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Malaysia:

Massive Exploitation and Oppression of Migrant Workers, Combined with Manhunt and Mass Deportation

Last week Amnesty International(AI) accused Malaysia(MAL) over migrant workers abuse, but the Malaysian gov't - surprise, surprise(!!) - is ignoring AI's demand to reform its migrant worker law...

Today the Nepali Nagarik Daily reported that the Malaysian "authorities" have arrested, partly by using massive violence, over 500 Nepali un-documented migrant workers (among hundreds migrants from other South Asian countries) in the recent days.

The "authorities" started an operation named 'Sweep Operation' from February 24 to curb the "illegal" migrant workers.

Malaysian detention center: captured migrant workers

It is estimated that there are about one million un-documented migrant workers (according to al-Jazeera) with about 50,000 from Nepal alone.

Migrant workers in Malaysia - mainly employed in construction sites, factories, restaurants and palm oil plantations - are subject of massive exploitation and oppression...

According to AI large numbers of migrants find when they arrive that they are given lower-than-promised wages and forced to work in unsafe conditions.
It said arbitrary arrests and extortion were other common complaints.

While many Malaysian firms depend on a large supply of migrant labour, "Migrant workers come to Malaysia to escape poverty and to provide for their families. Once they arrive, however, many workers toil in conditions that amount to labour exploitation," AI said in its latest report.
 

Sounds somehow familiar, doesn't it? It's almost comparable with the situation of migrant workers in S. Korea (and many other countries)...

For more please check out:
☞ Malaysia must end abuse of migrant workers (AI, 3.24)