COMMENT | The dust has settled on the “Turun Anwar” rally, and with the chants fading from the streets into the digital ether, the big question looms: what did it actually achieve?

Organised primarily by opposition parties and student movements, the rally drew thousands of Malaysians - young and old - to the capital.

They came armed not with violence, but with placards, chants, and pointed questions for the man once hailed as the reformist-in-waiting: Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.