Humans distort & manipulate situations for many reasons (good, bad or both) - Razak died of leukaemia on January 14, 1976, after only six years of leading the country. He introduced the NEP in 1971 as a measure to steer Malaysia away from potential racial conflict with the affirmative action policy that set out to level the playing field between the Malays and other races, although the policys approach was targeted at all races. Like Ramon, others interviewed in this series, who were Razaks contemporaries, said they were supportive of the NEP but noted that over the years, problems arose in its implementation, which allowed abuses to happen. For that, the NEP has drawn much criticism from other races who blame it for causing rifts among the ethnic groups as its implementation appeared to favour only the Malays. In this case we all obviously know that it was not done for good reasons ...
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:13:59 +0000
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