Malaysia, a place of refuge for displaced people

FOR many, pictures and videos of recent events in Aleppo have opened their eyes to the horrors that refugees are running from. The same can be said for the Rohingya in Myanmar. They have suffered state-sponsored oppression, inter-ethnic violence and being caught in between Bangladeshi-Myanmar geopolitics for decades. However, their plight has only recently been widely publicised due to the 2015 Rohingya boat people crisis and the 2016 military crackdown in Rakhine State.

Recently, the Malaysian Government’s tone towards Myanmar has escalated in anger and sternness in response to violence in Rakhine State, where the military clampdown has sent hundreds across the border to Bangladesh. However, many expressed their displeasure that the Malaysian Government is allegedly only paying lip service and not doing their part to lift the Rohingya’s sorrows.