Coup hazard & Escape crisis: Thousands of Myanmar citizens continue their flee to India, govt orders closure of borders
As the Myanmar Army continues killing their own citizens & China border on one end, Burmese people are left with options of India or Thailand. But due to COVID in India, govt declined to entertain.
Myanmar’s escalating crisis is spilling across its borders, as thousands of refugees seek safe haven in India and Thailand in the wake of the military coup and bloody crackdowns on anti-coup protesters.
The refugees began arriving in Mizoram at the end of February, ironically, many of them policemen. Most had refused to use force to disperse protesters.
Authorities in both countries have tried to block new arrivals, fearing that a steady flow may become a flood, if unrest spreading through Myanmar worsens.
Although illegally, many refugees continue to escape into the Indian borders but that is creating just another problem in India not because of COVID but due to already existing refugee crisis that India took under the previous government and now, they are being planned to sent back inder NRC.
India’s economy, growth and population does not allow it to entertain more refugees from other countries unless we are settled with the jobs and migrant situation that’s already a burning hole.
The government ordered heavy deployment on Army and central forces to seize borders and not let a single person tryinng to escape the coup engulfed Myanmar and enter India.
It does seem heartless but if not dealt with this way, India will see the same situation where the population is at all time high, jobs at all time low and refugees raining with more needs of food/shelter.
The catastrophic human costs of the regime’s brutal policies is visible in crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees are living. Most fled after a military campaign that began in 2017, and have lived in limbo ever since.
Last week Thailand reportedly tried to push thousands of people fleeing Myanmar back across their border, after airstrikes on villages held by forces from the Karen ethnic minority.
The Myanmar military has been terrorizing civilians since a coup two months earlier. On the day of the parade, soldiers killed over 90 people for protesting military rule, including a 5-year-old boy and three teenagers. An estimated 564 people have been killed in Myanmar since the Feb. 1 coup.
