These women and their children were among Rohingya refugees evicted from their homes in Malaysia / (c) Reuters Not long ago, Malaysia's then-prime minister urged his country to protect Rohingya Muslims – a stateless minority that has fled violence and discrimination in Myanmar for decades. "We must defend them, not just because they are of the same faith, but [because] they are humans, their lives have value," Najib Razak said in 2017. Nine years on, a fierce new wave of host

Since the 1970s, the Rohingyas have fled to Malaysia, drawn by its Muslim-majority population, among several factors. PHOTO: REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR – Online backlash over a Rohingya community’s Hari Raya Haji cattle sacrifice has reignited anti-refugee sentiment in Malaysia. What began as local complaints over waste disposal after the slaughter of 60 cattle for the korban ritual quickly turned into a wider attack on the refugees’ presence in the country. An online petition laun