Wrong on the Rohingya

   Thulasi K. Raj,February 05, 2019

Deportation of refugees is legally and morally problematic

In Januarys, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called for a report from India on the deportation of a group of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar in October 2018. India’s repatriation of the refugees contravenes international principles on refugee law as well as domestic constitutional rights. 

India's Rohingya shame.

The Indian government has adopted attitudes similar to Myanmar's towards the Rohingya.

by Ashley Starr Kinseth

29th January 2019

A girl from the Rohingya community stands outside her family's shack in a camp in New Delhi, India on October 4, 2018 [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

 

Earlier this month, India sparked panic among its long-suffering Rohingya refugee population by deporting a family of five to their home country of Myanmar, where they will most certainly face human rights violations and imprisonment. This expulsion came on the heels of the controversially forced repatriation of seven Rohingya men last October.

UN asks Saudi Arabia not to deport Rohingya

January 25, 2019 at 8:02 pm | Published in:Middle East, Myanmar, News, Saudi Arabia, UN

 
A top UN official on Friday urged Saudi Arabia not to deport members of the persecuted Rohingya community to Bangladesh but instead to grant them refugee status, Anadolu Agency reports.

“I am dismayed by Saudi Arabia’s recent deportation of 13 Rohingya to Bangladesh,” said Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, at a news briefing in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka.

Indian police arrest 61 Rohingya Muslims this week

Originally published January 22, 2019 at 5:08 am Updated January 22, 2019 at 6:48 am   By, JULHAS ALAM and WASBIR HUSSAIN
The Associated Press 

 

 

Indian police officials stand next to Rohingya Muslims after they were arrested in two northeastern states, outside a police station in Agartala, India, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. Police in northeastern India say they have...

 (AP Photo/Abhisek Saha) 

GAUHATI,India (AP) — Police in northeastern India have arrested 61 Rohingya Muslims this week for illegal entry, officials said Tuesday, amid reports that more than 1,300 have recently crossed the border from India into Bangladesh.

Rohingyas waiting to make border crossings to Bangladesh from India.

31 Rohingyas waiting to make border crossings to Bangladesh from India

Brahmanbaria Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 19 Jan 2019

More Rohingyas are waiting to enter Bangladesh through Brahmanbaria’s Kasba border from India amid fears of deportation to Myanmar.

“As many as 31 Rohingya women, men and children have gathered on the border,” Major Md Shafiq of the Border Guards Bangladesh told reporters.

The BGB officer said a decision would be taken after a flag meeting with India’s border guards.