Malaysia to hand over 1,200 Myanmar detainees to country's navy

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Malaysia will deport 1,200 detained Myanmar nationals after the Myanmar military government, which took over in a Feb 1 coup, offered to send three navy ships to pick them up, officials from both countries and two sources told Reuters.Myanmar, via its embassy in Kuala Lumpur (above), made the offer to take back its citizens held in Malaysian immigration detention centres last week, according to two sources familiar with the matter.The detention centres typically hold asylum-seekers and refugees, along with others who are in Malaysia without proper documents. Malaysia does not formally recognise refugees, regarding them as undocumented migrants.The officials did not respond to queries as to whether those being repatriated included refugees.Detainees have in the past included members of the Chin, Kachin and the Muslim Rohingya communities fleeing ethnic conflict and persecution …