Amnesty slams India for deporting Rohingyas to Myanmar
NEW DELHI: Amnesty International on Monday accused India of disregarding international law after a Rohingya family was deported to Myanmar where the military is accused of genocide against the stateless Muslim minority.
The family of five, who had been in prison in India´s northeastern Assam state since 2013, was handed over to Myanmar authorities on Thursday, the second such deportation in just months after seven men were returned in October.
The United Nations expressed concern over the forcible repatriation of the Rohingya while rights groups warned New Delhi was putting the community at serious risk by returning them to Myanmar, where for decades the minority has been targeted in violent pogrommes by security forces. The Rohingya are despised by many in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, which refuses to recognise them as citizens and falsely labels them "Bengali" illegal immigrants.
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