COMMENT | Why does it feel like Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) spells like a bad mutation on the DNA of the country?

Make no mistake, Malaysians are shell-shocked. The ones who fought for and still want Reformasi were shocked the most.

For 25 long years, whether fighting on the political frontlines or supporting the cause, we refused to give up on Anwar Ibrahim - now the prime minister - because his black eye was ours too.

His bullying by a ruthless strongman bode ill for all of us. We saw his trial as a travesty of justice. It was in so many ways a “show trial”, orchestrated to punish the accused and to also cow others into submission.

Who can forget the...