Twenty years ago the strong-arm tactics of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad against his deputy, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, sparked the reformist movement.
The "Reformasi" protests against Datuk Seri Anwar's imprisonment and calls for transparency and accountability in the country's institutions led to the closest that Dr Mahathir has come to losing government, at the 1999 polls.
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