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Najib apologises, but will Anwar forgive?
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The question Malaysians are asking is whether PM Anwar (right) is willing to forgive Najib, the man he accused as his jailer.
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KUALA LUMPUR – On the night of May 9, 2018, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had just watched election night unfold in Malaysia’s first-ever change of government in hospital, where he was recovering from shoulder surgery, when he received a call. The caller was ousted premier Najib Razak, the first Umno president in six decades of Malaysia’s history to lose power.
“I went through hell, and it was Najib who orchestrated (my imprisonment),” Mr Anwar said a week later in an interview with The Straits Times two days after he was pardoned of a controversial sodomy conviction
