India and the Myanmar crisis: Death of Justice, Death of Morality
After alienating the people of India’s north east, the BJP regime’s violative policy Myanmaar refugees threatens to alienate the country from neighbours to our east, apart from violating our time-tested, human rights and humanitarian driven approach towards asylum-seekers
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In 1939, M.S. St. Louis, a German ship carrying 937 Jews trying to flee Third Reich called at many ports in Cuba, the USA and Canada seeking refuge. They were turned down by immigration authorities in Cuba, the US and Canada. Twenty four days after it left the shores of Europe, M.S. St. Louis returned to Europe. The world’s refusal of the St. Louis’ desperate refugees was a death sentence for 254 refugees. Many that didn't die were interned in concentration camps. In 2012, the US Department of State formally apologised to the survivors of the ship. In 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau followed suit.