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Tripura: 47 children missing from refugee camp
Tripura: , Nov 9 (APP): In a shocking case of child
trafficking, 47 children have gone missing from a refugee camp
in north Tripura.
Seven of them have returned in the last with stories of
child labour. Kanchanpur in north Tripura is the home to
thousands of refugees from Mizoram since 1997. But now it has become
a zone of missing children, NDTV reported.
Since 2002 Biradamani Reang had been visiting these refugee
camps in search of children, promising to give them
an education. Reang, a government employee in
neighbouring Assam, allegedly got documents signed by several
parents who did not realise they were declaring their children
as orphans. He managed to take away 47 children in all between the age
of 5 and 15 years.
''They told me my daughter will be there till graduation and
will come back after 3 years. They told me that I can go and meet
her but where are they,'' asked a
worried parent.
Reang has disappeared and all that the parents have is the name
of an orphanage, the Ananda Marga Children's Home. But there is
no address. With no news of the children the families filed
a missing report on October 11. Seven children returned recently
but with horror stories.
One of them, taken in 2001, was in the Ananda Marg ashram
in Shillong. He says he worked as a
domestic help.
''I was taken to a Shillong ashram. I have worked as a
cleaner in houses,'' said a boy.
The Tripura police now confirm it is a case of child trafficking
with a network spreading to
West Bengal.
''Earlier it didn't come as human trafficking issue, reason
being that the guardians of these children they had
themselves willingly taken their wards but now as the events show
it appears that they were not taken to any school, they
were engaged in domestic work and for other kinds of labour,''
said DGP, Tripura.
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Tripura: , Nov 9 (APP): In a shocking case of child
trafficking, 47 children have gone missing from a refugee camp
in north Tripura.
Seven of them have returned in the last with stories of
child labour. Kanchanpur in north Tripura is the home to
thousands of refugees from Mizoram since 1997. But now it has become
a zone of missing children, NDTV reported.
Since 2002 Biradamani Reang had been visiting these refugee
camps in search of children, promising to give them
an education. Reang, a government employee in
neighbouring Assam, allegedly got documents signed by several
parents who did not realise they were declaring their children
as orphans. He managed to take away 47 children in all between the age
of 5 and 15 years.
''They told me my daughter will be there till graduation and
will come back after 3 years. They told me that I can go and meet
her but where are they,'' asked a
worried parent.
Reang has disappeared and all that the parents have is the name
of an orphanage, the Ananda Marga Children's Home. But there is
no address. With no news of the children the families filed
a missing report on October 11. Seven children returned recently
but with horror stories.
One of them, taken in 2001, was in the Ananda Marg ashram
in Shillong. He says he worked as a
domestic help.
''I was taken to a Shillong ashram. I have worked as a
cleaner in houses,'' said a boy.
The Tripura police now confirm it is a case of child trafficking
with a network spreading to
West Bengal.
''Earlier it didn't come as human trafficking issue, reason
being that the guardians of these children they had
themselves willingly taken their wards but now as the events show
it appears that they were not taken to any school, they
were engaged in domestic work and for other kinds of labour,''
said DGP, Tripura.
APP/Jal/azm
ð 17:21/20:20/20:20
20071109 : TAG = DBM : IBD No. = 166
