Formulating or tampering with history?

comments     Terence Netto     Published     Updated

COMMENT From the time of the Mahathir era the Umno general assembly has become an annual rite of passage aimed at sustaining two myths: one, the myth of the party’s origins; and two, the myth of the party’s mission.

The first myth of Umno as the original protector of the Malay people vanished in a maze of appropriation by special interests; the second myth is being sustained as camouflage for the disappearance of the first.

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