Hindu Extremist Youth Leader Claims to Have Burnt Down Rohingya Camps in New Dehli
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| Rohingya Refugee Camps in New Dehli burnt down to ashes displacing 226 refugees [Photo: Maung A. Khan] |
RB News
April 16, 208
New Dehli, India
-- A leader of the youth-wing of the India’s ruling far-right Hindu party,
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), has claimed that they have set fire on the
Rohingya refugee camps in New Dehli on Sunday (Apr 15) early morning.
The fire broke
out in the Rohingya refugee camps at ‘Kalindi Kunj’ at around 3:30am and
destroyed all the 56 camps in the area where around 226 refugees used to live.
"The fire
started at 3:15am and it quickly spread all over the camps within an hour just like somebody had thrown petrol on the camps beforehand. Fire brigades arrived and kept extinguishing fire till 7am. We couldn't save
any of our belongings and everything was burnt down.
“Now, the Police have
given us protections and relocated us to a nearby area. And NGOs are helping us
with the basic stuffs,” said a refugee displaced by the fire.
Amidst the Police
investigations to find out the cause behind the fire, Manish Chandela, leader
of the Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth-wing of the ruling party BJP,
has PROUDLY claimed on twitter that he and his group have set the fire on the
Rohingya refugee camps on fire.
After the calls made by the social and human rights activists to the Police to arrest and investigate him, he later deleted the tweet. However, one more tweet claiming ‘Yes, we did. We do again’ with the hash-tag #ROHINGYAQUITINDIA can still be found on his twitter timeline.
The rise of BJP
and Narendra Modi coming into power have emboldened Hindu extremist increasing
violence all over the country and the Rohingya refugees have become targeted by
the extremist groups across various states including Jammu and Delhi.
[Reported by S.
Chandra; Edited by M.S. Anwar]
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