Basics of whistleblowing

THERE have recently been so many developments in Malaysia that I think it’s safe to say we have had enough “excitement” to last a lifetime. But there is one matter I would like to raise – whistleblowers.

Not very long ago, China’s Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor whom we have to thank for bringing Covid-19 into our collective consciousness, succumbed to the disease. While the disease continues to spread around the world now, Li has since disappeared from public memory. It becomes clear here that the treatment of whistleblowers seems to be generally inconsistent.