Shocking, isn’t it? Many of you wanted former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to ‘save’ Malaysia. He was jailed before he could accomplish this and it angered you, but only briefly.

Whilst Anwar languishes in jail, his health deteriorating, and his family feeling anxious, what did we do? Nothing! The call to release him received a lukewarm response. Did we remember his demands for change, and that he’d galvanised the opposition parties under one banner? No!

All we remembered was that Anwar was jailed, for sodomy. Many did not care that it was a politically motivated plot, just as we do not care about his condition now. “Malaysians mudah lupa,” to paraphrase former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad.