A/62/280 (b) Bhutan 40. In a letter addressed to the Government in 1994, the Special Rapporteur expressed concern that Christianity was allegedly banned and Christians were reportedly ill-treated, and that some Christians were reported to have been expelled in 1993 and to have sought refuge in Nepal. 12 (c) India 41. Several communications were sent to the Government regarding inter-religious clashes between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, leaving many dead. A communication sent in 1993 to the Government raised the cases of 250,000 Hindus who had been forced to flee their homes to camps in northern India and of 50 temples damaged in the course of the conflict. 13 (d) Indonesia 42. Several communications were sent to the Government regarding the forced conversion of Christians on the islands of Keswui and Teor in the Moluccas (in the context of violence which also left thousands dead and created hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons) and attacks on Christians, including destruction of their places of worship in Ambon. 14 (e) Kazakhstan 43. A communication sent in 2006 to the Government concerned a citizen of Uzbekistan living in Kazakhstan who was recognized as a refugee under the 1951 Convention on religious grounds. He was reportedly at risk of being returned to Uzbekistan. 15 (f) Malawi 44. A communication sent in 1992 addressed to the Government expressed concern that 280 refugees from Mozambique who were followers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith had been expelled from Malawi for reportedly expressing their religious beliefs to others. 16 (g) Myanmar 45. In 1992, a letter was sent to the Government concerning the Rohingya citizens of Myanmar who, as Muslims, were reportedly subjected to extrajudicial execution, torture, arbitrary detention, forced disappearances, displacement, and the destruction of towns and mosques. Some 300,000 Rohingyas were reported to have fled to Bangladesh by the end of April 1992 and several thousand were said to have been killed by border guards. 17 __________________ 12 13 14 15 16 17 07-48490 E/CN.4/1995/91, communication and Government’s reply, p. 21. E/CN.4/1994/79, para. 55 and Government’s reply, para. 56. A/56/253, paras. 43-45 and Government’s reply, para. 46. A/HRC/4/21/Add.1, paras. 211-213; no reply from the Government. E/CN.4/1993/62, para. 43; no reply from the Government. E/CN.4/1993/62, para. 45 and Government’s reply, para. 46. 13