Karpal happy over PM’s Ops Lalang revelation - The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: DAP chairman Karpal Singh is happy that Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had revealed that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was responsible for Operasi Lalang which resulted in the arrest of 106 people under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in 1987.

He said Prime Minister’s revelation brought into focus the necessity to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to probe Dr Mahathir’s abuse of powers then.

Karpal Singh, who was himself arrested under the ISA in 1987, said that Dr Mahathir had him rearrested even after the Ipoh High Court had freed him in March 9, 1988.

“What I cannot accept about Dr Mahathir is the matter in which he abused his power, by destroying the judiciary and the abuse of the ISA to get to political opponents like me,” he said in a statement yesterday.

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