Unrepentant! (2)

Malaysiakini - PAS slams Dr M over 'mati katak' remark (extracts):

PAS has slammed Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad's "mati katak" (died in vain) remark, in regards to those who died in the Memali tragedy.

The Islamist party's deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man told a press conference in Kota Bharu, Kelantan that the former premier's statement was an insult to the deceased, their families, and all Malaysians in general.

"We see even the Sultan of Kedah has paid a visit to the graves of the deceased.

"If the tragedy's victims died in vain, does it mean that the Sultan's act (of visiting the graves) was not right?

"Mahathir and Harapan are now desperate, to resort to an issue that is decades old. To PAS, Mahathir's allegation exceeds Islamic and Malay manners," Tuan Ibrahim said.

Mahathir told a ceramah in Pantai Dalam last night that the 14 PAS supporters who were killed in the Memali tragedy in 1985, had died in vain, and not achieved martyrdom.

He had said that it was "Amanat Haji Hadi", by the current PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, that had caused the tragedy to happen, as his message had instigated the supporters to kill policemen who are "infidels".

What Mahathir has done was to unnecessarily add insult to injury in an issue that's more than 30 years old.

Maybe he is still ashamed of not admitting he was in KL when the order went out to the police to deal with the Memali people. Tun Musa Hitam copped the whole lot sweet for years despite the then-PM being still in the chair in KL when the Memali incident went out of control.

Mahathir didn't and still doesn't like to accept responsibility for his errors, blaming others for his mistakes like he once allowed Musa Hitam to bear that sole responsibility for the police action in Memali, and also to Hadi Awang even now for instigating the flareup in Memali.

As PAS' Tuan Ibrahim said, he was surprised that there are parties who are trying to put Mahathir in the office again, as "I don't see him as someone who has repented for his past mistakes".

No, Mahathir has never repented, not for Memali, nor for his injustice to Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng, Lord president Sallah Abas, 5 High Court judges, Chandra Muzaffar, Dong Jiao Zong, the late Karpal Singh, and of course Dr Kua Kia Soong too, wakakaka.