Activist urges Pakatan govt to declassify the secrets of May 13
Suaram director Kua Kia Soong speaks during launch of Suaram's Human Rights Report 2018 in Kuala Lumpur December 4, 2018. ― Picture by Miera Zulyana
“Perhaps now that the supposedly ‘new’ PH government is in power, it is time to act like a mature and enlightened democracy and declassify the official secrets in the vaults of the Cabinet and the Special Branch department. “I may not have been there but my brother-in-law was a professor at the University Hospital at the time and my brother was a medical student at Universiti Malaya. A neighbour who was a medical student at the time had to help to deal with the corpses,” he said.
Kua had recently republished a 50th-anniversary edition of the book with a new preface on the contemporary political scenario in Malaysia.
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