The U.N. says Rohingya Muslims are facing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. So why is India trying to kick them out too?
More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have streamed out of Myanmar in recent weeks, fleeing a bloody military crackdown that a top United Nations official described as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Yet that compassion doesn’t extend to minority Muslim sects that face persecution, such as the Hazara and Ahmadi communities of Pakistan, and Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh — leading critics to label the law anti-Muslim.The law follows a controversial citizens registry implemented this year in Assam, a state bordering Bangladesh that has a sizable migrant population.
Those fears fueled protests that began last week in Assam, where five people were fatally shot by police, and spread on Sunday to Jamia Millia Islamia, a historically Muslim university in New Delhi. The harsh police crackdown there sparked demonstrations at nearly 50 campuses nationwide., a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. “They’re worried about waking up one day in a country that no longer treats them as fully Indian.
SBengali Is this a Trump factor.
SBengali 'Critics say' discriminates against Muslims 🤦♀️
SBengali Is it that horrible considering Pakistan and India are battling in the Kashmir region till this day? Or that Pakistan had been housing the mastermind of the Mumbai attacks for years?
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