India criticized for taking Rohingya girl to Myanmar

Police officials said on Thursday that a 14-year-old Rohingya Muslim girl has been taken to a border town in northeast India for deportation in Myanmar, with police officials saying that the UN refugee agency and rights groups have launched a new process to stop the process. Pressurized Delhi. The Rohingya, who have been deprived of citizenship in Myanmar, have lived in India for tens of years, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government considers them a security threat and has started taking them into custody

. Police have taken the girl to a border crossing in the state of Manipur, where paperwork was being finalized to send her back to Myanmar, a coup. She had been sheltered in the neighboring Indian state of Assam for more than a year, while her family lived as refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. “It is under process, Assam Police officer BL Meena told Reuters referring to his deportation. “It was predetermined.” The girl was cared for by Diba Roy, founder of the non-profit Nivedita Nari Sangha in Silchar city of Assam, after local authorities were informed that she did not have a family in Myanmar.

“But he was sent to Myanmar,” Roy said, adding that he received instructions from federal authorities to hand over the girl to the local police this week. “We have only obeyed the order.” India’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, opposed the deportation. A UNHCR spokesperson said, “The situation in Myanmar is not yet conducive to voluntary withdrawal in a safe, secure and permanent manner, and returning the child to Myanmar may put them at immediate risk of serious harm, A UNHCR spokesman said.

In the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, police detained more than 150 Rohingya refugees last month and began the process of sending them back to Myanmar. India is not a signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention and rejects a United Nations designation that deporting the Rohingya violates the principle of refugee – sending refugees back to a place where they are threatened. . Ho. . Ho. .