Refugees International
By Daniel P. Sullivan , Priyali Sur , Ankita Dan |
December 16, 2024
The Rohingya people of Myanmar are the world’s largest stateless population, estimated at some 2.8 million people. Denied citizenship and subject to decades of persecution by the military authorities in their home country, most of the Rohingya population was forced by genocidal violence to flee and is now spread across several countries. While the conditions of Rohingya refugees in countries like Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia are widely documented, less attention is given to the approximately 22,500 Rohingya refugees registered with the UN Refugees Agency (UNHCR) who have fled to India. Even less attention is given to the hundreds of Rohingya who are arbitrarily and indefinitely detained in India and the fact that the broader population remains in constant risk of detention or even deportation back to Myanmar themselves.