31 Rohingya in limbo on Bangladesh-India border

Thirty-one Rohingya Muslims including 17 children remained stranded on India-Banglesh border after three days, Dhaka officials said on January 21, as both sides refuse to accept m.

As many as 1,300 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Banglesh from India in recent weeks as fears of deportation to Myanmar spark an exodus.

latest group crossed barbed-wire fences along Indian part of border, but Banglesh border guards stopped m from entering ir territory.

"y are w living in two tents provided by Indian border forces on border's zero line," Mannan Jahangir, a local government official at Bangleshi border town of Kasba, told AFP.

Lieutenant Colonel Golam Kabir, a Banglesh border guard commander, said group first arrived at border from Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on January 18.

Senior officials from both sides held a meeting on Sunday, with Dhaka insisting that New Delhi take refugees as y h Indian health cards and documents issued by UN refugee ncy.

New Delhi has faced sharp criticism for turning members of persecuted mirity over to Buddhist-majority Myanmar in recent weeks, including from United Nations and rights groups.

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India, which is t a signatory to UN Refugee Convention, arrested 230 Rohingya in 2018.

Banglesh is alrey hosting around a million Rohingya in giant refugee camps in country's souast, three-quarters of whom fled a Myanmar military crackdown in August 2017.

UN investigators have said senior Myanmar military officials should be prosecuted for gecide in Rakhine state, but country insists it was defending itself against militants.

Nayana Bose, a spokeswoman for Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), which includes UN ncies, said last week pace of new arrivals from India h escalated since January 3.

Some 40,000 Rohingya are living in India. Police said those who arrived in Banglesh h been living in India for years.

Rohingya for deces have faced persecution and pogroms in Myanmar, which refuses to recognise m as citizens and falsely labels m "Bengali" illegal immigrants.

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