Stateless children in limbo


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 06 Feb 2005

Stateless children are citizens of nowhere. Numbering tens of thousands in Sabah, they can neither claim citizenship nor pleadasylum, writes SUHAINI AZNAM 

IN Kinarut, 40 minutes’ drive north of Kota Kinabalu on the road to Papar, a sad cluster of wooden houses is home to Filipino refugees. They have been there for more than 20 years. 

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Just RM5 per month.

Monthly Plan

RM13.90/month
RM5/month

Billed as RM5/month for the 1st 6 months then RM13.90 thereafters.

Annual Plan

RM12.33/month

Billed as RM148.00/year

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