Kill us but don’t deport us: Rohingyas in Jammu

Persecution in Burma from the 1960s has caused the Rohingyas to scattered in adjacent areas but 28 families have chosen to take refuge in Jammu were they work as Safai Karamcharis and their children attend school. They are not allowed to own land in their home country and were stripped off their citizenship and their land was confiscated in 1982 by a ‘pro-democracy’ government and were forcibly made to work without any wages or salaries and had to pay exorbitant tax rates. Remembering how their male children were thrown off cliff and girls violated, they prefer being shot than deported.
They have UN cards with them and are allowed to live near a railway station and the district collector does not object.