Rohingya crisis in Indonesia a ‘ticking time bomb’ if political indifference, misinformation continue: analysts

South China Morning Post
Johannes Nugroho
Published: 6 Apr 2024

• Analysts point to social-media disinformation to ‘discredit’ and ‘demonise’ Rohingya refugees in the lead-up to the presidential election in February
• They say the government has not been inclined to counter such narratives, which have stoked paranoia about the refugees and led to conflict
  

Rohingya refugees rest in a temporary shelter at the Indonesian Red Cross Office, after being evacuated from the sea at Meulaboh, West Aceh, Indonesia, on March 22. Photo: EPA-EFE

 

The orange truck crammed with 75 Rohingya survivors of a capsized boat was told to hurry along by Indonesian police in Beureugang, West Aceh, as dozens of angry villagers gave chase, shouting “[we] reject the presence of refugees here!”
Footage of the incident on March 21 was screened by a number of television channels across Indonesia and observers say the growing hostility is nothing new, attributing it to misinformation campaigns and political indifference towards the plight of Rohingya refugees in the country.

Thousands of Rohingya Refugees in Northwest India Live in Fear of Deportation

VOA

VOA News

06 April 2021

 Thousands of Rohingya refugees live in temporary camps in India’s northwestern Jammu and Kashmir region, where they fear deportation back to Myanmar. VOA Urdu Service’s Zubair Dar visited a camp of people in Bathindi Narval who said they fled abuses and do not want to go back. Roshan Noorzai narrates the story. VOA Khmer's Leakhena Sreng narrates the story in Khmer. 

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'How Can a Human Being Be Illegal?': Lawyer for Rohingya Questions India's Deportation Plans

THE WIRE
Ismat Ara
01/APR/2021

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

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.

India police detain more than 150 Rohingya refugees, begin process for deportation

JURIST
Ananaya Agrawal | National Law U. Delhi, IN
MARCH 9, 2021

The Indian police on Saturday apprehended at least 168 Rohingya refugees living in the northern territory of Jammu valley under the directions of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) administration. The detained Rohingya, including the elderly and children, have been taken to a makeshift holding centre near the Hira Nagar jail in Kathua district of Jammu where local authorities have begun the identity verification process using biometrics and other documents-based verification, such as place of stay.

The drive aims to trace Rohingyas residing without legal documentation in Jammu and comes after the Home Department of the J&K administration issued a notification last Thursday under Section 3(2)(e) of the Foreigners Act, 1946.

Separated from families, uncertainty looms over deportation in Rohingya settlements

Hindustan Times

Ravi Krishnan Khajuria, 

Jammu
UPDATED ON MAR 09, 2021 

Over the weekend, police rounded up the 169 people from the city and took them to the Hiranagar jail detention centre

Rohingyas at Kiryani Talab in Jammu on Monday (HT Photo)

The family members of the 169 Rohingya community members who were taken to a detention centre at a prison in Jammu have now been confined to their settlement clusters in the city’s Kathua district, where many described a sense of dread since the detentions and repeated appeals to the government of India not to deport them to Myanmar.

Rohingya Muslims fear deportation in India after dozens detained by police

THE PRESS TV
Sunday, 07 March 2021 

Rohingya refugees carry their belongings as they leave a Rohingya refugee camp in India's northern region of Jammu on March 7, 2021. (Photo by AFP)

Dozens of Rohingya Muslims, who had fled to India from death and violence in Myanmar, have been detained and facing possible deportation.

Media reports said Sunday that Indian police arrested more than 150 persecuted Rohingya refugees found living illegally in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and a process had begun to deport them back to Myanmar.

Dozens of Rohingya were now living in a makeshift "holding center" at Jammu's Hira Nagar jail after local authorities conducted biometric and other tests on hundreds of people to verify their identities.

Rohingyas fear deportation after Saudi request to Bangladesh

NEWAGE

Online Desk
Oct 15,2020  

Rohingya refugees wait to collect relief materials in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on October 14, 2020. — AFP photo 

 

Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia are worried that Riyadh will deport them, after the kingdom threatened Bangladesh with a migration ban unless Dhaka gave Bangladeshi passports to members of the persecuted minority, reports the Middle East Eye.

Last month, Bangladesh’s foreign minister AK Abdul Momen confirmed in a Dhaka press conference that Riyadh had made the request for Bangladesh to give Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia Bangladeshi citizenship.

‘Many of the refugees have never come to Bangladesh and have no idea about the country. They know Saudi culture and speak the Arabic language,’ said Momen.

UN Special Rapporteur Offers Assistance to Indian Supreme Court in Case of Rohingya Deportation

IPS Inter Press Service
By Samira Sadeque 

The United Nations on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance has recently offered her assistance to the Indian Supreme Court in a long hearing about India deporting Rohingya refugees to Myanmar. Pictured here are Rohingya refugee women in Jammu, India. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 20 2020 (IPS) - University of California professor E. Tendayi Achiume, who is a United Nations Special Rapporteur, has recently offered her assistance to the Indian Supreme Court in a long hearing about India deporting Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

'We have no dreams': Rohingya despair after deportation from Saudi Arabia

MIDDLWEAST EYE

Kaamil Ahmed

Kutupalong camp, Bangladesh

6 January 2020 

Bashir, 65, was deported from Saudi Arabia after working in the country for 20 years (MEE/Kaamil Ahmed)

As he scanned the Bangladeshi hills for the first time, Mohammed Faruque thought about how quickly he'd lost everything he'd spent years working for.

He was stepping off a bus empty-handed, joining his family in the foreign land they now lived in as refugees, a city of plastic sheeting in place of the ancestral villages that had been home in Myanmar.

Next move on deportation of Rohingya refugees: Union minister Jitendra Singh

INDIA TODAY

Press Trust of India

Jammu

January 4, 2020

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said the government's next move would be regarding the deportation of Rohingya refugees as they will not be able to secure citizenship under the new law.

 

Union minister Jitendra Singh

 

Asserting that the Citizenship (Amendment) act (CAA) was implemented in Jammu and Kashmir the day it was passed by Parliament, Union minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said the government's next move would be regarding the deportation of Rohingya refugees as they will not be able to secure citizenship under the new law.

Rohingya trio deported to Myanmar

THE HINDU 
Special Correspondent
GUWAHATI,  
March 29, 2019

Three Rohingya, including a woman, were deported to Myanmar via Moreh in Manipur on Thursday. The three had been caught in 2013 for illegally entering Assam.

"We coordinated with Manipur police and Myanmar authorities for the deportation of the Rohingya people," Sader Ali, Deputy Superintendent of Police in Assam's Sonitpur district, said on Friday.

The three were lodged at a detention camp for foreigners in Sonitpur district headquarters Tezpur. They belonged to the family of five other Rohingya who had been deported to Myanmar on January 3. Mr Ali was in charge of the deportation process that involved Moreh's sub-divisional police officer Binoy Chongtham.

The deported trio was identified as Emam Hussain, 55, Mohammed Saresh, 20, and Rafiqa Begin, 18. Police said they were from a village under Bathidung police station in Myanmar. 

 

Link : https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/rohingya-trio-deported-to-myanmar/article26680551.ece

India continues zero tolerance for Rohingya infiltrators, 3 more deported to Myanmar

my nation
By Hemanta Kumar Nath
First Published 29, Mar 2019,

Guwahati: Three more Rohingyas were deported on Thursday to Myanmar via Manipur’s Moreh along the India-Myanmar border. One among the three deported is a girl.

The three Rohingyas, who had illegally entered India in 2013, were lodged in a foreigner detention camp inside the Tezpur jail in Assam’s Sonitpur district after they had been found guilty of illegally entering the country.

Saifuddin: M’sia will not deport Rohingyas

Malaysian Reserve
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

by LYDIA NATHAN / pic by TMR FILE PIX

 If this issue is not resolved, more of them will be on the run, says minister

 

THE government has given the assurance that Rohingya refugees will not be deported, in line with Malaysia’s firm disposition on the unrest and related issues that are plaguing their country of origin.

Deportation of Rohingyas Violates International Law, Legal Precedents in India

The Wire 
by Lokesh Mewara
2019-03-18

The Narendra Modi government's decision to deport Rohingya refugees not only breaches various legal conventions, but attacks the very principles embedded in the constitution.

Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 9, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Damir Sagolj  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday slammed the Assam government for the delay in the deportation of migrants back to their country.

Rohingya run schools in India for rejected kids

LACROIX 
international 
Umar Manzoor Shah, Srinagar India
March 13, 2019 

Govt schools turn away children of Muslim refugees as Hindu groups in Kashmir demand they be deported to Myanmar

A bashful Tasleema Akhtar, 4, has her photo taken at a makeshift classroom inside a refugee camp in India's Jammu. She is among about 100 Rohingya children who are attending the preparatory school after government-run schools in the area began turning the refugees away. (Photo by Umar Manzoor Shah/ucanews.com)

Deportation Fears Turn Rohingya Community Leaders Into Refugee Negotiators

THE WIRE
Meher Ali,  05.03.2019
 
Seeking to reassure fellow refugees, Rohingya community leaders found themselves negotiating with the state over a data-gathering exercise last December.

Representational image. Credit: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

 

Aligarh: A good community leader, says Mohammad Zafar (24), should have three qualities: “Thanda dimagh, padhai-likhai, aur aadmi se nafrat nahi honee chahiye (He should have a cool head, be educated, and have no hatred toward anyone).”

Zafar is a Rohingya refugee and a leader, or zimmedaar, of the Rohingya community in Aligarh.

Refugee crisis / India’s growing religious intolerance leaves Rohingya fearing deportation

SOUTHEAST ASIA

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  By: Lesly Lotha - Posted on: February 21, 2019 | Current Affairs 

A Rohingya refugee weeps as she holds a child after they were detained while crossing the India-Bangladesh fenced border from Bangladesh Photo: Arindam Dey / AFP 

Last month, India deported a family of Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar to face statelessness and possible genocide in their homeland – the latest blow in a fierce anti-Muslim movement under Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing government

Fearing detention and deportation, Rohingya refugees flee to Bangladesh.

THE
CARAVAN

18 February 2019

Many refugees at Delhi’s Rohingya camps said that the Indian government has created a coercive environment and that a constant fear of deportation looms over them.
Adnan Abidi / REUTERS

“Those who reach Bangladesh are lucky, but the conditions of those who are caught at the border are really bad,” Mohammed Shaker, a Rohingya resident of a refugee camp in Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj area, told me. The Rohingyas are an ethnic Muslim minority from Myanmar who have been rendered stateless by the Myanmar’s military’s campaign of ethnic cleansing against them. Since 2008, at least forty thousand Rohingyas have fled to India to escape persecution by the Myanmar government. But the thousands of Rohingya refugees are now looking at the bleak prospect of a second displacement, fleeing to Bangladesh to escape hostile conditions in India.

22 Myanmar nationals including Rohingya deported since August 2017: MHA

The Indian EXPRESS
Friday, February 15, 2019

The Home Ministry in August 2017 had come out with an advisory to identify and deport illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar.

 According to government estimates, there are nearly 40,000 Rohingya Muslims across India with the highest number in Jammu and Kashmir. (Reuters/File) 

As many as 22 Myanmar nationals, including Rohingya, have been deported since August 2017, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has informed the Rajya Sabha.

Refugees twice over: Why Rohingya who had found shelter in Jammu are fleeing again

Scroll.in 
Thursday, February 7th 2019
 
Facing hostility from Hindutva groups and the Indian government, some of them have been forced to seek the relative safety of Bangladesh.

Nitin Kanotra/HT Photo

On January 18, at least 31 Rohingya refugees from Jammu were arrested in the no man’s land between India and Bangladesh by the Border Security Force and handed over to the Tripura police. For four days, they had been trapped between the border fences of the two countries, with neither willing to accept them as refugees.