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Date of entry/update: 2010-10-04
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Source/publisher: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Source/publisher: Malaysian Mission,
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Sub-title: Malaysian premier to attend meeting of ASEAN leaders on April 24, foreign minister confirms
Description: "Malaysia on Tuesday reiterated its call for an end to violence in Myanmar and the immediate release of all people detained by the military junta since its February power grab. “Provide space for peaceful assembly and freedom of speech. Return to the negotiating table to resolve this political crisis and avoid escalation of tensions,” Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said in a statement. His remarks came ahead of a meeting of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Saturday. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will attend the special ASEAN meeting as he has received a special invitation from the bloc’s current chair, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, according to the foreign minister. Hishammuddin urged the military junta to open access for humanitarian aid to reach the people of Myanmar, while also calling for efforts for the peaceful, voluntary, and dignified repatriation of the persecuted Rohingya community. “We hope that during the upcoming discussions in Jakarta, Myanmar will agree to receive representatives from the ASEAN chair Brunei or from the ASEAN secretariat to help the country return to normalcy,” he added. Brunei confirmed on Wednesday that the meeting of ASEAN leaders will take place in Jakarta on Saturday and will be chaired by Sultan Bolkiah. At least 738 people have been killed so far as Myanmar’s military has used brutal methods to quell anti-coup protests raging across the country, according to the latest figures by a rights group. Figures provided by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners show over 3,260 people have been detained, 75 of them convicted, and arrest warrants issued for at least 970 others since the Myanmar army – officially known as the Tatmadaw – seized power on Feb. 1, ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi..."
Source/publisher: "Anadolu Agency" (Ankara)
2021-04-21
Date of entry/update: 2021-04-22
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Description: "Malaysia on Monday (Jun 8) detained 269 Rohingya migrants when they tried to enter the country on a damaged boat off the holiday island of Langkawi, authorities said. The Southeast Asian country, which does not recognise refugee status, has been a favoured destination for ethnic Rohingya who fled a 2017 military-led crackdown in Myanmar and more recently squalid conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Acting on a tip-off received a day earlier, Malaysian authorities intercepted a boat ferrying the Rohingya in the pre-dawn hours of Monday off Langkawi off the northwestern corner of the Malaysian peninsula. A coastguard vessel spotted the suspected migrant boat off the island, and was set to push it out to international waters, authorities said. But as the coastguards approached, 53 Rohingya jumped into the sea and were detained. "An inspection of their boat found 216 Rohingya migrants and the body of one female illegal immigrant. Further inspections found that the boat was deliberately damaged ... making it unfit to be turned back," Malaysia's National Task Force (NTF) on border patrol said in a statement. According to the statement, a Marine Police Team boat and the KM Kimanis from the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) were sent to the scene to carry out surveillance and deportation operations. "When the KM Kimanis approached the boat, 53 of the Rohingya jumped off the boat and swam ashore, but they were all arrested by MMEA personnel who were standing by on land," said the statement. The KM Kimanis also provided food and fresh water to them. The National Security Council allowed the boat to be towed to the Teluk Ewa Jetty in Langkawi..."
Source/publisher: "CNA" ( Singapore)
2020-06-09
Date of entry/update: 2020-06-09
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Description: "Penang police scored a major win in their fight against drugs with the arrest of five people — including four Myanmar nationals — and the seizure of drugs worth more than RM1.2 million in two separate raids, recently. State police chief Datuk Sahabudin Abd Manan said the first raid between 6.45pm on June 5 and 8am in June 6, arrested the four, including a Myanmar woman, believed to be the mastermind. "The police seized drugs worth more than RM810,000 which included 2,980g heroin base, 8,493g syabu and 14,000 WY pills," he said at the state police contingent headquarters today. He said the second raid, also within those two days, saw the arrest of a 29-year-old man. There, police seized 4,533g of MDMA-laced drinks, 20 Ecstacy pills and 90 Erimin 5 pills worth RM465,500. "Both cases are not related but serve the same local market. "The five people have been remanded until June 12 to assist investigation under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drug Act 1952. "The drugs would be sold to some 129,500 addicts if found their way to the market," he added..."
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Source/publisher: "New Straits Times" (Malaysia)
2020-06-09
Date of entry/update: 2020-06-09
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Description: "Myanmar authorities said on Tuesday (May 19) said they have found eight coronavirus cases among scores of people who returned from Malaysia, where the authorities have recently been detaining undocumented migrants. Myanmar officials said the new cases were detected in five different places from among 120 people who flew home from Malaysia this month. "All of them are in quarantine," Ministry of Health spokesman Than Naing Soe told Reuters, referring to the 120 people. Myanmar has reported 191 cases of the coronavirus and six people have died. Malaysian immigration authorities detained more than 1,800 migrants in at least two raids as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, officials there said. But the raids have raised concerns that vulnerable people will go into hiding and increase the risk of coronavirus infection in overcrowded detention centres. Advertisement Malaysia's health ministry said it had received a report of one coronavirus case among Myanmar nationals who were repatriated, but from a group of 473 people detained before the government imposed a coronavirus lockdown on Mar 18. Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah told a news conference that all detainees were now being screened for the coronavirus..."
Source/publisher: "CNA" ( Singapore)
2020-05-19
Date of entry/update: 2020-05-21
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Description: "Myanmar authorities on Wednesday arrested nearly 50 Rohingya Muslims in Yangon region as they attempted to flee the country for Malaysia, a lawmaker said, while a separate group of Rohingya detainees appeared in court in Ayeyarwady region to face charges on traveling without official permission over their earlier attempt to flee. The 49 Rohingya picked up included 28 woman, 18 men, and three children in a wooded area in Hlegu township, said Myat Marlar Tun, a lawmaker in Yangon’s regional parliament. “They were arrested last night,” he told RFA’s Myanmar Service. “They are being interrogated. The authorities will transfer them this evening.” “I don’t know if they will be sent to Insein Prison or someplace else,” he added, referring to the detention center on Yangon’s outskirts. Thazin Myint Myat Win, an attorney representing the Rohingya, told RFA that the detainees will appear in court on Friday. “They are going through medical tests,” he said. “The authorities are preparing their case files and getting testimonies. They will go on trial tomorrow.” It was not immediately clear whether the 49 Rohingya would be charged with traveling without official permission, or with immigration offenses..."
Source/publisher: "RFA" (USA)
2020-02-20
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-21
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Description: "Thailand has asked Malaysia to help find a group of Rohingya Muslim trafficking victims who absconded from a detention centre in the south of the country, Thai police said. Nineteen Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar escaped from the detention centre in Thailand's southern Songkhla province, around 5 kilometres from the Thai-Malaysian border, early on Wednesday, using a piece of cloth to climb down from a third floor window, police said. They were part of some 40 Rohingya Muslims, identified as victims of human traffickers, who were intercepted by Thai authorities on their way to Malaysia and had been detained at the centre to await repatriation to Myanmar, police said. Two were found later on Wednesday, police said..."
Source/publisher: "The Sydney Morning Herald" (Sydney)
2020-01-10
Date of entry/update: 2020-01-10
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Description: " Before he flew to Thailand on a fake Bangladeshi passport and then crossed into Malaysia, Mohammed Imran was one of the most influential Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. He headed an 18,000-strong camp and represented them on the big stage. In late 2017, at the peak of a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh fleeing violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, Imran paid traffickers $4,720 to be smuggled into Malaysia in search of a better life. Malaysia has become home to more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees, the second-highest number in the world, after Bangladesh, with most braving the Andaman Sea on rickety boats or paying human smugglers for fake travel documents. But Imran and nearly two dozen other Rohingya men Reuters spoke to in the Malaysian state of Penang said their hopes had been shattered because of a lack of jobs and harassment by police because they are deemed illegal immigrants. They tell friends and family to stay in Bangladesh, despite the hostile conditions there, and some are thinking of heading back. “I thought I would have a life here — basic things like freedom to work, freedom to move around without always worrying about being bullied by police,” said Imran, 30, sitting cross-legged in a run-down apartment he shares with three other Rohingya men..."
Source/publisher: "Japan Times" (Japan)
2019-11-20
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-24
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Description: About 544,000 results (August 2017)
Source/publisher: Various sources via Youtube
Date of entry/update: 2017-08-23
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Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: The Burma Asean chair issue is only first on lawmakers? list... "In the middle of 2004, both ruling Barisan Nasional Government MPs and those from the opposition benches of the Dewan Rakyat (People?s Assembly) established the Pro-Democracy Myanmar [Burma] Caucus of the Malaysian parliament. It was something of an historical event as it was one of the rare occasions when there was a consensus among Malaysian parliamentarians from a broad political spectrum that the region was about to encounter a major diplomatic crisis which would potentially have grave implications for the region?s political and economic future. Thus, as the MP entrusted with the task of finding a realistic and practical way out of the embarrassing prospect of Myanmar taking its turn as chairman of Asean in 2006, I drew up a plan, together with my fellow members of the caucus, to treat this as an Asean-wide concern. It was decided that the best way to assess the commitment of other Asean MPs was to gather them together on a friendly basis to hear their views regarding the impending dangers that the region would inevitably face in its relations with partners who had been traditionally engaged with Asean in bilateral and multilateral dialogues.Invitations were sent to other Asean parliamentarians. Positive responses were received from five of them: Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The outcome was the formation in Kuala Lumpur in November 2004 of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus, of which I am privileged to be the chairman..."
Creator/author: Zaid Ibrahim
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 4
2005-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-09-27
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Description: From an interview with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad: "Will Asean admit Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos this year? I think that could happen. And it should happen. I see no reason why we should take into consideration internal matters when we come together..."
Source/publisher: "Asiaweek" via "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 5, No. 2
1997-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-02-16
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Description: "Ending his one-day visit to Burma accompanied by a 300-member delegation of Malaysian officials and businessmen, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad concluded that the process of change in Burma must be gradual. The visit paid by the staunchest backer of Burma�s pariah regime could be seen as a promotional trip for oil, gas, telecommunications and other Malaysian business interests. Of course, Dr Mahathir did not visit Aung San Suu Kyi..."
Creator/author: Editorial
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol 10, No. 6, July-August 2002
2002-08-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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