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Deputy minister points finger at opposition-linked netizens behind anti-Rohingya messages

Deputy Federal Territories Minister Edmund Santhara has claimed that hate speech and xenophobia messages targeting the Rohingya community on social media originate from netizens linked to DAP.

"To be honest with you, I ran through all the social media (messages), and I saw it as being sponsored by politically motivated groups," he told Malaysiakini and KiniTV without further elaboration in an interview on Thursday...

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