Panel discussion held to seek justice for Rohingya refugees

The lawyer Prashant Bhushan addresses a press conference at the Press Club of India in New Delhi on Monday. | Photo credit: AFP

Days after the Supreme Court called the petition transferred against Rohingya “thrown into international waters” by the government of India as “fantasy ideas”, a panel of six members who include lawyers for human rights and social workers.

The discussion of the panel reaches the light of Rohingya refugees living in the national capital claiming that their family members were collected from their camps and deported during the night to a shore near the border between India-Mymar, which remained in international waters. After this, the Bank of the Supreme Court of the Rohingya refugee hearing so that the Government stopped in such deportations, rejected its pleas.

Human Rights Lawyers Prashant Bhushan, Colin Gonsalves and social activist Harsh Mander were present at the discussion panel along with the journalist Pamela Philipose, the human rights activist Rita Manchanda and the social worker Priyali Sur.

Duration The discussion, the members of the panel presented a study of the various cases of cases and media reports, including a report of The Hindu On the subject.

Inhuman ‘deportation

Speaking on the panel, Mr. Bhushan presented studies of cases of families that were affected by the “inhuman” deportation. “The deportation process that India continued for Rohingya refugees not only violates international law but also its own constitutional laws,” he said. Deporting refugees to a country where there is a genocide against them goes against the constituent values ​​of the right to live and the International Genocide Convention, added the main lawyer.

In addition to the conversation, Mrs. Sur, a social worker who directs the Azaadi project, an organization that works for women survivors of war and conflict, said that although it is important to question how Rohingya refugees could stay in the water, it is equally important to question. “The name of the community has become a taboo; there is an unjustified detention for years, children are separated from their parents and the conditions of the detention centers are inhuman,” he said.