Over 100 Rohingya refugees flee Malaysian detention camp
They often endure harrowing, months-long sea journeys to arrive in Malaysia by boat or sneak into country via its porous border with Thailand
KUALA LUMPUR: More than 100 Rohingya refugees escaped a detention centre in Malaysia after a riot broke out, with one man killed after being hit by a vehicle on a highway as he fled, police said on Friday.
The Rohingya experience persecution in their predominantly Buddhist homeland of Myanmar, with many fleeing to affluent, Muslim-majority Malaysia or refugee camps in Bangladesh.
They often endure harrowing, months-long sea journeys to arrive in Malaysia by boat or sneak into the country via its porous border with Thailand. If caught, they are often sent to detention centres that rights groups say are typically overcrowded and filthy.
A total of 115 Rohingya migrants and 16 others -- all of them men -- rioted in their detention building before escaping the Bidor temporary immigration depot in northern Perak state late Thursday, local police chief Mohamad Naim Asnawi confirmed to AFP. Police and officers from other agencies were searching for the missing detainees, Naim said. He said one refugee believed to be a Rohingya had been killed on the North-South highway after being hit by a passing vehicle in the dark.
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