India’s conflicting policy, Rakhine Buddhists allowed entering Mizoram
SAM Report, December 5, 2017
In a contradiction of its own policy, the Indian government has allowed over 1,300 tribal Buddhist refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine region to enter Mizoram. The refugees left their homeland because of the ongoing war between the Myanmarese Army and the Arakan Army, made up of Buddhist insurgents.
This comes nearly a month after the Union Home Ministry had directed the northeastern states to take strict measures to prevent Rohingyas — who are Muslims — from entering Indian territory despite persecution by the Myanmar regime.
The new group of refugees, belonging to the Chin and few other communities of Myanmar, have come to four villages in Lawngtlai district.
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According to sources in the Mizoram government, the administration is struggling hard to bring down the rising tensions among the refugees and the residents of Laitlang, Dumzautlang, Hmawngbuchhuah and Zochachhuah villages.
According to the state administration, the refugees are being taken care of on humanitarian grounds as all of them came to escape clashes back home.
“It’s been some six days since these refugees have arrived on Mizoram territory. They currently are in four villages of the Lawngtlai district and are put up at shelter homes, Buddhist homes, temples and many other places,” T. Arun, Deputy Commissioner of Lawngtlai, told IANS over the phone.
He emphasised that the security threat in such a situation cannot be denied.
“We basically have two rules — one relating to national security and other related to humanitarian assistance. Under the humanitarian rules we are providing food as we do not want any starvation deaths. We also have to guard against the outbreak of diseases,” said Arun.
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Additional police, health workers and doctors have also been deployed not just to keep a vigil on the new arrivals but also to keep a check on their health condition.
“The problem is that the population of each of the villages is just 200-400. The arrival of such a large number of people is a matter of serious concern,” said Arun.
Mizoram’s police chief emphasised that though they won’t immediately term the arrival of the refugees a security threat, they are waiting for the situation in Myanmar to normalise so that they could be sent back.
“We won’t call it a security threat at this juncture. They were alllowed into Indian territory due to the ongoing fighting in Myanmar. We are taking care of it and police forces are there. However, we are making sure there won’t be any problem for the villagers due to the refugees. They have been confined to the four villages,” Director General of Police Thianghlima Pachuau said.
The current crisis in Myanmar comes nearly two months after the Myanmar Army had launched operations against the Rohingyas in Rakhine province. While the conflict led to more than 600,000 Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh, the United Nations Human Rights Commission called the strike by the Myanmar Army “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”.
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The Indian government has taken measures, including asking the states in the region to seal their borders with Mayanmar, to prevent Rohingya refugees from entering the country.
Myanmar, the only Southeast Asian country which shares a 1,600-mile-long border with India, serves as its gateway to the other member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Four northeastern states — Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Manipur (398 km), Nagaland (215 km) and Mizoram (510 km) — have an unfenced border with Myanmar.
Experts on Indo-Myanmar relations see the current influx as a temporary matter that is different from the Rohingyas issue.
“This is an issue that has emerged in the last few months. The arrival of Buddhist refugees is certainly a matter of concern as it affects people on the Indian side as well. However, this is different from Rohingyas,” Khriezo Yhome, senior Research fellow at Observer Research Foundation and an expert on Indo-Myanmar affairs said.
According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees there are around 21,500 Rohingya refugees and asylum seekers in India. The central government, though, has sent a clear message that it would not be willing to accept them “because of security concerns”.
The Supreme Court on October 13 asked the Centre to strike a balance between national security, economic interests and humanitarian considerations with regard to Rohingya women, children, old, sick and infirm.
https://southasianmonitor.com/2017/...y-rakhine-buddhists-allowed-entering-mizoram/
Hindus don’t export cross border terror to other countries, Just tell me Why is it you find only terrorist activities from Muslims across the world. Have you heard of any Hindu or a Buddhist terrorist anywhere caught in the world?
Go through the below link.
http://asaa.asn.au/ethnic-violence-bangladesh-assault-minority-peoples-continues/
Kindly look into your house before pointing fingers at others. Go through most of the threads in the forum, who starts spitting venom & promoting hatred first. You are one of them who start thread after thread to spread hatred against India. Every other day you will find a Bangladeshi crying about India, you won’t find Indians starting hate threads against BD. Sort out your hate filled insane minds, it’s filled with cruelty. Buddhists are the most peaceful people in the world.
http://spicyroad.org/2017/04/26/the-unheard-voices-of-rohingya-refugees/
Noor Kalima, 11 years old. A second grade student. Born in Myanmar, Maung daw (township). Left Myanmar in 2012 with her parents. Has 2 sisters and 3 brothers. So total 6 Children including herself
Noor Begum, 41 years old, a housewife. Mother of 3 daughters and 2 sons. Left Myanmar with her husband along with her 2 daughters and 2 sons. Youngest daughter was born in this camp in 2014. Her husband is in daily labour. On his way to work, every morning he sends all the children to nearest primary school. I remember Noor always gave me a warm smile filled with grace
Ummeh Salima, 7 years old. Goes to school as grade 1st student. Left to India in 2011 along with her parents her 4 sisters and 2 brothers. She is a very happy, but also a shy girl. I remember always seeing her in a pink dress. Her father is a physical labour worker, hardly managing daily food.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...-pregnant-rohingya-women-170925103617656.html
Tania, the midwife, said Rohingya women are very weak because they have so many children.
"We have found many mothers with 7-14 children because they have no knowledge about family planning," she said.
A Burmese asylum seeker sobbed through a pre-sentencing hearing in the County Court in Melbourne after pleading guilty to marrying the girl at a Noble Park mosque last year.
Rohingya Muslim Groom Knowingly Flouted Australian Law, Married 14 year Child Bride in Mosque After Warnings. The man in his 30s cannot be named due to a court-issued suppression order to protect the identity of the high school student.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-...rriage-to-14yo-melbourne-girl-illegal/8964056
Jamal, 40, made a desperate journey from the Rakhine camp with a smuggler to reach Malaysia, leaving behind his wife and four children and the grave of his baby. He misses his family with a pain in his heart that does not go away, more than three years has gone by and he still waiting and hoping that his family is accepted in Malaysia.
http://www.epa.eu/feature-packages/archive/2017/stateless-rohingya-family
Jamal Husein and Noor Jahan walked from the burning remains of their village supporting their children Mohammad Shuku, now 16, Ruqayyah Baksh, now 14, Nabeel Hyseub, now 10 and Noor Rumki, now 7.
We don’t want such culture in our country, who only knows to breed like animals. Start from 13-14. By the time the woman turn 26-28 they already have minimum half a dozen & the breeding contest of her children will start. No country will accept such savages. We are fighting with our own uneducated people & all Muslims here with the same issue. Buddhists or most other educated & civilized woman start having their first child around 28-30 & they have 1 or 2 children & they will not breed & ask for a separate country tomorrow. Buddism is a Indian religion, not Islam. Why can't you take in your fellow Islamic brothers than blame others & cry at UN & to the world. Everybody knows the reality of Buddhists in BD & Muslims worldwide.
Don't bring our internal problems. Every country has problem with Muslims, be it Nepal, Srilanka, Myanmaar, Thailand, Russia or the entire west. The most peaceful countries in the world are countries which have less than 5% Muslims or no Muslims. And some of them are Buddhist countries. Eg; Bhutan. you can research it. You people have problem with Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Parsis, Atheists, Gays, etc. You cannott live with anyone, you will also kill each other & blame the whole world for it too. That's exactly what's happening in most Muslim countries. Have you forgotten East Pakistan. It is reality, whether you like it or not. Fix yourself, before talking about others. You can't talk the language of love, so you get back what you give.
Syria will be Partitioned by 2020 though a Muslim majority country, If I am not wrong.
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