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有位博客去世了

虽然他不写中文，不过他的告别肯定是博客界的损失。八十年代，Rustam Sani 是国大（是UKM，不是阿四的室友）政治系的副教授，过后写了不少政治分析的书籍。是人民社会运动的支持者。2006年他开始写 blog（肯定不是说自己被黑的那种），最后一个 post 是 去年12月18日。最近没写可能是因为准备他的新书吧，还有人说他身体不好。。。

他最后的那个 post 是这样开始的：

This experiment in government we like to call democracy – which has lasted for half a century now – depends upon, among other things, a certain level of trust, not only of the government and its elected officials, but maybe more importantly among the people themselves.

After that many years trust has been under attack in our society, we can today confidently declare that it is definitely dead.

Sometimes it takes much more that a casual look at the state of our society in order to understand that there is something really wrong with it. A time like this – this season of blessings, compassion and goodwill – it is perhaps a good time to take a really profound and perceptive look at our society, to go beyond just its crass surface and glitters.

他原本要在这个星期六 launch 两本新书的。怎知道昨晚凌晨他就去了。刚才 check email 是才看到他的消息。从众多的 NGO email 当中，发现他原来是以前大马独立份子 Ahmad Boestaman 的儿子。他也蛮 low profile 的，从来没有炫耀过他是一位历史人物的儿子。

Rustam Sani，享年64岁。