Arakan News Agency
A Malaysian activist challenged to sit face to face with the Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi according to the Rohingya refugees in Malaysia during the an upcoming visit, which is planned to be carried out in August.
Aegile Fernandez, the director “to Tenaganita” a non-governmental organization said that she defies Suu Kyi to sit face to face with a group of Muslim refugees from Rohingya minority to hear “their story” and give them “the best opportunity” to clarify the government’s position in the dispute between them and Buddhists.
According to the reports by Asia News, the non-governmental organization is willing to arrange a meeting between her and a group of Rohingya refugees, saying it would be nice to tell their side of the story, stressing that the international community had to act earlier on this issue.
Fernandez stressed that Rohingya are part of Myanmar despite the lack of recognition from their government and they don’t have the right to expel them.
It should be noted that the official estimates that there are 371 of Rohingya, those arrived in Malaysia in 2015, all of whom still live in refugee camps and from them only 36 were transferred to the United States with the help of the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR) and (UNHCR) data indicates that there are more of the 53,000 registered Rohingya refugees in Malaysia.
