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By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal<\/div>\n
August 11, 2011<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 \u2014 DAP\u2019s Teresa Kok has demanded Putrajaya call off its planned refugee swap with Australia, and charged today that the government had compromised national security by \u201cblindly accepting\u201d 800 boatpeople rejected by Australia.<\/p>\n

Under the Malaysia deal, Australia will send to Malaysia 800 asylum seekers who arrived by boat, to have their refugee claims processed here. In return, Australia will accept 4,800 people from Malaysia who have been granted refugee status.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Home Minister) Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein\u2019s blind acceptance of the 800 boatpeople who are effectively Australia\u2019s \u201crejects\u201d puts Malaysia\u2019s national security at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese 800 boatpeople who are newly-arrived in Australia would not have been screened by UNHCR, thus they are likely not genuine refugees at all,\u201d said Kok in a statement, adding that the backgrounds, language ability, work skills of the 800 were currently \u201cunclear and dubious.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Selangor executive councillor charged that there was a \u201cpossibility\u201d that the asylum seekers bound for Malaysia had criminal backgrounds as they were arrested attempting to enter Australia through illegal means.<\/p>\n

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Kok cautioned in a statement today that the 800 boatpeople bound for Malaysia may not be genuine refugees. \u2014 file pic<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cHishammuddin hasn\u2019t got a clue who he is welcoming to our shores. By allowing these 800 to enter Malaysia, Hishammuddin is inviting problems into our home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Seputeh MP argued that the 4,800 refugees living in Malaysia should be allowed to remain here, as they were \u201cgenuine refugees\u201d who have undergone screening by the United Nations Higher Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of them are Burmese refugees who have been in Malaysia for one to two decades. Many have had their children born in Malaysia, which makes Malaysia the only country their children have ever known.<\/p>\n

\u201cCancel the agreement and let the 4,000 refugees live and work in Malaysia,\u201d said Kok, who added that keeping the refugees in Malaysia would help alleviate the shortage of labour in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s highest court had on August 8 extended an injunction stopping the deportation of asylum seekers to Malaysia, as lawyers representing a group of boatpeople who were due to be deported said in the High Court of Australia that the government did not have the legal power to send them to Malaysia.<\/p>\n

High Court judge Kenneth Hayne extended the injunction until a final ruling was made. The Australian courts will hear the matter on August 22.<\/p>\n

Read the original article at\u00a0Malaysian Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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