We Are Mistreated in ACTS Clinics, says Rohingya Refugee in
Malaysia
‘We are mistreated in ACTS
Clinics’, said a Rohingya refugee in Kuala Lumpur on Monday
By KM Adam | RVision TV News
Kuala Lumpur – A chief
interpreter of ACTS (A Call-To-Serve) who goes by the name ‘Loreal’ is a
Rakhine Buddhist migrant woman from Myanmar racially discriminating and
mistreating the Rohingya refugee patients in the Free Medical Clinic center at
the Batu Arang branch in the city of Rawang.
It has been reported that the
Rakhine woman deliberately misinterprets the statements of the Rohingya refugee
patients rendering them with little medical services or without proper medical
services at all.
A Rohingya refugee with months
of experiences having medical services at the clinic said “there are no
Rohingya interpreters for the services of the Rohingya patients at the Batu
Arang clinic. Burmese language interpreters interpret for the Rohingya
patients, too. Ms. Loreal is one of the interpreters working in the clinic for
more than three years pretending herself as a Chin ethnic refugee.
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Loreal, the Rakhine interpreter
in an ACTS Clinic
reported to be mistreating Rohingya refugee patients
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“Since she is an interpreter
working at the clinic for long, their boss — who is a Chinese woman named Ms.
Rose Marry Chong — listens to her and believes what she says. Taking advantage
of that, she abuses Rohingya patients visiting the clinic for medical services
on the referral of the UNHCR or on their own using racial slurs like Kular. She
misinterprets their statements. So, the doctors in the clinic don’t understand
actual health problems of the Rohingya refugees.
“When international
investigation teams or humanitarian groups arrive at the clinic to ask about
the Rohingya situation in Malaysia and back in Arakan state in Myanmar, she
doesn’t let them speak freely and interpret them even before they say
something. For example, when the patients try to say ‘we are Rohingya and have
left Myanmar due to persecution’, she interprets they don’t anything about
Arakan situation as they are Bengali immigrants in Myanmar and left the country
for economic reasons. That leads the international visitors to wrong
conclusions.
“Some disabled or physically
challenged refugees are having medical services there. But they dare not speak
up in fear of expulsion from the clinic. We, the Rohingya refugees, are
mistreated.”
A reliable source also reports
that the Rakhine woman is one of the leaders that leads a gang of some 50
Rakhine extremist migrants working all over Malaysia. They are reportedly
involved in abusing Malaysia and inciting racial hatred against Myanmar Muslims
through social media; and final sponsorships of Rakhine Buddhist extremists
against Muslims in Myanmar.
Similar misconducts against the
visiting refugee patients or their caretakers by the Receptionists/Interpreting
Staffs of ACTS’ at other branches have also been reported.