Bangladeshis mired in Malaysian miseries for govt inaction
Courtesy New Age 16/9/07
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Hundreds of Bangladeshi workers had been forced to camp in the parking lot of the international airport in Kuala Lumpur for days as they waited for their employers to taken them out of the premises, Malaysian daily newspaper, the Star, reported on Saturday.
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‘As soon as the problem of one group is solved, a new group comes in with similar problems,’ he said.
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A protester named Jainal Abedin alleged the Bangladeshi officials, led by the labour counsellor at the high commission, Talat Mahmud Khan, drove them out of the commission area with the help of the recruiting agents.
The officials, with the agents and local law enforcers manhandled the workers and packed them into buses for a place at a distance of eight hours’ drive from the commission, Jainal said.
The officials told the workers that they would be placed on job or given compensation.
‘The Malaysian home ministry called Talat on Saturday over the demonstration as we lodged a complaint with the ministry,’ Jainal said.
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‘We arranged the meeting with the parties concerned that included officials of the Malaysian ministries of home, labour and environment, and the employers and workers,’ he told New Age over telephone Saturday evening.
Referring to the plight of Bangladeshi workers at the airport, another high commission official said, ‘Sometimes recruiting agents in Bangladesh are not informed of the cancellation of the calling visa at the last moment by the Malaysian employer. Sometimes they ignore the cancellation of the visas and they often send workers more than requirement.’
He said some Malaysian agents did not even have the idea that their workers arrived which resulted in situations where workers keep waiting at the airport to be picked up.
‘As the agents fail to show up within seven days after the arrival of the workers, the workers are deported, in accordance with the law,’ the official said.
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Despite repeated instructions to the recruiting agents, such incidents keep happening for lack of strict provision by the
According to the statistics available with the Bureau of Manpower and Employment Training, some 1,57,000 Bangladeshis have gone to
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