India issues deportation orders for 40,000 Rohingya refugees

Rohingya boy

The Indian government has issued deportation orders for 40,000 Rohingya refugees living in the country. The majority live in Jammu where they are being targeted by rightwing Hindu groups with links to the BJP, the ruling party of India. One group called the Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party had a billboard campaign calling for their expulsion & there have been vigilante attacks on Rohingya including physical assaults & torching their makeshift homes & scrap they collected to sell.

This little boy is a Rohingya refugee living in India. He has a right to human & refugee rights in whichever country his family seeks asylum.

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