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Sunday, February 18, 2018

India and Bangladeshi Refugees

Imagine No Country Claims You, and Your Own Country Wants to Throw You Into the Sea’
Rohini Mohan
Rohingya refugees in India are trying to make a better life for themselves while fighting the threat of deportation. The Indian government directly shelters and assists over 100,000 Tibetan refugees and 64,000 Sri Lankans, and the UNHCR has registered nearly 36,500 refugees and asylum seekers in India, mainly from Afghanistan and Myanmar, and in smaller numbers from Africa and the Middle East. So why is the 1.2 billion-strong Indian state terror-stricken about 16,500 – or 40,000, as the government claims – Rohingya?

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