Sabah Chief Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal has assured the state assembly that Filipino refugees will not settle down on the mainland. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 17, 2019
REFUGEES and migrants fleeing violence in the restive southern Philippines will be placed on the border islands of Sabah, and not on the mainland, said Chief Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal. Shafie said the state may face a similar situation as in the 1970s when thousands of Filipino migrants entered the state.
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