Triggered by Dr Mahathir Mohamad's nonchalance over the Memali tragedy, the son of a survivor of the bloody clashes has recounted the horror of what happened during the police raid 32 years ago.

PAS youth member Mohamad Zuhdi Mat Piah, who was just a year old at the time, said while Mahathir did not pull the trigger himself, he was still very much responsible for the bloodshed that occurred in the Kedah village in 1985.

"Your hands are covered in the blood of Memali's victims. Fourteen people were killed cruelly, and even though it was not you who shot or killed them - just as you have never laid a brick to build the country - but (their deaths) happened because of instructions from you," Mohamad Zuhdi said in a statement...