India’s Handling of the Rohingya Crisis

Who are the Rohingyas?

• The Rohingyas are a group of refugees who fled from Myanmar to escape the discrimination, persecution and violence at the hands of the Burmese military.
• The largest of their exodus followed a massive wave of violence in the Rakhine state, in 2017. This was under the guise of counter-terror operations. According to the UNHCR (High Commissioner for Refugees), villages were burned down, thousands of families were murdered or separated from each other and large scale human rights violation took place.
• This forced over 700,000 people to flee to Bangladesh. Half of these people were children.
• Currently, there are over 980,000 refugees from Myanmar in the neighboring countries- including India and Bangladesh.
• Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar refugee camps are the largest and most densely populated refugee camps in the world.