A Man Reunites After 5 yrs of Loss Contact

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Kuala Lumpur (VOCR): December 07, Mr. Siang Cung, aged 33, from Thantlang Township, Chin State, who is a genuine recognised refugee, was registered with the office of UNHCR in Malaysia in 2002. He was then arrested in the Immigration raid in Malacca city, which is 3 hrs drive from K.L while working for his own survival and kept detained for more than three months in Malacca camp in 2004.

Afterwards, he was deported to Thai border and wandering for couple of months there and finally got a job to Chinese man in the same year. Two weeks later, he was persuaded to follow his Chinese boss to Sarawak, a federal state of Malaysia, situated in the eastern part of Island.

Even though he appeared to keep in mind that he needed to write an appeal to UNHCR office on account of his claims rejected just before he was arrested in the Malacca raid, he rather decided to work for his own survival—not to go first to the office for appeal. So, without doing so, he innocently followed his Chinese boss to Sarawak with a little hope of earning some money for the challenging threat of his survival.

Just a week after his arrival in Sarawak by ship, he was helplessly left again with no shelter, no job by his unkind Chinese boss. At the later time, he appeared to try his best to communicate with one of the Chinese men and to him he found a shelter and job.

After over 5 years of awesomely stranding in Sarawak, he was arrested by Immigration while working in the Brunei border on October 29, 2010 and detained for 22 days in detention center in Meri. According to what was learnt in an interview, it appeared that he was granted for some words in the final judicial decision date in Meri court. Then the direct order from the judge came to make an attempt to contact the CRC (Chin Refugee Committee) office for him for what appeared to be able to be seen in his hands at that time was only CRC's card. He said that he was helped released by the intervention of the office of UNHCR on November 19. Due to the reason of flight schedule, he was taken back to Kuala Lumpur by one of the officers from UNHCR on Nov 24 in Meri.

In what it calls "a very long rough journey" the victim claims that he lost the contact with his friends in K.L, siblings and the community and didn't even know where they had been. Worst of all, he was totally lack of the information related to the office of UNHCR since the time he was arrested, claimed him.

He said of thanks to officers in UNHCR those tirelessly helped him released from the darkness of his solo suffering in an isolated part of detention center where he could neither have any of access.

The VOCR team came to know that he was met by UNHCR-OPI (Outreach Protection Individual) officer on December 07 in the office of UNHCR in order to make his case furthering.

By Simon