COMMENT Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is rarely, if ever, apologetic. It’s not his style to be contrite.
Even when he suggested that protege-turned-nemesis Anwar Ibrahim’s sensational black eye suffered in detention under the Internal Security Act in September 1998 was self-inflicted rather than the result of a punch by the inspector-general of police Rahim Noor, he could not bring himself to say sorry for inferring that Anwar had feigned injury.