YOURSAY | ‘Take care of Rohingyas if we must, but not at the nation’s peril’

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YOURSAY | ‘You can be kind-hearted but have a plan in place.’ Leaders shouldn't avoid Rohingya issue because it's unpopular - Anwar MS: The Rohingya situation, as far as Malaysian, especially Malay politicians, are concerned was never a purely humanitarian issue. It was seized upon, branded and championed as a Muslim cause by opportunistic politicians (some of whom are now in the dock) who saw the opportunity to make political capital and burnish their Islamic credentials. It was the same impulse that shaped our policies towards the Palestinians and, during the war in Bosnia- Herzegovina, towards Muslim Albanians and Bosnian Muslims. To underscore the above, there was no such compelling "humanitarian" urge among politicians here in the case of Vietnam and Sri Lanka when refugees facing similar genocidal regimes there sought refuge here. Both were deemed to be inte…