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IN FOCUS: As Putrajaya and Bangkok warm up to Naypyidaw, Myanmar refugees fear being sent home

Thailand and Malaysia have been a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of Myanmar nationals fleeing conflict, but recent developments have stoked worries among the refugees.

Myanmar migrants make return to war-torn nation

Myanmar repatriates 10,000 migrants from Malaysia

Burmese Refugees in Thailand Face Fresh Deportation Threat

A recently-passed law increases the risk that people fleeing repression will be deported and forcibly recruited into the military’s units of "one-way troops."

UN Refugee Agency Expresses Concerns About Malaysia’s Deportation of Asylum Seekers to Myanmar

The statement came as Kuala Lumpur confirmed plans to deport a further 3,500 people as part of its "voluntary repatriation program" with Myanmar.

Malaysia begins sending home Myanmar refugees despite safety fears

The refugee repatriation plan faces opposition from global human rights groups

Malaysia repatriates 1,500 Myanmar nationals despite UN risk warnings

Nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals who were sent back from Malaysia arrived in the country’s largest city on Sunday despite warnings from the UN refugee agency and rights groups that c...

Myanmar migrants returned to war-torn nation from Malaysia

The U.N. warns that conditions in Myanmar, consumed by civil war since 2021, mean safe homecomings cannot be guaranteed as required under international law.

Malaysia: UN agency urges safeguards after refugees returned to Myanmar

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has voiced concern over Malaysia’s decision to return 1,476 people to Myanmar amid an ongoing civil war and a dire human rights and humanitarian situa...

Nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals repatriated from Malaysia

YANGON, Myanmar — Nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals who were sent back from Malaysia arrived in the country’s largest city on Sunday, despite warnings from the United Nations refugee...

UNHCR Says It Is Not Involved in Malaysia’s Planned Repatriation of Refugees to Myanmar

Rights groups say that the 1,476 Myanmar nationals are at high risk of torture, mistreatment, and forced conscription on their return.

‘They are crying’: Refugees in Malaysia in fear amid Myanmar deportation

Shrinking resources for refugee support groups in Malaysia collide with increasing hostility towards the Rohingya.

Malaysia Begins Repatriation of Migrants to War-Torn Myanmar Despite Critics’ Warnings

Malaysia says it is repatriating undocumented migrants from Myanmar who want to return. Critics say it is putting their lives at risk.

Nearly 1500 Myanmar migrants returnhome from Malaysia

THANLYIN: Nearly 1,500 Myanmar migrants from Malaysia returned to their war-ravaged home country on Sunday under an opaque repatriation scheme that rights monitors say cannot assur...

Myanmar migrants returned to war-torn nation from Malaysia

Three ships carrying Myanmar migrants had all docked at the Myanmar Navy base in Thanlyin on Oct 4 morning. 

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Myanmar refugees convicted of offences must serve sentence in Malaysia before repatriation, says Saifuddin Nasution

SUNGAI PETANI, Oct 13 — Myanmar refugees convicted of criminal offences must complete their sentences in this coun...

‘One Day at a Time’: Inside an IDP Camp in Myanmar, Survival Is a Daily Challenge

Some of those living in the Old Kran Khun camp were once well off. Now they forage in the fields and forests around the IDP camp for food and firewood.

Malaysia begins controversial repatriation of asylum seekers to Myanmar

Human rights groups say some 5,000 returnees could face violence, persecution and forced conscription.

Myanmar refugee crisis requires longstanding solutions, UN says

The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday called for lasting solutions to Myanmar’s displacement and refugee crisis, warning that the outcome must enable refugees to return home with gu...

Malaysia to invite Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing for Rohingya repatriation talks

Malaysia will formally invite Myanmar leader Minh Aung Hlaing to visit Kuala Lumpur to discuss efforts to repatriate nearly 200,000 refugees from the war-torn nation that Prime Min...

Rohingya refugees deserve a future beyond survival, not endless displacement

Nine years after the mass displacement of the Rohingya from Myanmar, their situation remains one of the world's most protracted and complex refugee crises, marked by years of perse...

Fear Over Malaysia’s Plan to Send Back Rohingya Migrants to Myanmar

The announcement has sent panic through a community that fled its country’s brutal military rule, civil war, religious persecution or some combination of the three.

Fahmi: Malaysia first country to secure Myanmar’s acceptance of returning refugees

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 14 — Malaysia is the first country in the world to have successfully convinced Myanmar to accept th...