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Theres no point he is beyond help better just leave him to it:tup:
 
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my grandfather fought valiantly in 1971 and was in one of the first battalions to enter Dhaka and this how you repay us. :angry:
 
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Bangladesh Hindus 'will not go back'
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Hundreds of Bangladeshi Hindu families who have crossed the border into India to escape repression at home are refusing to return to their country.

They are now living with their relatives and friends in the border districts of West Bengal and intend to stay there permanently.

In the frontier town of Bongaon in West Bengal, I found several Bangladeshi Hindu families who fled following last month's general elections.

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To escape any possible move by the Indian authorities to send them back, these families were apparently hiding in a village near the Thakurnagar railway station.

All these families have horrific stories to tell.

Dipali Adhikari, who did not give out her real name for fear of reprisals against relatives in Bangladesh, related how she and seven other members of her family had managed to cross the border.

Horrific tales

Several days after the election, a group of armed men entered their house of and looted everything they had.

They poisoned the family's fish pond, the main source of their income.

Then they turned to Dipali pointing a knife at her.

"They demanded 100,000 Taka [$1,770] as the fee if we wanted to live in that village," she said.

"Otherwise, they threatened me, we had to leave the country".

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Some families have broken up

"It was not just me, other Hindu families in our village too were subjected to similar torture."

"We also heard stories of Hindu women being raped and murdered by armed hoodlums in neighbouring villages" Dipali said.

After this incident, Dipali's family decided to migrate to India.

They contacted a man in the border area who arranged their safe passage to India in exchange of money.

Dipali left behind her old parents to look after their ancestral home.

Mita Rani Roy was not so lucky.

I met Mita in a village in Malda, in northern West Bengal.

Mita Rani fled her home carrying her one-year old baby with a group of Hindu families when their village came under attack at midnight.

"We ran through jungles and over ditches the whole night and didn't stop until we crossed the border", Mita said.

Her husband Anil Chandra Roy was not at home the day Mita fled the country.

"I have lost contact with my husband since then."

"I don't know if he knows that we are in India."

Neither Dipali nor Mita Rani wants to return to Bangladesh after their horrifying experience since the government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia came to power in Bangladesh.

Political divisions

In Bangladesh, Hindus are generally perceived as supporters of the Awami League party of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Hindus believe the League holds secular ideals.

Shiekh Hasina's party experienced a humiliating defeat in the elections and she accused her opponents of rigging the polls and intimidating minority voters.

Since the elections, many reports of widespread violence against the Hindu community and destruction of their property have appeared in the Bangladeshi press.

Back in Bangladesh, I visited Dipali's village in the southern Bagerhat district, where her parents are among the few remaining inhabitants.


The Hindu-majority village looked deserted.

Dipali's father Ganesh Boiragi told me nearly half of the 250 families in the village had left for unknown destination.

Mr Boiragi said he also intended to leave the country as Hindus were no longer safe in that area.

There are confusing reports of the number of Hindus who have left Bangladesh since the elections.

Bangladesh Refugee Welfare Council, a Calcutta- based group representing Bangladeshi Hindu immigrants in India, claims nearly 100,000 people entered India over the last month-and-a-half.

The Council's Secretary, Bimal Majumdar, says many Bangaldeshi Hindus conceal their identity fearing deportation.

However, West Bengal's Left Front government has dismissed the figures as highly exaggerated.

The Front's Chairman, Biman Bose, says the recent migration of Bangladeshi Hindus to India has not reached that alarming level.

"But whatever is the case, we have requested the government to take up the issue with Bangladesh to ensure the safety and security for minority Hindus in their country, Mr Bose told the BBC.

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Refugees want to stay in India

The Bangladeshi Government consistently denies any case of Hindu migration to India.

A government inquiry has found most media reports of alleged repression of Hindus as exaggerated.

A senior Bangladeshi minister, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, says there was very little truth in what the media have been reporting on the issue.

"In only a few cases have we found instances of repression of minority Hindus."

"In those cases we are taking action against officials who failed to protect the lives of the minorities."

But civil rights groups are unhappy with the way the government is dealing with the issue.

Ain O Salish Kendro, a human rights organisation in Dhaka, has filed a petition in the High Court asking for an independent inquiry of the alleged repression of Hindus.

Source: BBC News
 
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Bangladesh Hindu atrocities documented

A leading South Asian rights group says it has documented widespread atrocities committed by Muslim radicals against members of the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh. Shahriyar Kabir of the South Asian Coalition Against Fundamentalism told the BBC his group had collected evidence from victims who had fled the country.

Mr Kabir said the group's findings would soon be published in a white paper with full details of the alleged atrocities.

Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's coalition government has admitted there is some truth to the allegations, but has dismissed reports of widespread attacks on Hindus as exaggerated.

Rape and torture

Mr Kabir said that Muslim supporters of Bangladesh's ruling coalition successfully prevented a large number of Hindus from voting in Bangladesh's parliamentary elections in October.
They then went allegedly went on a rampage of rape, torture, murder and looting, forcing several hundred Hindus to flee their villages.

Many who did not leave the country took refuge in offices of the opposition Awami League.

The Awami League's leader and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina is reported to have appealed to Hindus not to leave Bangladesh, but to stay and oppose the government.

Mr Kabir also alleged that extremist groups were forcing Hindus to flee to India in an attempt to turn Bangladesh into a purist Islamic state.

Political transition

On Wednesday, Bangladesh's Home Minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury said he was unable to confirm reports that Hindus had fled the country.

Reports that day said Bangladeshi border guards had detained 124 Hindus while they were trying to cross the border into India.

Mr Chowdhury said an investigation would have to be carried out to see if these Hindus had been subjected to any kind of atrocity and if they were trying to leave Bangladesh.


He told the BBC that many people on both sides of the borders are involved in smuggling and they often cross the Indo-Bangladesh borders.

He did not, however, say he would claim that there had been no violence against the minority Hindu community after the October elections.

But he insisted that there was no link between religion and violence.


Mr Chowdhury said some criminals had taken advantage of a political transition in the country with an ulterior political motive and the new government was taking necessary actions against the miscreants.

He also dismissed the allegations that the government was linked to any criminals who were involved in attacks on Bangladesh's religious minorities.

Source: BBC News
 
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Kamal Nath’s Involvement In “November 1984 Sikh Genocide”

Kamal Nath - Senior member of Indian National Congress party.
Currently: Union Minister of Road, Transport & Highways, India

In 1984, Kamal Nath was Member Parliament (Lok Sabha) Constitutency ‘Chhindwara’, Madhya Pradesh.
During the “November 1984 Sikh Genocide”, Kamal Nath led mob that came to the Gurdwara Rakabganj, Delhi on November 1, 1984 and instructed the police to open fire on the Gurdwara Sahib,
where a large number of Sikhs were killed.
Under instructions of Kamal Nath, Police men present at the scene instead of preventing the attack, joined the attackers and fired several rounds at the Gurudwara Sahib
Sikhs burnt alive laid in critical condition in Kamal Nath’s presence and died due to lack of Medical Assistance
Police Commissioner Gautam Kaul verified Kamal Nath’s presence while the Gurudwara was attacked and Sikhs were burnt alive
"I had noticed that Mr.Kamal Nath was controlling the crowd and the crowd was looking to him for directions”, Senior Journalist Sanjay Suri in his statement before Nanavati Commission
“Outside the Gurdwara I saw a crowd of about 4,000 men led by Congress-I leader Kamal Nath... I saw the bodies of two men, both Sikhs, still burning on the roadside”, Senior Journalist Sanjay Suri in his affidavit before Mishra Commission
“The unanswered questions about his role in the Rakabganj Gurdwara episode might well hold the key to uncovering the high-level conspiracy behind the 1984 carnage”, Senior Advocate, Delhi HC, HS Phoolka & Senior Editor, Manoj Mitta
Kamal Nath’s statement before the Nanavati Commission, “As a senior and responsible leader, he went to the Gurdwara after receiving information about violence there. When he arrived, he asked people why they were agitated, and also noted the presence of paramilitary personnel. He was told the mob was agitated on account of some Hindu men and women being forcibly kept inside the Gurdwara. By that time, the commissioner of police arrived. Satisfied that the police would be able to control the situation, he left after trying to persuade the crowd to disperse. He denied giving instructions to anyone to resort to firing. He also denied leading the mob or having any control over it.”
Justice Nanavati – “The reply filed by Kamal Nath is vague. He has not clearly stated at what time he went there and how long he stayed. The situation at the Gurdwara become very grave at 11.30 am and continued to be grave till 3.30 pm. Evidence shows Kamal Nath was seen there at 2 pm. The Police Commissioner arrived at 3.30 pm, which means he was there for quite a long time. He has not stated whether he went to the Gurdwara alone or with other persons, or how he went there. He has not stated if he looked for the police or tried to contact policemen who were posted there to ensure the situation remained under control. He left that place after the Commissioner arrived. He has not stated that he met him. He was a senior political leader who went to the Gurdwara feeling concerned about the law and order situation, therefore it appears strange that he left abruptly without even contacting the police officers who had come there.'”

Sikhs For Justice | KAMAL NATH
 
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