Ex-senator Tunku Aziz dies
Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim served as a special adviser to former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan from February 2006 to January 2007. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: Former senator Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim has died, aged 89.
The death of the politician turned activist was confirmed by his nephew, Tengku Azman Tengku Zainal Abidin, in an Instagram post.
Tunku Aziz joined DAP in 2008 and served as its vice-chairman. He quit the party in 2012 and became one of its most vocal critics.
He had also helped found Transparency International Malaysia in 1998, and was the anti-graft NGO’s vice-chairman until October 2002.
Tunku Aziz served as a special adviser to Kofi Annan, the then United Nations secretary-general, from February 2006 to January 2007.
PETALING JAYA: Former senator Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim has died, aged 89.
The death of the politician turned activist was confirmed by his nephew, Tengku Azman Tengku Zainal Abidin, in an Instagram post.
Tunku Aziz joined DAP in 2008 and served as its vice-chairman. He quit the party in 2012 and became one of its most vocal critics.
He had also helped found Transparency International Malaysia in 1998, and was the anti-graft NGO’s vice-chairman until October 2002.
Tunku Aziz served as a special adviser to Kofi Annan, the then United Nations secretary-general, from February 2006 to January 2007.
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kt comments:
Very sad to learn of Tunku's demise. Tunku was a true gentleman who was caught in a vastly different world to which he had been accustomed but nonetheless he coped magnificently. I dedicate the following poem by Henry Scott Holland to him:
“Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just round the corner.”
You will always be remembered, ever in our mind.
Requiescat in pace & al Fatihah.
He did a lot of good work for civil society for many years.
ReplyDeleteHowever , in his later years, after 2014, he soiled his legacy with his condemnation of those voices who were demanding accountsbility for the 1MDB scandal and his continued whitewashing of Najib.