THE decision by Malaysia and Indonesia to offer temporary shelter to some 7,000 Rohinya and Bangladeshi boat people stranded in the open sea must be lauded.
Granted that these boat people are not our problem, but on compassionate and humanitarian grounds, we cannot allow them to die of starvation and sickness. What we must never do is to push them back to sea and not allow them on land to seek shelter.
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