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NHRC seeks solution on Mayanmarese asylum
seekers
Friday May 25, 2012 06:14:20 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked Myanmar's rights
panel to engage with the government at Yangon to press for a
solution to the issue of hundreds of Mayanmarese asylum seekers in
India, an official said Friday.
"The issue was raised by NHRC during its meeting here with a
visiting delegation of the Myanmar National Human Rights
Commission headed by its chairman Win Mra," said the NHRC
official.
Oppressed by Myanmar's junta regime, hundreds of asylum-seekers
from Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim community have been demanding
refugee status in India.
"Win Mra assured the commission that he would take up the matter
with the Myanmar government for consideration of action on the
issue," said an official.
Recently, these asylum seekers living in different parts of the
country had camped at UNHCR office in Delhi to demand refugee
status.
The delegation was on a three day visit May 22-24 to interact with
NHRC and understand its structure, jurisdiction, functioning and
complaint management system.
NHRC chairperson K.G. Balakrishnan, members and senior officers
interacted with the visiting delegates.
"There have been media reports on several refugees from Myanmar in
India who allegedly due to fear of widespread and systematic
persecution at the hands of ruling junta had escaped to India,"
said an NHRC official.
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