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Dear UN, Shove That Rohingya Investigation Report Up Your Arse

As news broke that the United Nations has launched an investigation against India over alleged deportations of Rohingya refugees, a wave of collective eye-rolls swept across this country. Not because we lack compassion or a sense of human rights, but because we know this drill. This is the same UN that plays dead when China runs industrial-scale concentration camps for Uyghur Muslims. The same UN that doesn’t blink when Black Americans are gunned down in broad daylight or when young girls in the UK fall prey to grooming gangs and systemic rape, shielded by a paralyzing fear of naming the perpetrator’s community. But the moment India makes a sovereign decision on illegal immigrants — all of a sudden, you’re awake, alert, and foaming with righteous anger.

India is a sovereign country. We don’t need your approval, and we certainly don’t need your hypocritical moral lectures dressed up as concern for humanity. The Rohingya issue isn’t some humanitarian fairy tale; it’s a complex security, demographic, and legal challenge. India is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention — and that’s intentional. We don’t outsource our borders to Geneva-based desk-jockeys sipping cappuccinos while drafting human rights reports that end up propping failed states or worse, enabling terrorism.

The UN claims 43 Rohingyas were cast into the sea by India — and their evidence? Social media posts, third-party claims, and political lobbying by self-righteous activists. When the matter was brought to India’s Supreme Court, it was summarily dismissed. The court didn’t just deny relief; it shredded the plea as a “beautifully crafted story” lacking any real evidence. That should’ve been the end of it. But not for the UN. Because facts don’t matter when your moral compass swings based on religious identity and geopolitical convenience.

The hypocrisy is staggering. Where is the UN’s fire and brimstone when Saudi Arabia deports undocumented South Asians in thousands without due process? Where is this humanitarian outrage when the United Arab Emirates jails Indian workers in brutal conditions? Or when Qatar uses slave-like kafala systems to build stadiums for sportswashing the blood off its foreign policy? You don’t investigate those governments — you sit at their tables, take their funding, and offer red-carpet treatment to their despots at UNGA summits. But when India, a functioning democracy, chooses to enforce its immigration laws, suddenly you remember the Geneva Conventions.

Let’s talk about who you’ve actually helped. Rwanda? Congo? Sri Lanka? Syria? Afghanistan? Your blue helmets have become synonymous with inefficiency at best and complicity in child exploitation at worst. Your reports make headlines, your resolutions gather dust, and your peacekeepers often leave a bigger mess behind. So don’t even pretend your “investigation” into India’s treatment of Rohingyas is anything more than geopolitical grandstanding.

India doesn’t owe the UN an explanation. We owe our citizens a secure country. That includes protecting them from illegal immigration, especially from communities that have shown a pattern of radicalization in the past. That includes making decisions that may not look pretty in a report but are rooted in ground realities. And that absolutely includes ignoring the crocodile tears of an organization that didn’t even dare speak up when China erased entire Muslim villages off the map — because China, unlike India, doesn’t tolerate lectures. It shuts you up.

So here’s a humble suggestion, dear United Nations: instead of peddling selective outrage, try doing the job you were created for — ensuring peace, not provoking sovereign nations with baseless insinuations. Try applying your lofty principles universally — not just when it suits Islamic bloc votes or Western virtue-signaling.

Until then, you can take your Rohingya investigation report — and shove it right back up your self-righteous, selectively blind arse.

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