Mahathir's off-base contrition

Terence NettoPublished: Aug 21, 2015 4:14 AM | Updated: Aug 21, 2015 4:36 AM

COMMENT Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is rarely, if ever, apologetic. It’s not his style to be contrite.

Even when he suggested that protege-turned-nemesis Anwar Ibrahim’s sensational black eye suffered in detention under the Internal Security Act in September 1998 was self-inflicted rather than the result of a punch by the inspector-general of police Rahim Noor, he could not bring himself to say sorry for inferring that Anwar had feigned injury.

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