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The government will review the issuance of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cards to Rohingya refugees in the country, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin.
He said the study had to be done following the escape of hundreds of Rohingya detainees from the Sungai Bakap Immigration Detention Depot near Bandar Baharu, on Wednesday.
“We cannot provide space for them to easily enter the country without documents and immediately get UNHCR cards. It’s something that’s not right… that’s why we take a firm stance, being a card holder doesn’t mean they can live in our country and enter as they like.”
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin
“We cannot provide space for them to easily enter the country without documents and immediately get UNHCR cards. It’s something that’s not right… that’s why we take a firm stance, being a card holder doesn’t mean they can live in our country and enter as they like,” he said.
He spoke to reporters after handing over donations to 1,000 underprivileged people from the Larut parliamentary constituency at Dewan Astaka Batu Kurau, here, today.
In the 4.30am incident on Wednesday, 528 Rohingya detainees escaped from the depot following a riot.
During the escape, six detainees, including two children, were killed on the southbound side of the North-South Expressway (NSE) while trying to cross the highway near Jawi.
Rohingya refugees in this country are being treated well, although Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its1967 Protocol, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said.
“Based on humanitarian grounds, Malaysia had provided basic necessities to the refugees for a long time, even though neighbouring countries declined to do so and no third country was willing to accept them.”
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin
He said that based on humanitarian grounds, Malaysia had provided basic necessities to the refugees for a long time, even though neighbouring countries declined to do so and no third country was willing to accept them.
“They are given free food and shelter so what else do they want us to provide?
Yesterday, human rights group Lawyers for Liberty reportedly blamed the government for the deaths of Rohingya detainees who escaped from the Sungai Bakap Immigration Depot on April 20.
They claimed that there was no reason to cram them in temporary detention centres because they could not be deported due to the ‘non-refoulement’ principle.
Police continue searching for Rohingya fleeing Malaysian immigration detention center Malaysia Kedah The Malaysian government is still searching for nearly 100 Rohingya who have escaped from a temporary immigration detention […]
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