03-19-2023, 10:10 AM
From hero to zero: Tun M is paying dearly for his inability to let go, accept Anwar as PM of the day
THIS IS one or yours truly most difficult prose to pen in his 30-year journalistic career – to see a statesman he most respected self-destruct from a dignified global leader into a villain that threatens to tear Malaysia into shreds along racial dogma.
And most ironical of all, this has to happen at the oddest of time – instead of having longed faded into oblivion from the political scene with only two years to go before he turns a centenarian, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has mooted an uprising. Is he trying to spark a modern day “May 13”?
The “Malay Proclamation” event originally due today (March 19) which is tentatively put on hold or cancelled – depending on how one looks at it – could best mark his biggest tyranny and one that would wipe out his entire legacy of Malaysia’s only two-time premier.
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And most ironical of all, this has to happen at the oddest of time – instead of having longed faded into oblivion from the political scene with only two years to go before he turns a centenarian, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has mooted an uprising. Is he trying to spark a modern day “May 13”?
The “Malay Proclamation” event originally due today (March 19) which is tentatively put on hold or cancelled – depending on how one looks at it – could best mark his biggest tyranny and one that would wipe out his entire legacy of Malaysia’s only two-time premier.
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