{"id":30545,"date":"2018-10-26T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30545"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:10:01","slug":"cant-compare-sri-lanka-refugees-and-rohingya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cant-compare-sri-lanka-refugees-and-rohingya\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Can\u2019t compare Sri Lanka refugees and Rohingya\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/cant-compare-sri-lanka-refugees-and-rohingya\/article23274909.ece\"><strong>\u2018Can\u2019t compare Sri Lanka refugees and Rohingya\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, who fled the war in the island nation in the 1980s, stood on a \u201cdifferent footing\u201d from the Rohingyas who seek shelter from persecution in native Myanmar. Any comparison between the two is misconceived, the Centre has told the\u00a0Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Centre was responding to comparisons made by the Rohingya in the Supreme Court between their plight and the \u201crelief facilities\u201d given to the Sri Lankan Tamil refugees.<\/li>\n<li>The Rohingya have sought the same aid and the benevolence India had shown the Sri Lankan Tamils.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Centre\u2019s affidavit<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It explained that India reached out to the Sri Lankan Tamils on the basis of two Indo-Sri Lankan Agreements signed in 1964 and 1979.<\/li>\n<li>India had agreed to repatriate and grant Indian citizenship to six lakh persons of Indian origin \u201ctogether with their natural increase by 1981-82.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Supreme Court cannot direct the government to ensure that foreigners enter the territory of India<\/li>\n<li>The law mandates that a foreigner entering India should have a passport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Can\u2019t compare Sri Lanka refugees and Rohingya\u2019 What has happened? Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, who fled the war in the island nation in the 1980s, stood on a \u201cdifferent footing\u201d from the Rohingyas who seek shelter from persecution in native Myanmar. Any comparison between the two is misconceived, the Centre has told the\u00a0Supreme Court. Why?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cant-compare-sri-lanka-refugees-and-rohingya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Can\u2019t compare Sri Lanka refugees and Rohingya\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704804868},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}