Indo-Bangla Role In Tackling Rohingya Crisis

The exodus of the Rohingya Muslims is certain to have an adverse impact of equal magnitude on both India and Bangladesh. Even though it may not directly seem to be affecting India, but the future may not Be as rosy as it is now. While India is firm on pushing out the Rohingyas who are already ling in India, Bangladesh on the other hand has given refuge to 600,000 Rohingya that have arrived in Bangladesh since a military crackdown in Myanmar in August. While the country is taking up methods for curbing the population explosion of the Rohingyas, the Bangladeshi High Commissioner, however, called for a greater Indian role in containing the influx, saying “the issue may not be directly affecting India now, but it may have an impact in future”. Northeast Today reports

- NET Bureau

Indian government has been battling it out in the Supreme Court with lawyers representing Rohingya petitioners, as the government maintains its right to deport Rohingyas who may cross the border into India since the latest wave of violence and exodus broke in late August.

On October 3, a Supreme Court bench questioned that right. A subsequent hearing scheduled for October 13 has been deferred to November 21, but only after a three-judge bench delivered a lecture on the need to balance national security and human rights.

“Children and women do not know anything about it. As a constitutional court, we cannot be oblivious to it. We expect that the executive will not be oblivious to it,” the court maintained.