by John Malott,
Today I read Anwar Ibrahim’s statement from the docket.
Anwar said that it all is a political conspiracy against him.
And I agree.
After all, I was the American Ambassador to Malaysia when all
of these things happened the first time around.
As people know, the American Embassy has many sources of
information.
Just ask Wikileaks.
Malaysians
love to talk….
As so many of my friends in Malaysia know, I have been
very outspoken in support of Anwar’s freedom for over one decade. And that is
because I know the truth. I was there when it happened the first time.
In 1998 – the first time around for Anwar – my Embassy heard
and reported lots of things. We knew the truth. Because Malaysians – at the
highest levels -- told us.
When I was in KL, Najib’s personal think tank was called the
Malaysian Strategic Research Centre, or MSRC. MSRC basically was two people,
Rohanna Mahmood and Razak Baginda.
Neither Rohanna nor Razak are government officials, so I am
not violating any US laws by revealing what they told me and my Embassy in
those days.
A
secret pact
In 1998 Rohanna joined me for a private one-on-one
luncheon at the Ambassador ‘s residence. It was during the time when Anwar was
starting to challenge Mahathir, subtly but still obviously.
Rohanna told me that Najib and Anwar had reached a secret
agreement. When Mahathir was gone, Anwar would be PM and Najib would be Deputy
PM. That was the deal.
That never happened, of course. When the going got tough,
Najib stood by, and let Anwar go to jail.
What about Razak Baginda?
He told a senior Embassy officer, “The decision has been
made. They are going to “nuke” Anwar politically for all time to come. “Until
he can never stand up again politically.”
100
years
Meaning, it was all a political decision – to destroy Anwar.
That is what Razak – now in self-imposed exile in London --
said.
After that, a senior officer in the Special Branch told an
Embassy officer, “We are going to keep filing charge after charge after Anwar
so he will be in jail for the next hundred years.”
Can there be any doubt about what was going on then – and
what is going on now?
- John Malott was the US ambassador to Malaysia from 1995
to 1998 and is now the president of the Japan-America Society of Washington DC
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