EXPLANATIONS remain as confused as Malaysia’s handling of the calamity in the first few days, when the Prime Minister did not front and local authorities fumed at the querying tone of the international media.
On Friday, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim offered his view. Had Malaysia been incompetent or secretive? In the first few days, he said, Malaysia deliberately concealed key information.
Still, there is some good news. Everyone is playing at being friends now. Australia is patting Malaysia on the back. China is patting Australia on the back. China, instead of beating up Malaysia, has turned on a more traditional enemy — the media.
The Chinese ambassador to Malaysia said the Western media had been disgraceful in “reporting false rumoursâ€.
He seemed to have forgotten that radar intelligence was kept quiet by Malaysia at great cost to international resources.
The first casualty was truth, not that there was much to squander. In its absence little information — bar rumours and experimental science — has filled the vacuum.
Let’s hope the truth is still out there.
Otherwise, grieving relatives will be tortured to the point that they are more qualified than NASA rocket scientists. And we will all continue to be force-fed nonsense about mangosteens.
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