More than 10,000km away in Kuala Lumpur, the triumphant news was received by the architects of the “dawn raid”, which later became known as the Guthrie Dawn Raid. Things changed when Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad stepped in as Prime Minister. The 1981 Guthrie Dawn Raid took place only months after Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad became prime minister. Then we came to the realisation that we didn’t have enough land,” Tengku Razaleigh says. Once the foundations were set, PNB swooped in with its lightning assault and returned control of Guthrie land back to Malaysia.

Source: The Star September 11, 2021 23:37 UTC