New Delhi: The United nations said officially that India cannot carry out collective expulsions or return people to a place where they risk torture or other serious violations, on Rohingyas who have fled violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, has said in a statement that he “criticize current measures in India to deport Rohingyas at a time of such violence against them in their country”, Some 40,000 Rohingyas have settled in India and 16,000 of them have received immigrant documentation,.
The Minister of State for Home Affairs Mr. Hussein has reportedly said that because India is not a signatory to the migrant Convention the country can distribute with international law on the matter, together with basic human compassion,” The minority Rohingya Muslim community has long been subjected to discrimination in mostly Buddhist Myanmar, which denies them citizenship, Attacks by Rohingya militants on Myanmar security forces in Rakhine on August 25 sparked harsh military punishment and an migration, Many have walked for days and the UN says many are sick, tired and in hopeless need of shelter, food and water.