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India deports second group of Rohingyas to Myanmar; travel permits awaited

The government estimates that 40,000 Rohingya live in India in camps across the country

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The common cause attributed to the statelessness of Rohingyas under Myanmar's 1948 citizenship law and decades of persecution or conflict is generations-old ethnic animosity between migrant Bengali Muslims and native Buddhists. Photo: Reuters

Press Trust of India
Indian police on Thursday took a Rohingya Muslim family of five to the border by bus, readying to deport them to neighbouring Myanmar as the second such group expelled in four months during a crackdown on illegal immigrants.

India's Hindu nationalist government regards the Rohingya as illegal aliens and a security risk. It has ordered that tens of thousands of the community, who live in small settlements and slums, be identified and repatriated.

The husband, wife and three children comprising the family set to be expelled on Thursday had been arrested and jailed in northeastern Assam state in 2014 for entering India

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