THE lights were dimmed and three “first daughters” walked across the low dais and took their place. Hanis Hussein, Datuk Paduka Marina Mahathir and Nori Abdullah sat on high stools and gave the reading performance of their lives.
The daughters of former prime ministers Tun Hussein Onn and Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi were not reading from acclaimed novelists or poets but letters which women (and one man) had written to Sisters in Islam (SIS) asking for help, for information or to protest.
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