{"id":34905,"date":"2018-10-31T14:21:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34905"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:51:05","slug":"the-rohingya-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-rohingya-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rohingya Threat:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/the-rohingya-threat-rohingya-crisis-muslims-myanmar-rakhine-bangladeh-kg-suresh-4862759\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rohingya Threat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myanmar\u2019s army claimed that it had discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 28 Hindus, including women and children, in violence-affected Rakhine state, blaming the killings on Muslim Rohingya militants.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is in the news?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Times Now revealed that about 300 Rohingya abducted 100 Hindus on August 25, eliminated 92 of them and forcibly converted the eight surviving women to Islam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 30,000 Hindus and Buddhists have been displaced by the violence.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What has posing threat to India\u2019s national security?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two back-to-back disclosures confirmed India\u2019s worst fears that Pakistan-based terror groups have infiltrated the Rohingya and pose a grave threat to national security.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inputs from security agencies indicate the involvement of some Rohingya in illegal activities including fund mobilisation through hawala channels, human trafficking and procurement of fake Indian identity documents.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rohingya with militant backgrounds have been found to be active as far as Jammu, Delhi, Mewat and Hyderabad.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intelligence inputs also indicate that the nefarious designs of the ISI and ISIS include not only using the Rohingya to stir communal violence and destabilise the Northeast but also a serious potential of violence by radicalised Rohingya against the country\u2019s Buddhist citizens.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What can be its consequences?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From a purely economic point of view, with its challenges of population and meeting their basic requirements, the country would be hard-pressed to handle such a major influx of illegal immigrants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pumping in more resources to cater to the illegal immigrants would only serve to deprive legitimate Indian citizens, which could result in social tensions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rohingya Threat:\u00a0 Context Myanmar\u2019s army claimed that it had discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 28 Hindus, including women and children, in violence-affected Rakhine state, blaming the killings on Muslim Rohingya militants. What is in the news? Times Now revealed that about 300 Rohingya abducted 100 Hindus on August 25, eliminated 92&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-rohingya-threat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rohingya Threat:\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-34905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816810},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905","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=34905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}