'Seven Rohingyas Deported to Myanmar Will be Killed Soon'


Published: October 7, 2018 6:37 AM IST
By India.com News
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New Delhi: Rohingya refugees staying at a camp in the national capital have requested the Narendra Modi-led Central government not to deport them to Myanmar as they fear for their lives. Claiming that they don’t want to return to their country until there is peace, one of them claimed that the ‘seven Rohingyas who were deported will be killed very soon‘.

The statement by Rohingya refugees staying at Kalindi Kunj camp reportedly came two days after India on Thursday, for the first time, deported seven Rohingya immigrants, who were staying in Assam illegally, to their country of origin Myanmar.
“We just request Indian govt to let us stay here until there is peace in our country. Seven Rohingyas who were deported will be killed very soon,” a Rohingya was quoted as saying.The illegal immigrants, who were deported to Myanmar by India on October 4, were detained in 2012 and since then they had been lodged in Cachar Central Jail in Assam’s Silchar. They were apprehended on July 29, 2012, for violating the Foreigners Act.
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Those who were deported are – Md Jamal, Mohbul Khan, Jamal Hussain, Md Yonus, Sabir Ahmed, Rahim Uddin and Md Salam and are in the age bracket of 26-32 years.
The Indian government had informed Parliament last year that over 14,000 Rohingya people, registered with the UN refugee agency UNHCR, stay in India. However, aid agencies estimate there are about 40,000 Rohingya people in the country.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, described by the UN as the most persecuted minority in the world, fled their homes last year to escape an alleged crackdown by the Myanmarese military.
Human rights group Amnesty International has blamed Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and the country’s government for “burying their heads in the sand over the horrors unfolding in Rakhine State”.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah on October 6 said that for the party country comes and no intruder will be allowed to stay in India. Slamming the Congress party, Amit Shah said that the grand-old party supports the intruders for political gains but for the BJP the  country comes first. “This is why the intruders are being identified in several states across the country,” he said.
While addressing a public rally at Gangapur in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district, the BJP chief had termed Bangladeshi migrants as termites and said that they will be struck off the voters’ list.

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