Rohingya who fled Myanmar chaos now dread return from Malaysia

Advertisement Rohingya who fled Myanmar chaos now dread return from Malaysia ‘I get a headache just thinking about where to go,’ a migrant says ahead of next week’s repatriation from detention centres 3-MIN READ3-MIN As a Rohingya exile who abandoned his life in Malaysia to return to Myanmar, Ismail’s bleak prospects may portend what awaits others caught in Kuala Lumpur’s migrant crackdown. Weeks ago, the 25-year-old was eking out a living at a Malaysian fish market, one of legions of the Muslim minority group who left Myanmar to escape violence some monitors say amounted to genocide. But a wave of anti-Rohingya sentiment, migrant arrests and a government plan to repatriate Myanmar nationals drove Ismail back, even though the nation he fled still denies him full citizenship. “People without a country like us, we have nowhere to come back [to],” said Ismail, using a pseudonym for security reasons like other Rohingya in this story. Select Voice Select Speed 1x AI-generated voice