love and remorse in 'My Last Wish.' On the afternoon of September 23, 2013, as old comrades stood in solemn ranks bowing and singing 'The Internationale' through tears, Chin Peng's family carried the ceremonial censer, lamp, and portrait at the head of the golden casket in the final cremation procession.

2013年9月16日（恰逢马来西亚成立五十周年的“马来西亚日” Malaysia Day）清晨6时20分，马来亚共产党最后一任中央总书记陈平因衰老与病症在泰国曼谷医院与世长辞，享年八十九岁。遵照其生前将遗体交还家人妥善料理的嘱托，陈平家属与生前友好在曼谷素坤逸路著名的皇家佛寺：达通寺（Wat That Thong）第15厅（Sala 15）设下庄严肃穆的追思灵堂，自9月20日至22日举行为期三天的公开吊唁，并于9月23日举行隆重的出殡与火化大典。

曼谷达通寺灵堂正中央，安放着镌刻精美泰式贴金浮雕的金色灵柩，灵柩前方供奉着陈平身着浅绿色衬衫、面露慈祥微笑的彩色遗照，四周簇拥着纯白与金黄色的菊花、百合及紫白兰花。尤为引人注目的是，泰王国朱拉蓬公主殿下（Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Walailak，泰南原马共人民军四个和平发展村即以“朱拉蓬公主发展村”命名）特派专使御赐一座饰有泰王室冕旒与“จุฬาภรณ”（朱拉蓬）皇家徽记的橘粉色椭圆形御用花圈，隆重安放于灵柩右侧的贴金木架之上。这一崇高王室礼遇，不仅体现了泰国王室对陈平推动泰马边境持久和平历史功绩的敬重，更再次印证了1989年《合艾和平协议》“尊严下的和平”的国际政治地位。

At 6:20 a.m. on September 16, 2013 (coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Malaysia Day), Chin Peng, the last Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Malaya, passed away peacefully at Bangkok Hospital at the age of eighty-nine. In accordance with his wish that his body be returned to his family, his children and close associates established a solemn memorial hall at Sala 15 of Wat That Thong, the prominent royal monastery on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok. A three-day public wake was held from September 20 to 22, 2013, culminating in a grand funeral and cremation ceremony on September 23, 2013.

At the center of Sala 15 stood an ornate gilded Thai casket, fronted by a framed colour portrait of Chin Peng in a light green shirt smiling warmly amidst banks of white and yellow chrysanthemums, lilies, and purple orchids. Bestowing the highest mark of royal respect, Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Walailak of Thailand (patron of the four Chulabhorn Development Villages in southern Thailand where former Malayan People's Army fighters settled after 1989) conferred a royal ceremonial wreath bearing the crowned royal monogram 'จุฬาภรณ' (Chulabhorn), displayed on a gilded stand immediately beside the casket. This royal tribute underscored the enduring honour in which Thailand held Chin Peng's contribution to peace under the 1989 Haadyai Peace Accord.

在为期三天的吊唁期间，1989年以泰国武装部队代理最高司令兼陆军总司令身份同陈平在合艾蠡园酒店共同签署《合艾和平协议》、后于1996至1997年出任泰国首相的差瓦立·永猜裕上将（General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh）身着黑色素服亲临灵堂致祭。这位昔日统帅百万泰军、后与陈平结为忘年挚友的八旬老将军，在陈平金色灵柩与遗照前深深鞠躬默哀，并同夫人坤仁潘可露·永猜裕（Khunying Phankhruea Yongchaiyudh）联名敬献鲜花圈（挽联泰文：พลเอก ชวลิต - คุณหญิงพันธ์เครือ ยงใจยุทธ）。差瓦立上将在灵堂接受大批马来西亚与国际媒体围访时动情表示，陈平是一位言出必行、真正热爱和平与人民的杰出领袖，马共在1989年签署和平协议后彻底履行承诺，为泰马两国边境带来了数十年的安宁与繁荣。与此同时，负责督导泰南皇家发展项目的泰国首相副秘书长兼皇家倡议项目工作组主席那蓬·汶塔陆军上将（General Naphol Boontap，挽联泰文：พลเอก ณพล บุญทับ รอง ลธน.-ประธานคณะทำงานโครงการพระราชดำริฯ）亦专门致送花圈致哀。

来自马来西亚各州、新加坡、中国香港以及泰南四个朱拉蓬公主发展村（和平村）的数百名马共老战友、烈士遗属与民主进步人士，不顾路途遥远与政治阻挠，纷纷赶赴曼谷达通寺送别老首长最后一程。年届九旬的马共中央委员会主席阿都拉·西迪（Abdullah C.D.）特别敬献署有“Abdullah C.D.”字样的花圈；陈平的至亲好友、霹雳怡保实业家兼历史学者拿督叶林生（Dato Yap Lim Sen & Associates）及“霹雳老友联谊会”等团体亦纷纷献上花圈。而在灵柩正前方最贴近遗照的位置，则摆放着陈平一对儿女及媳妇敬献的百合花圈，黑底白字挽牌上用中英双语深情写道：“永远怀念亲爱的父亲：孝男孝媳、孝女 / In loving memory, our dear father. Your children”，以及陈平在马来西亚的兄弟姐妹敬献的花圈（“IN LOVE MEMORY OF OUR DEAR BROTHER FROM... YOUR BROTHERS & SISTERS”），与《我的遗愿》中那段感人肺腑的家庭剖白遥相呼应。9月23日下午，在庄严的哀乐与老战友们含泪高唱的《国际歌》声中，陈平儿女与至亲手捧香炉、长明灯与父亲遗照，引领金色灵柩绕行火化台，完成了庄严而哀荣的曼谷告别礼。

During the three-day wake, General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, who as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army and Acting Supreme Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces had signed the Haadyai Peace Accord alongside Chin Peng on December 2, 1989, and later served as Prime Minister of Thailand (1996–1997), personally came to Wat That Thong dressed in black mourning attire. Standing before the gilded casket and portrait of his former negotiating counterpart and friend, General Chavalit bowed deeply in silent tribute and presented a floral wreath jointly with his wife Khunying Phankhruea Yongchaiyudh ('พลเอก ชวลิต - คุณหญิงพันธ์เครือ ยงใจยุทธ'). Speaking to Malaysian and international journalists gathered at the hall, General Chavalit praised Chin Peng as a leader of absolute integrity who honoured every word of the 1989 peace settlement, bringing lasting stability and prosperity to the Thai-Malaysian frontier. General Naphol Boontap ('พลเอก ณพล บุญทับ'), Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister and Chairman of the Royal Initiative Project Working Group, likewise sent a formal wreath of condolence.

Hundreds of former CPM guerrillas from the four southern Thailand Peace Villages, along with old comrades, relatives of martyrs, and well-wishers from across Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, travelled to Bangkok to bid farewell to their Secretary-General. Ninety-year-old CPM Central Committee Chairman Abdullah C.D. sent a floral tribute inscribed 'Abdullah C.D.'; prominent Ipoh philanthropist, author, and close family friend Dato Yap Lim Sen ('DATO YAP LIM SEN & ASSOCIATES') and the Perak Old Friends Association ('霹雳老友联谊会') also presented wreaths. Directly before the altar stood the deeply moving floral tributes from Chin Peng's family: the wreath from his two children inscribed in English and Chinese, 'In loving memory, our dear father. Your children / 永远怀念亲爱的父亲 孝男孝媳 孝女,' and the wreath from his siblings inscribed, 'IN LOVE MEMORY OF OUR DEAR BROTHER FROM... YOUR BROTHERS & SISTERS,' answering the poignant words of paternal love and remorse in 'My Last Wish.' On the afternoon of September 23, 2013, as old comrades stood in solemn ranks bowing and singing 'The Internationale' through tears, Chin Peng's family carried the ceremonial censer, lamp, and portrait at the head of the golden casket in the final cremation procession.

在《我的遗愿》第十段中，陈平留下了生前最深沉的一句遗憾：“很不幸地，我最终还是无法回到故乡实兆远去拜祭葬在那里的父母亲，也不能踏上我们为了反抗侵略者及殖民者而为之坚持战斗的可爱祖国的土地。”尽管1989年12月2日签署的《合艾和平协议》第三项条款白纸黑字地保障原属马来西亚籍的马共成员有权返回马来西亚定居，但马来西亚当局不仅在陈平生前通过漫长的司法程序驳回其返乡申请，甚至在2013年9月陈平病逝曼谷后，依然无情下令禁止其遗体乃至骨灰入境安葬。

然而，任何行政禁令都无法阻断游子魂归故土的赤子之心，也无法磨灭生死战友践行诺言的钢铁意志。正如那句镌刻于心的八字箴言“不忘初心：生命虽终，意义永存”（True to the cause, always. Lives may end, but their legacy lives on.），在曼谷火化大典圆满礼成后，陈平的亲属与生前挚友、老战友们便开始周密筹划迎护陈平骨灰重返故乡霹雳州的庄严行动。2013年11月陈平骨灰返回霹雳的珍贵历史照片，忠实定格了这一震撼人心的历史瞬间：在霹雳州实兆远（Sitiawan）与怡保（Ipoh）的南洋骑楼街巷上，老战友与亲属神情庄重，双手恭敬捧着覆以鲜红绸布的骨灰礼盘，缓步走过陈平少年时代成长与启蒙的实兆远老街店屋门前。

为免遭受当局无理干扰，这支由老友与亲属组成的骨灰护送团队，以高度的默契与克制守护着这桩历史秘密，并在数年间稳步完成了陈平遗愿中的每一项归乡仪轨，并在全部安奉仪式圆满完成后于怡保向公众披露这一历史真相：他们不仅捧着陈平的骨灰回到故乡实兆远老街及其父母安葬的实兆远红土坎广福义山（华人公冢）祭拜双亲，更将陈平的骨灰伴随五彩花瓣，一部分撒向其故乡实兆远外海的红土坎（Lumut）碧波之中，另一部分撒向昔日马来亚民族解放军浴血奋战的怡保珠宝（Chemor）蒂迪旺沙中央山脉（Titiwangsa Main Range）苍翠山林之间。至此，这位将毕生身心完全付托给民族解放与社会主义理想的传奇革命家，终于跨越半个多世纪的流亡与阻隔，化作故国山海间不灭的春风与星火。

In the tenth paragraph of 'My Last Wish,' Chin Peng recorded the deepest personal sorrow of his life: 'It is most unfortunate that I couldn't, after all, pay my last respects to my parents buried in my hometown of Sitiawan, nor could I set foot on the beloved motherland that my comrades and I had fought so hard for against the aggressors and colonialists.' Even though Clause 3 of the December 2, 1989 Haadyai Peace Accord explicitly guaranteed Malaysian-born CPM members the right to return and settle in Malaysia, the Malaysian authorities not only blocked his legal bids to return during his lifetime, but upon his death in September 2013 went so far as to ban his body and even his cremated ashes from entering the country.

Yet no administrative ban could sever a native son's bond with his homeland or deter his comrades from fulfilling his last wish. Embodying the timeless motto '不忘初心：生命虽终，意义永存。 / True to the cause, always. Lives may end, but their legacy lives on.,' Chin Peng's relatives and trusted comrades quietly organized the homecoming of his ashes to Perak after the Bangkok cremation. A rare historical photograph from November 2013 when Chin Peng's ashes returned to Perak captures this historic moment: relatives and veteran comrades walking solemnly along the shophouse street of Sitiawan, Perak, carrying Chin Peng's ashes in a tray draped with red cloth right past his family's ancestral shophouse.

To prevent official interference, this escort team composed of old friends and relatives guarded the operation in strict confidence until every rite of homecoming was fulfilled and subsequently disclosed to the public in Ipoh. Carrying the red-draped urn, they brought Chin Peng home to his childhood shophouse in Sitiawan, paid homage before the archway of the Sitiawan Kwong Fook Cemetery where his parents lie buried, and scattered his ashes with flower petals into the sea off Lumut and across the forested slopes of the Titiwangsa Main Range near Chemor, Ipoh, where he and his comrades had fought for national liberation. At long last, the revolutionary who dared to spend his entire life pursuing a fairer and better world returned forever to the mountains and seas of his beloved motherland.

在《我的遗愿》第十段中，陈平留下了生前最深沉的一句遗憾：“很不幸地，我最终还是无法回到故乡实兆远去拜祭葬在那里的父母亲，也不能踏上我们为了反抗侵略者及殖民者而为之坚持战斗的可爱祖国的土地。”尽管1989年12月2日签署的《合艾和平协议》第三项条款白纸黑字地保障原属马来西亚籍的马共成员有权返回马来西亚定居，但马来西亚当局不仅在陈平生前通过漫长的司法程序驳回其返乡申请，甚至在2013年9月陈平病逝曼谷后，依然无情下令禁止其遗体乃至骨灰入境安葬。

然而，任何行政禁令都无法阻断游子魂归故土的赤子之心，也无法磨灭生死战友践行诺言的钢铁意志。正如那句镌刻于心的八字箴言“不忘初心：生命虽终，意义永存”（True to the cause, always. Lives may end, but their legacy lives on.），在曼谷火化大典圆满礼成后，陈平的亲属与生前挚友、老战友们便开始周密筹划迎护陈平骨灰重返故乡霹雳州的庄严行动。2013年11月陈平骨灰返回霹雳的珍贵历史照片，忠实定格了这一震撼人心的历史瞬间：在霹雳州实兆远（Sitiawan）与怡保（Ipoh）的南洋骑楼街巷上，老战友与亲属神情庄重，双手恭敬捧着覆以鲜红绸布的骨灰礼盘，缓步走过陈平少年时代成长与启蒙的实兆远老街店屋门前。

为免遭受当局无理干扰，这支由老友与亲属组成的骨灰护送团队，以高度的默契与克制守护着这桩历史秘密，并在数年间稳步完成了陈平遗愿中的每一项归乡仪轨，并在全部安奉仪式圆满完成后于怡保向公众披露这一历史真相：他们不仅捧着陈平的骨灰回到故乡实兆远老街及其父母安葬的实兆远红土坎广福义山（华人公冢）祭拜双亲，更将陈平的骨灰伴随五彩花瓣，一部分撒向其故乡实兆远外海的红土坎（Lumut）碧波之中，另一部分撒向昔日马来亚民族解放军浴血奋战的怡保珠宝（Chemor）蒂迪旺沙中央山脉（Titiwangsa Main Range）苍翠山林之间。至此，这位将毕生身心完全付托给民族解放与社会主义理想的传奇革命家，终于跨越半个多世纪的流亡与阻隔，化作故国山海间不灭的春风与星火。

In the tenth paragraph of 'My Last Wish,' Chin Peng recorded the deepest personal sorrow of his life: 'It is most unfortunate that I couldn't, after all, pay my last respects to my parents buried in my hometown of Sitiawan, nor could I set foot on the beloved motherland that my comrades and I had fought so hard for against the aggressors and colonialists.' Even though Clause 3 of the December 2, 1989 Haadyai Peace Accord explicitly guaranteed Malaysian-born CPM members the right to return and settle in Malaysia, the Malaysian authorities not only blocked his legal bids to return during his lifetime, but upon his death in September 2013 went so far as to ban his body and even his cremated ashes from entering the country.

Yet no administrative ban could sever a native son's bond with his homeland or deter his comrades from fulfilling his last wish. Embodying the timeless motto '不忘初心：生命虽终，意义永存。 / True to the cause, always. Lives may end, but their legacy lives on.,' Chin Peng's relatives and trusted comrades quietly organized the homecoming of his ashes to Perak after the Bangkok cremation. A rare historical photograph from November 2013 when Chin Peng's ashes returned to Perak captures this historic moment: relatives and veteran comrades walking solemnly along the shophouse street of Sitiawan, Perak, carrying Chin Peng's ashes in a tray draped with red cloth right past his family's ancestral shophouse.

To prevent official interference, this escort team composed of old friends and relatives guarded the operation in strict confidence until every rite of homecoming was fulfilled and subsequently disclosed to the public in Ipoh. Carrying the red-draped urn, they brought Chin Peng home to his childhood shophouse in Sitiawan, paid homage before the archway of the Sitiawan Kwong Fook Cemetery where his parents lie buried, and scattered his ashes with flower petals into the sea off Lumut and across the forested slopes of the Titiwangsa Main Range near Chemor, Ipoh, where he and his comrades had fought for national liberation. At long last, the revolutionary who dared to spend his entire life pursuing a fairer and better world returned forever to the mountains and seas of his beloved motherland.

不忘初心：生命虽终，意义永存。
True to the cause, always. Lives may end, but their legacy lives on.

True to the cause, always. Lives may end, but their legacy lives on.
不忘初心：生命虽终，意义永存。

— 《我的遗愿 / My Last Wish / Hajat Terakhir Saya》结语铭文（2013年9月22日） | Closing Inscription of "My Last Wish / Hajat Terakhir Saya" (September 22, 2013)