Rohingya Refugees Crisis

Rohingya Refugees crisis is indeed a wakeup call to Malaysia to pay special attention to illegal immigrants and human trafficking issues. In handling the crisis, our Government needs to show wisdom in balancing humanitarian aid and national security.

Human trafficking indeed exist in this country. It needs urgent actions against those involve in this immoral activity and severely punish them. It is a criminal offence.

The discovery of human trafficking activities in the boarder of Malaysia and Thailand which revealed the treatment to the refugees were shocking, disbelief and immoral as well as against the human values.

Irrespective of the intention of the Rohingya Refugees, we need to help them and provide humanitarian aid to them as well as to assist them to find a solution to problems.

I agreed that Refugee problems are not specifically happen to ASEAN and it also happens to other region in the world including Europe.

Though ASEAN policy is non-interference and mutual respect between the countries, cross border problems such as this Rohingya Refugees crisis needs dialogues, negotiation and compromises between parties concerned to find a long term solution under the concept of co-exist based on mutual trust, respect and harmony for all as well as universal human rights.

In fact, UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has also called all parties concerned to resolve Rohingya Refugees crisis and urged for an urgent solution.

Therefore, I urge the Government to take action to provide assistance and humanitarian aid to the Rohingya Refugees.

I urge the Government to show leadership as Chairman of the ASEAN community in resolving the Rohingya Refugees in the long run. Give the Refugees a right to live in peace and harmony.

I agreed that Government should take priority on the safety of our people over the Refugees. But, the question is whether the Government could provide a safe and secure refugee facility and guarantee public security. I believe our Government can provide us the public security or safety and similarly provide the facilities to host the Rohingya Refugees.

However, the Government must be careful as we are a sovereign state and would not allow free-flow of Refugees in and out of our country without restrictions.

In addition, our resources are also limited. Similarly, we also cannot send a wrong signal to the home country of the Rohingya Refugees that we welcome them and will take care of their needs. We must act prudently.

Therefore, Rohingya Refugees crisis must be resolved on an urgent basis within the context of the concept of co-exist in their home country.

In this refugees crisis, we, Malaysian, must realise that unity of the people is paramount especially in a multi racial, multi culture and multi religions society. I must say unity must be based on mutual respect and trust among the multi racial community. Let’s us treasure our multi racial unity that we enjoy since independence.