BJP States tell police to push back Rohingya: 

BJP States tell police to push back Rohingya: 

Background:

• The refugee crisis in Myanmar.
• India’s security concerns with respect to the Rohingya muslims migrating to India.
• The UN has called the crisis as a text-book example of ethnic cleansing.

Assam and Manipur have placed their forces on alert

• The Centre is yet to spell out its stand on undocumented Rohingya.
• However, BJP-led State governments in Assam and Manipur have asked their police, especially in the border districts, to “push back anyone who tries to cross the border.”

Front-line states

• While Assam shares a 262-km border with Bangladesh, three other north-eastern States — Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland — are also front-line States.

Intelligence inputs

• Sources say the decisions by the State governments follow “intelligence inputs from the Centre that terror groups could use the refugee crisis to sneak in their members and pose a security challenge to the country.”

What is the Rohingya crisis?

• The Rohingya — a minority Muslim community in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on the border with Bangladesh — have been forced to flee the country following periodic ethnic clashes and crackdown by Myanmar’s Army.
• The Rohingya are the world’s largest stateless ethnic group. There are about a million of them, most of whom live in northern Rakhine.
• Myanmar’s government does not recognise them as citizens, which results in their legalised persecution.
• The latest bout of violence erupted last month, following an attack on a police post.
• Around 3,00,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh since the August 25 crackdown on their settlements.
• The UN has called the crisis as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.