The historic conflict between the Indian state of West Bengal
and the nation of Bangladesh has enacted a new chapter over concerns
that many Rohingya Muslims have been illegally crossing into West Bengal
from Bangladesh.
Officials with the Indian Border Security Force’s South Bengal
Frontier (BSF) said they have arrested more than one hundred illegal
Rohingya immigrants this year, and most of them likely came from
Myanmar, where they have faced a brutal campaign of repression from the
authorities.
“We increased our vigil on immigrants from Myanmar since the end of
last year after some Rohingya Muslims were arrested… last November,”
Santosh Mehra, the BSF’s inspector general said, according to Hindustan
Times.
“It was tough to interact with them as they neither speak nor understand Hindi, Bengali or English.”
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