ROHINGYA DI MASJID TINGGI

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/1949548/malaysias-changing-policy-on-rohingya-refugees

Rumah sewa keluarga Rohingya

di Masjid Tinggi Bagan Serai.

( 3 Keluarga)

Melakar strategi dan perancangan

untuk anak2 dan keluarga Rohingya

Meninjau tapak cadangan

pembinaan sekolah rendah.

Menguji hafalan anak En Amin

yang khatam 30 juzuk ( hafiz )

UMUR 9 tahun.

Bersama isteri En Amin

( Ketua Rohingya)

Santai sembang menguji

kefasihan berbahasa Melayu.

Sekolah Rohingya di Sungai Petani

Sarapan pagi kari bawal.

Keenakan rasa resepi tradisi

Masyarakat Banjar Kerian.

Santai Pagi

Makan malam 24.7.2020

Rehat dalam perjalanan

Kuala Lumpur - Bagan Serai

Program di Bagan Serai

( Di tangguhkan)

Laporan Harian Metro

Ibu Pejabat Mappim

Carlton Hotel Shah Alam

Sesi sumbangsaran.

Bersama Presiden.

Kampong Pondok

Merbok Sungai Petani Kedah 

Bengkel menangani xenophobia

Perbincangan dengan

pihak SUHAKAM

Bersama menangani sebarang

isu mengenai Rohingya.

Kit penerangan SUHAKAM

Tinjauan ke kediaman

keluarga Rohingya oleh

wakil UNHCR

Sumbangan dan bantuan

dari Globa Peace

Dr Azizi Abd Moin dari

Global Peace

Kerjasama dari berbagai agensi

membantu keluarga Rohingya.

Lokasi : PEKAN KECIL

MASJID TINGGI

Rumah kecil menempatkan

38 orang keluarga Rohingya

Penempatan sementara Rohingya

oleh En Osman Itam Masjid Tinggi

Bantuan dari Global Peace

dihantar ke kediaman Rohingya.

Bantuan bahan makanan

dari Global Peace Perak.

Kanan : EN AMIN

( Ketua Rohingya Masjid Tinggi )

Keluarga Rohingya bersama

Cikgu Hj Jamaludin Saad

ROHINGYA

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. While Malaysia is not a signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention or its subsequent 1967 Protocol, it upholds some of their stipulations – more so than some of the signatories. Currently, Malaysia hosts the largest number of Rohingya refugees in ASEAN and the fourth highest number worldwide.

Supporting the Rohingyas is a long-standing element of Malaysia’s global Muslim solidarity agenda in its foreign policy.

Yet since May 1, Malaysia has reportedly turned away 27 crowded boats bearing displaced Rohingyas. Malaysian authorities have also increased immigration arrests in migrant and refugee neighborhoods identified as COVID-19 cluster areas. They plan to deport the detainees, which saliently include several Rohingya refugees.

Notwithstanding the recent media attention, this is not new. Over the past few years, Malaysia has barred Rohingya boats, and the Rohingyas have been rounded up along with other undocumented migrants in immigration operations.

As the Rohingyas became increasingly prominent in Malaysia over the years, certain quarters have come to perceive them as a social, economic, and security threat. With national resources stretched thin with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis, xenophobia is also on the rise.

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At a pro-Rohingya rally in 2016, Malaysia’s then-Prime Minister Najib Razak exclaimed, “I will not close my eyes and shut my mouth. We must defend [the Rohingyas] not just because they are of the same faith but they are humans, their lives have values.” Najib had labelled the persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar as an “insult to Islam” and condemned Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s silence on the issue.

The protest led by the Malaysian government captured global attention: it went against the ASEAN convention of noninterference in member states’ internal affairs. For the Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar, Malaysia appeared to be the flag-bearer of hope.

Malaysia has indeed delivered significant financial and humanitarian aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Notably, the Barisan Nasional (BN) government under Najib established the Medan Hospital in Cox’s Bazar, at a cost of 3.5 million Malaysian ringgits.

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The BN policy sought to boost the government’s Islamic credentials among conservative Malay-Muslim voters, and contributed to the warming atmospherics for cooperation between the then-ruling party UMNO and the then-opposition Malaysian Islamist party, PAS, ahead of the 2018 general election. Najib strived to strengthen his voter base and profile as a Muslim leader by raising his government’s standing on humanitarian issues with the general public.

As Malaysia’s current Perikatan Nasional (PN) government is predominantly Malay-Muslim, being led by Bersatu, UMNO, and PAS, it is not pressured to demonstrate its Islamic credentials.

Najib’s recent remarks are telling: “The interest of Malaysians should come first…The Rohingya should not take advantage of our kindness.” Separately, Malaysian home minister also affirmed that the Rohingya have “no status, rights or basis to state demands from the Malaysian government,” which “does not recognize their status as refugees but as illegal immigrants holding UNHCR cards.”

At a time of heightened fears of COVID-19 infection, often associated with foreigners in Malaysia, PN’s prioritization of locals would seem electorally profitable.

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Despite the government’s global Muslim solidarity agenda in its foreign policy, domestically, the Rohingyas along with other refugees have faced long-standing challenges.

Since the 1970s, the Rohingyas have migrated across the region in sizable numbers. However, the largest wave fled Myanmar in 2017 after military crackdowns against the community. Malaysia houses around 180,000 UNHCR-registered refugees — including about 150,000 Rohingyas.

There are at least half a million unregistered refugees in Malaysia. They have minimal legal protection so they engage in the informal sector, where exploitation and low wages are reportedly common. Increasingly, Malaysians see the registered and nonregistered refugees as competitors for the declining number of jobs. However, since the refugees provide cheap labor for the country, levels of official tolerance toward them have waxed and waned.

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[27/07, 10:58 p.m.] CIKGU AZMI HAMID: *Missing Rohingya refugees found alive on Malaysian islet*

Reuters

Published 24 m ago

Twenty-six Rohingya refugees, who had been feared drowned while trying to swim ashore on the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi, were found alive hiding in the bushes on a nearby islet, a senior coastguard official said on Monday.

Malaysia does not recognise refugee status, but the Muslim-majority country is a favoured destination for Rohingya Muslims seeking a better life after escaping a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar and, more recently, refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Late last Saturday, one Rohingya swam ashore from a small boat off Langkawi's west coast. Officials had feared that the rest of the group had drowned while trying to reach the beach, but they were later discovered on an islet just off the coast.

"They were found hiding in the bushes on the island," Mohd Zubil Mat Som, director-general of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said in a text message.


Authorities have detained the refugees. Two more Rohingya migrants have also been arrested for suspected trafficking in connection with the people found, Mohd Zubil said.

The refugees were believed to have transferred to a small boat to sneak into Malaysia, having travelled on a "motherboat" carrying hundreds of Rohingya from Bangladesh, the coastguard official said.

Last month, Malaysia had detained 269 Rohingya who arrived in Langkawi on a damaged boat. Mohd Zubil had said at the time that dozens of people on the boat were believed to have perished during a voyage that lasted four months.

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said last month Malaysia was unable to take in any more Rohingya, citing a struggling economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic.

- Reuters


https://m.malaysiakini.com/news/536248
[27/07, 10:59 p.m.] CIKGU AZMI HAMID: Kenyataan Media
28 hb Julai 2020

KEJADIAN PELARIAN  YANG MENYEDIHKAN 

Kami merakamkan rasa sedih dan bersimpati terhadap berita 24 etnik Rohingya awalnya dilapor mati lemas tetapi ditemui dipulau kecil setelah beramai-ramai terjun ke laut di perairan Barat Pulau Langkawi, malam tadi.

Kejadian yang dilaporkan ialah mereka terjun ke laut dari bot dan cuba berenang ke pantai. Terbaru dikatakan beberapa orang ditemui terselamat.

Kami merakamkan tahniah kepada
Pengarah Maritim Negeri Kedah dan Perlis, Laksamana Pertama Maritim Mohd Zawawi Abdullah mengambil tindakan segera melancar operasi Cari dan Selamat ( SAR ).

Siasatan terhadap kemungkinan ada sindiket permerdagangan manusia perlu dilancarkan.

Kami berpendapat pelarian berkemungkinan ditipu oleh sindiket dan mereka menjadi mangsa yang cuba diseludup ke Malaysia.

Bantuan kemanusian seharusnya disalurkan kepada mangsa dan kerjasama dengan UNHCR untuk menyaring pelarian diatur secepat mungkin.

Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid

Presiden MAPIM

28.07.2020