{"id":663,"date":"2025-05-15T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=663"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:16:26","slug":"india-accused-of-dumping-rohingya-refugees-into-andaman-sea-un-expert-demands-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2025\/05\/15\/india-accused-of-dumping-rohingya-refugees-into-andaman-sea-un-expert-demands-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"India accused of dumping Rohingya refugees into Andaman Sea, UN expert demands answers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This file picture shows Rohingya refugees on a capsized boat before being rescued in the waters of West Aceh on March 21, 2024. \u2014 Reuters pic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GENEVA, May 15 \u2014 A UN expert said today he was investigating \u201ccredible reports\u201d that Rohingya refugees were forced off an Indian navy vessel into the Andaman Sea, in what would be an \u201cunconscionable\u201d act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe idea that Rohingya refugees have been cast into the sea from naval vessels is nothing short of outrageous,\u201d said Tom Andrews, the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the rights situation in Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am seeking further information and testimony regarding these developments and implore the Indian government to provide a full accounting of what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, who is an independent expert mandated by the UN Human Rights Council but who does not speak on behalf of the UN itself, said he was \u201cdeeply concerned by what appears to be a blatant disregard for the lives and safety of those who require international protection\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mostly Muslim Rohingya have been heavily persecuted in Myanmar for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One million Rohingya live in a string of squalid camps in Bangladesh after escaping a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of them risk their lives each year on long sea journeys to seek refuge elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews\u2019 statement pointed to reports that Indian authorities last week detained dozens of Rohingya refugees living in Delhi, \u201cmany or all of whom held refugee identification documents\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 40 members of the group were reportedly blindfolded and flown to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and then transferred to an Indian naval ship, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter the boat crossed the Andaman Sea, the refugees were reportedly given life jackets, forced into the sea and made to swim to an island in Myanmar territory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSuch cruel actions would be an affront to human decency and represent a serious violation of the principle of non-refoulement,\u201d he said, pointing out that Rohingya \u201cface the threat of violence, persecution and other grave human rights violations in 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