As has been a usual sequence of Nepali family members receiving the dead body of their members working in Malaysia, another family, too, has received a dead body today. Ramji Mijar, 42, of Dhapakhel-5, Lalitpur died of ischemia heart disease in Malaysia on 4 January 2015, according to the Nepali Embassy in Kualalampur. The documents sent to Kathmandu along with Mijar’s dead body that arrived Saturday show that he had been working for J-Force Security Services sdn bhd for two years.
- Neighbors and relatives open the casket
According to Mijar’s family sources, he had talked to the family members very well on 3 January (just the day before his death), referring to his plan to extend one more year.
The deceased is survived by his mother, wife and two children—son, 19 and daughter, 17. They remain doubtful over the officially given post-mortem result as the cause of his death since this cause has been most commonly pronounced regarding the death of most Nepali migrant workers in Malaysia.
Avsar Manpower is said to have been the Nepali recruiting agency that sent Mijar to Malaysia.
As documented by the Nepali Embassy in Malaysia, more than 200 Nepali migrant workers have died during the period from July 2014 to December 2014. Malaysia has been heavily criticized in media for its extremely poor working and living conditions for migrant workers.
Nepali political parties and civil society organizations have not to date made their stance publicly clear on the labor bondage legalized by the Nepali and Malaysian governments. Nepali migrant workers often openly tell media that their passports are confiscated by the employers while the workers are not allowed to keep a copy of their contract paper either.
Chandra Sumshere, one of the hereditary Rana prime ministers, who ruled Nepal for 31 years from 1898 to 1929, had initiated the custom of selling Nepali nationals to foreign recruiters, especially in connection with the mercenary trade for the World War I and the World War II.