India has pushed hundreds of ethnic speech ethnic Muslims to Bangladesh without due process, said Human Rights Watch on Thursday, accusing the government of breaking the rules and feeding the bias in religious lines.
The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has long adopted a hard line position on immigration, particularly Muslim Bangladesh, with the main authorities that refer to them as “termites” and “infiltrated”.
Critics also accuse the government of generating fear among the estimated 200 million Muslims of India, especially among Bengali speakers, which are spoken widely in both India and Bangladesh.
HRW, a non -profit organization based in New York, said that India forcibly expelled more than 1,500 Muslim men, women and children to Bangladesh between May 7 and June 15, citing Bangladesh authorities.
“The BJP ruler of India (Bharatiya Janata party) is promoting discrimination for arbitrarily expelling the Bengali Muslims in the country, including Indian citizens,” said Elaine Pearson, director of Asia in the non -profit organization.
“The Indian government is putting thousands of vulnerable people at risk in the apparent search for unauthorized immigrants, but their actions reflect broader discriminatory policies against Muslims.”
Nueva Delhi insists that deported people are undocumented migrants.
However, the authorities of the authorities that expulsions should administer illegal immigration were “little convincing,” Pearson added, due to “their contempt for due process, national guarantees and international standards of human rights.”
‘They were holding weapons’
HRW said that he had sent the findings and questions from the report to the Ministry of the Interior of the country, but had not received an answer.
The report documented the experiences of 18 people.
A 51 -year -old daily salary worker told HRW that “he entered Bangladesh as a body” after the border security force (BSF) of India took him to the border after midnight.
“I thought they (the BSF) would kill me because they held weapons and nobody from my family would know it,” says the report quotes the worker.
Bangladesh, largely surrounded by the Earth by India, has seen relations with New Delhi becomes frozen since a massive uprising in 2024 overthrew the Government of Dhaka, an ally of India.
India also increased the operations against migrants following the basket attack occupied by the Indians in April who killed 26 people, mainly Hindu tourists.
Nueva Delhi, without evidence, accused Pakistan of supporting the attack, an accusation denied by Islamabad.
In a security campaign throughout the country unprecedented, the Indian authorities arrested thousands, and many of them were finally pushed through the border to Bangladesh.
“The government is undermining India’s long history to provide refuge to the persecuted, as it tries to generate political support,” Pearson said.
India has also been accused of deporting Rohingya Muslim Refugees from Myanmar, with the ships of the Navy that leave them from the coast of the nation devastated by war.
