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Malaysia sends back Lankan illegals
More than 800 Sri Lankan illegal immigrants were repatriated from Malaysia during a recent amnesty which ended this month, allowing illegal immigrants to report to their respective embassies in Malaysia.

The total number repatriated were 833 illegal immigrants with the Foreign Ministry saying only 13 more were awaiting repatriation. There were no Sri Lankans among the illegal immigrants arrested and sentenced to jail and whipping by the Malaysian authorities recently.

Malaysian media reported on Tuesday that dozens of illegal immigrants arrested early this month in a nationwide crackdown are to be jailed and whipped.

A Malaysian court had sentenced 57 Indonesian illegal immigrants to be jailed for up to three months with 16 of them to be whipped once, after the nationwide blitz on March 1 to weed out illegal immigrants. According to the reports, Malaysia estimates there were nearly a million illegal workers in the country, mostly from Indonesia but also from the Philippines, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka.

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