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.
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.
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.
Later, the World Health Organisation said one case was of a Rohingya man, and the other was of a local man who lived near the camp and was being treated at a clinic inside the area.
Bangladesh has in the past tried to restrict mobile phone access in the settlements. But the move was not enforced seriously, spawning booming markets of mobile phone sets and SIM cards in the camps.
The refugees gathered at the massive Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar district, carrying different banners and placards that sought dialogue with Myanmar authorities before they return home.
Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said: "We are enormously pleased that Myanmar has released our courageous reporters".
Locked up since 2017, the journalists, who received this year's Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, were freed on Tuesday morning after they received a presidential pardon earlier this week
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