Modhuram Pal, a 35-year-old community leader, said some 50 Hindus had already returned to Rakhine where they were welcomed by Myanmar security forces. But Pal and his fellow Hindu refugees say they will only go back if they are rehoused away from their former villages in Rakhine. Consistent accounts by Rohingya refugees of security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs driving them out of their homes with bullets, rape and arson have shocked the globe. Although the influx has slowed, hundreds of Rohingya are still crossing into Bangladesh, now home to around a million refugees. “We were tortured because of the war between Myanmar government and the (Rohingya) rebels,” Shshu Pal Shil, 25, told AFP in his makeshift shelter.

Source: Mint January 07, 2018 10:18 UTC