‘Better or worse?’: Syrian refugees in Malaysia yearn for home after Assad’s fall but worry about country’s future

Channel News Asia ^ | 12/30 | Rashvinjeet S Bedi

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Syrians in Malaysia - which hosts the largest number of refugees and asylum-seekers from the Middle Eastern country in Southeast Asia - fear that instability and the rise of new authoritarian regimes might mean that they cannot return home just yet.

When Syrian refugee Somar Hukaima learnt about the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime earlier this month, he had mixed feelings.

While Somar was pleased that the country’s former president had been ousted by rebel forces, he could not shake off worries about who might succeed a leader accused of tyrannical rule for more than two decades.

“In my mind, I am worried about who would rule Syria. Would it be better or worse? I am worried about the future of my country. It is still in a complete mess now,” he told CNA in an interview. The 34-year-old musician from the city of Suwayda in the south of Syria has been living in Malaysia since 2017.

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Just go busking.

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The Syrians are “pining for the fjord of home. Like I and most Americans give a crap about 7th century inbred savages and their wishes. I hope Malaysia kicks the invading islamofascist creeps home with a slap to the face and a boot to their backside. The world should no longer permit the world’s leaders to punish them with mass migrations. The West is coming to a point where people will rise up everywhere and kill everyone in government.