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GUWAHATI, India (AP) — More than half of the estimated 5,000 refugees who had fled the heavy fighting in Myanmar’s western Chin state and had entered northeastern India have begun returning ...
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) -India on Friday began deporting the first group of Myanmar refugees who sought shelter there after a military coup in 2021 and plans to send back more in the coming days ...
India on Thursday deported the first group of Myanmar refugees who had sought shelter after a 2021 military coup, a top state minister said, following weeks of efforts that were hampered by ...
In July 2023, there were an estimated 50,000 refugees who had fled to India. [33] These refugees reportedly include many ex-security forces. [34] Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah stated that the influx of Kuki people from Myanmar created insecurity amongst the Meitei people of Manipur and triggered the violence. According to ground reports ...
Tibetan refugee self-help center in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Since its independence in 1947, India has accepted various groups of refugees from neighbouring countries, including partition refugees from former British Indian territories that now constitute Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tibetan refugees that arrived in 1959, Chakma refugees from present day Bangladesh in early 1960s, other ...
Chin refugees have been leaving Burma for over four decades to escape persistent human rights abuses committed by the Burmese army. [2] Many experts believe that abuses became increasingly systematic and serious after the 1988 uprising in Burma, and this date does signal a growth in the numbers of refugees in India.
The refugees have been crossing over to India's northeastern state of Mizoram since Sunday when the fighting between the Myanmar military and the guerrillas of the Chin Defence Force intensified ...
On 20 January 2024, after more than 600 junta soldiers and refugees crossed the India–Myanmar border, the Government of India announced a plan to fence the entire border. [ 310 ] New conflict landscape (January 2024–May 2024)