The Malaysian government and human rights organizations have called on Southeast Asian countries (ASEAN) to find effective solutions to the crisis of the Muslim Rohingya minority.
Prime Minister Mohieldin Yassin said, at the 36th ASEAN summit presumably held because of SK, that ASEAN member states need better cooperation to help Myanmar deal with its problems related to the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority.
He pointed out that his country can no longer receive these refugees, pointing to the economic difficulties faced by his country, and the scarcity of resources following the ongoing Corona pandemic.
He explained that Malaysia has provided humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees and others from Myanmar, although it is not a member of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees. "This situation cannot last forever," he added.
Human Rights Watch, in turn, has called on the association's states to take more responsibility for the issue of Arakan Rohingya refugees.
The director of the Asia division of the organization, Brad Adams, noted that ASEAN leaders have done nothing about the tragedy that Arakan Muslims have been experiencing for years.
In a statement, Adams stressed the need for ASEAN countries to change their stance towards the Arakan crisis immediately, calling for action in Myanmar, refugee camps and at sea to protect the Rohingya, stressing the need to put pressure on Myanmar to provide a safe return of Arakan refugees to their areas.
He criticized forcing Malaysia and Thailand to resort to Arakanese asylum-seekers from where they came after they arrived by sea, the two countries, calling on ASEAN member countries to give up their "destructive" silence.
It is worth noting that Malaysia arrested 269 Rohingya Muslims after they reached their lands by sea on June 9th.
On the tenth of the same month, Thailand forced 300 Arakani asylum seekers to return to where they came from after they also reached a Thai island by sea.
Since August 25, 2017, the military in Myanmar and Buddhist militias have launched a military campaign and brutal massacres against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan Province (west). Ongoing crimes have killed thousands of Rohingya, according to identical local and international sources, as well as nearly a million asylum seekers in Bangladesh, according to the United Nations.
The Myanmar government considers the Rohingya irregular migrants from Bangladesh, while the United Nations classifies them as the most persecuted minority in the world.