{"id":35125,"date":"2018-10-31T15:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35125"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:51:19","slug":"bjp-states-tell-police-to-push-back-rohingya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bjp-states-tell-police-to-push-back-rohingya\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP States tell police to push back Rohingya:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/bjp-states-tell-police-to-push-back-rohingya\/article19695235.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BJP States tell police to push back Rohingya<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The refugee crisis in Myanmar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s security concerns with respect to the Rohingya muslims migrating to India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UN has called the crisis as a text-book example of ethnic cleansing<\/span><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Assam and Manipur have placed their forces on alert<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Centre is yet to spell out its stand on undocumented Rohingya.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, BJP-led State governments in Assam and Manipur have asked their police, especially in the border districts, to \u201cpush back anyone who tries to cross the border.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Front-line states<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Assam shares a 262-km border with Bangladesh, three other north-eastern States \u2014 Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland \u2014 are also front-line States.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Intelligence inputs<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources say the decisions by the State governments follow \u201cintelligence 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.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the Rohingya crisis?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rohingya \u2014 a minority Muslim community in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on the border with Bangladesh \u2014 have been forced to flee the country following periodic ethnic clashes and crackdown by Myanmar\u2019s Army.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rohingya are the world\u2019s largest stateless ethnic group. There are about a million of them, most of whom live in northern Rakhine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myanmar\u2019s government does not recognise them as citizens, which results in their legalised persecution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest bout of violence erupted last month, following an attack on a police post.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 3,00,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh since the August 25 crackdown on their settlements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UN has called the crisis as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP States tell police to push back Rohingya:\u00a0 Background: The refugee crisis in Myanmar. India\u2019s 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bjp-states-tell-police-to-push-back-rohingya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BJP States tell police to push back Rohingya:\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-35125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704751952},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125","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=35125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}