COMMENT The roads in the country have not been kind to Malaysian oppositionists.

DAP chairperson Karpal Singh's death early this morning on the highway north to Penang, near Gua Tempurong, is the second to have happened to a prominent opposition leader in 50 years.

Professor Zulkiflee Muhammad's demise on the road near Kuantan in 1964 was the first mishap to deprive the opposition of a senior oppositionist...