Rohingya’s Infiltration As A Threat To India – OpEd

eurasia review
Nava Thakuria
November 14, 2023

Rohingya refugees. Photo Credit: Tasnim News Agency

Perceiving the threat of illegal Bangladeshi migrants for decades, the people of Assam (also India) have come to realise another important matter of concern and that is from the inherent influx of Rohingya people. Currently taking shelter in south Bangladesh after fleeing from Myanmar six years back, the Muslim Rohingyas are leaving their camps to various countries namely Indonesia, Malaysia and India. On many occasions, the traffickers have taken advantage of the situation to send those stateless people through West Bengal and Tripura, which have a proximity of Bengali language.

30 Months of Myanmar Military Coup A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICAL REPORT ON INDIA'S APPROACH AND RELATIONS WITH MYANMAR

G20 Summit and India’s Treatment of Rohingya

Refugee International
By Daniel P. Sullivan
September 8, 2023

Statement from Refugees International Director for Africa, Asia, and the Middle East Daniel P. Sullivan:

“As India hosts the world’s most powerful leaders for this year’s G20 Summit, those leaders should ask what India has done to address a genocide in its own neighborhood.

Rohingya crisis may destabilise the region

Bangladesh Post
By Diplomatic Correspondent
Published : 02 Sep 2023 

Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Dr. A K Abdul Momen said that Rohingya crisis has the potential to destabilize the whole region unless the international community intensifies their efforts to eventuate the sustainable repatriation of the 1.2 million forcibly displaced Rohingyas, temporarily sheltered in Bangladesh, to their homeland Myanmar.

Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar only to ‘live in fear’ in India

Aljazeera
By Vipul Kumar
Published On 17 Aug 2023

In Nuh, the only Muslim-majority district in the state of Haryana, Rohingya refugees live in fear of violence and detention.

Children playing in one of the two Rohingya camps in Nuh [Vipul Kumar/Al Jazeera]

 

Nuh, India – Abdul Jabbar, a Rohingya refugee living in a camp 80km (50 miles) from New Delhi, went to a nearby store earlier this month to find out what was keeping his 14-year-old son, who had left hours earlier to buy powdered pepper for that night’s meal.  

 

Burma–Bengal Crossings: Intercolonial Connections in Pre-Independence India

Devleena Ghosh
University of Technology, SydneyCorrespondence
Devleena.Ghosh@uts.edu.au
Pages 156-172 | Published online: 21 Mar 2016

Abstract

The large-scale movement of people between Burma and Bengal in the early twentieth century has been explored recently by authors such as Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith who locate Burma within the wider migratory culture of the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia. This article argues that the long and historical connections between Bengalis and Burmese were transformed by the British colonisation of the region. Through an analysis of selected literary texts in Bengali, some by well-known and others by obscure writers, this article shows that, for Indians, Burma constituted an elsewhere where the fantastic and superhuman were within reach, and caste and religious constraints could be circumvented and radical possibilities enabled by masquerade and disguise.

Introduction

Burma is a spectre that haunts the story of the east coast of India. Its geographical placement as one of India’s closest neighbours, sharing a thousand kilometres of common borders, is in contradiction to the elusive shadow that it intermittently casts on the emotional cartography of eastern India and, for the purposes of this paper, particularly Bengal. This lacuna in the shared and layered histories of the Eastern Indian Ocean has as much to do with shared colonial pasts as with the tendency of modern nation-states to treat relatively recent borders as sacred and inviolable, thereby denying all of the flows, movements, connections, fluidities and uncertainties that are the very stuff of human history and the imbrication of social, cultural and emotional worlds.

Baby dies after teargas fired at Rohingya trying to escape Indian detention centre

The Guardian
Kaamil Ahmed
Tue 25 Jul 2023

Child’s death follows hunger strike at Jammu & Kashmir jail amid increasing hostility towards 40,000 refugees ahead of elections 

A still from a video taken by one of the Rohingya detained at Hiranagar jail as Indian authorities teargassed the refugees last week. About 270 refugees are held at the jail. Photograph: Handout 

 

A five-month-old girl has died after Indian forces fired teargas at Rohingya refugees trying to escape a detention centre where they have been held for more than two years.

Videos – sent to Rohingya activists by detainees at Hiranagar jail, now operating as a holding centre – appear to show women and men amid clouds of teargas. About 270 Rohingya detainees at the centre, in the Indian-administered territory of Jammu & Kashmir, have been on hunger strike since April over their detention.

74 Rohingya held from UP for staying without valid papers

The Indian EXPRESS

Written by Amit Sharma
Meerut | July 25, 2023 

Of those arrested, 55 are men, 14 women and five minors, the ATS said.

The operation was carried out in six districts and the majority of the arrests were made in Mathura followed by Aligarh (17), Hapur (16), Ghaziabad (4), Meerut (4) and Saharanpur (2). (Representational Image)

 

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday night arrested 74 Rohingya Muslims who allegedly entered India from Myanmar and Bangladesh illegally before reaching various districts of western parts of the state.

အိန္ဒိယမြောက်ပိုင်းမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ၇၄ ဦးဖမ်းခံရ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
၂၅ ဇူလိုင်၊ ၂၀၂၃ 

အိန္ဂိယနိုင်ငံ၊ နယူးဒေလီမြို့မှာအမှိုက်ကောက်နေတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတဦး၊ ဇွန် ၁၄၊ ၂၀၂၁

အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံ မြောက်ပိုင်း Uttar Pradesh ပြည်နယ်မှာ တရားမ၀င်နေထိုင်တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ၇၄ ဦးကို တန င်္လာနေ့မှာ ဖမ်းဆီးလိုက်တယ်လို့ အိန္ဒိယရဲတွေက ပြောပါတယ်။ ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်ဆလင်တွေကို ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း မြို့ကြီး (၆) မြို့မှာ ထိန်းသိမ်းထားပြီး ဒုက္ခသည် ၁၀ ဦးမှာ အရွယ်မရောက်သေးသူတွေ ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့က ပြောပါတယ်။

Indian police arrest 74 Rohingya refugees in north

REUTERS
July 24, 20231

LUCKNOW, India, July 24 (Reuters) - Indian police said they arrested 74 Rohingya refugees on Monday for living "illegally" in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh - a move activists condemned as an arbitrary crackdown on people fleeing violence.

The members of the Muslim Rohingya community were detained in six town and cities in the state and 10 of the refugees were juveniles, police said, without giving ages.

The Rohingya Human Rights Initiative campaign group said the detained people had been living in the area for about 10 years after fleeing persecution in Myanmar.

Rohingya refugees find hope in language preservation

FAIR PLANET
topic: Refugees and Aslyum
#India, # Rohingya, # Refugees,
tags: #education, # Language
Located : India , Myanmar
by : Asma Hafz

July 19, 2023

"I can send messages in my native language. I know we have far more problems to overcome, but this has given us more representation and legitimisation."

A group of 15 children bundled together in a small shanty made of bamboo and plastic and read out from their notebooks in a Rohingya refugee camp in the Faridabad district of Haryana, 28 kilometres away from the Indian capital New Delhi.

Tibetans To Rohingya Muslims: All Refugees Are Not Equal In India

Outlook
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 
Updated: 21 Jul 2023 

From vote banks to pawns in international relations, India uses refugees based on changing interests 

Raising Voice: Muslims protest against CAA and NRC at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi in 2020 Photo: Suresh K. Pandey

 

In the Darjeeling and Kalimpong hills of West Bengal, stickers and posters demanding the release of the 11th Panchen Lama from alleged forced confinement by the Chinese authorities can be spotted in many of the shops owned by the Tibetan refugee population. The Panchen Lama is considered the second-highest spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, after the Dalai Lama, and has been one of the contentious issues of China and the Dalai Lama’s battle over Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.

Rohingya Refugees Stage Protest in J&K Detention Centre, Demand Immediate Release

THE WIRE
Umer Maqbool
18/Jul/2023

Representative image. Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Srinagar: Clashes broke out inside Jammu & Kashmir’s lone detention centre on Tuesday (July 18) morning after incarcerated Rohingya refugees staged protests to seek their release or repatriation to Myanmar.

'Separated and Detained': Will Biden and Modi Discuss the Plight of Rohingya Refugees in India?

The Wire
Priyali Sur and Dan Sullivan
21 June 2023 

Biden will likely talk to Modi about China, climate change, and human rights. But what may be absent from the discussion is the hypocrisy of India’s stance on refugees, particularly the Rohingya genocide survivors of Myanmar.

A boy looks on from a makeshift tent at the Rohinya refugee settlement area in Kalindi Kunj, New Delhi, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary

 

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi sits down with President Joe Biden for an official State dinner on June 22, the conversation will surely be filled with pleasantries about the mutually beneficial relations between the world’s oldest and largest democracies.

 

Why India is attacking the rights of Rohingya refugees

MIDDLE EAST EYE
Misbah Haqani
20 June 2023

The state's 'national security' discourse is being used as a weapon in service of Islamophobia

Members of the United Hindu Front hold a protest to demand the deportation of Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims in New Delhi in August 2018 (AFP)

Over the past three decades, the borders of the concept and practice of security have expanded dramatically - and vaguely, inasmuch as anything and everything now embodies the potential to be constructed as a security threat.

Burma’s Displaced People in India and Bangladesh

Geneva, 5th April 2004

Paper presented by Chris Lewa

Burma’s borders with India and Bangladesh have received much less international attention than the Thailand-Burma border. A major reason is the difficult access to refugees in these border areas due to policies of the host governments. Nevertheless, outflows from Burma to India and Bangladesh are no less significant. More than 50,000, mostly Chin, have fled to India while up to 200,000 Rohingya are found in Bangladesh in and outside refugee camps.

An essential difference appears when comparing the overall situation along the eastern and western borders of Burma. In Chin and Arakan States, bordering India and Bangladesh respectively, there is little ethnic armed resistance and the military regime does not resort to ruthless counter-insurgency tactics to assert control, as is the case along the Thai-Burma border. Therefore, the worst forms of human rights violations such as massive forced relocation, torture, summary executions, are less frequent, but this does not mean that the situation is noticeably better. Over the last decade, the Burma Army’s presence has rapidly expanded along the western border. The establishment of new battalions has resulted in two significant consequences:

India Faces a Two-Front Challenge From Post-Coup Myanmar

THE DIPLOMAT
By Niranjan Marjani
April 26, 2023

Myanmar’s deteriorating situation risks destabilizing India’s Northeast, while the junta’s embrace of China poses threats in the Indian Ocean.

 

 The military coup in Myanmar in February 2021 has altered India’s engagements with the Southeast Asian nation. Myanmar has been an integral part of India’s Act East Policy, with India developing connectivity projects like the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway and the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project linking India’s Northeast region to Southeast Asia. India has thus moved cautiously with regard to Myanmar since the coup, avoiding a confrontational approach with the military government.

How India Betrayed the Rakhine People – And Why It Matters Today

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Kyaw Hsan Hlaing
February 10, 2023

25 years ago this week, India’s army crushed an incipient Rakhine separatist force in the Andaman Islands. In western Myanmar, memories of the incident linger.

Twenty-five years ago this week, India’s government betrayed the people of Rakhine State in western Myanmar, when its armed forces smashed a nascent Rakhine revolutionary group in a remote part of the Andaman Islands. In the years since, the Indian government has never referred publicly to the incident, but it continues to resonate among the Rakhine people, who remember it as Gen. Khaing Raza’s Day, or Betrayal of India over Rakhine Revolution Day. In a 2009 book, the prominent Indian human rights lawyer Nandita Haksar described the incident as “infamous.”

Six Rohingyas Detained In Poll-Bound Tripura

NET
Northeast Today
Abhijit Nath, NET Correspondent, Tripura
25th January 2023 

Agartala, January 25, 2023: In the poll-bound Tripura, six Rohingyas have been detained at Matinagar area under 15-Kamalasagar assembly constituency in Sepahijala district on Wednesday morning which has triggered tension.

It is learned that the six Rohingya youths have been staying in an abandoned house of Moti Miah at Matinagar area for about a week. They were cooking and eating in that room. Although the owner of the house, Moti Mia, is not at home for the past few days.

Release five Rohingya: HC

THE HINDU
HYDERABAD 

September 15, 2022
Marri Ramu

 

 

Condition of Rohingya in Myanmar is not conducive for deportation: counsel


Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the State government to release five Rohingya (who are Myanmar nationals) who were detained in Cherlapally central prison immediately, observing that the State government had no power to detain them.

Pronouncing judgment in a batch of five writ petitions filed by relatives/families of Rohingya, a bench of Justices Shameem Akther and E.V. Venugopal set aside orders issued by DGP M. Mahender Reddy detaining the five Rohingya. Their detention is “wholly unjustified, ex facie illegal and without specific delegation of power under section 3 (2) (g) of the Foreigners Act”, the bench said.