Dato Seri Dr Mahathir refuses to go to court to testify in the Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim trial. Why is this? Well, this was the reason given by Dr Mahathir in February 2000. 

"I don't think it is necessary for me to be called a witness………..If I am required in the court and it is relevant, I suppose I will have to go. That is the law and there is nothing I can do about it………..I hope it is relevant to the case. If it is not relevant to the case, and they just want to make a political show, I don't think it is being very fair……..I don't know much about these things, but I think all the evidence have been given". 

(As reported in the Sun on 18th February 2000). 

But what did Dr Mahathir say before this? 

"I interviewed the people he sodomised, the women he slept with and the driver who brought the women to the place where he met them………I cannot accept a sodomist to be a leader of the country……….I told them (those whom I interviewed): "Look if you are being forced into making a confession tell me. I will protect you". It is difficult for me to explain. I tell you what the police tells me..……I have incontrovertible proof, that it (the allegation) is true……Other people cannot very well get the information I got". 

(During a press interview on 23rd September 1998). 

"………though I verily believe that the law must be allowed to take its course". 

(As reported in the NST on 23rd April 1999). 

"It is my firm conviction that, in this country, no one is above the law". 

(As reported in the NST on 7th September 1999). 

"The Courts have limited what I can say about Anwar……..but as I have "testified" in Tokyo, New York, London and time and again at home, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim is guilty of his alleged offences". 

(As reported in the NST on 30th September 1999). 

"I am willing to testify -- if given the list of questions relating to the sodomy charge". 

(As reported by the Sun on 28th October 1999). 

Well, there you have it. See how that man contradicts himself at every turn. He feigns ignorance of the Dato Seri Anwar case. But he goes round the whole world "testifying". Yet he will not testify in a proper court of law.