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| India says to deport all Rohingya regardless of UN registration |
| 2017-08-15 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] All of an estimated 40,000 Rohingya Moslems living in India are illegal im Junior interior minister Kiren Rijiju told parliament last week the central government had directed state authorities to identify and deport illegal im The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued identity cards to about 16,500 Rohingya in India that it says help them "prevent harassment, arbitrary arrests, detention and deportation". But Rijiju, a high-profile minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, said in an interview on the weekend that the UNHCR registration was irrelevant. "They are doing it, we can’t stop them from registering. But we are not signatory to the accord on refugees," he said. "As far as we are concerned they are all illegal im The UNHCR’s India office said on Monday the principle of non-refoulement ‐ or not sending back refugees to a place where they face danger ‐ was considered part of customary international law and binding on all states whether they have signed the Refugee Convention or not. The office said it had not received any official word about a plan to deport Rohingya refugees, and had not got any reports deportations were taking place. The treatment of the roughly one million Rohingya in Myanmar has emerged as its most contentious human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. issue as it makes a transition from decades of harsh military rule. |
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