Posted on 05/06/2025 4:44:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The arrest of 10 individuals involved in a birth certificate forgery syndicate is about more than just corruption or criminality, says Southeast Asian politics expert Sophie Lemiere.
The recent arrest of 10 individuals involved in a birth certificate forgery syndicate – linked to human trafficking and the smuggling of undocumented children – has exposed a deep and troubling flaw in Malaysia’s legal and bureaucratic framework.
While authorities frame this as a case of corruption and criminality, the scandal is, in reality, a symptom of a much larger problem: a system that fails abandoned and adopted children, pushing desperate families into illegality.
THE CRISIS OF THE UNSEEN CHILDREN Malaysia’s constitution guarantees citizenship to foundlings – children discovered abandoned with no known parents. Yet, in practice, civil servants often refuse to apply this provision, driven by personal biases or unfounded fears. Some believe granting citizenship would "reward" illegitimate births, while others suspect foundlings might be children of undocumented migrants.
The result? Thousands of children grow up stateless, invisible to the system and vulnerable to exploitation.
Without birth certificates, these children cannot attend school, access healthcare or prove their identity. They exist in legal limbo, and when they reach adulthood, their lack of documentation bars them from formal employment, pushing many toward informal – and sometimes illegal – means of survival.
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Probably happened in Indonesia about 60 years ago.
[Malaysia’s Fake Birth Certificates Scandal Exposes Deeper Crisis]
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obama
Barry liked eating dog while living in Malaysia.
Very powerful column here by Jeff Childers “Coffee and Covid,” on the FBI war on 734, an international, accelerationist group of child traffickers that is consuming every part of the Bureau. All 55 field offices involved, over 700 cases brought.
If you’re wining about “where are the Epstein files,” this is a large part of it. Trump has decided it’s more important to stop TODAY’s child traffickers than to go after people tied to an organization that’s gone and who may be dead. This effort by my calculations consumes AT MINIMUM 1,000 to 1,500 agents/DOJ employees. Combine that with the 70 cases DOJ has regarding the Trump opposition judges, at 2-3 employees per case, and you can see why releasing papers is slow.
Not prosecuting priors tells current criminals they have a chance to get away with it, too, so just do it.
Read my Today’s News. You’ll have a better understanding of the priorities here. It ain’t Epstein. It’s current human trafficking.
Current trafficking is being done be the same people.
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