GEORGE TOWN, July 25 -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim says there is a need to reconstruct the history of the country so that it is not dictated by monuments of the past.

He said history must not be dictated by the country's former colonial masters, whether it is the United Kingdom, Japan or the United States.

"It must be determined by our people and reconstructed to give meaning to the level of sacrifice and devotion of the people of Penang," he said at the official opening of Fort Cornwallis after restoration works on the colonial monument.

He said it is not necessarily erasing history but a fact that there is a different narrative behind the monuments left behind by the country's former colonial masters.

"So this is my ans...