MALAYSIA
By Marina Mahathir
The Star-June 24
Well, here we are in the New Malaysia. It’s still hard to believe that all this is true: that on May 9, we came out in great numbers to finally make the change we thought would never come. I still think of those depressing days just a few months ago when everything seemed against us, when we all felt full of angst because nothing seemed to go right.
I still catch my breath when I think of the narrow escape that we had, with each passing day and each new revelation of the mismanagement, corruption and abuse of power that used to be the norm. How could so many of those who could have said or done something kept quiet? Yet some of them are still in denial, still believing the lies despite the evidence that people were simply not going to buy them.
Read more at: https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/columnists/musings/2018/06/24/dont-take-democracy-for-granted-a-democracy-is-far-from-just-about-voting-in-elections-we-need-to-ma/#CGzQtcV7LQqfzmIo.99
First published in: The Star
