Press Agency Takes Aim at Washington Post: Question of Rioting Raised (folo) 
International Herald Tribune
April 21, 1999
Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller of the International Herald Tribune reported:

In its attack on The Washington Post editorial, the Malaysian press agency also said: "The Post editors unabashedly support Anwar and his cause and seem to approve street riots by Anwar's supporters in the name of democracy.

"Do the editors at the Post want or like to see in Malaysia street riots, burning and looting of buildings and senseless beatings as in Indonesia — all in the name of 'democracy'?

"The Post should realize that while not all Malaysians support Dr. Mahathir, nor do they all support Anwar. Not everyone loves Dr. Mahathir nor does everyone want Anwar to be the next prime minister of Malaysia.

"That's what the electoral process is about," it said.

"The sad truth is that whatever the Post writes," it added, tends "to be believed by the majority of the American public who do not have a clue about who Dr. Mahathir is and where Malaysia is on the map."

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