Chandra Muzaffar: A propagandist to smear Anwar Ibrahim?

Chandra Muzaffar: A propagandist to smear Anwar Ibrahim?
Datuk Rasammah Bhupalan
Malaysia Today - 22 March 2008

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It is pathetic to see Chandra Muzaffar, the so-called public intellectual, joining hands with a rank politician like Lim Keng Yaik to attack the political integrity of Anwar Ibrahim. Both Chandra Muzaffar and Lim Keng Yaik have revealed more of their real selves by resorting to smear tactics.

Chandra Muzaffar, in particular, reveals his intellectuals dishonesty when he now reminds the public that Anwar Ibrahim, in changing the nomenclature “Bahasa Malaysia” to “Bahasa Melayu” and in placing non-mandarin speaking administrators in government-aided Chinese schools in 1987, had stoked racial tension in our country. Chandra Muzaffar did not find these actions objectionable when consenting to being a founding member of PKR and its Deputy President in 1997! This man of convenient memory also attacked Parti Keadilan and Anwar Ibrahim upon his resignation from the party whilst Anwar was languishing and unable to defend himself. What sort of man is one that attacks another who is unable to mount a defence?

It would seem that the media has adopted Chandra Muzaffar as one of the main propagandists to smear Anwar Ibrahim. The question that has to be asked is what possible justification is there for any honest man to use the media in this manner to denigrate a person like Anwar Ibrahim who has suffered a grave injustice? Is he the issue and is this how we want to conduct elections in our country?

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