Mahathir's off-base contrition

comments     Terence Netto     Published     Updated

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.

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