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Rights groups slam India for deporting Rohingya woman to Myanmar

India's crackdown on Rohingya came less than two weeks after the US said Myanmar's military committed genocide against the Rohingya [File: Jaipal Singh/EPA]

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – The deportation of a 36-year-old Rohingya woman by Indian authorities and fresh detention of Rohingya refugees in Indian-administered Kashmir has been criticised by human rights groups, who called New Delhi’s forcible return of refugees a “cruel disregard for human life and international law”.

Hasina Begum, 36, who was detained on March 6, 2021, along with more than 100 other Rohingya refugees from Jammu city, was deported to Myanmar on March 22.

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