Rohingya refugees in India are living with great concern for fear of being returned to Myanmar

Arakan News Agency
The Rohingya refugees in India are very concerned about their return to Myanmar following comments by Indian State Secretary of Home Affairs Kiran Rijiju last week about their deportation outside the Indian border.
Amina Khatun, a 24-year-old refugee in the capital, New Delhi, expressed concern that the media in India in the past few days had received reports of the government’s intention to return them to Myanmar.
“We had bad days in Arakan province, and then I had to come to India in 2012, and I was pregnant with a child. I would rather die in India than return to Myanmar,” Khatun said.
On the other hand, the refugee Ali Jawhar draws attention to the poor conditions he is suffering in the camp  in New Delhi after fleeing the violence in Myanmar, along with five members of his family in 2012 to India.
Despite the poor conditions of the camp, its atmosphere is likely to remain in India to return to Myanmar, indicating that local people are helping them.
The European Rohingya Council sent a letter earlier this week to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in which they expressed their hope that the issue of Rohingya in India would be addressed in a manner worthy of human values.
The President of the Council, Dr. Hla Kyaw, called for a halt to any plan to deport the Rohingya outside the Indian border.
About one million Rohingya Muslims live in camps in Arakan state after they were denied citizenship under a Myanmar-sanctioned law in 1982. They were also subjected to a series of massacres and displacements to become a persecuted minority among a majority of Buddhist and non-neutral governments.
The government considers Rohingya Muslims to be “illegal immigrants from Bangladesh”, while the United Nations classifies them as “the most persecuted religious minority in the world”.
With the outbreak of violence against the Rohingya in June 2012, tens of thousands of them began to migrate to neighboring countries, leaving them in the hands of traffickers.