Hadi's influential 1981 speech could have led to more tragedies, says ex-IGP


Amin Iskandar Noel Achariam

Thank God that the Memali incident was the only tragedy that resulted from Hadi’s fiery rhetoric, says former inspector-general of police Abdul Rahim Noor. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, August 26, 2017.

MALAYSIA is lucky that the Memali incident has been the only tragedy to have stemmed from PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s influential speech, “Amanat Hadi”, former inspector-general of police Abdul Rahim Noor said.

Hadi’s speech in Terengganu in 1981, when he was the state PAS commissioner, had not only influenced militant leader Ibrahim Mahmud, better known as Ibrahim Libya, who was killed in Memali, but also many members of the party’s youth wing, who were arrested before they could cause trouble, Rahim said.


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