Seeing red over book ban

FINALLY, there’s some sense of rationality. Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has announced, rightly, that the Home Ministry is in the midst of revoking the ban on the memoir of Shamsiah Fakeh, a former communist.

It is hard to comprehend how a book, which has been in circulation for nearly 20 years, is suddenly deemed dangerous and banned.

The book was first published in 2004 by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), one of the country’s premier universities, and not by an ordinary one-man show non-governmental organisation.

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