The act passed not due to an old guard tainted by anti-Rohingya prejudice, but thanks to a new coalition of ethnic minorities and youth, who made strategic alliances with US institutions and told the right story.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim once urged his Muslim-majority nation to show solidarity with the persecuted Rohingya who fled Myanmar en masse, but this week rolled out the red carpet for the man accused of orchestrating their genocide.
BY AFP
