Thursday, March 3, 2011

A Female of Chin Refugee Abused


Kuala Lumpur, March 03 (VOCR): A recognised Chin refugee named Lal Awm Pui from Lungding, Thantlang Township, Chin state on Wednesday was physically abused by his Chinese employer, known as A Chai in Karian, Pahang state, Malaysia. It was learnt that she was at start recruited to the job (to A Chai) by her cousin sister and had worked there for several months.

The job she worked under A Chai was very difficult as she is a girl with some health problems according to an interview on the phone with the victim, adding that she told her boss well about her preparation to leave the job and moving to her relative in other place where she could find a suitable work for her in Karian, Pahang. Despite having being appeared to mention nothing about it from the get-go when another move was introduced to him, her former boss, approached to her and started blowing her with a strong fist on her lips and cheeks that that left her cheek wounded in addition to being bled from her lips at the end of last February, said a close friend of her during the interview.

From the side of the victim, she claimed that she was brutally hit at a time when demanded of her pay just a day before she planned to move to her relatives. 

No matter how she told him of her preparation for move to other place on the condition of her health, the boss apparently seemed unkind to pay her salary- although the fact that paying what she deserved for her work is a must-to-do act of conscience even if her status is strange to him.

Report to OPI department in UNHCR office was helped reported by one of the interpreters in the office but it didn’t work for full of queue number for a day as there seems no immediate action can be taken into account. The case has been referred to HEI (Health Equity Initiative), which is a newly sprang up NGOs, taking an active role of solving the common problems facing refugees in Malaysia, such as, extortion, payment abuse, cab driver cheating and dealing with police in terms of arrest.


By Simon

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