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NHRC asks Myanmar counterpart to take up issue of persecution

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 3:44 AM IST

NHRC's concerns about the issue were flagged during a meeting yesterday with a visiting delegation of Myanmar National Human Rights Commission led by its Chairman Win Mra.

Commission Chairperson Justice K G Balakrishnan and members interacted with the visiting delegates.

Win assured NHRC that he would take up the matter with his government for consideration of action on the issue.

It has been reported that refugees from Myanmar take shelter in India due to the alleged fear of extensive and systematic persecution by the ruling junta.

It is not the first time that national human rights institutions have shown interest in the burning issues of neighbouring countries.

During a visit to Dhaka in 2010, the NHRC chairpeson has brought to notice the matter of several neglected Indian prisoners in Bangladesh prisons, languishing even after serving their sentence. Following the intervention of Ministry of External Affiars, 59 prisoners wer freed.

  

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First Published: May 25 2012 | 4:05 PM IST

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