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Rohingya refugees in India begging and crying: Where to go

18 April 2017

Arakan News Agency

A Rohingya refugee in the northern Indian state of Jammu complains about his condition in India, days after Indian protestors demanded the deportation of Rohingya refugees who fled injustice and persecution in Myanmar.
“We are here hungry and our children cannot find any food nor water to drink and they keep asking us where we go every day,” he said in the video, crying. “We are like someone who has lost their parents like orphans.
Another person appeared in the section talking and saying he did not know where to go after all countries refused to receive them and provide them with humanitarian support in response to an Indian man’s question.

The Indian authorities announced earlier this month that they plan to deport thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar also demolished a number of huts built by refugees in the state of Jammu in northern India, and Indian demonstrators came out last Friday to demand the deportation of these refugees from India, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has 14,000 registered Rohingyas in India, including 3,000 asylum-seekers also other 11,000 asylum seekers but the Indian government does not recognize them as refugees.

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