India detains Rohingya refugees and threatens to deport them to Myanmar
India detains Rohingya refugees and threatens to deport them to Myanmar Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jaipal Singh/EPA About 170 Rohingya refugees living in India have been rounded up into detention centres and told they will be forcibly deported back to Myanmar where they had previously fled genocidal human rights abuses. The mass detentions, which began in the city of Jammu in Kashmir over the weekend, are part of a wider nationwide crackdown against Rohingya Muslims, who number about 40,000 in India. Many hold registered U...
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