For the past three years, the Anwar trials have caused a trauma on the political and national psyche.
Faced with a new economic crisis from the United States economic slowdown and the unprecedented challenges of globalisation and information and communications technology, bold, courageous and visionary steps are in order to end the deep and bitter divisions in the country.
Anwar should be pardoned, freed from prison and restored his political and civil rights so that Malaysians can put the past three years of political trauma, turmoil and turbulence behind them and move forward as one united and dynamic people to take on the challenges of the new era.
The ball is in the court of the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad as to whether he could envisage and effect a new start for Malaysia, beginning with the pardon for Anwar.
(12/5/2001)