WORLD IN BRIEF : MALAYSIA : Total Shutdown on ‘Boat People’ Told
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A U.S. refugee organization charged that there has been a “complete shutdown” in Malaysia’s policy of granting asylum to Vietnamese refugees and that thousands of people arriving by boat have been pushed off into the sea. Lionel Rosenblatt, executive director of Washington-based Refugees International, told a news conference in Bangkok that at least six people have died after being repelled from Malaysian shores and that 263 “boat people” are missing. Malaysia has vehemently denied that it is pushing away refugees as a matter of policy.
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