Lumut1,476 detainees sailed for Myanmar on navy ships.
Neither government has said how many are Rohingya, a people facing persecution in Myanmar.
The UN refugee agency says it had no role in the operation, and Malaysia never signed the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Malaysia’s interior ministry calls the returns voluntary and says Myanmar’s government supplied the list.
Anwar Ibrahim plans to invite Min Aung Hlaing to Malaysia to speed the rest of the 5,000.
How each outlet framed it
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- The Irrawaddy leans critical
- emphasizes security danger and persecution risks; cites rights groups' genocide characterization of the repatriation
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- foregrounds UN and rights group opposition, details Myanmar's non-recognition of Rohingya as distinct ethnic group
Sources: The Irrawaddy, Al Jazeera Online