Dr M: Don't hate the Rohingyas

NEWSTRAITSTIMES 
Veena Babulal -
April 29, 2020

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said driving the Rohingyas away from our shores and forcing them to spend up to two months at sea is inhumane. --File pic via BERNAMA

 

KUALA LUMPUR: Driving the Rohingyas away from our shores and forcing them to spend up to two months at sea is inhumane, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

"What we should have done instead was to supply them with food and fuel so they can go to other countries or return to Myanmar," he said in a posting on his blog today.

Mahathir: Decision to turn away Rohingyas ‘inhuman’

Daily Express
Thursday, April 30, 2020
By: FMT

PETALING JAYA: Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pic) on Wednesday joined the chorus condemning the rejection of Rohingya refugees, saying the authorities’ recent decision to turn away a boat carrying some 400 of them was “inhumane.”In a blog post, Dr Mahathir said the authorities should instead have given them food and fuel so that they could make their way to another country or return to Myanmar. Earlier this month, the authorities blocked a boat carrying starving Rohingya refugees from landing. It was reported that around 30 of the refugees had died at sea.

Hasina talks Rohingya with Malaysia’s Mahathir, Iran’s Rouhani in Baku

bdnews24.com
bdnews24.com
Reazul Bashar from Baku,
26 Oct 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has discussed the Rohingya refugee crisis with her Malaysian counterpart Mahathir Mohamad and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

She met them separately on the sidelines of the 18th NAM Summit in Azerbaijan capital Baku on Friday.

Mahathir assured her of cooperation in resolving the crisis and holding those to accounr for “genocide of the Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar”, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told the press.