Last week, the PM pointed to a person who wants to be 'free to beat up people'. Here's most probably why.
After bitterly announcing that Malaysia would be withdrawing from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court – no more than a month after inking the treaty - Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed there was a plot to pit his administration against the Malay rulers.about one person in particular who had sown confusion over the matter because the latter wanted to be “free to beat up people and things like that.
Sultan Iskandar was also the eighth Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 1984 to 1989, at a time when Mahathir was in power.in an article published on Jan 31, 1993 said attacks on the rulers' power had been a theme of his time in office after he took the reins from Hussein Onn in 1981.“In 1983, he sought to remove the king's right to block legislation, and last year pressed the rulers to sign a code of conduct barring them from politics and most commercial activities.
“Reporters were waiting for the hockey coach when he emerged an hour later. Although Mr Gomez was visibly shaken and bruised, he refused to say anything: apart from the immunity from prosecution enjoyed by Malaysian rulers, any criticism of them can be held by the sultans themselves to amount to sedition.”
Though initially choosing to be silent over what transpired during his audience with Sultan Iskandar, Gomez, however, later took the unprecedented step to lodge a police report instead.
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