43 Min.
COVID-19 Pt 2 - Uncovering Malaysia's Racism: The Plight of Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees Semi Political Banter
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- Nachrichten
Our second part of the COVID-19 series comes after a break caused by, well, all things COVID-19. In our sixth episode for this season, we will be going back to April 2020 when first waves of the pandemic had been making the round in different countries. Malaysia being one of them. In the first few months of the pandemic, the Malaysian government underwent a purge of undocumented immigrants and refugees who have been living in squalid conditions for decades. Hundreds of migrant workers were rounded up en masse then detained, all of which happening unimpeded during a spike in infection clusters in the country. We sat down with Hasnah Hussin, a community organizer and research assistant with a local human rights NGO, Tenaganita. As a daughter of a Rohingya refugee born and raised in Malaysia, she’s stateless, a reality for hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers facing an escalation of state repression.
Our second part of the COVID-19 series comes after a break caused by, well, all things COVID-19. In our sixth episode for this season, we will be going back to April 2020 when first waves of the pandemic had been making the round in different countries. Malaysia being one of them. In the first few months of the pandemic, the Malaysian government underwent a purge of undocumented immigrants and refugees who have been living in squalid conditions for decades. Hundreds of migrant workers were rounded up en masse then detained, all of which happening unimpeded during a spike in infection clusters in the country. We sat down with Hasnah Hussin, a community organizer and research assistant with a local human rights NGO, Tenaganita. As a daughter of a Rohingya refugee born and raised in Malaysia, she’s stateless, a reality for hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers facing an escalation of state repression.
43 Min.