KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will not proceed with repatriating 5,000 Myanmar refugees if their lives are found to be at risk upon their return, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, as authorities continued to screen the refugees ahead of the planned handover.

Repatriation without rights risks reproducing the very crisis it seeks to resolve.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will not proceed with repatriating 5,000 Myanmar refugees if their lives are found to be at risk upon their return, a government spokesman said on…