Malaysia has agreed to send the first batch of over 1,000 Myanmar refugees home on 29th September. This is part of a wider plan to repatriate 5,000 people, which the government is calling “voluntary.” Now, Prime Minister Datuk Seri 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? We get into it with Lilianne Fan.

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