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Rohingyas In Lanka Essay

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Rohingyas languishing behind the bar Suchismita Majumder Section I The category of ‘non-state persons’ has come into existence with the concept of citizenship, which on the one hand indicates certain rights, and on the other hand encourages the beginning of miseries for those who are deprived of it1. Being stateless the Rohingyas, a Muslim ethnic group of western Myanmar2, are treated with persecution, discrimination and exploitation in their homeland Rakhine3, formerly known as Arakan state for years. “Myanmar is a country, which was virtually under British colonial rule for more …show more content…

Though the exact number of these "infiltrators" is not known, it is estimated to be in the range of 20,000-25,000. The Rohingyas have spread into places like Delhi, Jammu, Noida, Mewat (Haryana), Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Aligarh, Hyderabad and Mumbai. In Delhi, they live in the slums of Kalindi Kunj, Khajuri, Nizamuddin and in neighbouring Noida. Their largest settlement is in Jammu, where around 2,300 Rohingyas live in subhuman conditions in makeshift tents.”24 On the other hand a steady influx of Rohingya Muslims into West Bengal via Bangladesh is causing concern. “A senior intelligence official told The Hindu that “more than one thousand” Rohingya refugees had been detained and sent to prisons in the State in the last six months. But the West Bengal government has no clear idea of the actual number of the undocumented immigrants who entered the State in the past few years.”

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