Malaysia to ask Bangladesh to take back Rohingya refugees found at sea

[Buddhistforlife]

Malaysia will ask Bangladesh to take back about 300 Rohingya refugees detained after a boat carrying them entered its waters this week, the southeast Asian nation's defence minister said on Tuesday.

Malaysia does not recognise refugee status but has been a favoured destination for ethnic Rohingya, most of them Muslims, who fled a 2017 military-led crackdown in Myanmar, and more recently, squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.

However, the Southeast Asian nation has said it will no longer accept Rohingya refugees as it has tightened border controls to rein in the coronavirus.

"The Rohingya should know, if they come here, they cannot stay," the minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, told reporters.

Malaysia's foreign ministry will ask Dhaka to take back the detained migrants if they were found to have fled camps in Bangladesh's district of Cox's Bazar, he added.
On Monday, authorities arrested 269 Rohingya and retrieved the body of a woman from a damaged boat near the Malaysian island of Langkawi, off its northwestern coast.

Malaysia may ask for the migrants to be placed on the island of Bhasan Char, where Bangladesh had earlier planned to re-settle Rohingya refugees, added Ismail Sabri.

Malaysia also plans to ask United Nations refugee agency UNHCR to re-settle Rohingya migrants in a third country.

In Dhaka, a senior foreign ministry official said the refugees were the responsibility of Myanmar.

"Why don't they ask Myanmar to take them back?" said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Secondly, they are the responsibility of the country where they ended up. Bangladesh has nothing to do with them."

UNHCR officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The boat in Monday's incident is believed to have left Bangladesh in February with between 700 and 800 aboard, two human rights groups have told Reuters, but the fate of the other passengers was not immediately clear.

Source- https://www.thedailystar.net/malaysia-ask-bangladesh-take-back-rohingya-refugees-found-sea-1911601

 

[Buddhistforlife]

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[X-ray Papa]

Why cant they understand that Rohingyas are not Bangladeshi citizen, malaysia as an asean member should ask myanmar to take them back.

 

[Beast]

Why cant they understand that Rohingyas are not Bangladeshi citizen, malaysia as an asean member should ask myanmar to take them back.

Myanmar will not talk to Malaysia as they are angry with them.

 

[Max]

Instead of hiring Indians Chinese who are supporting this genocide, Malaysia should hire fleeing Rohingya.

 

[atan651]

There are already more than 3 million illegals in Malaysia according to the govt and the locals don't like them too because they make demands and are taking up resources. Certainly covid19 doesn't help either.

 

[X-ray Papa]

There are already more than 3 million illegals in Malaysia according to the govt and the locals don't like them too because they make demands and are taking up resources. Certainly covid19 doesn't help either.

Why does your country take in foreign workers where there are plenty of locals to do the job?

 

[Buddhistforlife]

Instead of hiring Indians Chinese who are supporting this genocide, Malaysia should hire fleeing Rohingya.

Indians and Chinese are citizens of Malaysia. What do you mean by hiring them? Also don't forget the Malaysian Chinese are running the Malaysian economy.

Why cant they understand that Rohingyas are not Bangladeshi citizen, malaysia as an asean member should ask myanmar to take them back.

Bangladesh government should stop being a pussy and should be firm and rigid. Enough is enough.

Saudi, UN, Malaysia everyone is forcing these people into Bangladesh. What are they even thinking?

 

[Max]

Indians and Chinese are citizens of Malaysia. What do you mean by hiring them? Also don't forget the Malaysian Chinese are running the Malaysian economy.


Bangladesh government should stop being a pussy and should be firm and rigid. Enough is enough.

Not all of them are citizens. Chinese mafia should be put in camps for re-education, Indian should be lynched on mass scale in Kaulalampur.

Bangladesh have humanity that's why it's tolerant to Rohingya..

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

BAL

Not all of them are citizens. Chinese mafia should be put in camps for re-education, Indian should be lynched on mass scale in Kaulalampur.

Bangladesh have humanity that's why it's tolerant to Uyghurs.

These are rohingya not Uyghurs.

 

[GHALIB]

Not all of them are citizens. Chinese mafia should be put in camps for re-education, Indian should be lynched on mass scale in Kaulalampur.

Bangladesh have humanity that's why it's tolerant to Uyghurs.

it is better if other muslim countries give them refuge.

 

[Buddhistforlife]

Not all of them are citizens. Chinese mafia should be put in camps for re-education, Indian should be lynched on mass scale in Kaulalampur.

Bangladesh have humanity that's why it's tolerant to Uyghurs.

You should change your glasses if you wear one

 

[Max]

BAL



These are rohingya not Uyghurs.

Yes, thanks for correction.

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

Asking an country which doesn't even give equal rights to her own citizens on the basis of race and religion, expecting them to accept refugees is too far fetched. Their former PM can only talk bout Ummah but when it comes to action, even their own Islamic parties will oppose it for protecting their Malay majority characteristics.

And it's also true Malaysia has a lots of illegals. It used to be a lot in previous decade, but not so much now as Economy hasn't grown as expected. People now try to work in the Gulf.

 

[Max]

You should change your glasses if you wear one

No i don't wear glasses.