About 50 individuals from a Rohingya community in a rural Penang village were forced out of their homes a week before Hari Raya, confirmed the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR).

Describing the forced eviction during the holy month of Ramadan as a "tragedy", UNHCR Malaysia said a small group of locals forced out the families who had lived there for nearly a decade.

“Without provocation, the community of refugees was driven from...