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The Jammu and Kashmir state police in India have detained more than 150 people belonging to the Rohingya ethnic group. A legal deportation process has begun. declares two Indian officials.
Rohingya in a camp in Jammu, India.
Several Rohingya are being held in a special section of the Hira Nagar prison in Jammu, northern India, waiting for local authorities to decide whether they have a legal basis to be in India, two told Reuters on Sunday. Indian officials. The two are not officially allowed to speak to the media.
– This is part of the task of locating foreigners living in Jammu without having the correct documents, says one of the officials.
– We have started a process to deport them.
The Rohingya have fled to India from Myanmar, where they have been persecuted. The Indian government, which has a Hindu and nationalist stance, views Rohingya Muslims as illegal immigrants and a security risk.
India also opposes the UN position that the Rohingya are threatened with retaliation if forced to return to Myanmar.
Many of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled their homeland are in Bangladesh, on the border with Myanmar.
Myanmar’s previous government, which was toppled in a military coup, has been charged with attempted genocide. The allegations were denied and the leadership has previously claimed that the military had to fight threats of revolt from the Rohingya.
