COMMENT | Marina, the daughter of Malaysia's longest-serving prime minister, issued an apology for attributing a contentious remark made by her father, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, to the wrong politician.

Writing for The Sunday Star, her column entitled "We need the leaders we truly deserve" also showed the ordinary rakyat how children of the political elite go around with their heads in the clouds.

Claiming that she was not revising history, she said that her mistake stemmed from "the weak memory of something that happened when I was barely out of my teens and still trying to make sense of the world".

Weak memory? Or selective memory? Or as her father once said, "Melayu mudah lupa (Malays often forget)"?

At around the same time that Mahathir wanted to "shoot to kill" the boat people, my peers and I were also barely out of our teens.

Unlike Marina, we didn't want to make sense of the world. We merely wanted to make sense of her father's policies. He robbed us of our future.

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