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''Police in India's northeastern state of Tripura have arrested 31 Muslim Rohingya who were fleeing a recent crackdown by India's Hindu nationalist government.
The group, which included 16 children and six women, was arrested on Tuesday after it was denied entry into Bangladesh and border officials from the two nations failed to agree on what to do with them.India regards the Muslim-majority Rohingya as illegal aliens and a security risk and has ordered that tens of thousands of them who live in scattered settlements and slums around the country be identified and repatriated to Myanmar.
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Over 1,000 Rohingya flee India for Bangladesh fearing crackdown
As many as 1,300 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh from India in recent weeks as fears of deportation to Buddhist-majority Myanmar sparked an exodus...''
Source/publisher:
Aljazeera
Date of Publication:
2019-01-22
Date of entry:
2019-01-31
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- Individual Documents
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Geographic coverage:
- Myanmar
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Myanmar
Language:
English
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text
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- Good
