Fear, uncertainty grip Rohingya women in India

JAMMU, India: In the semi-lit makeshift tent covered with strips of all the women also appear afraid.

- ing sent back to the country they

the youngest. She faintly remembers running with her parents from their village in Myanmar’s

river. When we came to Cox’s Bazar our fellow villagers were there. My

All the other women in the room very different from Kalina’s. Each one of them came to Jammu in in the Kiriyani Talav neighborhood of northern India’s Jammu city have been their home. They all got married here and became mothers.

Each one of them has relatives who are still living in Sittwe who call every now and then to talk about the current situation. Every - tacks and new names of relatives and neighbors who have been

- according to the state government. - is a fraction of that in Bangladesh

Yet this tiny population is at the center of a controversy with some local factions accusing them of indulging in criminal activities - demanding their repatriation.