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Gurvinder Singh

India says new law saves persecuted refugees. Rohingya ask ‘Why not us?’

Rohingya live in India under constant threat of crackdown and deportation [Handout via Al Jazeera]

Kolkata, India – Muhammad Hamin has been unable to sleep at night since March 8 when the government of the northeast Indian state of Manipur ordered the deportation of Rohingya refugees.

On that day, the state’s Chief Minister N Biren Singh – who belongs to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – posted on X that his government had deported the first batch of eight refugees from a group of 77 members who had “entered India illegally”.

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