Undocumented Migrants in India

Republic of the Union of Myanmar (former Burma) has been under Military Junta rule for over 35 years that created wider gap between various ethnic groups. Since April 2016, Suu Kyi¿s popular democracy is following the same hard-line principles where ethnic Rohingya Refugees, traditionally from Rakhine Province of Myanmar, are being systematically alienated, persecuted and deprived for their basic rights. India, an economic laboratory of Refugees is not willing to accept 40,000 undocumented Rohingya Muslims living in makeshift camps in Hyderabad, Jammu, New Delhi, Aligarh, Jaipur and neighboring Northeast Provinces stretching the international boundary lines of Bangladesh and Myanmar. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party continues to pursue exclusionary policies to deport Rohingyas, mostly Muslims, for their suspected links with Islamic Jihad, ISI activities, unexpected economic burden and demographic imbalance. Ironically, India is neither a member of UN Refugee Conventions (1951) nor Protocols (1967) and therefore is not obliged to mandate refugee laws. Humanitarian bodies and NGOs continue to negotiate with ruling alliance to provide justice for Rohingyas.