I've 'very little' knowledge of Project IC, says Mahathir



Former budding apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad currently skirted a issue of citizenship being since to bootleg immigrants in a 1990s, asserting which he had "very little" knowledge on a matter.

"It happened, I'm utterly certain it happened, just like other crimes which were additionally function during other people's tenure, though which doesn't meant which they have been guilty," he pronounced today.

NONEMahathir (right in photo), who administered a nation for twenty-two years, was asked to reply to a not long ago voiced stately elect of exploration to examine claims which a little hundreds of thousands foreigners were since Malaysian citizenship.

However, a country's longest-serving budding apportion reasoned which monitoring a transformation of immigrants was a formidable task during which period.

"If we find me responsible, we will be answerable for it, though these things happened at a time when a capability to oversee movements of people (was restricted), generally people who have been always been really mobile, like a Bajau Laut (seafarers)," he said.
The RCI to examine allegations of bootleg immigrants being since citizenship as well as a right to vote, famously well known as 'Project IC', was between a idea proposed by a parliamentary select committee on electoral reform in February.

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak finally made a much-delayedannouncementlast week, however, conditions of anxiety have nonetheless to be outlined.

NONE"For centuries they (the Bajaus) have been relocating between a Philippines as well as Mala! ysia so it's probable which a lot of them, came to Malaysia, because it is attractive to them.

"But we see this function everywhere, in Europe, everywhere. When a nation is prosperous, everyone wants to quit to which country," pronounced Mahathir.

Asked whether he would support in a RCI probe, Mahathir said: "I don't know what we can testify. If we have any knowledge which they want, I'm utterly willing, we can go to a courts to discuss it them whatever we know, though we contingency confess which we don't know really much."

Proponents have been campaigning for a stately elect to re-look into a special immigration revisit pass IMM13 for a little 84,000 refugees affected by polite fight in a Philippines in a 1970s.

They were pronounced to have been accorded with a Malaysian citizenship in a 1990s as well as their names combined to a electoral roll, ensuing in an surprising swell in a Sabah population.

It was additionally well known asProject M, with 'M' station for Mahathir, who has been accused of spearheading a project.
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