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— KittyPooh (@KittyPo80176717) June 24, 2022

By Yiswaree Palansamy

Thursday, 23 Jun 2022 4:09 PM MYT

KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad clarified today that a report of him saying Johor should reclaim Singapore and the Riau islands lacked the context to show he was mocking the idea.

On June 20, Singapore news outlet The Straits Times reported him as making the remarks in a speech the previous day, which Dr Mahathir categorised as “inaccurate”.

“I am not asking Malaysia to claim the land that we had lost. I am trying to point out that we are so concerned over losing a table-size rocPulau Batu Putehk but never about bigger parts of Malaysia when they were taken from us. Losing is no big deal. It was the mistake of the Johor government to deny that the rock belonged to Johor.

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/06/23/dr-mahathir-says-reclaim-singapore-remark-reported-out-of-context/13845

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— KittyPooh (@KittyPo80176717) June 21, 2022

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"We should demand not just that Pedra Branca, or Pulau Batu Puteh, be given back to us, we should also demand Singapore as well as the Riau Islands, as they are Tanah Melayu (Malay land),"

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— Lembaga KERIS (@LembagaKERIS) June 21, 2022

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Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has said that Singapore was once owned by Johor and the state of Johor should claim that Singapore be returned to it and to Malaysia. https://t.co/4pHeDDFrQQ

— Friso Dubbelboer (@FrisoDubbelboer) June 21, 2022

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