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Malaysia: Fear of possible anarchy

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 @ 16:35 UTC

by Mong Palatino

Countries:: Malaysia
Topics:: Governance, Politics
Languages:: English

I am a Malaysian comments on the growing political tension in Malaysia after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was charged with sodomy: “At this point of our history, and, with the imminent global financial, economic, subsistence and geo-political turmoil waiting to explode, we do not need to commit suicide by allowing the latest Anwar Ibrahim episode to degenerate into anarchy.”

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