Mahathir said that the residents of Bukit Malut are not Rohingya but Kedah Malays.
One group of Malays are said to have merantau up north circa 1865, even reaching to as far as southern Burma.
Mahathir said these olden Malay travellers (seafarers) have lately returned from Myanmar to Bukit Malut, Langkawi — see his tweet below. Continue reading “Mahathir’s blood-and-soil argument”
Helen Ang 