India continues deportations from Rohingya to Burma

Five Rohingyas from the same family were expelled Thursday from India to neighboring Burma, the second group of this type expelled in four months as part of the crackdown on illegal immigration.

The ruling Hindu nationalist government in India regards the Rohingyas, a stateless Muslim minority living mainly in Burma, as illegal aliens endangering security.

He ordered that the more than 40,000 members of the community living in India, often in very precarious conditions, be identified and deported. A first group of seven Rohingyas were repatriated to Burma in October.

The Rohingyas have arrived in India over the years, fleeing violence and persecution in Burma, which generally does not recognize them as its nationals.

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