Chin Refugees in Malaysia

There are more than 27000 Chin refugees and asylum-seekers in Malaysia of which two third of them are not registered by UNHCR office and hiding in jungles and staying separately in urban areas in fear of authority detection and arrest. Since Malaysia is not UN signatory on Refugee Convention, all refugees are arrested as illegal immigrants. To get matter worse, male refugees are caned before they are deported to Thai border. Many women refugees in Malaysia who were arrested and deported to Thai border face serious abuse by human smuggler ring based at the border.

Although UNHCR is the only home refugees can approach for documentation, UNHCR does not register most asylum-seekers which left thousands of Chin asylum-seekers as undocumented aliens in Malaysia. For a person without any kind of document, it is very difficult to approach hospitals and clinics in time of illness.

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[TriviaTriviaTrivia]

Just for some clarification, in your statement, malaysia caned male refugees before deporting them to Thai is incorrect.

Malaysia has never did that to illegal immigrants before. And FYI Malaysia doesn't have a provision in its law to cane illegal immigrants.

However, I do sympathize with the plight of the refugees. Hope their future will get better.

[esn1979]

Since May 2002, Malaysia did caned any illegal immigrat including refugee as not a signatory to 1951 Refugee Convention. I think you are not Malaysian as you know almost nothing about Immi Act of Malaysia regarding illegal immigrant.

[pepgodila]

humanity does not see race, religion or the colour of the skin ... least our govt can do is give them temporary shelter .... the militray regime in burma oppreses minority muslims and christians

[ThomasAceubl]

ngeihchia te a si ee. May God be with them and help them.

[khai10star]

Appreciate your clip..thanks for caring us like this...I am alo a refugee in Malaysia..U r helping us and we all can breath and live becos of u...thanks we r praying for everbody who help us....

[khai10star]

thanks for uploading a clip like this...

becos i am also a refugee in Malaysia..Really thanks for caring us..

[SalaiAlexander]

With Unity and Dignity, all the Chin people in Malaysia should strive to overcome the maltreatments, misconducts, and brutality we are suffering in Malaysia.

The World will not turn its back to the Chin people.

[khairol5276]

god help them .... how saddddd

[khairol5276]

god bless the burmese people.... malaysian gov should reconised these people and help them... what if the situation is turned around.. wouldn't we want them to help us out.... at the end of the day it's about humanity

[TriviaTriviaTrivia]

I am a Malaysian :-)

And I do follow closely the progress of this issue. :-) Yes, we seldom provide political asylum, but believe me, we didn't cane illegals.

What saddens me is that you've tarnish the good image of my country, and yet seek for our help to give them refuge. It's really counter productive. We are doing our best to help them, trust us.

And I think you got the wrong fact about caning, we didn't do that. It could be SIngapore & Australis as they have far more draconian laws.

[TriviaTriviaTrivia]

I don't intend to start a fight with you, so please dun provoke me :-) Yeah, I could not prove it, but what could you prove? Malaysia has done more than any other ASEAN countries, and much more than Australia & Singapore. Please read halla70's comment.

I have kickstart a program of my own, to help fellow immigrants who finds it hard to live in Malaysia. We have opened a refuge house in Selayang to cater for refugees. We can't provide political asylum, but believe me, we didn't cane illegals.

[TriviaTriviaTrivia]

And let me inform that all laws allowing for caning to be passed were striked out in the Parliament.

We also sympathize with their plight, as we believe they must have a reason to fled their own motherland to seek better future elsewhere.

We are one and we are all humans. That is what many NGOs in Malaysia are doing, helping our fellow humans. Let me remind you guys that Malaysia has done more than any other ASEAN countries in this matter. Though not enough, we're doing the best we could