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Indian police continue what the Myanmar military started: the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya population. Rohingya refugees in India are left with no safe place as India’s notoriously Islamophobic police is persecuting the refugees in Indian-occupied Kashmir, leaving many fearing arrest after a series of police raids targeted locals sheltering Rohingya refugees in the Bathindi area of Jammu city, Kashmir. Police conducted raids in at least 29 locations, confiscating documents and investigating those who have assisted the refugees according to media reports.
According to official data, there are around 13,700 refugees who have settled in the region, mainly Muslims from Bangladesh and Rohingyas from Myanmar. The authorities have claimed that many of the Rohingyas have entered the region through Bangladesh without documentation. Jammu police arrested 50 people following the raids while 10 Rohingyas and Bangladeshi nationals were also held.
More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar after the country's military, now in power, began a genocidal campaign of massacres, rape and arson against them in August 2017. Most Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh leading to the creation of Kutupalong refugee camp the largest refugee camp in the world close to the border with Myanmar.
The raids reflect the Islamophobic policies of the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since the BJP came to power in 2014 it has been promoting a racist discourse against Muslims depicting them as an undesirable group and a threat. This is within the context of territorial disputes with Muslim majority Pakistan over Kashmir and Jammu which are occupied by India. The 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act embedded this discrimination by fast-tracking citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from neighboring countries before 2015 but excluding Muslims.
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