Like the US, Malaysian Authorities Use COVID-19 to Limit Migration
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▻https://truthout.org/articles/like-the-us-malaysian-authorities-use-covid-19-to-limit-migration
It’s hard to fathom the type of desperation that would force scores of men, women and children to face the uncertainty of the open sea in little more than an overcrowded, pitifully rationed lifeboat — making starvation or dehydration seem almost inevitable, should they avoid the constant threat of drowning. Unfortunately for the Rohingya people — an ethnic and religious minority from Burma whose long history of oppression is unprecedented in terms of scale and brutality — this sort of desperation is all too familiar.