steadyaku47 comment:this posting from hector's site is so simply in its anology and yet so true!
CHARLES HECTOR
ON HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND PEACE ISSUES, LABOUR RIGHTS, MIGRANT RIGHTS, FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY, TOWARDS AN END OF TORTURE, POLICE ABUSES, DISCRIMINATION...
How can Malaysia arrest and detain persons who never broke Malaysian laws?
If you break the laws of Malaysia, you can be arrested, detained, charged and tried in Malaysian courts ...but if you never broke any Malaysian laws, can you be arrested and detained. Now, the 800 asylum seekers from Australia that Malaysia may accept as part of a deal with Australia never did break any Malaysian law - and as such they cannot be arrested, detained or deprived of their liberty here in Malaysia.
Even when and if they arrive in Malaysia, they cannot be said to be 'illegally' entering Malaysia for their entry and stay is not just facilitated but approved by our Malaysian government - so rightfully, they can never be treated like 'undocumented migrants' or illegal migrants. Hence, detaining them....or in any way depriving them of their liberty is certainly contrary to law.
Malaysia, for example cannot go over to Singapore and grab a few Singaporeans and bring them over to Malaysia - and then cause them to be arrested and detained in Detention Centers because they are 'undocumented migrants', or what the government prefers 'illegal migrants'.
So, how will Malaysia justify detaining the 800 from Australia when they get here...
The great, great, great leader of democracy has outsourced imprisonment, torture, warfare, and even the "production" of terrorists to other nations. Why not Bolehland accept this lucrative outsourcing contract for refugees? As we say in our lingo, like this oso cannot ah?
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