Country belongs to rakyat, not politicians


  • Letters
  • Thursday, 08 Oct 2015

LOOKING at the recent events taking place in our country, it’s not difficult to conclude that race relations must be at the lowest ebb now.

And it’s happening as we mourn the loss of one of Malaysia’s favourite sons who spent his entire life fighting for the country he loved and called home. Distinguished ex-police officer Tan Sri Yuen Yuet Leng must have found it extremely painful seeing what he and his colleagues had built disintegrating before his very eyes, and that those who shed their blood and helped make Malaysia a great country are now referred to quite freely as pendatang and even told that they should go back to their countries of origin if they are not happy here.

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