{"id":35620,"date":"2018-11-01T11:06:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35620"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:06:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:36:35","slug":"rights-groups-urge-india-to-honour-duty-to-rohingyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rights-groups-urge-india-to-honour-duty-to-rohingyas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights groups urge India to honour duty to Rohingyas:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/rights-groups-urge-india-to-honour-duty-on-rohingyas\/article19513126.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rights groups urge India to honour duty to Rohingyas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Days after the United Nations expressed concern over the government\u2019s plans to deport about 40,000 Rohingya immigrants from Myanmar, international human rights agencies Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called upon India to \u201cabide by international legal obligations\u201d and not force them to return, which they termed an \u201coutrageous\u201d move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rohingyas are the muslim minority community of Myanmar <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who fled to India after violence in the Western Rakhine State of Myanmar. Rohingyas refugees were mainly settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United Nations has expressed concern over the India\u2019s plans to deport about 40,000 Rohingya immigrants from Myanmar.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Human Rights Watch &amp; Amnesty International Concern:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International human rights agencies Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called upon India to \u201cabide by international legal obligations\u201d and not force them to return, which they termed an \u201coutrageous\u201d move.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human Rights Watch <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While India is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol, it is still bound by customary international law not to forcibly return any refugee to a place where they face a serious risk of persecution or threats to their life or freedom\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Amnesty International referred international principle of \u201cnon-refoulement\u201d adopted by the UN and stated that \u201cIndian authorities are well aware of the human rights violations Rohingya Muslims have had to face in Myanmar and it would be outrageous to abandon them to their fates\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, the Office of UN Secretary General had expressed concerns over the Indian Home Ministry statement on identifying and deporting Rohingyas, including about 16,500 who have been registered by the UN High Commission for Refugees in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>India\u2019s stand on immigration of Rohingyas<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is in discussions with the Myanmar and Bangladesh governments on the plans to deport Rohingyas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has stated that the government was planning to set up \u201cdetention centres\u201d for the refugees, and if required \u201cpush them back\u201d over the India-Myanmar border, if Myanmar refuses to accept the refugees back.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Parliament, Mr. Rijiju had said that the government has directed States to conduct surveys and prepare to deport Rohingyas in a \u201ccontinuous manner.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Home Ministry has issued an advisory to all State governments on August 8 and the state government were told that the \u201cpowers to identify and deport the foreign nationals staying illegally in the country\u201d delegated to them, and that they should \u201csensitise all law enforcement and intelligence agencies\u201d to the risk from Rohingyas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s decision is in step with the Myanmar government\u2019s decision to \u201cdisassociate itself\u201d from a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution in March this year proposed by the European Union and the United States to enquire into human rights abuses in Myanmar against the Muslim minority Rohingya community.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s decision to deport Rohingys of Mynamar is to check the infiltration from Rakhine State of Myanmar into Indian territory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The illegal immigration of Rohingyas community poses security challenges to India besides being burden on the limited resources of the country<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups urge India to honour duty to Rohingyas: Days after the United Nations expressed concern over the government\u2019s plans to deport about 40,000 Rohingya immigrants from Myanmar, international human rights agencies Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called upon India to \u201cabide by international legal obligations\u201d and not force them to return, which they&hellip; 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