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India: Muslims Protest Planned Mass Deportation of Rohingya Refugees

HeadlineSep 22, 2017

In New Delhi, India, hundreds of Muslims protested against a plan by India’s Hindu nationalist government to deport some 40,000 Rohingya refugees to Burma, where the Burmese army is carrying out a wide-scale ethnic cleansing. The protest came as India’s Supreme Court hears a challenge to the plan. The plan is backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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