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Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh while addressing a three-day workshop of General Financial rules in Jammu on Friday that Rohingyas living in Jammu and Kashmir will now be deported soon since the new Citizenship Amendment Act does not have benefit for them in it making it impossible for them to register as a citizen of India.
‘Its immediate implication would be in relation to Rohangiyas here. We have a sizable population of Rohingyas here. They have to go, he said.
It is said that the number of Rohingyas living in Jammu and Kashmir are 5,700 according to the government. However the United Nationals High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2017 suggested an estimated figure of 7,000 refugees in both the regions.
“They don’t belong to the three countries or any of the six minorities for which CAA has been constituted.They have come from Myanmar. They will not be able to secure a citizenship by any means,” he said.
The UNHRC has also registered and issued identity cards to a majority of Rohingyas living in Jammu and Kashmir to protect them from harassment and arbitrary arrests. Rohinagya, an ethnic Muslims are considered to be the most persecuted communities in the world who came to India in 2017 after being persecuted by Myanmar’s military regime ruled by predominantly US Baptists The Myanmar forces in 2016 started a major crackdown if Rohangya people in Rakhine State in the country after which the UN found evidence of wide-scale human rights violation, including extrajudicial killings, gang-rapes, arson of Rohagyan villages, businesses and schools.
The crises forced over a million Rohangyas to flee to neighbouring countries making it the largest exodus in Aasia after the Vietnam War.
Indian government has filed an affidavit in Supreme Court in 2017 describing Rohagiyas as ‘a security threat’ and has demand to deport all the 40,000 back to Myanmar.
