Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said they currently lack the manpower to investigate everyone in the previous government who is suspected of wrongdoing.

He said this in response to DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang’s call for several former high-ranking officers, as well as a former minister, to be investigated for their alleged role in the ‘Week of Long Knives’ in July and August 2015.

“We find that the government who was defeated had many who committed crimes, but at this time, it is not possible for us to focus on them all because we lack manpower...