Myanmar on Thursday refused to allow entry to a 14-year-old Rohingya gir l who was taken to a border town for deportation by Indian authori...
Myanmar on Thursday refused to allow entry to a 14-year-old Rohingya girl who was taken to a border town for deportation by Indian authorities, citing inappropriate circumstances, the Hindustan Times reported.
Had the process been completed, the girl would have been the first Rohingya national to be deported after the Myanmar military staged a coup in the country.
The 14-year-old had been detained two years ago for illegally entering India after she fled a wave of violent persecution against the Rohingya population in their native Myanmar. She had been living on the premises of a non-governmental organisation in Silchar, Assam, according the Assam Tribune.
On Thursday, eight members of the Assam Police accompanied her to a border crossing, to send her back to coup-hit Myanmar.
But upon reaching there, Myanmar’s immigration department refused to open the gate of the international border. They said the current situation “was not appropriate for any deportation”, according to the Hindustan Times.
An unidentified immigration official from India told the newspaper that the girl had been sent back to the shelter home in Silchar for now. “We all know that the situation in Myanmar is not peaceful and it is not safe to send this minor girl now,” he added. “But there are some procedures in these cases, and we...
