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Act of shame

Published January 9, 2009, 2:45 am, Aliran Online

"For the first time in my life, I was ashamed of being Malaysian!” said the late Tun Suffian , a former lord president of the Supreme Court, when he heard of the sacking of the then Lord President, Tun Salleh Abas, in 1988.

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