# Cities

Not a single Rohingya Muslim entered Mizoram: Minister

Mizoram Home Minister R Lalzirliana today said that the state government has not received any report of even a…

PTI | Aizawl | October 1, 2017 8:05 pm

Not a single Rohingya Muslim entered Mizoram: Minister

Mizoram Home Minister R Lalzirliana today said that the state government has not received any report of even a single Rohingya Muslim entering its soil till date.

The Centre had alerted the state government to beef up security in view of Rhingyas entering North Eastern states adjoining Myanmar in the wake of recent clashes between the Myanmar army and the Rohingyas.

Lalzirliana said that security forces guarding the borders were instructed to step up vigil along the Mizoram-Myanmar border and Mizoram-Bangladesh border.

The Assam Rifles intensified patrolling along the 404-km-long Mizoram-Myanmar international border and more troops were sent to the border areas.

Lalzirliana said it is unlikely that the Rohingyas would come to Mizoram as the community’s home state of Rakhine in Myanmar is quite far off.

Meanwhile, around 170 refugees from Myanmar’s Arakan, who entered Mizoram and took shelter in southern district of Lawngtlai, had returned recently.

The refugees had fled Arakan due to recent clashes between the Myanmar Army and the Arakan Liberation Army (ALA).

# Opinion

Rohingya Crisis

India’s handling of the influx of undocumented Rohingya Muslim and Christian Chin refugees who fled persecution in Myanmar is a complex issue that requires a balance between compassion and national interest.

# Opinion

They, the people

But there was hope that with the passage of time, the military would relax its grip and Myanmar’s democratic structures would gather strength. Certainly, there was hope that the vexed question of the Rohingya, deemed stateless in the nation they live in, would be resolved, substantially if not entirely satisfactorily.

# World

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