News Forum - Rohingya refugees in Malaysia killed trying to cross highway

[Thaiger]

Cars hit and killed six Rohingya refugees on a Malaysian highway today. 582 Rohingya refugees had escaped a temporary immigration detention centre, when two men, two woman, and a boy and a girl were hit and killed trying to cross a highway in Kedah state. Before the escape, a riot had broken out in a detention centre in Penang state. Police are still investigating what caused the riot, and 362 of the 582 refugees who escaped were re-arrested, according to the immigration department. The highway is about eight kilometres away from the centre. In a statement, the immigration department said […]

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[Noble_Design]

Sad news... they probably have never seen a highway in their entire lives before and don't know how dangerous it is

[Fanta]

So the refugees are being treated so well that they want to escape! Some, but not enough, Thais were convicted  of committing atrocities for years on these people. The Burmese are massacring them. Why should we believe other Asian countries are treating them any different?

[Faraday]

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[Soidog]

1 hour ago, Fanta said:

So the refugees are being treated so well that they want to escape! Some, but not enough, Thais were convicted  of committing atrocities for years on these people. The Burmese are massacring them. Why should we believe other Asian countries are treating them any different?

I guess with Malaysia being a mainly Muslim country, they expected better treatment by their fellow Muslims. 
 

[Manu]

1 hour ago, Fanta said:

So the refugees are being treated so well that they want to escape!

Indeed.

What a tragic human story. Constantly running away from humans treating them like ****, what hope does it leave them to ever have some kind of peaceful and decent life anywhere, anytime? Hell on earth.

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Malaysian authorities claim this is part of Covid-19 measures.

How convenient. Despicable!!

Edited April 21, 2022 by Manu

[Noble_Design]

57 minutes ago, Soidog said:

I guess with Malaysia being a mainly Muslim country, they expected better treatment by their fellow Muslims. 
 

Malaysia is kinda bias in their treatments of Muslim refugees. Malaysia basically rolled out the red carpets for refugees from Bosnia and Syria while Rohingyans are stuffed in crowded camps.

I guess the more physically one resembles the so-called ideal Muslim i.e Middle Eastern appearance the more welcomed you are:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/12/27/first-class-refugees-malaysias-two-tier-system