A reflection on Anwar’s quarter-century struggle to the top beginning from this day in 1998 when he was sacked as Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s deputy prime minister.
A quarter of a century ago today, Anwar Ibrahim was sacked as deputy prime minister, and subsequently brutally detained, beaten, and jailed from Sept 20, 1998 to Sept 2, 2004. From the halls of power, as Anwar puts it in one of his earliest prison letters, he descended into “the labyrinths of incarceration”.
“But, the beauty of this long march is that Reformasi was not just about Anwar; it was very much about us.” After Vision 2020 was unveiled in February 1991, there was at least 14 years until 2005 that the national discourse was not racial, and the idea of a Bangsa Malaysia was broadly accepted.
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