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Malaysia’s Past Damns its Future

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Oct 14, 2015
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The seeds of today’s political crisis in Malaysia were sown decades ago in an elaborate structure that has maintained a small elite in power since it was known as Malaya and achieved its independence from Britain in 1957.

Direct discussion of the subject has basically been criminalized since the 1970s and deemed too sensitive for debate. Thus there has b…

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