Rohingya detainees protest 'abominable' conditions in Indian camp
Voice of America
A Rohingya child lives in a refugee camp in Faridabad, Haryana, India, in April 2024. A Rohingya woman has her children with her at her workplace at a Rohingya refugee camp in Faridabad, India, in April 2024. Most Rohingya refugees do menial jobs such as rag picking for a living in India. Rohingya refugees pick through what remains after a fire broke out at a camp in Delhi in 2021. Around 50 shanties were reduced to ashes by the fire. Many Rohingya believe that right-wing Hindu groups who want the refugee community to be thrown out of India set fire to the camp. Rohingya refugees collect food from a community charitable organization in Faridabad, Haryana, India, in early 2024.
More than 100 Rohingya refugees who have for years been detained at a transit camp in the northeast Indian state of Assam have launched a hunger strike demanding that they be handed over to the United Nations refugee agency in New Delhi, transferred to a detention facility in the Indian capital, and that the process of resettlement in a third country be started.
