Malaysia has agreed to send the first batch of over 1,000 Myanmar refugees home on 29 September.
This is part of a wider plan to repatriate 5,000 people, which the government is calling “voluntary”.
Now, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has announced that he’ll invite Myanmar’s junta-backed president, Min Aung Hlaing, for an official visit to Malaysia to help negotiate the process further.
But with Myanmar’s civil war still raging, is this the right move? BFM gets into it with Lilianne Fan, the co-founder and mediator of Southeast Women Peace Mediators.
Presenter: Dashran Yohan
Producer: Alia Zefri, Sudais Ferhard for BFM
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