Malaysia, has a robust legal basis to enforce such a ban as signatories to various international and regional treaties including:
- the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War; and
- the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration which affirms the rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .
This ban would reinforce Malaysia’s commitment to the prevention of genocide and other war crimes, the preservation of human rights and other universal principles that serve to protect persons regardless of religion, nationality or ethnic origin, principles enshrined in numerous international treaties and that should be honoured whether or not we are a signatory to those treaties.