Geopolitics
The Lumut Deportations: A Betrayal of Humanity and the Hypocrisy of Selective Sovereignty
Malaysia has deported around 1,500 Myanmar nationals, including children, to a country still engulfed in civil war, ignoring UN warnings and raising serious questions about the voluntariness and safety of these returns. This cold, politically expedient action, prioritizing a state's administrative burden over basic humanity, exemplifies the kind of neo-colonial, self-serving policies that the global community must condemn, especially when targeting vulnerable communities from the global south.