Rohingya refugees given 'free food and shelter', says home minister

Published: Apr 23, 2022 3:07 AM

Rohingya refugees in this country are being treated well, although Malaysia is not a signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin said.

He said that based on humanitarian grounds, Malaysia had provided basic necessities to the refugees for a long time, even though neighbouring countries declined to do so and no third country was willing to accept them.

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