Malaysian Rohingya Refugees Sosaity (MRS)

Since descending upon New Delhi more than a month ago, ethnic Rohingyas from Myanmar have been rounded up twice by police and ordered to leave, but the stateless group is determined to get the Indian government to recognize them as refugees.“India is a great democracy, and that is why we want to stay here,” said Ziaur Rehman, who heads the group of Rohingya asylum seekers who have been camping in India’s capital since April 9 to lobby...

Muhammad Rafique can't deny his hopes have been boosted by the Malaysia deal, but tears well up in his eyes as he explains that 15 years as a refugee have taught him not to be so foolish as to trust such feelings. On the walls inside the squalid shack where he lives with his wife and young child are a map of Burma and a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 34-year-old, an ethnic Rohingya...

RSM Malaysia History For Rohingya Live... Under the tormenting sun in Teknaf, on the southeastern tip of Bangladesh, Ahmed puts us straight: it is really all about love. His wife stands next to him in his tarpaulined shop in the unofficial Kutupalong refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. He came here, Ahmed says, to marry his childhood sweetheart, fleeing what Physicians for Human Rights, a watchdog group, describes as ‘flagrant and...

KUALA LUMPUR, (RSM).Malaysia — Malaysia and Australia sealed a pact Monday, July 25, to swap refugees in a contentious new strategy aimed at deterring asylum seekers from undertaking perilous boat journeys to Australia.The deal will see Australia send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia over the next four years in exchange for Australia resettling 4,000 registered refugees currently languishing in this Southeast Asian nation.Both governments...

KUALA LUMPUR, 8 April (Bernama) - A total of 15.001 people Rohingya community is now in the country, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim. He said the Rohingya refugees are now getting help from local community resources and the High Commission of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR) and some third countries such as Australia and Canada. However, Rais said, efforts are underway to address dumping of Rohingya refugees in the country by negotiating through the ASEAN Secretariat. "Efforts are also being implemented...

More than 50 Arakanese held a protest outside the UN refugee organisation's office in the Malaysian capital on Monday, alleging its discrimination against the Burmese ethnic group. The demonstrators at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in Kuala Lumpur called for the office to recognise the more than 10,000 Arakanese in Malaysia as legitimate refugees and supply aid to those in immigration detention camps. They also sought an Arakanese translator at the office. A day after the protest, the UNHCR...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police say nearly 200 illegal immigrants from Vietnam and Myanmar have staged a riot in a botched attempt to break out of a detention centre while awaiting deportation. Shukri Dahlan, the police chief of northern Terengganu state, told Malaysia's national news agency Bernama that eight Vietnamese detainees were injured in the incident late Saturday. Another state police official says the detainees tried...

BERAT mata memandang, berat lagi bahu memikul. Begitulah nasib malang yang menimpa pelarian Rohingya di Malaysia, hak mereka ditindas dan dicabul pihak junta Myanmar. Mereka lahir sebagai warga Myanmar, tetapi dinafikan hak untuk memiliki kad pengenalan, malah hak asasi kemanusiaan untuk hidup di bumi sendiri dicabuli dengan rakus. Wanita Rohingya dirogol dan dicabul tentera Myanmar setiap waktu. Etnik ini rata-rata menganut agama Islam, namun mereka dihalang untuk bergerak bebas walaupun untuk ke masjid menunaikan ibadat....

While incidents of refugee trafficking in Malaysia have diminished since the U.S. State Department’s Annual Report on Human Trafficking called attention to the country’s ranking among the world’s worst offenders, there has been no sign of a decrease in arrests of refugees in Malaysia. Malaysian detention camps are severely overcrowded as a result, and conditions are reportedly wretched, with limited or no access to clean water, medical...

Today We are Hav I’ve been following the issue of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar (formerly Burma) since January 2008. If you scroll all the way back through our entire Rohingya Reports category to the beginning you will find this post in which I wrote about how Time magazine and the Hudson Institute both linked Rohingya “refugees” to Islamic radicalism. Now over two years later the drumbeat to resettle the Rohingya is reaching a crescendo. This is how it works, there is a deliberate media campaign that we have...

KUALA LUMPUR, 8 April (Bernama) - A total of 15.001 people Rohingya community is now in the country, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim. He said the Rohingya refugees are now getting help from local community resources and the High Commission of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR) and some third countries such as Australia and Canada. However, Rais said, efforts are underway to address dumping of Rohingya refugees in the country by negotiating through the ASEAN Secretariat. "Efforts are also being implemented...

SERIOUS eyes, shoulder carry more weight. That's bad luck that befell the Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, they are oppressed and violated the rights of the Myanmar junta. They were born as citizens of Myanmar, but was denied the right to have identity cards, and even basic human rights to live in their own land with a savagely violated. Rohingya women raped and violated every time the Myanmar military. Ethnic average follow Islam, but they are restricted to move freely even to the mosque to perform prayer. Unfortunately, many...

Malaysia detains 93 Rohingya boat people who have been at sea for 30 days KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian authorities have picked up 93 Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar who said they spent 30 days at sea in a crowded wooden boat, an official said Friday. The Rohingya men, an ethnic group not recognized by Myanmar's military regime, had apparently been chased out of Thai waters before they were detained Wednesday off Malaysia's northern resort island of Langkawi, said Zainuddin Mohamad Suki, an officer with the Malaysian...

Myanmar refugee Sui Par, who fled her homeland with her three children in tow, is determined to make a difference in the lives of other women in a similar situation, writes RACHAEL PHILIP EARNING a living gives you a sense of worth. It keeps you sane, helps pay the bills and feed the children. Myanmar refugee Sui Par knows this only too well. When her husband died years ago, she became the sole breadwinner, taking care of her family...

KOTA BARU: The state Immigration Department has uncovered a new ploy by illegal immigrants trying to elude arrest; they are posing as refugees sanctioned by the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR) for Refugees. They carry fake UNHCR cards to move around the country, get jobs and escape deportation. Department enforcement division deputy assistant director Mohamad Zaidi Che Morad said syndicates involved in falsifying documents had found a good demand for the fake UNHCR cards. "The cards are believed to have been produced...