[Assam] Cat is out of the bag Morshed! Your illegal migrants are only returning home.

Bangla threatens to move UNHCR

http://www.assamtribune.com/

21 May 2005

From Our Staff Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 20 – The exodus of suspected illegal Bangladeshis from Assam threatens to develop into an international row, with Bangladesh threatening to seek United Nations Human Commission for Refugee’s (UNHCR) intervention. Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, Morshed Khan has summoned Indian High Commission officials in Dhaka and warned that India stop the exodus of people from Assam to Bangladesh!

Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs said that the Foreign Minister further told Indian officials that Bangladesh would be under obligation to provide humanitarian assistance to the people but would ask the UNHCR to intervene. He asked India to stop the exodus of people, sources said.

The incidents in Assam is sought to be exploited by Bangladesh to neutralise the adverse fallout of the killing of the BSF commandant, Jeevan Kumar in Tripura recently. With India fuming, Bangladesh Home Minister had to call Shivraj Patil to apologise.

However, uproar over forcible deportation of illegal Bangladeshi, notwithstanding, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that there was no major exodus out of the State.

Reacting to the developments in the State, a top official of the MHA said that there was no cause for alarm as there was no report of massive exodus. The official attributed the hue-and-cry to the SMS campaign.

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