‘They are crying’: Refugees in Malaysia in fear amid Myanmar deportation
Shrinking resources for refugee support groups in Malaysia collide with increasing hostility towards the Rohingya.
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Shrinking resources for refugee support groups in Malaysia collide with increasing hostility towards the Rohingya.
Malaysia welcomed persecuted Muslim minority but now plans to send them back to Myanmar amid rising hate against them.
Malaysia began an operation to send nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals back to their war-torn homeland on Tuesday, pressing ahead with a government-to-government repatriation deal despite warnings that returnees could face persecution and forced conscription. The first group of 1,476 is part of an agreement to return 5,000 people held in Malaysian immigration facilities under a programme Kuala Lumpur describes as voluntary, though human rights groups say it lacks adequate safeguards. Buses...
Human rights groups say some 5,000 returnees could face violence, persecution and forced conscription.
Nearly half a million people are displaced in Rakhine as a result of the conflict between the military and rebel groups.
Dozens of people have been killed in a military air strike on an opposition-controlled area of Rakhine State, Myanmar.
As a Rohingya exile who abandoned his life in Malaysia to return to Myanmar, Ismail’s bleak prospects may portend what awaits others caught in Kuala Lumpur’s migrant crackdown. Weeks ago, the 25-year-old was eking out a living at a Malaysian fish market, one of legions of the Muslim minority group who left Myanmar to escape violence some monitors say amounted to genocide. But a wave of anti-Rohingya sentiment, migrant arrests and a government plan to repatriate Myanmar nationals drove Ismail...
Businessman Adam Castillo had been detained by authorities for three months on breach of trust allegations.
Myanmar deported American businessman Adam Castillo on Wednesday evening, ending a three-month detention for breach of trust in a move the authorities said was aimed at preserving diplomatic relations with the US.
Malaysia has invited Myanmar’s military ruler for a visit to the country in a bid to expedite Rohingya repatriation.
Malaysia will formally invite Myanmar leader Minh Aung Hlaing to visit Kuala Lumpur to discuss efforts to repatriate nearly 200,000 refugees from the war-torn nation that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says have placed a heavy social and economic burden on his country. Refugees from Myanmar, particularly ethnic Rohingya, have faced worsening hostility in recent months in Malaysia, where they are accused of causing social problems and taking over small local businesses in areas where they have set...
Hostile social media content, disinformation campaigns, and a petition calling for their expulsion: in Malaysia, a wave of hate speech has been targeting Rohingya refugees, a Muslim minority driven out of Myanmar. The rising hostility has already led to the eviction of more than 100 people from a village and forced the temporary closure of schools serving refugee children.
Military government pins attack on pro-democracy rebels it has been battling since seizing power in 2021.
The development came weeks after U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor raised the case with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his May visit