Saving Malaysia for ‘race and country’

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From Lim Kit Siang

Reading lawyer Chooi Mun Sou’s memoirs, “Malaysia My Home – Quo Vadis”, I was most touched by the unfinished letter written by (former Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Berhad banker) Jalil Ibrahim to his wife and children before he was murdered in the Regent Hotel, Hong Kong on July 18, 1983:

“The problems in Hong Kong are not my making and from today onwards I am going to think of myself and my family first and put the interests of the Bank, the race and the country behind me. If those directors had thought of the interests of the Bank, the race and the country first they wouldn’t have made all those blunders in the first place. I have sacrificed enough and suffered enough for their blunders …”

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