The Rohingyas in India

As Myanmar witnesses a mass exodus, the author looks at life of the refugee community in India

We are the nowhere people,” says Mohammad Haroon. “Myanmar doesn’t recognise us, and now the Indian government has issued an advisory that it will deport us.”

Haroon, a 45-year-old Rohingya refugee, arrived in Delhi in 2012, after escaping the atrocities back home in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. His father was part of Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party. When she was put under house arrest, nearly everyone from her party was jailed. 

“My father was told that the authorities will come for him at night. So, he and I fled from our home. If we hadn’t, we would surely have been