How Can a Human Being Be Illegal? : Lawyer for Rohingya Questions India s Deportation Plans
A large number of Rohingya refugees have been detained over the last month and the threat of deportation looms over them.
Rohingya children playing in a camp in Delhi. Photo: Ismat Ara
Rights01/Apr/2021
New Delhi: Indian authorities are preparing to deport Rohingya refugees currently lodged in detention centres made for undocumented migrants. Close to 300 Rohingya were detained across India just in the month of March 2021.
In 2017, thousands of Rohingya people had fled Myanmar, either by foot or sea, after the Myanmar army’s targeted violence against the community. However, the Rohingya had been fleeing Myanmar to take shelter in neighbouring countries including India for years before that too.
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