From Our News Desk: Eastern Chronicle 24 x 7, The 12th September, 2024.
Over 100 Muslims rohingya families with women and children from Myanmar, have been on Hunger Strikes since Monday to Protest at their indefinite detention at a camp in North eastern India.
More than one million of Rohingya refugees fled into the country from Myanmar, in 2017, when military crackdown in Myanmar. The refugees are simply denied from citizenship and from basic needs.
Rohingya Muslims, some Christians from Myanmar with their families, largely stayed in Matia refugees camp with refugees card issued by United Nation’s High Commissioner of Refugees(UNHCR).
Matia, in Assam state of North Eastern India, is the Largest Refugees Camp of the World. The camp is India’s Largest Detention Centre, for undocumented migrants, who Enter India Illegally.
“Many of them are finished their terms, but still stuck in detention. “
“here, conditions are not good, relatives can’t even visit to them. They just wanted to shift somewhere, want to be free”- a person said.
The protesters want to handed over to them to UNHCR, and resettlement them into a third country, as they written to Assam Government, seeking intervention.
“The refugees demands, they to be released, handed over to United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees”, but according to a most Senior bureaucrats of Assam Government told- ” The state government plan to give Prison, and interior government to plan to submit a report on that issue.
“Consistent with International Law And standards UNHCR takes the position that, the detention of asylum seekers should be an exceptional measure of last resort”- it said. The UNHCR on this issue is ready to talk to New Delhi, to address the situation.
The Rohingya suffers from inhumane health care facilities, Lack of Drinking waters, Lack of Drinking & Daily usages waters, inhumane treatment facilities, if felt in unhealthy conditions, suffering from any diseases.
The Burmese Rohingya Organization, urged New Delhi, to release refugees from detention, and saying their detention was a ” “Grave Injustice””.
