After corresponding with a person inside Malaysian students’ association at Michigan, apparently, the issue had arisen due to unfortunate misunderstanding.
The warning from Malaysian Student Department (MSD) was issued way back in January 2005. Somebody re-forwarded it later – what seems to be in conjunction of Anwar Ibrahim’s lecture – to the Malaysian students’ association at Michigan. Hence, neither MSD nor the Malaysian government had issued a warning directly related to the lecture.
Earlier, I had planned to write several letters of protest to some quarters. With the new development however, the need to write them has evaporated.
Still, the letter that was issued by MSD is an act of hypocrisy and it’s good to know that the person that I corresponded with feels that the letter is unjustified in any way. Moreover, the person assures me that the association hadn’t barred nor spied on any Malaysian at Michigan that attended the lecture.
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Perhaps MSD would learn to ‘date’ their correspondence in the future? Or better still, a proper OFFICIAL letter head etc.?
Cindy
Well I think it’s too late to know about the origins of the “warning” letter, it already damaged the image of MSD.
well done to who ever played the part of “re-forwarding” the letter!