New Delhi in India -Every morning, Mohamad*, 32 years old, see his 12 -year -old daughter, Fatima*, wakes up with the same enthusiasm. In the Kasuri Kas area in the northeastern part of New Delhi, we live with about 40 Rohingya families in a CR chairy room.
Fatima is a handful of Rohingya children in Kajuri Kas, who has been formally educated at government schools. Many other children like her, including her younger brother, Amead*, have been refused school enrollment for many years.
Fatima fears that she may suffer from the same fate when a new grade begins next month.
On the Christmas day in December, tens of thousands of Delhi students were looking forward to the winter vacation, so the prime minister Atish, the Prime Minister of the Tokyo metropolitan area, posted as follows. Rohingya has passed a strict order that he should not enter a public school in Delhi. “
Atoshi, a former Rhodes scholar who studied in Oxford, is a relatively new political force in India, which is a popular “Pro -A” in 2012, which is popular in 2012, and is a relatively new political force in India. (Common Man’s Party or AAP) leader. Movement.
AAP, which has ruled Delhi’s Tokyo metropolitan area for over 10 years, is seeking to return to power in the state assembly election held on Wednesday. The result will be declared on Saturday.
This year, however, AAP is facing a serious challenge from Narendra Modi’s right -wing Baratiya Janata party (BJP). He has been in power in the domestic capital for over 25 years.
“Party who is trying to defeat each other”
Governor Delhi, appointed by BJP on December 11, identifies a special drive to act in the city, identifies “all illegal immigrants from Bangladesh”, which may “be involved in criminal acts”. I did it.
Bangladesh, the neighboring Indian neighbor, mainly hosts more than 1 million Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group. Most of them were in 2017 by the United Nations, called the “ethnic purification textbook case” by the Myanmar army. A community that has escaped from the persecution of the nation for decades for decades.
Rohingya, nearly 40,000, such as Mohammad, came to India for safety and livelihood, and settled in some regions in the country. According to a 2019 estimate by the UN Refugee High Commissioner (UNHCR), about 1,100 people live in New Delhi.
BJP and other right -wing groups, on which politics is on anti -Islam platform, has been attacking Rohingya for many years, accusing the “terrorist” connection, demanding arrests and expulsion from the country. Many are in the capital and other regional detention centers.
At a press conference on Monday, BJP’s Spokesman Sambit Patra accused the AAP government, causing “population statistical operation” and influenced the domestic capital election process. The Hindu Party has repeatedly accused the AAP with an illegal Bangladesh in a voter list to expand the voting base.
The Minister of Interior Amit Shah, who addressed the rally last week, promised that if BJP took the administration, he would release illegal Bangladesh and Rohingas Delhi. Shah -and many of his party have called “termites” and “intruders” in the past in the past.
In order to keep the BJP as competitive in Delhi, the incumbent AAP government also raised a pitch against Rohingya, and as a result, BJP accused the poor border suppression of promoting the entry into the country.
On December 15, four days after Delhi’s Vice -governor ordered a drive to Bangladesh immigration, BJP accused BJP as “immersed.” She mentioned the transfer of Rohingya refugees in a government -owned apartment in the 2022 social media posting by the Federal Minister Hardep Shin Pre -Puri. The MODI government immediately betrayed this issue and refused to issue such an order.
A few days later, Atoshi banned all Rohingya children from enrolling in Delhi’s public school.
“Now, this (election) campaign has reached a low price that both parties are trying to compete with each other when attacking Rohingya,” said ANGSHUMAN CHOUDHARY, a doctoral scholar of Singapore National University, which is working on immigration issues. Was talked to Al Jazeera.
Choudhary said this is the first time the government has systematically refused to educate children.
“I used to have discrimination before, but some school humanitarian officials will apply their hearts and enroll in their children. This range has ended since this order came from above. “He said.
“Now, if the BJP doubles, you will not care about proofing your own anti -rohing qualification,” he said.
“There were many opportunities to exceed BJP when AAP targeted Rohingya,” said APOORVANAND, Professor Hindi at the University of Delhi, told Al Jazeera. 。
He said that AAP said, “There is no difference from BJP in terms of super -national attitude and repetition resurrection.”
“AAP has a stubborn nationalist and a substitute for corruption prevention. The current anti -Rohingya rhetoric matches the long -standing parties. Needless to say, the final of this nationalism. The destination is the same as BJP.
“Our struggle for safety is continuing.”
Many Rohingya, involved in the election cross -fire between the two political parties, says they cannot return to Myanmar. “Two weeks ago, I was killed by the army in Burma,” Mohammad told Al Jazira using the previous name of Myanmar.
But he added that the community is becoming more and more difficult to live in Delhi.
Approximately 25 km (16 miles) from the house in Mohamad in the southeast corner of the city, Madanpool Kadard, a poor colony that houses Rohingya camps, is Madanpool Kadard.
For eight months, the residents of the camp have lived without electricity. There is no toilet, and drinking water is supplied twice a week through a tanker. Most of the families here are dependent on charity, and some children go to a nearby school.
However, another anti -Rohingya election campaign, they are not sure about their child’s future education.
“The problem is not only the election. This (Rohingya’s targeting) has been happening in India for many years. We did not come here for politics, we came to save our lives. Sadly, we can’t find peace here, and for the years, Saba Kau Min, the founder of the human rights. It has been crime under the name of politics.
Fatima’s father, Mohammad, says that refusal to Rohingya’s child education is not a new phenomenon in the city. He says, unlike Fatima, his 10 -year -old son, Fazan, could not participate in school.
“I don’t want him to feel different at this age,” Mohammad told Al Jazira and added that he had approached at least four public schools for the last five years. But they were all rejected.
“Embarrassed”
Mohammad says that the situation has deteriorated in the latter half of 2019, when his party has passed the controversial civil rights law and promoted the national registration of the people.
“After 2020, most of the Rohingya children had not been given school enrollment,” said Mohammad, adding authorities that the authorities began seeking government documents that could not be owned by refugees. Previously, children, such as Fatima, secured admission using an ID certificate issued by UNHCR.
“I met at least 25 times the local authorities,” said Mohammad. “They are looking for AADHAAR (Indian biological certification ID) cards. We don’t have them, and we can’t get it because it’s illegal.”
In October of last year, social law scholars, a NGO based in New Delhi, submitted a petition to the Delhi High Court and the refugees from other countries allowed the same right to use the same rights. Heared why he was rejected. The petition was rejected.
NGO approached the Supreme Court, which held a hearing last week. I asked the applicant to find out if the Rohingya lived in a camp or a normal area. The top coat will ask the problem later this month.
“Even in Delhi, where education was accessible before, this exclusion is currently being carried out. Rohingya’s activist Ali Johal, based in New Delhi, told Al Jazira.
“I’m aware of the importance of education now,” says Ali’s brother, Sarimura. Their sister, Tasmida, is the first female graduate of Rohingya from India and is currently pursuing a political master’s degree from the University of Wilflidlolier in Canada under the UNHCR-Duolingo program.
“In the past, my family and I opposed her education, but our brothers (ants) claimed it and supported her through her. Today, she is proud of us. I thought and supported us, “said Salimura.
Mohammad says that’s why he wants his child to be educated.
“That’s the only way for our progress. I can’t read and write, but I’m proud when my daughter reads a phone message and reply in English,” he said. 。
Since ATISHI’s order, Fatima has appealed to his father to be hospitalized for private schools. Mohammad, a daily wage worker who depends on the assistance of charity, cannot afford to buy an extraordinary fee at a private school.
But he wants the Supreme Court to come to his rescue. “India’s law treats people fairly,” he says.
He said when Fatima asked what professions in the future would pursue in the future, “I want to be a teacher … I will tell everyone that all children are children and equal.”
*The name has been changed to protect the identity
