COMMENT 2015 will be remembered as the year cold Malaysian values were exposed to the world. It was the year the hot air of ‘Eastern values’ rhetoric was chilled by the cold hearted response of Malaysian leaders to these humanitarian disasters, namely:

• Thousands of Rohingya refugees adrift at sea off Malaysia
• Hundreds of mass graves of trafficked persons uncovered near the Thai border;
• Tens of pregnant Orang Asli women at the transit centre for in Kuala Bertis, Gua Musang;
• Seven Orang Asli children lost in the forest at Gua Musang;
• One Malaysian beheaded after being kidnapped in Sabah.