Don't demonise stateless community, leaders told


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 24 Apr 2019

KOTA KINABALU: Leaders should discuss issues of statelessness in a constructive manner instead of demonising the community of stateless people, says academician Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan.

The Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) senior lecturer said some leaders may feel they could gain political mileage by creating fear about this particular group of people, but it would not do anything at all when solving the longstanding problem of statelessness in Sabah.

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