In an effort to help Rohingya Muslims, refugees who have fled the ethnic violence in Burma, the Special Branch along with the COVA, which is associated with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), held a meeting on Tuesday which included a session on sensitising police to the refugee issue.
The meeting comes days after the Kanchanbagh police in the South Zone embarked on a cordon and search operation and took into custody 15 Burmese refugees on grounds that they did not have proper documentation. In a communique released to the media on Saturday, the Kanchanbagh police said that as many as 152 refugees had reached the city in the past five years.Speaking to TOI on Tuesday, COVA executive director Mazher Hussain said that officials of the UNHCR too attended the meeting and spoke about the issue of refugees and how security agencies must handle them. Describing the conditions in which the refugees leave their countries as adverse, Hussain said that a vast majority of them are engaged in earning an honest living. (Courtesy of timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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