Published December 10,2024
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The Jammu and Kashmir authorities has requested the Indian authorities to determine the destiny of the Rohingya refugees residing within the restive area, however till such a choice is taken, the refugees must be handled with dignity.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who leads a authorities with restricted powers shaped after India scrapped the area’s autonomy in 2019, informed the media that the Indian authorities wants to handle the problem of Rohingya refugees with compassion and readability.
“The central government should decide what to do about them. If they can be sent back, they should be sent back. But if we cannot send them back, we cannot let them starve or freeze to death.”
“We did not bring them here. If the central government’s policy has changed, they can take them wherever they want. But as long as they are here, we are responsible for caring for them. They are human beings and must not be treated like animals,” Omar mentioned.
His remarks got here days after income officers within the Hindu-dominated Jammu province launched a crackdown on landlords renting out properties to Rohingya moreover reducing energy and electrical energy to just about 407 households.
According to Rohingya neighborhood leaders, almost 5,000-6,000 Rohingya dwell in shacks constructed on such rented properties in a number of clusters in Jammu. Local media stories mentioned almost 13,700 foreigners had been residing within the area, a lot of them Rohingya and Bangladeshis.
The refugees do a wide range of jobs within the unorganized sector, don’t obtain any official help and their kids examine principally in community-built non secular colleges as they can’t take admission to native colleges.
The area, comprising two predominant provinces of Kashmir and Jammu, has a historical past of hospitality in direction of refugees. More than 140 Tibetan Muslim households took refuge in Kashmir Valley after fleeing the Chinese crackdown on an rebellion in Tibet within the Nineteen Sixties. They dwell in two predominant clusters within the capital Srinagar and their numbers have grown since.
Similarly, hundreds of refugees fleeing the violence from West Pakistan through the partition of British India settled in Jammu, the place they had been granted the area’s residency after 2019.
But India’s Hindu rightwing has been hostile to Rohingya, usually clubbing them with unlawful Bangladeshi immigrants.
This hostility is very felt in Jammu, the place members of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party termed the “settlement of Rohingya and Bangladeshis in Jammu city a major political conspiracy” and demanded an investigation by India’s inner intelligence company, CBI, to establish “the people involved in facilitating their settlement.”
“It must be determined who brought and settled the Rohingya and Bangladeshis in Jammu, and stringent action, including prosecution and imprisonment, should be taken against them,” BJP chief spokesperson Sunil Sethi informed reporters on Monday.
He mentioned NGOs have performed a task in settling Rohingya within the area and known as for a probe into the sources of funding of those organizations.
Source: www.anews.com.tr