Tripura police detain Rohingya migrant

THE NORTHEAST TODAY

TNT Bureau
AGARTALA:
18 Mar, 2021 ,

Tripura police, on Tuesday, detained a Rohingya migrant while he was returning to Delhi after visiting his mother in Bangladesh.

The Rohingya migrant has been identified as Sona Mia from Myanmar.

According to the police, Mia left his country and fled to Bangladesh in 2009. In 2010, he entered India through the Malda district of West Bengal.

Mia was living in Delhi for the past 11 years and had set up a small business with a Rohingya group.

Rohingya youth lands in Tripura jail on his way to Delhi

THE NORTH EAST AFFAIRS

NEA News Service
March 17, 2021

The accused was identified as Sona Mian (40) has been doing business in New Delhi for over a decade and his family is living in Chittagong of South Bangladesh.

Agartala: A local court of Sepahijala district in West Tripura has sent a Rohingya youth to jail yesterday for illegally crossing the border from Bangladesh.

The accused was identified as Sona Mian (40) has been doing business in New Delhi for over a decade and his family is living in Chittagong of South Bangladesh.

‘Death sentence awaits us’: Coup-hit Myanmar officers in India

AlJazeera
Sadiq Naqvi
17 Mar 2021

  Dozens of Myanmar police officers and citizens who fled February 1 coup to India now face an uncertain future and fear for their families back home.

Kunga (name changed) at an undisclosed location in Mizoram where Myanmar citizens are taking shelter [Sadiq Naqvi/Al Jazeera]

Mizoram, India – Weeks after the February 1 military coup in Myanmar, Kunga, a 24-year-old low-ranking member of the Myanmar army, was ordered a new set of duties: to spy on the civil disobedience movement (CDM) protesters in Tonzang town of Chin state.

Soon after, he deserted the military, joined the CDM and escaped to neighbouring India.

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Kunga is among dozens of Myanmar security officials and citizens who have escaped to the northeastern parts of India amid a military crackdown on anti-coup protesters. Reports say at least 180 people have died in the violence in Myanmar.

Rohingyas worst victims of state terror, deserve humanitarian approach: Anjuman Sharie Shian

News Desk
11 Mar 2021

J-K Anjuman Sharie Shian has urged the state and central government to take a humanitarian look at the Rohingya issue who are the worst victims of state terror of Burma .

In a statement, J-K Anjuman Sharie Shain’s Aga Syed Mujtaba Abbas Mosavi said the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis is epitome of inhuman approach of the forcible displacement of Muslim Myanmar nationals from the Arrakkan and Rakhine state of Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand in 2015, collectively dubbed “boat people” by sane voices .

Dozens of Rohingya camping outside UNHCR office in India detained

Aljazeera
Bilal Kuchay
11 Mar 2021

At least 88 Rohingya detained in New Delhi while camping outside the UN refugee body’s office in second such move in a week.

Rahima Kato, a Rohingya woman, displays identity cards of her family members issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at their makeshift camp on the outskirts of Jammu [File: Channi Anand/AP]

New Delhi, India – Dozens of Rohingya refugees have been detained while they were camping outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the Indian capital, New Delhi – the second such move in a week.

“A total of 88 people have been detained,” an officer at Vikaspuri police station in the capital’s southwest told Al Jazeera over telephone on Thursday.

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.

Panic grips displaced Rohingyas in Jammu

THE HINDU

Peerzada Ashiq
JAMMU, MARCH 07, 2021

SecSecurity personnel stand guard outside the central jail in Srinagar. File | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD

150 immigrants rounded up during “verification drive”

Panic gripped the displaced Rohingya population in Jammu on Sunday, a day after the J&K administration rounded up over 150 immigrants as part of “a verification process”.

“We will go one day. It’s just that the situation in Myanmar is not safe for us. The police are summoning our people [in Jammu]. Thirteen men who were asked to visit the police stations on Saturday have not returned,” Salamtullah, a Rohingya Muslim who escaped the genocide in Myanmar between 2016-17, said.

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.