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Around 40,000 Rohingya refugees live in slums and detention camps across India, including Jammu, Hyderabad, Nuh, and Delhi, the majority of whom are undocumented. [1] 5,000 Rohingyas sought refuge in Jammu after the 2017 military crackdown against Rohingya Muslims.
The Rohingya people (/ r oʊ ˈ h ɪ n dʒ ə,-ɪ ŋ j ə /; Rohingya: 𐴌𐴗𐴥𐴝𐴙𐴚𐴒𐴙𐴝, romanized: ruáingga; IPA: [rʊˈɜi̯ɲ.ɟə]) or historically called Arakanese Indians [14] [15] are a stateless ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam [8] [16] [17] and reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Mohammad Salimullah v. Union of India (Writ Petition (Civil) 793 of 2017), is a petition challenging the deportation of Rohingya Muslims who had taken refuge in India to escape persecution in Myanmar. The court however, in an interim order rejected any relief and allowed their deportation subject to proper procedure being followed. [1] [2]
Fortunately, India’s progressive opposition is at last in a position to demand an end to the persecution of the Muslim refugees.
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.The genocide has consisted of two phases [3] [4] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. [5]
Currently, there are around 8,000 to 11,684 Afghan refugees in India, most of whom are Muslims and Sikhs. [37] [38] The Indian government has allowed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India to operate a programme for them. [39] In 2015, the Indian government granted citizenship to 4,300 Hindu and Sikh refugees.
A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia’s northernmost coast on Wednesday, according to local fishermen who rescued six people. The six, four women and two men ...
The following is a list of notable Rohingya people: Abu Dhar Azzam; Abul Khair; Anita Schug; Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi, leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army; Chit Lwin Ebrahim (born 1946) Fazal Ahmed (born 1941) Gani Markan; Jaivet Ealom; Jasmin Akter; M. A. Gaffar (1910–1966) Mohammad Hanif, creator of the Hanifi Rohingya script; Nay ...