Can’t compare Lankan and Rohingya refugees: India

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Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India stood on a “different footing” from the Rohingyas who seek shelter from persecution in native Myanmar and any comparison between the two is misconceived, the Indian Government has told the Supreme Court.

According to the Hindu, the Government was responding to comparisons made by the Rohingya in the Supreme Court between their plight and the “relief facilities” given to the Sri Lankan Tamil refugees.

The Rohingya have sought the same aid and the benevolence India had shown the Sri Lankan Tamils.

But a six-page government affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Friday said there was no “comparable parity” between the Sri Lankan Tamil refugees and Rohingya.

It explained that India reached out to the Sri Lankan Tamils on the basis of two Indo-Sri Lankan Agreements signed in 1964 and 1979.

India had agreed to repatriate and grant Indian citizenship to 600,000 persons of Indian origin “together with their natural increase by 1981-82.”

The government denied the charge that the Rohingya were met with stun grenades and chilli powder at the Indian border. It said the Border Security Force performed its duties in challenging circumstances.

The Supreme Court cannot direct the government to “ensure that foreigners enter the territory of India,” it said.

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H.Blake Sunday, 18 March 2018 12:04 AM

Indian government is deliberately confusing the Sri Lankan Tamils of Indian origin with Indigenous Sri Lankan Tamils.Indians are masters of manipulations.

V.I.S.Jayapalan poet Sunday, 18 March 2018 02:44 PM

India's stand on Sri Lankan Tamil refuge is agreeable to the the lows. norms and practices of the UN and International community. Because the FIRST COUNTRY OF ENTRY, for the Sri Lankan Tamil refugees are India. .

Jaffna Tamil Sunday, 18 March 2018 08:39 PM

You are not speaking for the Jaffna Tamils,remember that.

Johnston Sunday, 18 March 2018 08:51 PM

You are defending India, my question is Where were you in Sri Lanka when Indian Army was in the North and East Of Sri Lanka ?

Sundralingam Sunday, 18 March 2018 10:29 PM

Who made you a Poet ?Was it the IPKF.

HYPOCRITES Sunday, 18 March 2018 03:38 PM

"It explained that India reached out to the Sri Lankan Tamils" Yes Sir - you even reached out to train the LTTE to do all the killings/bombings etc here

Dalit Sunday, 18 March 2018 05:38 PM

Rohingiyas are from former Bengal Province of the British India who went to work in the rice fields in Burma who fed Indians in tropical British Colonies in the world who went to work in plantations of tea, rubber and sugar etc.

Selvarajah,Lawyer. Sunday, 18 March 2018 08:47 PM

You must be a fool to say so,the Tamil refugees in India are kept in CAMPS with guards,and not in normal residential buildings.If Sri Lankan government had put the Tamil internal refugees in similar CAMPS,then how people like you would have reacted ?

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