Approximately 10,500 Rohingya Muslims have taken shelter in India

[Skull and Bones]

Rohingya Muslims need a new nation even if its just a city. They have been victim of worst examppe of injustice and slaughtered like an animal. They surely deserves to live like a human

Did Hindus got a new state after the atrocities and massacre in 1971?

 

[BD_India_friend]

Did Hindus got a new state after the atrocities and massacre in 1971?

u already have west Bengal for bengali hindus. stop whining and crying

 

[lightoftruth]

Throw them out ,till then confine them to refugee camps with clear refugee status with proper surveillance.

 

[Hindustani78]

Guess which state some of them are in.....

They are coming from Burma which use to be part of India.

 

[abc123xyx]

argument is that India already does its duty, so where’s the need to sign this piece of paper? It mostly doesn’t even take UN money to look after the refugees.

As I said earlier we have no such obligation, we aren't signatory to UNHRC refugee treaty.

According to the UNHCR, there were 204,600 refugees, asylum seekers and “others of concern” in India in 2011. They were made up of 13,200 people from Afghanistan, 16,300 from Myanmar, 2,100 from various other countries and the two older populations of around 100,000 Tibetans and 73,000 Sri Lankan Tamils.

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[Star Wars]

Waste Bengal, not tough to guess.

Kashmir.........

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/in...efugees-find-safe-h-20141223163741968194.html

 

[Hindustani78]

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...of-rohingya-refugees-living-in-india-4464103/

A girl at the slums near Madanpur Khadar in Delhi. The slums are home to 57 families.
http://indianexpress.com/article/in...of-rohingya-refugees-living-in-india-4464103/

They are State-less, with Myanmar disowning them; they are dying, with 1,00,000 homeless; and they are forgotten, with the Muslim Rohingyas not an attractive cause for the world. Around 14,000 of them are registered refugees in India, eking out a living in slums, and, till lately, free of politics. The Sunday Express tells their stories of flight and hope.

On October 9, 2016, about 400 armed men attacked three Border Guard Posts on Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in the north-western state of Rakhine, home to 8,00,000 to 1 million Muslims who call themselves Rohingya. Nine policemen were killed; eight of the attackers lost their lives.

In Myanmar, the word Rohingya is taboo. The government terms them “Bengali,” the ethnic description deliberate, meant to drive home the national belief, and Buddhist Myanmar’s official position, that the Muslim minority in Rakhine, different from the country’s Burman Muslims, are recent migrants from Bangladesh, a charge that has been angrily rejected by Bangladesh. The country has also not recognised the Rohingya as among its 135 ethnic groups under its 1982 citizenship Act.

The last big displacement of the Rohingya was in 2012, when a large number of them arrived in India. The UNHCR says approximately 14,000 Rohingya are spread across six locations in India — Jammu, Nuh in Haryana’s Mewat district, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Chennai. It has given Refugee Status certificates to approximately 11,000 Rohingyas in India; the remaining 3,000 are “asylum seekers”. But more importantly, the Indian government has given Long Term Visas to 500 Rohingyas, which, an UNHCR official in Delhi says, will help them open bank accounts and secure admission in schools.

But India, wary of China’s influence in Myanmar, has made no official comment about the handling of the Rohingya crisis. Myanmar watchers say the Rohingya issue is a “complex” problem, but given the delicate geo-strategic balance, New Delhi would be “unwise” to make any pro-Rohingya statements, and can only “try and persuade” the Myanmar government to find a political resolution. The silence, however, hides a growing unease in India’s security establishment of the consequences, of the heavy-fisted military response by Myanmar, for the entire region.– Nirupama Subramanian

‘We don’t want to go to Bangladesh or Pak, both are equally violent. We are fine here’

Sona Miya, 30, a father of four, claims to have been among the first Rohingyas to arrive in Mewat. (Express Photo by Amit Mehra)

in Camp No. 2 of Haryana’s Mewat district, over 3,000 km from home.

There are six Rohingya camps in the district, all within a 1-km radius, set up on state government land. Taslima’s camp is the largest, with 108 families (327 people).

A senior police official believes their total number in Jammu may be around 7,000 to 8,000.

At Camp 6. The man, who didn’t give his name, hasn’t found work. (Express Photo by Sreenivas Janyala)

There are 3,200 Rohingyas living in 12 camps around Hyderabad, as per UNHCR figures.

A kilometre away from Kalindi Kunj, 65 Rohingya families live in a slum in Shaheen Bagh. It is not an official camp, and the over 300 Rohingyas here share space with migrant labourers from Bihar and Assam.

 

[nautilaceae]

Without a major power taking the lead, Rohingya crisis will continue to be ignored by the world. Aung Sang Su Ki is a total disgrace.

 

[Hindustani78]

http://zeenews.india.com/india/1370...r-settled-in-jammu-jk-government_1966397.html

Jammu:Over 13,700 foreigners, including Tibetans and Rohingyas Muslims from Myanmar, are settled in Jammu and Kashmir where the population of foreign nationals has increased by over 6,000 from 2008 to 2016.

As on January 6, 322 foreigners besides 13,433 Burmese and Tibetans are staying in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said in a written reply to a question by BJP MLA Rajesh Gupta in the state Assembly.

While 7,093 foreigners were staying in the state in 2008, the number increased to 12,560 in 2014 and 13,755 in 2016, she said.

Of these 5,743 people are Burmese nationals?(Rohingyas), 7,690 people are Tibetans and 322 are other foreigners, she said.

She said the foreign nationals have entered Jammu and Kashmir on their own. They are settled in Jammu and Samba district.

"No Rohingyas has been found involved in militancy- related incidents. Seventeen FIRs have been registered against 38 Rohingyas for various offences, including those relating to illegal border crossings," she said.


First Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 19:02

 

[Hindustani78]

A sense of security Nearly a hundred Rohingyas are settled in a tsunami rehabilitation centre near Chennai.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...suburb-home/article19194831.ece?homepage=true

With their children enrolled in a panchayat school and access to healthcare, the 19 families have blended into the community

Far away from their troubled villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Rohingya Muslim refugees have found an unlikely new home in the Chennai suburb of Kelambakkam.

Here, 94 of them — young and old, men and women — live in a decrepit building close to the sea, safe but uprooted from their traditional way of life, learning to adjust to an alien culture.

This little-known corner on the Kelambakkam-Vandalur road, close to a corporate hospital, hosts 19 families including 52 children. The open space surrounding the building is crowded with ramshackle sheds of wood, plastic and cloth. Fifteen refugees stay in these sheds, with one corner serving as a community kitchen for the whole group.

“We definitely need alternative accommodation, but we request the authorities to allow us to remain in Kelambakkam,” says Mohammad Yosuf, a 28-year-old with two children.

Most Rohingya residents use basic Hindi for communication though the children and a few adults, have picked up a smattering of Tamil. Rohingya,their mother tongue, does not have a script.

For almost two years now, the refugees have lived in the 35-year-old building. “This place has become familiar to us. You have a market nearby. A primary health centre is just across the road and all our children go to the Kelambakkam Panchayat Primary School, hardly half-a-kilometre away,” Mr. Yosuf explains.

He is delighted that all the children got free educational kits from the school.

What the Rohingyas appreciate the most is the safety of their environment. “If my neighbours find any child belonging to the camp alone on the road, they bring the child back to the camp,” Mr Yousuf says.

The young man collects and recycles waste for a living. Other men in the camp work at odd jobs in the many eateries that line the road or with butchers. The women in the camp do not go out for work.

It used to be impossible for the refugees to get driving licences, but sources say the policy has recently been changed and authorities have discretion to grant licences.

Issued Aadhaar cards

Most camp residents have Aadhaar cards but they do not have bank accounts. As a result, some of the refugees who send money home to parents and siblings in Myanmar resort to informal channels. In one case, it is routed through the border State of Manipur.

Mr. Yosuf and his family were forced out of Mungdaw town in Rakhine province of Myanmar in 2012. He and his younger brother recall the shooting when they were praying at a mosque and armed men drove away the people of his community. Those who fled got to Bangladesh by boat, and then reached Kolkata by road. “An agent put us on a train to Chennai,” he says for a sum of one lakh Kyat, the Myanmarese currency (about ₹4,800).

The Chennai office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is involved in resettling the Rohingyas, and has intervened to ensure them shelter. For about three years before they registered with the UNHCR, the refugees were scattered in and around Chennai. In 2015, the agency intervened and approached the Tamil Nadu government for support. Since then, Kelambakkam and its unremarkable building became their camp.

Long-stay visas

There are 14,000 Rohingyas registered with the UNHCR in India. The UN agency told The Hindu that refugees and asylum-seekers are registered through long-stay visas, “which, while legalising their stay in India, also eases their access to higher education and private sector jobs.” The registration process protects the vulnerable from “harassment, arbitrary arrest, detention, deportation, and facilitates employment and access to public services.” The visas, granted through the Kancheepuram Superintendent of Police and the UN agency’s facilitation, has helped them get Aadhaar numbers.

The UNHCR also supports the refugees “to the extent possible in collaboration with governmental, NGO and other partners. [The] UNHCR works closely with the government to ensure [that] refugees are able to live a life of dignity in asylum,” it said.

Mr. Yousuf and others turn nostalgic about Mungdaw. “So long as the Indian government wants us to be here, we will remain,” he says. The UNHCR tells them that there is no resettlement policy for Rohingyas. Would Mr. Yousuf like to go back? “Yes, but only after peace is established.”

 

[Logicaldude]

How do Rohingyas have adhar cards????? Or adhar cards are not exclusive to citizens?

 

[Hindustani78]

How do Rohingyas have adhar cards????? Or adhar cards are not exclusive to citizens?

Aadhar are identity cards even for refugees are being issued by Indian Establishment.

 

[Hindustani78]

Rohingya Muslim children study at a Madrasa run by Rohingyas at one of their settlement in Narwal locality of Jammu town.(HT Photo/Waseem Andrabi)
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...gya-muslims/story-lhk5mhZln1IJnxsnQ7MfVJ.html

India is in talks with Bangladesh and Myanmar about its plan to deport around 40,000 Rohingya Muslims it says are living in the country illegally, a government spokesman said on Friday, with state governments told to form task forces for the purpose.

Tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh since the early 1990s, with some of them then crossing over a porous border into Hindu-majority India.

New Delhi says only around 14,000 of the Rohingya living in India are registered with the UN refugee agency, making the rest illegal and liable to be sent back. India is not a signatory to UN conventions on refugees and no national law covers it.

“These things are being discussed at diplomatic level with both Bangladesh and Myanmar,” Interior Ministry spokesman K.S. Dhatwalia said.

“More clarity will emerge at an appropriate time.”

Junior Interior Minister Kiren Rijiju told parliament on Wednesday the federal government had directed state governments to “constitute task forces at district levels to identify and deport the illegally staying foreign nationals”.

Rijiju was in Myanmar recently to attend an event, although it was not clear if he discussed the Rohingya issue.

Officials in Myanmar could not be contacted immediately for comment.

Amnesty International has said deporting and abandoning the Rohingya would be “unconscionable”.

The Indian office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said it was “trying to find the facts” about New Delhi’s plans to deport them.

Rohingya are generally reviled in India, where its 1.3 billion people are fighting for resources and job opportunities. Nationalist, anti-Islamic sentiments have also fuelled hatred towards them.

More than 75,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Oct. 9 after an insurgent group called Harakah al-Yaqin attacked Myanmar border police posts, prompting a huge security crackdown in which troops have been accused of murder and rape of Rohingya civilians.

A senior government official in Bangladesh, which has complained of being burdened by the heavy flow of refugees, said New Delhi was helping it solve the crisis.

The Rohingya in India live mainly in Jammu, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi in the north, Hyderabad in the south, and Rajasthan in the west.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, drew widespread condemnation in April when it threatened to launch an “identify and kill movement” if the government did not deport Rohingya settlers there.

 

[Acknowledge]

We have no place for them. Deport them.

Rohingya Muslims need a new nation even if its just a city. They have been victim of worst examppe of injustice and slaughtered like an animal. They surely deserves to live like a human

They do. Just not in our country.

 

[Hindustani78]

We have no place for them. Deport them.


They do. Just not in our country.

Myanmar Establishment wants the territory but not the original owners of those territories.

Waisay that region is having oil and gas reserves .