Rohingya rights group seeks release of refugees on hunger strike in India’s detention camp
A Rohingya rights organization has urged the Indian government to release refugees who have been on hunger strike since Monday in a detention camp in the northeastern state of Assam.
India-based Rohingya Human Rights Initiative Director Sabbre Kyaw Min said many of the detained have U.N. refugee cards.
He said nearly 1,000 Rohingya refugees from Burma have been separated from their families and are being held in detention by Indian authorities.
Dozens of Rohingya refugees and members of the Chin ethnic group from Burma began a hunger strike on Monday at India’s biggest transit camp for illegal migrants in Matia, Goalpara district.
About 1.2 million Rohingya have been living in Bangladesh since August 2017, fleeing a severe military crackdown in Burma’s Rakhine state which some say was a genocide.
There are an estimated 40,000 Rohingya in India, dispersed across the country.
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