00:00Former Chief of Defence Forces General Tun Mohamed Hashim, Mohamed Ali has died at the
00:06age of 88. The ninth Chief of Defence Forces suffered a stroke and was rushed to Glen Eagles
00:12Hospital in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, where he later passed away.
00:17A pivotal figure in the modernisation of the Malaysian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hashim also
00:22played a key role in bringing stability to the nation, most notably through his involvement
00:28in the 1989 Hadiyai Peace Agreement that ended the communist insurgency. He was the younger
00:35brother of Tun Dr Siti Hazma Mohamed Ali, the wife of former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
00:41Mohamed. After retiring from the military, Mohamed Hashim served as chairman of several public-listed
00:48companies and led the Institute of Strategic and International Studies . He is
00:54survived by three children and five grandchildren. Mohamed Hashim will be laid to rest at the
00:59Raudatul Sakina burial ground in Sungai Bersi.
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