In Malaysia, some immigration officials have been accused of involvement in selling refugees from Myanmar, also known as Burma, to gangs in Thailand.
The attorney general’s office in Malaysia says 10 immigration officers are being investigated after the U.S. State Department placed Malaysia on its list of the world’s worst human trafficking offenders last month.
Karen Zusman, an independent journalist, recently returned from Malaysia, where she reported on the plight of Burmese refugees.
For more, listen to an audio documentary and view images from Malaysia: Malaysia refuses to recognize Burmese as refugees
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09/20/2009 :: 08:02:00 AM
Mai Mai Says:
I do salute to the courage of Karen Zusman in taking this video.Many who are living in Malaysia as refugees are being traumatized by fear of police, rela, local gangstars,and immigration without uniform.Bosses take advantage of the refugees by paying the least or not by paying at all or cheating on their pays. Women are harassed at work by bosses, and on the way to work by polices with or without uniform.By 2009, UNHCR and other NGO especially like Tenaganita are working hard that the Malaysian Government has taken real action on 7 immigration officers who got involve in Refugees trafficking, and which is a good sign. But the Malaysia Government should consider for the Rohingyas who are alike in their religion but they don’t have land to live on earth. While Malaysia still has got a large land to live on.There are some Rohingyas who don’t even speak Burmese anymore since they haven been in Malaysia for years,some even already two decades, but their identity is still the same, undocumented or refugees.What a religion!It’s truly beyond my comprehension.