The UN says around 409,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar and are now in neighbouring Bangladesh, living in camps under dire conditions. The UN has described the violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar as ethnic cleansing - a term that describes an organised effort to rid an area of an ethnic group by displacement, deportation or killing
After a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparked allegations of ethnic cleansing, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said today her country does not fear international scrutiny.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is at the 72nd annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York. She held a triateral meeting with US and Japan and met foreign ministers of Denmark, Latvia, Bhutan and Tunisia. Swaraj is scheduled to address the UNGA on 23 September and head back home a day after her address.
Regarded by the United Nations Human Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) as “one of the most persecuted, excluded and vulnerable communities” in the world, Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar living in Jammu are worried about an unusual situation that is threatening to rob them of their livelihood and their settlements, once again. Advocate Hunar Gupta – a member of the BJP’s legal cell and standing council of the central government – filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Division Bench of the High Court seeking identification and deportation of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis from Jammu.
