The UN says Rohingya Muslims are facing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. So why is India trying to kick them out too?
by By Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
Sep 18, 2017
3 minutes
MUMBAI, India - More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have streamed out of Myanmar in recent weeks, fleeing a bloody military crackdown that a top United Nations official described as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing."
Now the Rohingya are facing expulsion from another country: India, where an estimated 40,000 refugees are scattered amid a population of 1.3 billion.
The Indian government on Monday told the country's Supreme Court that the Rohingya population posed a threat to national security and that intelligence reports suggested some
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