Thousands of Bangladeshis flee
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Reuters Guwahati May 19: Thousands of Bangladeshis have fled
The unidentified groups in Dibrugarh district have circulated leaflets and sent text messages on mobile phones in the past week, warning Bangladeshi nationals to leave immediately or face unspecified action.
Mobile phones in
“Many labourers working in brick kilns, rickshaws pullers and construction workers have fled in the past one week due to the threat,” said Mr P C Saloi, superintendent of police in Dibrugarh.
Over the years, hundreds of thousands of illegal Bangladeshi migrants have swamped the tea-growing and oil-rich state in search for work and food.
Over two years ago, the government estimated there could be up to 20 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in
In the early 1980s, the powerful All-Assam Students Union launched a bloody campaign to push Bangladeshis back to their homeland.
Thousands of Bangladeshis, including women and children, were massacred across the state by indigenous people who feared they would be reduced to a minority in their own land.
The government and the students union signed a pact in 1985, but clauses on the deportation of foreigners have still not been implemented.
The campaign against the Bangladeshis has mushroomed into a full-fledged uprising against
“Fencing along the border with
“Legal and judicial measures have also been adopted to deport illegal Bangladeshi settlers from the country.”
The lush paddy fields and the sandy, shifting plains of the mighty
The migrants become farmhands or river fishermen in villages. In towns they are often construction workers or rickshaw pullers, and the women work as maids.
Since the latest campaign against Bangladeshis began, rickshaw pullers in
Though there are no officials figures of actual numbers of Bangladeshis in
“Every day around 6,000 illegal infiltrators cross the border and enter the state,” said an intelligence official in Guwahati. The police said most of the fleeing Bangladeshi have now moved to districts close to the border with
“The police have been put on maximum alert and instructions have been given that no genuine citizens are harassed and no communal clashes take place in disturbed areas,” said the state Home Minister, Mr Rockybul Hussain.
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