Home Ministry begins process to send back 4,000 Myanmar nationals
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BUKIT KAYU HITAM: The government aims to repatriate 4,000 Myanmar nationals currently held in 19 detention depots nationwide once their documentation process is completed.
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Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said efforts to send back Myanmar detainees in Malaysia began when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim chaired Asean last year.
He said the initiative led to the Myanmar government agreeing to take back 5,000 of its nationals who had sought refuge in this country after the matter was raised at an Asean-level forum.
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