When I said earlier that it was only a matter of time before an editor of the Sarawak Tribune newspaper would have to resign, I probably didn’t realise that it was just the tip of the iceberg. Today, it has been reported that the Internal Security Ministry has summoned the senior managment of the Sarawak Tribune to explain the caricature reprinting incident.

And according to the news report, this isn’t Sarawak Tribune’s first time at pushing the limits either:

Noh revealed that the Sarawak Tribune had been issued three notices last year, advising it to be careful with the type of pictures it published.

“The paper has been cited over pictures of sexily-dressed women and horrific pictures of accidents which show a lot of blood and gore,” he explained.

Truthfully, I’m not terribly interested in seeing how this will progress since this is a pretty clear-cut case. But as a Malaysian, I sincerely hope that the situation in Malaysia does not degrade the same way it has in Afghanistan and Lebanon (I doubt it will anyway).