Indian official: Rohingyas are ‘illegal immigrants’, not refugees

2,067 views · Published 21 September 2017 · 0:29 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: CGTN · 2017 · News & Politics

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India's Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar are not refugees but illegal immigrants. He said the Indian government could deport them without violating any international law because it was not a signatory to UN Refugees Convention 1951. 

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