We are the weeds with fire
COMMENT I’ve wondered what it was like to be grown-up during Operasi Lalang . I was seven that year - truly a child of former premier Mahathir Mohamad, who came to power in 1981, and ordered the government crackdown on political dissidents and activists in 1987. Over a hundred people were arrested under the Internal Security Act, and many of them got sent to jail.
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