Hundreds of Rohingya refugees are struggling with difficult living conditions
Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya Muslims, who have fled persecution in their home country and resettled in India, face the threat of eviction from the camps they are living in.
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees are struggling with difficult living conditions in the temporary shelters set up on the outskirts of the Indian capital, New Delhi.
According the latest figures released by the UNHCR, around 9,000 Rohingya refugees are registered in New Delhi, with thousands more camping elsewhere across India. The refugees have little or no access to essential services such as water and electricity, while many of them survive on charity.
In their homeland, Rohingya Muslims living in the western Myanmar’s state of Rakhine have been also subject to systematic repression by extremists from the Buddhist majority since the country’s independence in 1948.
