Malaysia’s coast guard will not turn away Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar and is willing to provide temporary shelter for them, the maritime agency’s chief said on Friday. Rohingya insurgents attacked several police posts and an army base in Myanmar on August 25. Malaysia is already home to over 100,000 Rohingya refugees. Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation, will likely house the Rohingya refugees in immigration detention centres, where foreigners without documents are typically held, he said. In 2015, mass graves were exhumed at jungle camps on the border between Thailand and Malaysia that were thought to be mainly Rohingya victims of human traffickers.

Source: Hindustan Times September 08, 2017 05:24 UTC