We’ve been in touch with Bangladesh to take 81 rescued Rohingyas: Indian external affairs ministry

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report

March 05, 2021

Rohingya refugees walk towards the Balukhali refugee camp after crossing the border in Bangladesh’s Ukhia district, on November 2, 2017. Photo: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP

India today said it continued talks with Bangladesh to take back the 81 Rohingyas rescued by its coast guard after finding them adrift in the high seas with no fuel and food.

"We have been in touch with Bangladesh to repatriate them [Rohingyas] back to Bangladesh. The issue figured at the recent home secretary-level talks [between the two countries]," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said at the weekly virtual media briefing.

'India Will Play Vital Role In Return Of Rohingyas From Bangladesh To Myanmar': Tirumurti

REPUBLICWORLD

Written ByGourav Mishra
28th February, 2021

India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti observed that India has a significant role to play in early return of the displaced Rohingyas, who fled Myanmar due to what was being called 'ethnic cleansing'. He was speaking at the informal UN General Assembly meeting on the military coup in Myanmar that killed at least three and injured several.

Over 1.1 million Rohingyas fled the Rakhine state and crossed borders in 2017 seeking shelter in Bangladesh, after troops in Myanmar burned several Rohingyan homes, raped their women, and killed several of them. All Rohingyan 'refugees' have since camped in the Cox Bazar of Bangladesh. Referring to the displaced Rohingyas, Tirumurti acknowledged "India will continue to work with the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar so the return of displaced persons to their shelters in Rakhine in a manner that is safe, speedy, and sustainable can be initiated."

Can India Turn the Rohingya Crisis’ Tide?

THE I DIPLOMAT

Anuttama Banerji
January 26, 2021

New Delhi shares moral as well as legal obligations in making sure it does its share to redress the humanitarian crisis.

India is not a party to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol since India believes “its borders are porous and any conflict can lead to mass movement of people” straining its limited resources. However, India has traditionally opened its doors to Tibetans and Afghan refugees. Therefore, its response to the Rohingya crisis catches us by surprise.

India needs to be more open and cooperative

Prothum Alo------ 

Touhid Hossain
Updated: 18 December 2020, 

It was obvious that there would be no progress on the Teesta agreement during the talks this time. We have no alternative but to depend on India regarding the Teesta agreement. I do not expect the agreement to be signed when Narenda Modi comes to Dhaka in March next year.

Bangladesh won its independence through bloodshed and the liberation war of 1971 with the support of India. Bangladesh is grateful for this support from its close neighbour. Even after independence Bangladesh has received support and cooperation from India. We always want friendly relations with India.

Rohingya terror group may hit India!

NE NOW NEWS KOLKATA ,
December 13, 2020 

Representative image.

 

Indian intelligence agencies have intercepted details of financial transactions that indicate a possible attack by a Malaysia-based Rohingya outfit may be in the offing in India.

“There is good reason to believe that a module of this new terror outfit has received a lot of money from Malaysia through hawala channels. They may be in an advanced stage of orchestrating a terror strike in that country by a group led by a woman,” said a senior external intelligence officer.

He said the terror group is possibly linked to controversial Indian preacher Zakir Naik, who has been given permanent residence in Malaysia, after Delhi refused to allow him to return to India.

India says China arming rebels near borders

THE STRAITS TIMES 

Dec 8, 2020, 

Modi govt told of 4 most wanted insurgent leaders in Kunming to train, source for arms

Increased activity along the Myanmar border has sparked concern that India's military is becoming stretched as tensions remain with China and Pakistan on other parts of its land border.PHOTO: REUTERS

NEW DELHI • Indian officials say China is assisting rebel groups that have stepped up attacks on India's border with Myanmar in recent months, opening another front in the conflict between two nations already engaged in a deadly stand-off in the Himalayas.

Armed groups in Myanmar - including the United Wa State Army and the Arakan Army, which was designated a terrorist organisation this year - are acting as Beijing's proxies by supplying weapons and providing hideouts to insurgent groups in India's north-eastern states, according to Indian officials with knowledge of the situation, who asked not to be identified due to rules on speaking with the media.

Think before you ink: KTR

Telangana Today

By TelanganaToday
Business Bureau
Published: 26th Nov 2020

People should think and analyse who has brought progress to the region and what kind of Hyderabad they want, said TRS party working president KT Rama Rao

Hyderabad: Telangana government over the last six years has not only taken care of the basic amenities of the people such as electricity, water, roads and support to farmers but also made strides across spheres of society and industries. And it is time for people to think before they ink (vote). They should think and analyse who has brought progress to the region and what kind of Hyderabad they want, said TRS party working president KT Rama Rao on Thursday.

Participating in an interactive meeting with Mak Projects MD on ‘Transforming Hyderabad into a global city’, KTR said, “When the State was formed, we not only wanted to prove to ourselves but also to naysayers who questioned our ability and vision for the State. Since then, we have achieved success in all the spheres.”

14 illegal Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh held, thanks to plaint on toll-free number

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS

By Prasanta Mazumdar
Express News Service

During interrogation, it was found that all of them had fled a “refugee camp” in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar and entered India illegally.

For representational purposes

GUWAHATI: A complaint lodged by a train passenger with a toll-free number led railway officials to 14 suspected Rohingya refugees.

The persons, arrested from a train at New Jalpaiguri station of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), had apparently fled a refugee camp in Bangladesh. They had boarded the train in Assam’s Badarpur.

Why does KCR not initiate steps to deport 75,000 Rohingiyas, Smriti Irani thunders

Chronicle

DECCAN CHRONICLE.
Published Nov 26, 2020, 

The Union minister castigated the ruling combine of the TRS and the MIM over the ‘hospitality’ to the Rohingyas, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis

Union minister smirti Irani addressing media in BJP state office in Hyderabad. (DC Image)

Hyderabad: The BJP gave further momentum to its highly successful and surcharged narrative setting campaign for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections, with a steady featuring of national leaders.

Union minister for textiles Smriti Irani on Wednesday further kept the pot boiling on the issue of illegal immigration in the Old City, sternly castigating the ruling combine of the TRS and the MIM over the ‘hospitality’ to the Rohingyas and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.

China’s hand seen in Myanmar’s insurgent group targeting India-backed Kaladan project

Hundustan Time

Rezaul H Laskar | Edited by Sparshita Saxena
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Updated: Oct 26, 2020,

File photo: Workers seen on the Indian side of the Kaladan project at Lawngtlai in Mizoram.(HT Photo)
 

 The Arakan Army, an insurgent group whose activities have severely affected the India-backed Kaladan multi-modal transport project in Myanmar, has benefited from the clandestine transfer and smuggling of Chinese-made weaponry, people familiar with developments said on Monday.

The group, designated a terrorist organisation by Naypyitaw, clashed with Myanmarese troops on nearly 600 occasions last year, and a majority of the skirmishes occurred in close proximity to the $480-million Kaladan project.

India Transfers Myanmar’s First Submarine Amid Tensions with China

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Blake Herzinger
October 27, 2020

he submarine acquisition fulfills a long-held ambition of the Myanmar Navy, but could prove costly in the long run.

The long-awaited transfer of a Russian-made Kilo-class submarine from India to Myanmar took place last week during Myanmar’s Bandoola fleet exercise. The submarine, UMS Min Ye Thein Kha Thu, a decades-old diesel boat, is only a single vessel but it has significance in Myanmar’s immediate neighborhood and is also indicative of the increasing strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific.

India to give submarine to Myanmar, sends strong message to China

Dhaka Tribune  

Anando Mostofa
October 16th, 2020

Kilo Class Type 636 INS Sindhurakshak. Soviet Kilo-Class submarines can sink just about anything Collected

The move comes as a part of India’s initiative to strengthen ties with Myanmar, according to political analysts

In an unprecedented move to provide military assistance to Myanmar, India is set to hand over INS Sindhuvir, a Kilo class attack submarine, to the Myanmar Navy. 

This will be the first submarine of Myanmar military, who are accused of systematic genocide against the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim community.

OP-ED: Bangladesh is being held hostage

Dhaka Tribune  

Anis Alamgir

October 12th, 2020

Abandoned by all BIGSTOCK

With little support from the international arena, what is the future of the Rohingya in Bangladesh?

On October 5, Vikram Doraiswami, the newly appointed Indian High Commissioner to the country, arrived in Bangladesh. He told reporters at the land port in Akhaura: “Bangladesh is one of India’s closest friends, and thus we are eager to continue and enhance our bilateral relationship with this neighbouring country.”

Beijing is now more interested in keeping Bangladesh as a development partner through the continuous effort of distancing Dhaka from Delhi. Recently, Sino-Indian relations with Bangladesh are looking great, but the reality is different.

Myanmar finds China-Pakistan nexus in arms supply to rebel group: Report

moneycontrol

Jul 18, 2020

Moneycontrol News @moneycontrolcom

 
The Arakan Army (AA), an insurgent group in the Rakhine state, reportedly placed an order for Chinese-made weapons. 

 

 

Myanmar has discovered a China-Pakistan nexus in the arms supply to two rebel groups in Rakhine after arrests by Thai authorities.

The groups allegedly targeted Indian infrastructure such as the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project, and are fuelling terror in Myanmar and Bangladesh, The Economic Times reported.

The Arakan Army (AA), an insurgent group in the Rakhine state, placed an order for Chinese-made weapons, a source told the publication.

China supplying funds, missiles and other sophisticated weaponry to terrorist group Arakan Army to weaken India and Myanmar: Report

OpIdia
2 July, 2020
OpIndia Staff

China had earlier this year, managed to bring in a huge consignment of weapons and ammunition through Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts to Myanmar. 

Arakan Army

 

News reports published in Myanmar recently have accused China of supplying sophisticated arms to Arakan Army armed group, a declared terrorist organisation in Myanmar, and other armed groups in Myanmar to have an upper hand over India and Myanmar.

According to military sources in Myanmar, approximately 95 per cent of Arakan Army funding comes from China. It further confirmed that the Arakan Army has approximately 50 MANPADS (Man-Portable Air Defense Systems) surface-to-air missiles. 

What a Friday Iftar looks like at a Delhi Rohingya refugee camp during lockdown

The Print
Manisha Mondal  
9 May, 2020

Refugees at a Rohingya camp in Delhi said they have to rely on fruit carts during lockdown, making this year's Ramzan an expensive, and nearly unaffordable affair. 

Eleven-year-old Sahida offers the Maghrib prayers in evening | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

New Delhi: Occurring in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, Ramzan this year looks nothing like it has before. 

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.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ျပည္ႏွင္ဒဏ္ေပးဖို႔ ဂ်မူးပါတီ ေတာင္းဆိုဆႏၵ ၿပ

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA ) 
 2020-01-05

 
■ အိႏၵိယနိုင္ငံေတာင္ပိုင္း ဂ်မူးၿမိဳ႕မွာ ေဒသခံ NPP ပါတီက ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ျမန္မာျပည္က ထြက္ေျပးလာတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ အပါအဝင္ တရားမဝင္ လာေရာက္ေနထိုင္သူေတြကို ျပည္ႏွင္ဒဏ္ေပးဖို႔ မေန႔က ဆႏၵၿပ ေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

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.

Nobody to claim them, 250 houses India gifted Myanmar for Rohingyas lie vacant

The Print
Nayanima Basu  
24 December, 2019


The 250 prefabricated houses were built as part of an agreement signed between India and Myanmar in 2017.

Refugees standing in a queue at a refugee camp | Commons 

New Delhi: As many as 250 houses that were built by India for displaced Rohingyas have been lying unused in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, ThePrint has learnt.

The prefabricated houses were handed over by Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Saurabh Kumar to the Myanmar government in July this year. The move was an effort to convince Rohingya refugees, who had to flee alleged ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, to return to their homeland.