BJP States tell police to push back Rohingya: 

BJP States tell police to push back Rohingya

Background:

  • The refugee crisis in Myanmar.
  • India’s security concerns with respect to the Rohingya muslims migrating to India.
  • The UN has called the crisis as a text-book example of ethnic cleansing.

Assam and Manipur have placed their forces on alert

  • The Centre is yet to spell out its stand on undocumented Rohingya.
  • However, BJP-led State governments in Assam and Manipur have asked their police, especially in the border districts, to “push back anyone who tries to cross the border.”

Front-line states

  • While Assam shares a 262-km border with Bangladesh, three other north-eastern States — Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland — are also front-line States.

Intelligence inputs

  • Sources say the decisions by the State governments follow “intelligence inputs from the Centre that terror groups could use the refugee crisis to sneak in their members and pose a security challenge to the country.”

What is the Rohingya crisis?

  • The Rohingya — a minority Muslim community in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on the border with Bangladesh — have been forced to flee the country following periodic ethnic clashes and crackdown by Myanmar’s Army.
  • The Rohingya are the world’s largest stateless ethnic group. There are about a million of them, most of whom live in northern Rakhine.
  • Myanmar’s government does not recognise them as citizens, which results in their legalised persecution.
  • The latest bout of violence erupted last month, following an attack on a police post.
  • Around 3,00,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh since the August 25 crackdown on their settlements.
  • The UN has called the crisis as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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