Manipur: 38 'illegal' immigrants from Myanmar deported
immigrants from Manipur deported to Myanmar on Thursday, altogether 77 illegal Myanmarese migrants, including 55 women and five children, deported to their country since March 8.
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh said on the X: “Without any discrimination, we have completed the first phase of deportation of illegal immigrants from Myanmar with 38 more immigrants leaving Manipur, India, today through Moreh.”
He said: “A total of 77 illegal immigrants have been deported in the first phase. One Indian national was also brought back from Myanmar during the handover ceremony.
The State Government is continuing the identification of illegal immigrants and at the same time biometric data are being recorded. Let’s keep our borders and country secure.”
The Myanmar nationals fled to Manipur after the Military junta seized power in that country on February 1, 2021.
Since the Military took over in Myanmar more than three years ago and the armed clashes have been going on between the Army and the pro-democracy civilian armed forces, over 5,000 Myanmar nationals, including women and children, have taken shelter in Manipur while over 32,000 people have taken shelter in Mizoram.
Hundred Myanmarese soldiers also fled to Mizoram in different phases after their camps were captured by the armed pro-democracy ethnic groups, who stepped up their battle against the Army in early October last year.
However, all the Army personnel were deported to their country in different phases.
Following the advice of the Ministry of Home
