A girl from the Rohingya community stands outside a shop in a camp in New Delhi, India on Oct 4, 2018.NEW DELHI - India's home ministry said on Wednesday that Rohingya refugees in the capital New Delhi would be held at a detention centre and then deported, contradicting a minister's earlier statement promising flats and security to members of the Muslim minority.
Rohingya refugees would be allotted flats in western Delhi's Bakkarwala area, providing basic amenities and round-the-clock police protection, Puri had said on Twitter.Rohingya illegal foreigners"Illegal foreigners are to be kept in the detention centre till their deportation as per law," the home ministry said in a statement.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has previously tried to repatriate members of the Rohingya, who are a minority community in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled from persecution and waves of violence in their homeland over the years, mainly to Bangladesh.
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