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Ministry to get tough against Unregistered illegals and their Employers
After all the coaxing and the extensions, the Home Ministry is ready to get tough. It will embark on the biggest ever operation against illegal immigrants in the country from next week.
An estimated 1.3 million illegal immigrants failed to step forward under a special amnesty programme, codenamed 6P (Illegal Immigrant Comprehensive Settlement Programme), and the ministry will be going after them.
Employers harbouring such immigrants will also not be spared.
The programme involved six phases starting off with registration (Aug 1 to 31, 2011), amnesty, supervision, enforcement, deportation and legalisation.
The crackdown will start from the wee hours of Thursday, just hours after the close of the legalisation phase which kicked off on Oct 10.
Ministry secretary-general Tan Sri Mahmood Adam said more than four million personnel, including 2.8 million Rela members, 125,000 policemen and 110,000 army personnel, would be mobilised to track down the illegals.
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MigranteCcondemns Crackdown on Migrants, Refugees in Malaysia
Global alliance of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and families Migrante International fully supports the Filipino community and migrant communities of other nationalities in Malaysia in their fight against intensified crackdowns on undocumented migrant workers.
The crackdown is a result of the Malaysian government’s Illegal Immigrant Comprehensive Settlement Programme (6P Programme, “6P”) which is in its final phase of implementation. Arrests, illegal detention and raids of undocumented migrants are being conducted by the Malaysian government in spite and despite of the extension of the deadline for the 6P declared by Secretary-General of Home Ministry Tan Sri Mahmood Adam.
Malaysia is one of the most common destinations of trafficked Filipino workers, mostly women, according to Migrante International. It is also one of the most common “transit points” of trafficked Filipinos on their way to other parts of Asia.
According to Migrante International chairperson Garry Martinez, they have received reports and urgent alerts from partner migrant organization in Malaysia, Tenaganita, that on February 11 a raid was conducted in Kuala Lumpur wherein between 100 to 200 migrants and refugees were arrested. Some were brought to detention cells while the others’ whereabouts are yet unknown.
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တိုင္းရင္းသားဒုကၡသည္ ကူညီေရး ထိေရာက္စြာ ေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ ကုလတိုက္တြန္း
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက ပဋိပကၡေတြျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ တိုင္းရင္းသားေဒသေတြမွာ စစ္ေဘးဒဏ္ခံေနရတဲ့ ေဒသခံေတြဆီ အကူအညီေတြ ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ ေပးအပ္နိုင္ဖို႔အတြက္ ၀ိုင္း၀န္းလုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကဖို႔ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွာ ၅ရက္ၾကာခရီးေရာက္ရွိေနတဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးအၾကံေပးပုဂၢိဳလ္ Mr.Vijay Nambia က တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ဒီကေန႔ ခရီးစဥ္ရဲ႕ ၃ရက္ေျမာက္ေန႔မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို တနဂၤေႏြေန႔ကတည္းက ေရာက္ရွိလာတဲ့ Mr.Nambia က ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွာ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုတုန္း ခုလို တိုက္တြန္းသြားတာပါ။ အျပည့္အစံုကို မေအးသႏၱာေက်ာ္က ဆက္ေျပာျပပါမယ္။
Mr.Nambia ဟာ အဂၤါေန႔ေန႔လယ္ပိုင္းမွာ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ဥကၠ႒ သူရဦးေရႊမန္း ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့  ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုေတာ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္က ျဖစ္ေပၚတိုးတက္မႈေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ Mr.Nambia ကို ရွင္းျပခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ဒီေတြ႔ဆံုပြဲမွာ ပါ၀င္တဲ့ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ဆက္ဆံေရးေကာ္မီတီဥကၠ႒ ဦးလွျမင့္ဦးက ေျပာပါတယ္။
“က်ေနာ္တို႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္မွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္ထြန္းကားေရးအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတယ္။   ေကာ္မီတီေတြအေနနဲ႔လည္း ဖြဲ႔စည္းျပီး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတယ္။ တရားဥပေဒနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔လည္း လိုအပ္တဲ့ ဥပေဒေတြ ျပ႒ာန္းဖို႔လည္း ေဆြးေႏြးေနတာရွိတယ္။ ဥပေဒေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ျပင္ဆင္ရမယ့္ဥပေဒ ရွိတယ္။ အစားထိုးရမယ့္ ဥပေဒရွိပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ အသစ္ျပ႒ာန္းရမယ့္ ဥပေဒေတြ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါေတြကိုလည္ူ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတဲ့ဆိုတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေျပာျပပါတယ္။”
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Gross Attacks on Migrants & Refugees for Failures by the State
PRESS STATEMENT
22nd February 2012
The recent status report given by the Home Ministry together with the new deadline for April 10 2012 reveals that out of the 1.3 million undocumented workers registered into the biometric system, 1 million or more still remain as undocumented workers with no work permits or permits rejected by the Immigration department.  It is indeed a clear sign of a program doomed to fail.
The 6P program is hailed by the government as an effective means to resolve the problem of  ‘illegal migrants and workers’ in Malaysia. There are two problematic premises here: : Firstly, it places the burden of proof of her legality of stay in Malaysia on the migrant and refugee, who in actual fact has no control over existing legislation and labour practices that render him/her undocumented., Secondly, it reinforces the inhumane notion that any person without adequate administrative documents is not worthy of existing (illegal), and should be treated with the harshest of punishments, including torture (whipping), restriction of fundamental freedoms (detention) and forced return.
The reality, however, is that in the case of migrant workers, through a system that facilitates corruption by agents and employers, institutionalized labour trafficking through the practice of outsourcing, and widespread cheating by recruitment agents, 80% of migrants become undocumented in Malaysia. The power to renew the work permit also lies with the employer or the agent, not the migrant, but the current enforcement and legal framework’ holds the migrant accountable when employers shirk their responsibilities.
In the case of refugees, an absence of a legal framework to recognize and protect refugees renders them ‘undocumented’. Almost 100, 000 refugees are registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), while tens of thousands more wait in line to seek asylum. Without any legislation or comprehensive policies to protect the rights of refugees, genuine asylum-seekers who have yet to be registered with UNHCR are treated as criminals who have breached Immigration laws; while in the case of registered refugees, enforcement officers arbitrarily either acknowledge or reject their UNHCR-issued documents.  In both instances, refugees in Malaysia are subjected to arrest, detention, even whipping and deportation (a violation of the international principle of non-refoulement). The State renders the refugee ‘undocumented’ – the State therefore must be held accountable, not the refugee. The Malaysian government is overdue in rectifying this institutionalized breach of human rights.
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Myammar Women Refugees Band Together To Help Each Other
MYAMMAR refugee Tanda Htun is no stranger to hardship. It has been six years since the 30-year-old Myammar woman fled the military regime back in her home country, and still she continues to live with fear and uncertainty. In Malaysia, Tanda has worked in restaurants and polished cars at a car wash, and she constantly worries about being arrested by the police again.
“I was a social worker in Myammar, promoting Mon culture. But the government doesn’t allow this, they don’t want you to practise your culture,” says Tanda.
Although Tanda lives with five other families in a small flat here, and is unsure of what her future holds, she says life here is still better than in Myammar.
Lighter and happier: Apar working the weaving loom with her six-month-old daughter.
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Monday, 13 February 2012
Dr Ramasamy sues The Star; seeks RM10mil for defamation
KUALA LUMPUR: Penang Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy has filed a RM10mil suit against a journalist of The Star and Star Publications (M) Bhd over two articles published last year.
Ramasamy filed the suit through lawyer A. Sivanesan, who is also Perak DAP vice-chairman, at the High Court Registry here on Monday.
He named journalist Ian McIntyre and the newspaper publisher as first and second defendants.
The former Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia professor claimed that on Dec 21, McIntyre interviewed him at his office in Komtar, Penang.
He said The Star had “in bad faith” published the article Distress in DAP Continues' on Dec 23, following the interview.
Dr Ramasamy said the article contained defamatory words which could mean that DAP leaders were corrupt, incompetent and that they abused their power and positions.
He said that on Dec 26, he held a press conference here denying the words allegedly uttered by him.
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Monday, 14 November 2011
Over 15,000 Displaced People in Kachin State Await Cease-Fire News
On 9 June 2011 fighting started between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burma Army. The fighting was started by a dispute between the two armies over control of the area surrounding the Chinese-run Taping hydropower projects. This ended the 17-year ceasefire between the two armies. For more information, go to: Fighting in Kachin State ends 17-year cease-fire.
At least 15,668 people in Kachin State have fled their homes for safety along the China-Burma border, according to the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). Most of these people fled because of KIO warnings that there may be fighting in the area. As of now, the Burma Army and KIO have only engaged in small attacks between camps while cease-fire negotiations continue. If the political talks fail, there may likely be more fighting which would cause more people to abandon their homes to seek safety on the border. The Burma Army has sent a total of 68 Battalions to all of Kachin State.
IDPs living in Laiza City Hall
Kachin doctors care for IDPs
The KIO reported a breakdown of internally displaced persons (IDPs) as follows: Western Division, 2328 IDPs; Eastern Division, 6538; Dum Bung, 380 (very near fighting area); Maga Yang, 641; and in the KIO's capital Laiza, 5781 where there are still more people trickling in. There are four IDP locations in the Laiza area: the Laiza Cultural Center, 2013 IDPs; City Hall, 868 IDPs; an unused factory, 1884 IDPs; and an unused portion of the local market with an unknown number of IDPs. According to the KIO, it is providing most of the aid to these people; giving US$500 per location per day. However there are more displaced people that have crossed the border into China.
Temporary IDP location
Most of the people staying in IDP locations are women and children. Most of the men have gone back to their farms despite the dangers, because they won't have food for the next year if they don't continue farming. The displaced people are given rice and eat it with whatever they can find, usually salt and chilis. The KIO provides meat two times a week. There are small clinics at each camp, and the main clinic in Laiza can keep the clinics supplied with medicine. At each clinic there is one doctor and two or three nurses. The most common sicknesses are diarrhea and cough, and most of the patients are children. One child recently died from diarrhea. A major concern is the lack of safe drinking water, as currently people are drinking rain water and water from a nearby creek. The IDP children have been attending the local school, but they are split into morning and afternoon groups because there is not enough room. Even with these issues, conditions in the IDP sites are relatively stable.
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Nyaunglebin District, Northwestern Karen State
In June 2011, the Nyaunglebin District FBR team visited six villages with at least 800 families and 1800 people; they were able to provide medical assistance to over 400 patients.
Villagers stated in interviews that though the Burma Army has been less active in the area since the beginning of the year, Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 264 is still present with three camps - Kyauk Kyi, Bawgata, and Toe Ta Dah Camp. LIB 264 has been using civilians and village headmen for security, forcing them to report any Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA -- pro-democracy ethnic resistance) movement within their villages every two days.
On 12 June 2011 in Ler Doh Township, the Burma Army opened fire on two Muthey villagers who were searching for their buffaloes at Ee Tha Plaw. The troops shot at them with rifles and fired seven mortar rounds, though neither person was injured. The two villagers escaped the attack and were able to return to their homes.
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Dooplaya District, Central Karen State
The following is an update on a village that was hit with Burma Army mortar fire in June during fighting between the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), and Burma Army Infantry Battalion (IB) 283 (see previous report). On 7 June 2011, Burma Army mortar fire killed a seven-year-old child and wounded two other villagers when it landed in Mae Ta Ler Village in Kaw Taw Ri (Kawkareik) Township, Dooplaya District.
Pictured below is the deceased 7-year-old Saw Kaw Buh. He died that day (7 June 2011) from head injuries which he sustained due to mortar fire.
7 year old Saw Kaw Buh, died from injuries sustained in a mortar attack
Saw Lar, 17, was placed in the hospital with injuries to the left cheek and shoulder. The wounds are visible in the below picture and he is now in recovery.
Saw Lar, 17, injured in Burma Army mortar attack
Naw Ku Kyi, a 25-year-old mother of three, originally sustained injuries to her forehead, back and fingers. She is pictured below in her condition immediately after the attack. She survived and is recovering.
Naw Ku Kyi, a 25-year-old mother of three, injured in Burma Army mortar attack
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