{"id":593,"date":"2005-09-01T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=593"},"modified":"2006-10-08T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T12:00:56","slug":"611-of-malaysia-human-rights-and-thai-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"[591] Of Malaysia, human rights and Thai refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been new development in southern Thailand. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/BKK66334.htm\">Three bombs exploded earlier<\/a> and 15 are confirmed dead. Fearing backlash from the Thai military, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernama.com.my\/bernama\/v3\/news.php?id=153099\">a number of Thais have crossed into Malaysia<\/a>. Further report has it that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/National\/20050901093237\/Article\/indexb_html\">security near the Malaysian-Thai border has been tightened<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/News\/01Sep2005_news10.php\">Bangkok Post<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia has yet to sign the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Convention_Relating_to_the_Status_of_Refugees\">United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees<\/a> and hence, does not officially recognize any asylum seekers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/refugees\/reports\/cntry_rev_02\/Malaysia.pdf\">pdf<\/a>). In fact, it&#8217;s all too possible that these refugees might be deported back to Thailand ,as what <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/3588499.stm\">had happened to asylum seekers from Aceh<\/a>. But surely, we don&#8217;t need to sign another piece of paper in order to be humane.<\/p>\n<p>The bombing is a deplorable act and will only worsen the conflict in southern Thailand. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maddruid.com\/2004\/11\/435-of-case-for-malaysian-intervention.html\">Malaysia must assist Thailand<\/a> in the name of, heh, ASEAN spirit. That however doesn&#8217;t mean Malaysia has no responsibility towards those refugees. Malaysia has the moral obligation to guarantee these Thai refugees safety.<\/p>\n<p>And trust me, the world, even those misguided fundamentalists, will have our back if we stand up for the refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been new development in southern Thailand. Three bombs exploded earlier and 15 are confirmed dead. Fearing backlash from the Thai military, a number of Thais have crossed into Malaysia. Further report has it that security near the Malaysian-Thai border has been tightened. Bangkok Post has more. Malaysia has yet to sign the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean","category-liberty","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}