Manipur begins deporting Myanmar nationals
IFP Bureau9 Mar 2024
The first batch of Myanmar nationals, totalling seven individuals, were deported from India via the Imphal International Airport to the border town of Moreh on Friday morning.
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The first batch of Myanmar nationals, totalling seven individuals, were deported from India via the Imphal International Airport to the border town of Moreh on Friday morning.
The two Myanmarese nationals were apprehended while they were robbing destroyed Meitei houses near Khujai Lok at around 9 am on Monday.
A team of special commando, Manipur Police apprehended six Myanmar nationals from Moreh Town in the last 24 hours.
The apprehended Myanmar national were apprehended under the suspicion of looting abandoned houses in the border town that had been left vacant due to the present Manipur crisis.
Reports of Myanmar nationals being treated for bullet and explosive injuries at Churachandpur District Hospital raised concerns among the people.
IFP Editorial: CM N Biren Singh said that for the period from January to June 2022, a total of 3,38,742 inner line permits were issued while a total of 37,153 people were given renewed ILP certificates during the said period. But, there was no mention of the base year or of framing region-specific rules and regulations.
IFP Editorial: The final figure of Census 2001 of Manipur was not based on actual head count but on projected data. For years, a major grouping of tribes in the state had been blind to steady infiltration of migrants from Myanmar while in pursuit of its political agenda.
The Myanmarese nationals could not produce any valid document for staying in India and disclosed that they were all citizens of Myanmar.
IFP Editorial: Why do they come to Churachandpur instead of staying in Chandel? It is because Churachandpur has more people with whom they have close ethnic relations, including language and more sympathy.
The Myanmar Nationals were produced before the court by a team of Singjamei police along with a prayer for 15-day judicial custody remand after completion of six- day police custody.
The four Myanmar nationals were on their way to Imphal.
The 24 arrested Myanmar nationals, including 14 females, seven males and three minors were travelling in three passenger vehicles (Eeco Vans) when the personnel of 20 Assam Rifles at Khudengthabi caught them around 3 pm of October 5.
The Myanmar nationals were were detained at Imphal Airport on Thursday as they were found holding fake Aadhaar cards.
The apprehended persons hail from Chin state of Myanmar and they were on their way to Delhi to study Bible (theology).
Executive director of Human Rights Alert (HRA) Manipur Babloo Loitongbam stressed that the situation in Manipur is very much alike with the neighbouring country Myanmar.
The International Human Rights Association said there is no difference between people who shoot innocent people and the one who shoots them back.
The persecuted citizens are likely to seek refuge in the neighbouring states of lndia, including Manipur, the Civil Society Coalition for Human Rights in Manipur and the United Nations (CSCHR) said.
More than 3,000 people fled to Thailand amid bombardments to take refuge on Sunday.
Many Myanmar nationals tried to enter the border on Saturday but the Indian security stopped them from entering and made them go back to their own country.
Among the stranded Myanmar nationals, 50 of them were at Kawnpui and Ngatal village of Churachandpur district, while other four were in Imphal.