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For nearly two decades, Rohingya families in Jammu have tried to build a life after fleeing persecution in Myanmar. Now, more than 350 shelters from five settlement in Jammu are being dismantled, leaving around 1,800 people facing displacement once again.
They fled genocide to save their lives. They found refuge. Now they are being uprooted again.
A refugee should not have to ask, “Where do we go from here?

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https://kashmirtimes.substack.com/p/for-rohingyas-a-home-that-keeps-disappearing?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Rohingya Human Rights Initiative (R4R) urges the Government of India to halt forced evictions, prevent homelessness, and provide continued shelter and protection. We also call for diplomatic engagement with Myanmar for a sustainable solution.
Thank you to Kashmir Times for highlighting the Rohingya situation in Jammu.

For Rohingyas, A Home That Keeps Disappearing A return, in memory, to the Jammu Rohingya settlement, the eviction notices, detention centres and quiet legal manoeuvres that have flattened it all amidst whipped up and misplaced anxieties of demo..

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350 Rohingya families consists of 1800 individuals including children, women, and elderly people in Jammu are facing homelessness after eviction notices forced them to dismantle their homes and shops. Many families have lived there for more than a decade.
Children, women and elderly people are now left with their belongings and nowhere safe to go.
The Rohingya Human Rights Initiative (R4R) calls for an immediate halt to further evictions, alternative accommodation, protection from homelessness, and access to essential services.
We urge the authorities to ensure that no family is displaced without a safe and dignified alternative.
Read : https://www.thequint.com/news/breaking-news/rohingya-families-evicted-jammu-face-homelessness-crisis -more
Thank you to TheQuint for highlighting this humanitarian crisis.



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Rohingya Families In Jammu Forced to Become Homeless After Evictions Hundreds of Rohingya families in Jammu have been left homeless after eviction notices, with no alternative accommodation provided.

Hundreds of Rohingya refugee families in Jammu are dismantling the homes they have built over the years after receiving government notices ordering their removal.
Many now face homelessness with nowhere safe to go. Children, women, and elderly people are among those affected.
No family should be left without shelter or a safe alternative.
Kyaw Mim Sabber Director of Rohingya Human Rights Initiative (R4R) calls on the Government of India to immediately halt forced evictions, provide continued temporary shelter and protection, prevent homelessness, and engage diplomatically with Myanmar toward a sustainable solution.
We also thank The Wire for highlighting the unprecedented situation faced by Rohingya refugees in Jammu.
Read the full story here at thewire_in: https://thewire.in/rights/we-do-not-know-where-we-will-go-rohingya-families-dismantle-homes-in-jammu-after-govt-notices

‘We Do Not Know Where We Will Go’: Rohingya Families Dismantle Homes in Jammu After Govt Notices The renewed crackdown on foreign nationals has extended beyond the Rohingya settlements, as alleged Bangladeshi nationals are also being identified.

🚨 Rohingya families in Jammu have been evicted and left without a place to go.
Families with children, babies, elderly people and pregnant women are now facing homelessness after being removed from their settlements. They say they have been prevented from relocating or finding alternative accommodation.
Forced eviction without a safe alternative is not a solution. Rohingya refugees deserve protection, dignity and a safe place to live until conditions allow for safe, voluntary and dignified return to Myanmar.

Kyaw Min Sabber Director of Rohingya Human Rights Intiative (R4R) the Government of India to immediately halt forced evictions, provide continued temporary shelter and protection, prevent homelessness, and engage diplomatically with Myanmar toward a sustainable solution

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Rohingya families displaced in Jammu after eviction notices, left asking where they will go Hundreds of Rohingya families in Jammu face homelessness after eviction notices forced them to dismantle shelters and shops they had built over the years, with...

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On 18 September 2026:

Rohingya refugees in Jammu, India, are being forced from homes they have lived in for nearly two decades.

350 shelters across five settlements in Jammu have reportedly been evicted, affecting nearly 1,800 Rohingya refugees. Families are being forced to destroy their own homes, while safe alternative accommodation remains unavailable.

Children, women, elderly people and other vulnerable refugees now face homelessness, insecurity and further displacement.

🏠 A refugee should not be forced to destroy their home without a safe place to go.

We call on the Government of India immediately halt further evictions, protect families from homelessness, provide safe and dignified alternative shelter, and ensure access to food, water, healthcare, education and other essential services.

The Rohingya community must be heard. Their safety, dignity and basic rights must be protected.

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On 27 August, Sabber Kyaw Min met Klaus Dik Nielsen, Co-Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, in person at the APRRN Bangkok office in Thailand.

It took seven years to get to that room.

Sabber has worked with APRRN since 2019. He received invitations. He wanted to attend. But he couldn't - because he had no documentation. He was Rohingya. Stateless. Without the papers that allow a person to board a plane and cross a border.

That is what statelessness means in practice. Not just no citizenship. No movement. No ability to attend meetings about your own people's rights because you cannot prove, on paper, that you exist.

After being resettled in Canada, Sabber finally had the documentation to travel. So he got on a plane to Bangkok and walked into the APRRN office to brief them in person on what is happening to the Rohingya across South and Southeast Asia - in Rakhine State, in India, in Malaysia, in Thailand.

The conversation covered the deteriorating situation under the Arakan Army, hate incitement in Malaysia, human trafficking across the region, and the ongoing detention and forced deportation of Rohingya refugees in India.

Seven years of working across a distance that a document finally closed.

We are grateful to APRRN and to Klaus Dik Nielsen for this meeting, and we look forward to strengthening this collaboration in the years ahead.

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On 26 August, R4R's Director Sabber Kyaw Min participated in a roundtable organized by Puttanee Kangkun of Fortify Rights, with the participation of Khun Angkhana Neelapaijit, Senator of Thailand.

The discussion brought together voices from across the region to share concerns about the ongoing human rights situation facing the Rohingya - in Rakhine State, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Sabber raised the deteriorating situation in Rakhine State under the Arakan Army, including forced displacement, extortion, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and the forced conscription of young Rohingya - including girls. He also raised the illegal detention of Rohingya in India, forced deportations in violation of the principle of non-refoulement, rising hate incitement in Malaysia, and the exploitation and trafficking of vulnerable Rohingya across Thailand and Myanmar.

R4R's two recent research reports - Ashes of Rakhine and The Siege of Arakan - were shared as documentation of the evolving atrocities against the Rohingya community.

The discussion also marked 25 August, Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day. Nine years since the Myanmar military's campaign of 2017. Nine years of camps, sea crossings, closed borders, and waiting. Nine years without a single safe, voluntary, and dignified return.

We are grateful for the opportunity to bring the voices of Rohingya communities into regional spaces where decisions are made. Engagement, documentation, and collective action are not optional - they are the minimum of what justice requires.

Read our reports: rohringya.org

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Today we sat in a room with Puttanee Kangkun from The Fort and Dr. Bhanubhatra Jittiang, Thailand's representative to ASEAN's Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights.

We talked about the Rohingya. In Rakhine State. In Bangladesh. In India. In Malaysia. Across Southeast Asia. 9 years of displacement, detention, sea crossings, and closed borders - and still no clear path home.

We agreed to work together. To document what is happening, to highlight it, and to push for accountability and protection across the region.

The day before, August 25, was Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day.

9 years since the Myanmar military drove over 700,000 Rohingya from their homes in 2017. 9 years since the burning, the killing, the boats. 9 years of camps. 9 years of waiting. And still, not one Rohingya has returned through the official repatriation process in a safe, voluntary, and dignified way.

Meetings matter. Partnerships matter. But the measure of this work is not how many rooms we sit in - it is whether the people who cannot sit in those rooms are eventually able to go home.

We are not there yet. We keep going.