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India lambasted for deporting Rohingya refugees to Myanmar in violation of international law

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“The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya started in 2012 but at that time, not much of it was reported. So my family and I took asylum in India,” he said. The Rohingya community in India lives in a precarious situation, often encountering suspicion and harassment from police and residents. In 2021, the Indian government detained 270 … Read more

Rohingya refugee’s plight in Indonesia highlights challenges, dilemmas in humanitarian response

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Azizah’s mother was a victim of human trafficking when she met her future husband. “He had to buy her from her agent in order to free her from bondage,” Azizah said. Fake UN accounts spewing anti-refugee hate feed Indonesia’s Rohingya rejection Though exiled from their country of birth, her parents had big dreams of a … Read more