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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
by Violet Cho/Kuala Lumpur
August 3, 2007 http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=8101 August 03, 2007—The Malaysian government is using the cane to whip undocumented illegal immigrants, including people with valid UNHCR refugee cards. “I lost consciousness for an hour after I was whipped,” said a Burmese Rohingya man who has a UN refugee card and was sentenced to six months in a detention camp, including a court ordered stroke of the cane as punishment for living illegally in Malaysia. Hlaing Myint, a 24-year-old Karen migrant worker who was also sentenced to one cane stroke, said, “I can not work as long as before, because since being caned I still feel pain in my lower body even after four months.” |
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
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Campaigners representing ethnic Burmese people today appealed on the Malaysian government to halt a crackdown on illegal immigrants which it said has also targeted political refugees.
The Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organisation said that close to 1,000 illegal immigrants were picked up by authorities in the past week alone, including 200 Rohingyans from the military-ruled state.
The Rohingyans are an ethnic Muslim minority in Burma (now renamed Myanmar)who have been denied citizenship status by the junta, forcing them to seek refugee status elsewhere. |
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