The Indian authorities intend to deport all Muslim refugees of the Rohingya people regardless of whether they have registration of the UN. About it reports Reuters.
Currently in India there are about 40 thousand Rohingya people, of which about 16.5 thousand certificates have been granted refugee of the UN. However, as has declared the Deputy Minister of internal Affairs Kieren Rijiju, the government considers that the fact of registration in the international organization does not affect anything.
“They continue the process of registration, we can’t stop them, the official said. — But we consider them all illegal immigrants. They have no reason to stay here. All illegal immigrants should be deported”.
Rohingya people — an ethnic group in Rakhine state in Myanmar. Its representatives consider themselves the indigenous population of the region, at the same time in Burmese society is widely believed that for the most part they were refugees from Bangladesh.
According to the UN, Rohingya is one of the most oppressed peoples in the world. After sectarian clashes in 2012 have been driven from their homes and forced to settle in spontaneous camps around 120 thousand representatives of this nation. They have been denied citizenship, they do not have access to medical care is limited in movement in the country. Themselves Rohingya claim that are persecuted due to the fact that practice Islam.