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No Citizenship For Malaysians Who Have Given Up Citizenry - Abdullah General July 10, 2007 18:51 PM

PUTRAJAYA, July 10 (Bernama) -- The Government will not reinstate the citizenship of Malaysians who have given up their citizenry of this country, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today. He said Malaysians, who have surrendered their citizenship, also cannot re-apply for citizenhood. "All those who had opted to surrender their citizenship have officially wrote in to the authorities informing that they are giving up their citizenship of this country. "(Acting on their letters), the Home Affairs Ministry has granted permission to the applicants to surrender their citizenship. Surely, there must be specific reasons for the ministry to approve their requests. "But one thing I want to stress and explain is that Malaysians who have surrendered their citizenship to the government cannot have their citizenship status reinstated later, suddenly they want to become a Malaysian citizen again," he told reporters after attending the Internal Security Ministry's monthly assembly. Deputy Home Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho said yesterday Malays accounted for 70 per cent of Malaysians who surrendered their citizenship in favour of life overseas. Between 1996 and April this year, 106,000 Malaysians have given up their citizenship. Of these, 79,199 are Malays; 25,107 Chinese, 1,347 Indians and 350 other races. Tan said more women than men were emigrating, with marriage being cited as the most common reason by the women. Abdullah, who is also Internal Security Minister, said two police training centres, in addition to the one in Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur, would be built in Langkawi and Bentong to step up enforcement and to fight rising crime. "We will acquire a building in Langkawi so that the training centre can be operational soon," he added. -- BERNAMA

Pak Lah, what makes you think that those ex-Malaysian who had renounced their citizenship would re-apply to be Malaysian again? Not under your tenure, no way. And not until ALL the current Parliament Members, save some of the dedicated ones, have been removed and substituted by better candidates. They didn't renounce their citizenship out of a whim. They did it because there are a lot of things unpleasant going around in this country. And they have gave up on hoping for a change, because after all these years, NOTHING CHANGED AT ALL.

Sure, some of them wanted to return to Malaysia for whatever reasons. Perhaps the parents they left in Malaysia are sick, and need to be taken care of. Perhaps for work. Perhaps they suddenly realized that they couldn't cope up with the lifestyle overseas. But still, before we even consider why they wanted to comeback, let's analyze ourselves, and figure out why did they leaved in the first place.