I remember I first came to Sitiawan in Pekan Gurney 58 years ago, on May 19, 1968, to a dinner by 400 people, in pursuit of a Malaysian Dream.

A year later, I was elected MP for Bandar Melaka and detained under the Internal Security Act, not because of the May 13, 1969 riots in Kuala Lumpur as on the fateful night (I was in Kota Kinabalu and I was never in Kuala Lumpur after the 1969 General Elections) but an abuse of power. Read the rest of this entry »