Three Rohingya girls detained in Assam's Cachar district

Three Rohingya girls and a local youth sheltering them have been detained in Cachar district of Assam. They fled their country last month and entered into Bangladesh first before entering India through Mizoram. Though they were detained by Mizoram police earlier, they managed to give a slip and entered into Assam.

Cachar (Assam):The Police in Assam's Cachar district have detained three Rohingya girls from Dhalai area in the district and a local youth who had been sheltering the three Rohingyas were also detained.

Police said that the three Rohingya girls hail from Rakhine state of Myanmar. "They have fled the country last month and entered Bangladesh. Later they entered Mizoram in Indian and were caught by the Mizoram police," they said adding that they could manage to escape from the Mizoram police and entered Cachar district of Assam that borders Mizoram.

"A local youth from Lailapur village was found with them. He was offering shelter to these three girls. However, as the youth was trying to take the three girls to his home for shelter, the village defence party caught them and handed over to the Cachar police," said the police.

Last month, the Government Railway Police (GRP) have arrested 14 Rohingya refugees from a New Delhi bound train at Alipurduar along the Assam-West Bengal border. These 14 people including women and children had fled from the Rohingya refugee camps at Coxbazar in Bangladesh and entered India.

The Rohingyas have been on the run from Myanmar since 2017 after the Buddhist country backed by its armed forces launched an offensive against the Rohingya Muslims, who are dominant mainly in Rakhine state. While the Rohingyas claim themselves to be one of the many ethnic minorities of the country, the Myanmarese government see them illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh.

The Rohingyas on the other hand claim that they are the descendants of the Arab traders and other groups who had been living in Myanmar for generations.

Although the Myanmar government has even excluded the Rohingyas from the census in 2014, the United Nations has termed the Rohingyas as 'one of the many ethnic minorities' of Myanmar.

The Rohingyas are on the run since August 2017 after members of Rohingya militants launched an attack on police posts in Myanmar and soon there is a backlash by the Buddhist people who were backed by the government.

The locals burnt villages of Rohingyas and killed many Rohingya civilians including children. An unofficial estimate said that over 6000 Rohingyas were killed during the attack against the Rohingyas in Myanmar after August 2017 forcing the Rohingyas to fleee the country and take shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh.

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