19/08/2022 - International Relations

KEY POINTS

·        The details showed that the Government had indeed been considering moving the Rohingya, who live on land donated by an Islamic charity, after their previous homes were burnt down.

·        In broader terms, the Rohingya housing issue seems to be an example of the clash between the government’s foreign policy commitments and its domestic politics.

·        The plan was to move the migrants from squalor to apartments built for the Economically Weaker Sections on the outskirts of Delhi, but that they would also be provided facilities and protection by the Delhi police  proof of how India had always welcomed refugees. 

·        The treatment of the Rohingya, who fled to India in 2012 and 2017 after state-sponsored ethnic cleansing, has also been far from the Government’s much-touted slogan of “ vasudhaiva kutumbakam”.

·        The Rohingya have been driven out of homes in Rajasthan and Haryana, stigmatised by local authorities and intelligence agencies who accuse them of criminal and even terrorist intent.

·        New Delhi has also failed thus far to play its role as a “Regional leader” in convincing Myanmar to provide its citizen’s homes and assurances of safety,

·        Also in brokering dialogue between Dhaka and Naypyidaw to ensure their return; about a million Rohingya live in Bangladesh, and an estimated 40,000 in India (Pakistan and Saudi Arabia house about 7,00,000 between them). 

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