COMMENT | East Germany comes to Muhyiddin's Malaysia

COMMENT | There's no doubt about it! The former hardline communist state of East Germany, known by its formal name as the German Democratic Republic (GDR) lives on - and is thriving, in Malaysia.

Some of the tactics adopted by the Stasi, the brutal police of the GDR, are widely used by our police and Special Branch during the rule of Perikatan Nasional (PN). However, these cruel police tactics started to be used during the former Umno and later on, the Umno-Baru regimes.

Some of these methods involved systematic surveillance, arbitrary arrests, sowing the seeds of conflict in the community and isolating individuals from other activist groups by spreading rumours about them.

They also recruited one or more infiltrators to distract the group's focus. Disappearances were common and confessions were beaten out of people. Children were encouraged to inform on their parents.

The Stasi's main aim was to make activism ineffective or to render it useless and halt the activities of various activist groups or dissenting individuals.

If you are not convinced that the Stasi exists in Malaysia, read the alternative media. Haven't we been living under a culture of fear?

What would you call the latest assault on ordinary Malaysians, a few days ago, when four individuals were arrested because...