The flood that has been occurring since September 20 in several Indian States submerged Rohingya refugees’ shelter, where most of the refugees are in need of emergency assistance.
Zafar Ullah, a Rohingya rights activist in India, told the reporter that due to the ongoing heavy rains, more than five hundred Rohingya families in sub-urban areas living in temporary tents in New Delhi, Faridabad and Haryana are facing dire conditions, as their homes have been flooded.
About 40,000 Rohingyas are sheltering in India, only about half of them are registered with the United Nations UNHCR, while the rest are not recognized as refugees. Rohingyas in India live in makeshift refugee camps in suburban areas of cities such as New Delhi, Haryana, Faridabad, Jammu & Kashmir, Hyderabad, (UP) Uttar Pradesh and Bangalore, according to Zafar.
The Rohingyas from northern Rakhine state have not only been denied citizenship under successive junta regimes since 1962 and civilian governments from 2010 to 2020, but the entire society has been severely affected by the Rakhine conflict in 2012 and the genocidal operation by the Burmese army in 2017, that forced more than a million Rohingyas to flee to neighboring countries.
