Malice Aforethought
Tuesday, February 6, 2001
His enemies had plenty to celebrate by the end of last Thursday. President Abdurrahman Wahid ended up not only censured but facing a 'memorandum', the first step in a lengthy impeachment process. For many it was a dream come true.
It was a dramatic sentence but it was far from guaranteed. Until a few days before the vote looked unlikely to be so clear-cut.
The president's supporters had dared to predict victory but the predictions turned out to be
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