India rejects UN report alleging Rohingya refugees were targeted after Pahalgam terror attack

India on Tuesday rejected a United Nations report that claimed Rohingya refugees and other displaced persons from Myanmar were targeted by the Indian authorities after the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, saying it had no “factual bearing”.

Delivering India’s statement on Myanmar’s human rights situation at the UN General Assembly in New York, Lok Sabha MP Dilip Saikia objected to the “blinkered” remarks made against New Delhi in the report.

He said that the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar took a “communal and prejudiced” approach by linking the Pahalgam attack to the treatment of refugees.

The terror attack at Baisaran near the town of Pahalgam on April 22 left 26 persons dead and 17 injured. The terrorists targeted tourists after asking their names to ascertain their religion, the police said. All but three of those killed were Hindu.

In his report, United Nations Special Rapporteur Thomas Andrews alleged that after the attack, refugees from Myanmar living in India were “summoned, detained, interrogated and threatened with deportation” by Indian authorities, despite no evidence linking them to the incident.

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