'We heard about India's insaniyat. How wrong we were': Testimony of the Rohingya thrown into the sea

It was May 6, 2025.

That fateful night, India was to launch missile strikes, sending airforce planes deep into Pakistan to target terror infrastructure, in response to the terrorist killings of 26 tourists on April 22 in Pahalgam in Kashmir.

In the national capital city of Delhi, more than 40 Rohingya refugees, including old and ailing women and men, were rounded up by the police. Their families were told that their biometrics were being checked and they would soon return.

But they disappeared. For three days there was no word from them. Their families were sick with worry. No officials would answer their queries.

Then three days later, a phone call came from their loved ones. The families gathered anxiously. The story they told was beyond belief.

They were first flown in an Indian Air Force plane to the Andaman Islands, then bundled into a naval boat. As one of them reported in a call that one of them recorded, “they bound our hands, our hands bled and [they] did not let us move our heads from up and down… They [then] threw us into the sea, they gave each of us a life jacket, with which we swam and reached the seashore…” Reaching land, to their horror they found...

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