Guwahati, Sept 11: More then hundred Rohingya and Chin refugees from Myanmar, lodged in Assam’s Goalpara transit camp, have launched a hunger strike protesting against their alleged indefinite detention.
Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Ajay Tewary said, “The inspector general of prisons and home secretary have been sent to the camp to talk to the detainees and we are hopeful that the matter will be sorted out soon.”
Altogether 103 Rohingya and Chin refugees from Myanmar, including women and children, are housed in the camp after they had illegally entered the country.
The protesters are demanding that they be handed over to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in New Delhi, transferred to a detention centre in the national capital, and finally resettled in a third country.
In July, 35 Myanmar refugees in the Goalpara detention camp had submitted a representation to the district administration for shifting from the camp and the letter was forwarded to the state home department.
The detention centre at Matia in Goalpara is the largest such facility in the country and became operational in January 2023.
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