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http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...ck-rohingya/article19694238.ece?homepage=true
Assam and Manipur have placed their forces on alert
The Centre is yet to spell out its stand on undocumented Rohingya but BJP-led State governments in Assam and Manipur have asked their police, especially in the border districts, to “push back anyone who tries to cross the border.”
While Assam shares a 262 km border with Bangladesh, three other northeastern States — Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland — are also front-line States. The BJP governments in Assam and Manipur have issued “alerts to mount extra vigil in the border areas.”
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is believed to have conveyed to the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and top officials of the State police to “push back if any Rohingya family tried to cross over the Bangladesh border, seeking refuge.”
The Manipur government, led by BJP’s N. Biren Singh, too has instructed the police to crack down in borders towns like Moreh that routinely see brisk cross-border trading. It is not uncommon to find Myanmarese traders residing in these areas on a temporary basis.
Intelligence inputs
Sources say the decisions by the State governments follow “intelligence inputs from the Centre that terror groups could use the refugee crisis to sneak in their members and pose a security challenge to the country.”
The intelligence input was discussed at a recent security review meeting held by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Assam Chief Minister, however, refused to spell out his government's position. “It is not a State issue but a national issue and we will follow what the Centre decides,” said Mr. Sonowal, while confirming that “his government has mounted extra vigil on the Indo-Bangla border.”
The Rohingya — a minority Muslim community in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on the border with Bangladesh — have been forced to flee the country following periodic ethnic clashes and crackdown by Myanmar’s Army. The latest bout of violence erupted last month, following an attack on a police post.
Around 3,00,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh since the August 25 crackdown on their settlements.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...tells-dhaka/article19693743.ece?homepage=true
Caught in crossfire: A Rohingya girl looks from a house on the outskirts of Srinagar on Friday. She is a member of one of the 18 families from Myanmar living in Srinagar.
Delhi’s stand has shifted since last week, when the PM visited Naypyitaw
India on Friday sent another consignment of aid for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The relief was shipped just hours after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj telephoned Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, assuring her that New Delhi has been putting pressure on the Myanmar government to ease the situation, a senior official in Ms. Hasina’s office told The Hindu.
“India and Bangladesh’s stand is aligned over the Rohingya issue,” said Nazrul Islam, advisor to Ms. Hasina. “Ms. Swaraj said India would push Myanmar both bilaterally and multilaterally to take back their refugees.”
The MEA declined to comment on the External Affairs Minister’s conversation, but didn’t deny the Bangladesh Prime Minister’s office’s version of what was said. According to Mr. Islam, who spoke on the telephone from Dhaka, the call was arranged during a meeting with the Indian High Commissioner Harsh Shringla regarding relief arrangements.
Ms. Hasina is due to leave for New York this weekend to attend the UN General Assembly (UNGA), where she “could” meet Ms. Swaraj, the advisor said.
A senior MEA official told The Hindu that India and Bangladesh are “in close touch” over the issue, but that it was “too early” to say whether India and Bangladesh will present a united front at the UNGA, where Bangladesh has made it clear it will call for international pressure on Myanmar.
A cautious line
The telephone call brings into sharp focus India’s continuing dilemma of balancing its interests between two neighbours — Bangladesh and Myanmar — over the issue, which has seen Delhi shift its position several times since last Thursday, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Myanmar for talks with State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi. In the joint statement that followed, the wording on the Rohingya crisis reflected only India’s support to Myanmar in fighting terrorists. However, two days later, after interventions by the Bangladesh government, a visit to the refugee camp by Mr. Shringla, and a stern statement from the UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Hussain, the MEA issued another statement, expressing concern about the refugees.
“Myanmar has every right to fight terror within their country, but their terror problem cannot become India’s refugee problem, which it will, if Bangladesh is unable to cope with it, ” said the senior MEA official.
Deportation row
Adding to the complications for the MEA is the Ministry of Home Affairs’s move to deport 40,000 Rohingyas who fled to India during violence in 2012. The UNHRC has criticised the move and the Supreme Court will deliberate on it on September 18.
The MHA’s move has been particularly perplexing, as it has been unable to explain where the Rohingyas would be deported to, given that Myanmar has reportedly mined its borders to ensure they cannot return, and Bangladesh is filled to capacity with more than 800,000 refugees already. Myanmar refuses to accept around 1.3 million Rohingya that lived in its Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh, as Myanmar citizens, and consequently, has refused to allow about 5,00,000 that fled earlier and 4,00,000 more that have fled in the last few weeks, to return.
Meanwhile India has launched operation Insaniyat (Humanity), demonstrating as it said in its reply to the UNHRC that criticised the deportation plan, that the concern for India’s national security does not mean a “lack of compassion”.
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Kolkata, September 15, 2017 21:19 IST
Updated: September 15, 2017 22:41 IST
Indian aid being being handed over to officials in Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...bangladesh-rohingya-camps/article19693737.ece
Packs contain food grains, cooking oil, soap and mosquito nets
Three government departments have collaborated in the last 48 hours to dispatch one of the largest relief consignments to southeast Bangladesh for the refugees streaming in from violence-hit Myanmar.
More than a hundred metric tonnes of relief material have already been dispatched, said a senior official of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED).
Officials of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the Indian Air Force (IAF) and NAFED are working round the clock to dispatch food materials, mosquito nets and soap to the camps.
“We have so far dispatched 110 metric tonnes of material marked for 8,000 families. We expect to reach about 70,000 families,” said Rohit Jaiman, a senior official of NAFED in Delhi.
Family packs
Food grains, pulses, sugar, salt, cooking oil, tea, milk powder, biscuits and noodles were put together in jute bags, with ‘Gift from People of India’ stitched on it. Each small jute pack contains food grains, besides soaps and a mosquito net.
“The first two consignments of 22,000 jute bags were supplied from Kolkata,” the MEA official said.
A C-17 aircraft, the IAF’s transport workhorse, carried the relief material to southeast Bangladesh, where reportedly more than one hundred thousand Rohingya refugees have arrived since the fresh spell of violence broke out on August 25.
“But that is the position. We would like Bangladesh to deal with the situation and we can provide relief on the basis of the request of the Bangladesh government as at least half a dozen countries are doing,” a senior central government official said.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sushma-calls-hasina/article19694834.ece
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called up Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday and told her that New Delhi was putting pressure on the Myanmar government to ease the situation, a senior official in Ms. Hasina’s office said. “India’s and Bangladesh’s stand is aligned over the issue,” said Nazrul Islam, adviser to Ms. Hasina. “Ms. Swaraj said India would push Myanmar bilaterally and multilaterally to take back the refugees.” The MEA declined to comment on the Minister’s conversation.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/633284/govt-should-see-rohingyas-refugees.html
If refugees from Tibet,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka can stay in India, why not the Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has said.
He also cited the case of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who has taken shelter in India for over a decade now following threats from Islamic fundamentalists in her country.
Attacking the NDA government over its stance on Rohingyas, who are fleeing Myanmar's violence-hit Rakhine state, he said, "Is it humane that you want to send back those who have lost everything. This is wrong."
If Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen can take shelter in India, why not the Rohingya Muslims? he asked while addressing a gathering here late last night.
"When Taslima Nasreen became your sister, can't Rohingya become your brother, Mr Modi," Owaisi, the Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad, said.
The BJP government at the centre should not see the Rohingyas as Muslims but as refugees, he maintained.
"We want to tell the BJP government, don't look at them as Muslims. They are refugees," he said.
"India gave shelter to refugees from Tibet, those from Sri Lanka and Chakma refugees from Bangladesh," Owaisi said.
"When it was told that they (Lankan refugees) are taking part in terror, what was done? They were shifted from one camp to another," the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader alleged.
The Constitution of India gives right to equality and that applies to refugees as well, Owaisi said.
"The BJP government says we will send all Rohingyas back. We want to ask the Indian prime minister, under which law you will send them back, which law?" he asked.
Assam and Manipur have placed their forces on alert
The Centre is yet to spell out its stand on undocumented Rohingya but BJP-led State governments in Assam and Manipur have asked their police, especially in the border districts, to “push back anyone who tries to cross the border.”
While Assam shares a 262 km border with Bangladesh, three other northeastern States — Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland — are also front-line States. The BJP governments in Assam and Manipur have issued “alerts to mount extra vigil in the border areas.”
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is believed to have conveyed to the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and top officials of the State police to “push back if any Rohingya family tried to cross over the Bangladesh border, seeking refuge.”
The Manipur government, led by BJP’s N. Biren Singh, too has instructed the police to crack down in borders towns like Moreh that routinely see brisk cross-border trading. It is not uncommon to find Myanmarese traders residing in these areas on a temporary basis.
Intelligence inputs
Sources say the decisions by the State governments follow “intelligence inputs from the Centre that terror groups could use the refugee crisis to sneak in their members and pose a security challenge to the country.”
The intelligence input was discussed at a recent security review meeting held by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Assam Chief Minister, however, refused to spell out his government's position. “It is not a State issue but a national issue and we will follow what the Centre decides,” said Mr. Sonowal, while confirming that “his government has mounted extra vigil on the Indo-Bangla border.”
The Rohingya — a minority Muslim community in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on the border with Bangladesh — have been forced to flee the country following periodic ethnic clashes and crackdown by Myanmar’s Army. The latest bout of violence erupted last month, following an attack on a police post.
Around 3,00,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh since the August 25 crackdown on their settlements.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...tells-dhaka/article19693743.ece?homepage=true
Caught in crossfire: A Rohingya girl looks from a house on the outskirts of Srinagar on Friday. She is a member of one of the 18 families from Myanmar living in Srinagar.
Delhi’s stand has shifted since last week, when the PM visited Naypyitaw
India on Friday sent another consignment of aid for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The relief was shipped just hours after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj telephoned Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, assuring her that New Delhi has been putting pressure on the Myanmar government to ease the situation, a senior official in Ms. Hasina’s office told The Hindu.
“India and Bangladesh’s stand is aligned over the Rohingya issue,” said Nazrul Islam, advisor to Ms. Hasina. “Ms. Swaraj said India would push Myanmar both bilaterally and multilaterally to take back their refugees.”
The MEA declined to comment on the External Affairs Minister’s conversation, but didn’t deny the Bangladesh Prime Minister’s office’s version of what was said. According to Mr. Islam, who spoke on the telephone from Dhaka, the call was arranged during a meeting with the Indian High Commissioner Harsh Shringla regarding relief arrangements.
Ms. Hasina is due to leave for New York this weekend to attend the UN General Assembly (UNGA), where she “could” meet Ms. Swaraj, the advisor said.
A senior MEA official told The Hindu that India and Bangladesh are “in close touch” over the issue, but that it was “too early” to say whether India and Bangladesh will present a united front at the UNGA, where Bangladesh has made it clear it will call for international pressure on Myanmar.
A cautious line
The telephone call brings into sharp focus India’s continuing dilemma of balancing its interests between two neighbours — Bangladesh and Myanmar — over the issue, which has seen Delhi shift its position several times since last Thursday, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Myanmar for talks with State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi. In the joint statement that followed, the wording on the Rohingya crisis reflected only India’s support to Myanmar in fighting terrorists. However, two days later, after interventions by the Bangladesh government, a visit to the refugee camp by Mr. Shringla, and a stern statement from the UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Hussain, the MEA issued another statement, expressing concern about the refugees.
“Myanmar has every right to fight terror within their country, but their terror problem cannot become India’s refugee problem, which it will, if Bangladesh is unable to cope with it, ” said the senior MEA official.
Deportation row
Adding to the complications for the MEA is the Ministry of Home Affairs’s move to deport 40,000 Rohingyas who fled to India during violence in 2012. The UNHRC has criticised the move and the Supreme Court will deliberate on it on September 18.
The MHA’s move has been particularly perplexing, as it has been unable to explain where the Rohingyas would be deported to, given that Myanmar has reportedly mined its borders to ensure they cannot return, and Bangladesh is filled to capacity with more than 800,000 refugees already. Myanmar refuses to accept around 1.3 million Rohingya that lived in its Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh, as Myanmar citizens, and consequently, has refused to allow about 5,00,000 that fled earlier and 4,00,000 more that have fled in the last few weeks, to return.
Meanwhile India has launched operation Insaniyat (Humanity), demonstrating as it said in its reply to the UNHRC that criticised the deportation plan, that the concern for India’s national security does not mean a “lack of compassion”.
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Kolkata, September 15, 2017 21:19 IST
Updated: September 15, 2017 22:41 IST
Indian aid being being handed over to officials in Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...bangladesh-rohingya-camps/article19693737.ece
Packs contain food grains, cooking oil, soap and mosquito nets
Three government departments have collaborated in the last 48 hours to dispatch one of the largest relief consignments to southeast Bangladesh for the refugees streaming in from violence-hit Myanmar.
More than a hundred metric tonnes of relief material have already been dispatched, said a senior official of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED).
Officials of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the Indian Air Force (IAF) and NAFED are working round the clock to dispatch food materials, mosquito nets and soap to the camps.
“We have so far dispatched 110 metric tonnes of material marked for 8,000 families. We expect to reach about 70,000 families,” said Rohit Jaiman, a senior official of NAFED in Delhi.
Family packs
Food grains, pulses, sugar, salt, cooking oil, tea, milk powder, biscuits and noodles were put together in jute bags, with ‘Gift from People of India’ stitched on it. Each small jute pack contains food grains, besides soaps and a mosquito net.
“The first two consignments of 22,000 jute bags were supplied from Kolkata,” the MEA official said.
A C-17 aircraft, the IAF’s transport workhorse, carried the relief material to southeast Bangladesh, where reportedly more than one hundred thousand Rohingya refugees have arrived since the fresh spell of violence broke out on August 25.
“But that is the position. We would like Bangladesh to deal with the situation and we can provide relief on the basis of the request of the Bangladesh government as at least half a dozen countries are doing,” a senior central government official said.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sushma-calls-hasina/article19694834.ece
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called up Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday and told her that New Delhi was putting pressure on the Myanmar government to ease the situation, a senior official in Ms. Hasina’s office said. “India’s and Bangladesh’s stand is aligned over the issue,” said Nazrul Islam, adviser to Ms. Hasina. “Ms. Swaraj said India would push Myanmar bilaterally and multilaterally to take back the refugees.” The MEA declined to comment on the Minister’s conversation.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/633284/govt-should-see-rohingyas-refugees.html
If refugees from Tibet,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka can stay in India, why not the Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has said.
He also cited the case of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who has taken shelter in India for over a decade now following threats from Islamic fundamentalists in her country.
Attacking the NDA government over its stance on Rohingyas, who are fleeing Myanmar's violence-hit Rakhine state, he said, "Is it humane that you want to send back those who have lost everything. This is wrong."
If Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen can take shelter in India, why not the Rohingya Muslims? he asked while addressing a gathering here late last night.
"When Taslima Nasreen became your sister, can't Rohingya become your brother, Mr Modi," Owaisi, the Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad, said.
The BJP government at the centre should not see the Rohingyas as Muslims but as refugees, he maintained.
"We want to tell the BJP government, don't look at them as Muslims. They are refugees," he said.
"India gave shelter to refugees from Tibet, those from Sri Lanka and Chakma refugees from Bangladesh," Owaisi said.
"When it was told that they (Lankan refugees) are taking part in terror, what was done? They were shifted from one camp to another," the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader alleged.
The Constitution of India gives right to equality and that applies to refugees as well, Owaisi said.
"The BJP government says we will send all Rohingyas back. We want to ask the Indian prime minister, under which law you will send them back, which law?" he asked.