Malaysia Plan to Deport Burmese Runs Into Flak

There is rising opposition to a Malaysian plan to deport Burmese refugees and asylum seekers from civil rights groups, Malaysia’s leading opposition party and the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus until there is job security and safety in their homeland.

The Asean caucus, in a press release, said that: “Those who flee Myanmar (as Burma is also kno…