COMMENT | There could be no more rousing start to the government of Anwar Ibrahim than to unravel the mystery of the enforced disappearances of Pastor Raymond Koh in February 2017, and earlier to that, of Shia Muslim Amri Che Mat, and Christian evangelists Hilmy and Ruth Sitepu.

As prime minister, Anwar has the power to rip open the curtain that veils their enforced disappearances from public scrutiny.

Otherwise, it can be inferred that even someone as powerful as the prime minister is helpless against the sinister forces of the Malaysian deep state.

The four enforced disappearances are a mocking stain on the escutcheon of Malaysian democracy.

However imperfect that democracy, enforced disappearances are descent to a level of moral turpitude we cannot allow for the reason of its shameful resemblance to the dictatorships and one-party states of the last century and, even, of this one.

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