Bengali Refugee Problem: Dr Jagadish Haldar Invites you to discuss
Palash Biswas
(Gostokanan, Sodepur, Kolkata-700110, India. Phone: 033-25659551)
Come Sunday, 12 th November. A seminar waits you which is organized by Guruchand Sena Central committee in Shanti Ngar highshool, Palta, a suburban station near Kolkata.You may have heared about Bangasena which demands land from Bangladesh in accordance with the refugee ratio. CAAMB (Campaign Against Atrocities on Minorities in Bangladesh) is also active to highlight the cases of persecution of minorities in Bangladesh. We read so many things in Mayer Dak published from Kolkata. We sometimes visit the website of Human Rights Comission For Bangladesh Minorities which quotes Bangla media reports to highlight all the incidents involving Bangladesh minorities.Now it is the turn of Guruchand sena. The agenda for the seminar includes to important issues . First: Minority Persecution in Bangladesh and second: The Citizenship Amendment Bill 2003 and the following law.The speakers are well distingushed including a former aditional cabinet secretary in government of India Bibhuti Bhushan Nandi, a retired Major General KK Gangopadhyaya and the convenor of CAAMB.

Dr Jagadish Haldar invites you all to join the seminar which begins on 10 AM sharp. Dr Haldar is a very committed refugee leader residing in Palta. He is very active and involved in mobilisation of refugees in West Bengal. Dr Jagadish Haldar, Dr Birat Bairagya, Dr Pushpa Bairagya, Dr Pushpa Roy and the organizors of the seminar condemn the deportation drive launched by government of India armed with the new Citizenship Act. At the same time they emphasize to stop the refugee influx immediately for which the persecution of Bangladesh minorities must stop.

Meanwhile in assam student bodies inspect Bangla border to detect illegal ifiltrators cotrary to the AGP demand to grant citizenship to all Hindu Refugees crossing the Border.According to print and electronic media a team comprising members of the North East Students Organisation (NESO), All Assam Students Union (AASU) and Tripura Students Federation today inspected the Indo-Bangladesh border near Tripura and expressed their resentment over the open and unprotected border. NESO president Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya, Tripura Students’ Federation president Upendra Devbarma and AASU president Shankar Prasad Roy during their visit saw that the border remained open except in some areas where barbed wire fencing has started.

The team said that the Union Government has simply failed in protecting the Indo-Bangladesh border. As a result, the porous borders have encouraged countless Bangladeshis to enter the country. Unless the border was sealed then the consequences of it would be terrible, the three organizations warned.
Citizenship amendment Bill 2003 which was passed and the law is enforced to evict all refugees crossing the border after 16th December , 1971.
On behalf of 20 million East bengal refugees coming over to India in
different dates and phases since 1947 partition and riots over there
awaiting citizenship and rehabilitation and even minimum human rights
including that of matribhasha and reservation, in different states of India,
submitted herewith some views and suggestions.
Views and comments
1. That is evident from the statement of object and reasons of the bill
given by Shri Lk Adwani, home minister of India that the bill has been
mooted with the main object of preventing grant of Indian Citizenshipto
illegal migrants; grant of dual citizenship to foreigners of Indian origin
and compulsary registration with issue of National identity card for all
citizens of India.
2.That it appears from the insertion illegal migrant in the bill that the
central govt. wants to make all types of illegal migrants including East
Bengal Refugees of minority communities in india, who have mostly been
compelled to come clandesinely , inelligible for registration as Citizenof
india U/S 5(1)(A)/5(1)(C)of the citizenship act, 1955 and therefore liable
to be adopted to their counties of origin.
By inserting the word illegalmigrant in section 5 of the existing
citizenship act, 1955,an abortiveattempthas perhaps been madeby the centre
to validate the questionable executive order n.26011/16/71- 1c dt.
29.11.1971 issued by ministry of home affairsafter the creation of
BanglaDesh in 1971. the said circular suddenly withheld, bannedgrant of
citizenship and refugee benefits to all East bengal refugees of minority
communities coming from Bangladesh.
The said circularwas issued immorally, illegally, in breach of trust/pledge
and in violation of fundamental rightsof minorites of Bangladesh/ Pakistan
to come over to india and enjoy the fruits of independence gauaranted bythe
partition and independence documents. It is also violation of international
laws for refugees and the un charter on rights of refugees.
3. that the proposal for compulsary registration of all citizens and issues
of National Identity Card to them with a view to screening out and
identifyingthe foreignersin india is a lofty idea and can be made meaningful
and workable only when Bangladesh/ Pakistani refugees of minority communites
are simultaneously granted National Identity Cards.
Suggetions
Special provisions should be made to safeguard the rigths as well as the
citizenship of those refugees who are resettled all over India after
partition.
The flaw of refugees should be chequed immidiately. and until the atrocities
agnaist minorities beyond border stop it is next to impossible.
Specific provisionbe made in the bill for Bangladeshi/pakistani refugees of
minority communities staying in India continuously for registration as
migrants. So the tortured ones may be saved.
All refugees rehabiliated all over india must be registered as Indian
citizens s they hold permanent addresses and property, ration card and other documents.

Gyanesh Kudaisya wrote in his article `DIVIDED LANDSCAPES, FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES: EAST BENGAL REFUGEES AND THEIR REHABILITATION IN INDIA, 1947–79’:The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was followed by the forced uprooting of an estimated 18 million people. This paper focuses on the predicament of the minority communities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) who were uprooted and forced to seek shelter in the Indian province of West Bengal. It considers the responses of Indian federal and provincial governments to the challenge of refugee rehabilitation. A study is made of the Dandakaranya scheme which was undertaken after 1958 to resettle the refugees by colonising forest land: the project was sited in a peninsular region marked by plateaus and hill ranges which the refugees, originally from the riverine and deltaic landscape of Bengal, found hard to accept. Despite substantial official rehabilitation efforts, the refugees demanded to be resettled back in their "natural habitat" of Indian Bengal. However, this was resisted by the state. Notwithstanding this opposition, a large number of East Bengal refugees moved back into regions which formed a part of erstwhile undivided Bengal where, without any government aid and planning, they colonised lands and created their own habitats. Many preferred to become squatters in the slums that sprawled in and around Calcutta. The complex interplay of identity and landscape, of dependence and self-help, that informed the choices which the refugees made in rebuilding their lives is analysed in the paper.

Balbir K. Punj writes in his write up `Deluge from Bangladesh’:A recent statement in Parliament by the Union home minister on Bangladeshi infiltration, and a news report in an otherwise "secular" Hindi daily about the growing clout of illegal Bangladeshi resettlers in Kishanganj parliamentary constituency of Bihar have once more underscored the danger Indian civilisation faces, and the ostrich-like response of the political leadership to this demographic invasion.

Home minister Shivraj Patil, while speaking in Rajya Sabha on August 23, said that the Indian state could not distinguish between Hindu and Muslim illegal immigrants from Bangladesh as "refugees" and "infiltrators" respectively. Next day, there was another news item tucked inside the pages of the Hindi daily Navbharat Times (Aug. 24) about the decisive influence of Bangladeshi Muslims, resettled in Kishanganj, on electoral politics. Kishanganj, the sole Muslim majority district of Bihar, is almost adjacent to Bangladesh. Muslims form around 67 per cent of the district's population.

According to Navbharat Times, an unchecked influx of Bangladeshi infiltrators in the post-1971 period has changed the demographic character of the district. Bangladeshi Muslims are called "Sirsabadi" whereas local Muslims are called "Surjapuri." Muslims who have come from other parts of Bihar and UP are called "Paschimi" (western) Muslims. The strategy of the political parties is either to divide the Muslim vote or unify it according to need. A network of madrasas mushrooming all over the district is bedevilling the intelligence agencies.

A Bangladeshi Muslim who resettles in Kishanganj, uses a land grab technique, and invites several of his relatives and friends from Bangladesh. Kishanganj is part of the slender "chicken neck" that links the Northeast with the rest of India. What if this slender land route is choked and air bases in the Northeast blown up with explosives under some sinister plan by the ISI?

Now let's come to the home minister's inability to distinguish between infiltrators and refugees on religious lines. The suggestion had come from Pramod Mahajan in consonance with the BJP's long established views on the subject. Here is a simple and historic logic for such a distinction being made. Independent India developed a "secular" polity and never declared itself a Hindu state. But Pakistan that included East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, proclaimed itself an Islamic Republic. Pakistan, in principle, was created as a homeland for all Muslims of the Indian subcontinent. The residual India was meant for non-Muslims. All Muslim League leaders, between 1940 and 1946, had called for redrawing the demographic map of India through exchange of population on communal lines. However, this plan was never implemented.

So, though India was not a constitutionally Hindu country it was incumbent upon India to shelter any persecuted non-Muslim - Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist or Christian in Pakistan - or a non-Muslim willing to migrate to partitioned India. Similarly, it was incumbent upon Pakistan to accommodate any Muslim from the Indian subcontinent, either persecuted or willing to migrate. Pakistan (then West Pakistan), with its few weeks of partition, annihilated and expelled its Hindus and Sikhs who comprised around one-fifth of its population. But a large chunk of Hindus stayed back in East Pakistan only to be ejected in trickles and torrents from 1947 till date. A large number of Muslims continued to stay in West Bengal (now 25 per cent) none of whom had to migrate to East Pakistan after 1950.

In Israel, which was established within one year of India's independence, a Law of Return was promulgated in 1950 that grants every Jew, wherever he or she may be, the right to come to Israel as an oleh or aliya (a Jew immigrating to Israel), and become an Israeli citizen. Till East Pakistan existed, a Hindu could simply walk over to India especially West Bengal or Tripura, by citing communal insecurity as a reason and become an Indian. His or her educational qualifications would be valid in India at par Pakistan. All this changed with the Indira-Mujib Agreement (1972) and Treaty (1974).

When Mujib-ur-Rehman, the founder father of Bangladesh, declared Bangladesh to be a secular and democratic country, it was assumed that no Hindu, Buddhist or Christian would have reason to flee to India due to communal discrimination and persecution. But he was killed in an Army coup on August 15, 1974. The new military dictator, Zia-ur-Rehman, converted Bangladesh into a de facto Islamic state. Later, in 1988, President Mohammed Ershad officially dropped the word "secular" from Bangladesh's Constitution.

Today, Bangladesh can be aptly described as a vast concentration camp for Hindus, Buddhists and Christians. Their demographic share in Bangladesh's population has steadily plummeted. However, India never restored provisions for Hindu refugees as before 1972. India could at least go back to a pre-1971 situation when Bangladesh has de facto and de jure reneged from its commitment to secularism. '

Women as victims
In the case of minority communities under attack in the present state of Bangladesh, minority women are especially targeted. In the cases reviewed above we have seen how women have been specially victimized and terrorized. Civilian populations are using the tactics of an army during conflict. Rape or even the fear of rape has created general terror whereby whole villages reportedly flee their houses. During a war where it is women, children and old people who are left to tend the households after the men go to war, this tactic has been used time and again to break the morale fabric of a society and to get rid of the last vestiges of civil society. In the post-election violence in Bangladesh against the Hindu minorities and the in the Mahalcchari incident of CHT as well women were terrorized so that they left their homes unguarded leaving it to be looted through the night by the miscreants. It has been thought that this would break their economic backbone so that they would have to sell off their lands very cheaply to the dominant community. One wonders in such cases how such militaristic thinking seemed to have pervaded even the dominant political trends in society!
Organizer published an article in March 05, 2006. written by Basudeb Pal. He wrote in this article `West Bengal warned of globalisation of jehad ‘:
Two-day-long second international conference of Campaign Against Atrocities on Minorities of Bangladesh (CAAMB) ended with three important declarations on February 12, 2006. The conference was held at Ballygan Siksha Sadan’s Khemka auditorium in Kolkata.

General Shankar Roy Chowdhury (Retd.) and Rosaline Costa, a renowned human rights activist from Bangladesh inaugurated the conference on February 11, lighting the traditional lamp.

In his inaugural address, General Chowdhury warned the people of West Bengal as well as of India to become alert of the threats of globalisation of jehad and the changed-demographic situation of the bordering districts of this state. He pointed out that according to the last census report (2001), along the 20 to 25 kilometers of the Indian side of West Bengal the Hindus have become minority. “The fact that How miserably the minorities of Bangladesh are living there in an inhuman condition is very significant for us. Although the creation of Bangladesh could be made possible because of the sacrifice of the thousands of Indian jawans. Not a single Islamic state then wanted the rise of Bangladesh. Now we must not keep aloof from the happenings Bangladesh. We can take a lesson from Pervez Musharraf, the President of Pakistan, who says, ‘We are providing political help to the freedom fighters in Jammu & Kashmir only’. We must also help those who are fighting in Bangladesh for the human rights of the Hindus, Christians and Buddhists, said Gen. Chowdhury .

In his presidential address, Prof. Sunand Sanyal (Retd.) said: “He is fighter under the banner ‘Gan-Mukti Parishad’ for demanding the valuable voting right of the citizens of West Bengal with the cadres of the ruling parties.” He ridiculed the love of the left for the Muslims.

Advocate Rana Dasgupta, Rosaline Costa and Advocate Rabindra Ghosh vividly described the true story of inhuman torture, rape, gang-rape of the women of Hindus, Christians and Buddhists including minor girls, incidents of forcibly conversion to Islam, etc. Shri Costa also said they are bound to compromise to recover a girl of minority community from those who have raped her. There is no human right for the minorities in Bangladesh. He further said there are more than eighty thousands madrasas producing jehadis in large number in Bangladesh. Dr Ajay Roy, a leader of Hindu-Buddha-Christian Unity Council and a freedom fighter, who had taken part in the freedom movement of Bangladesh, said they wanted to fight for true freedom of every citizen in Bangladesh. He blamed the Bangladesh government for telling a complete lie at every international platform that there is a complete harmony and all the minority communities are exercising their rights fully. He himself heard that in a seminar in London from the High Commissioner of Bangladesh there, he added.

The two writers of Kolkata- Esha Dey and Maitreye Chattopadhay-strongly criticised the so-called intelligentia and media of West Bengal for not highlighting the true incidents of cruelty said that happened in Bangladesh everyday. She said the ‘secular’ brigade came out to street when riots occurred in Gujarat and America attacked Iraq but they maintain studied silence when the minorities are cruelly tortured in Bangladesh.

Esha Dey said that both Bangladesh and Pakistan are Muslim-majority states and ruled by the Muslims but India being a Hindu-majority country is ruling in favour of the minorities (Muslims).

Achinta Gupta conducted the convention and poet Kamlesh Sen offered vote of thanks. Many speakers from New York (Pabitra Chowdhury, Nicoleus Sikdar), Sisir Mazumdar (London), Aloke Chowdhury (Canada), Arunjyoti Barua (Switzerland) spoke on the occasion.

Mohit Roy, convener of CAAMB’s Kolkata chapter, read the declarations.

(The author can be contacted at 27/1B, Bidhan Sarani Kolkata-700 006.)

Bangldesh prespective is different, it may be understood. This article shows the Bangladeshi outlook on thi issue:
Crossfire War: South Asia Theatre; Calcutta Conspiracy: No Sovereignty for Bangladesh? - Mohammad Zainal Abedin
Filed under: Night Watch Information Service— willard @ 7:43 pm
Night Watch Team: DHAKA - It is very astonishing and pitiful that a foreign national dared to speak against the sovereignty, separate identity and existence of Bangladesh in the very presence of a Bangladeshi, who claims himself a vanguard of the spirit of independence. One Indian national Sriti Kumar Sarkar, addressing a discussion meeting in Calcutta of India on October 1, made an insane comment saying that Bangladesh does not need to have a separate existence or sovereignty.

According to his prescription, the prosperity that will take place in this region, (probably he referred to India), will automatically develop this part of the world, which is now known as Bangladesh. What a strange and audacious argument it is! The Bangladeshi national, Shahriar Kabir, who was present at the discussion meeting held at the Calcutta Academy of Fine Arts did not protest the utterance of Sriti Kumar Sarkar, a teacher of Kolaynee University of West Bengal.

Silence of Shahriar Kabir proved that he clandestinely supported and welcomed the prescription of Sritir Kumar. When this report was published in a section of Bangladeshi dailies, the vanguards of the spirit of independence Awami League and its associates did not react or protest. This silence also indicates to the acceptance of the comment of Sarkar.

A Calcutta-based RAW-(Research and Analysis Wing, Indian Intelligence) sponsored organisation ‘Campaign Against the Atrocities on Minority in Bangladesh’ (CAAMB) failed to conceal its anti-Bangladesh bias. The very name of this organisation indicates its aims and objectives. This organisation arranged the so-called discussion meeting in Calcutta attended by 35 to 40 persons, including one Bangladeshi - Shahriar Kabir, an infamous India-tilted element.

The topic of the discussion was: Demography, Infiltration and the Minority of Bangladesh: Some Questions. Among others CAAMB convenor Muhit Roy, Director of Centre for Research in Indo-Bangladesh Relation Bimol Pramanik, Prof. of Kalayani University Sriti Kumar Sarkar, Poet Amaylesh Sen, Prof. Joyanta Roy and Shahriar Kabir of Bangladesh addressed the discussion meeting.

Sriti Kumar Sarkar in his speech said, Bangladesh does not need sovereignty and separate existence for the overall development of South Asia. He prescribed that the prosperity that will take place in this region, (probably he referred to India), will automatically develop this part of the world, which is now known as Bangladesh. This means, Sriti Kumar prefers to wither away Bangladesh. He did not directly suggest that Bangladesh should merge with India.

But his cowardice utterance indicates so. If Bangladesh loses its sovereignty and separate existence its territory and people cannot jump to the sky. They will remain on earth, not as citizens of an independent country, but as the slaves of India. What a nonsensical and stupidity a university professor could utter! I have no language to condemn him and his utterance. I feel pity for his narrowness and communal hatred.

This type of utterance is equivalent to declaring war against the country. This irresponsible and utopian utterance pains and hurts the patriotic forces of Bangladesh. The continual process of repeating anti-Bangladesh campaign virtually uncovers the depth of the hatred of the communal Hindus against the Muslims. Hindus cannot tolerate the existence of a separate country for the Bangalee Muslims.

To keep the Muslims under their feet, Hindus revolted against the partition of Bengal in 1905, because the partition went, according to then Hindu elites and intellectuals, in favour of Muslim interest. In 1947, when the Muslims wanted to have undivided independent Bengal, out of India and Pakistan, with its capital in Calcutta, the Hindus strongly opposed it, as such arrangement, according to them would have gone in favour of the Muslims. So they opted to divide Bengal into two, so that the portion that would go to Pakistan could return to the fold of India soon.

India’s assistance in the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971, did not originate from their sense of humanity for the warring people of Bangladesh, but to dismember Pakistan, to weaken the Muslim power in the subcontinent and finally merge them to ‘greater Bharat, what Nehru termed it ‘Awakhand Bharat’. Indian leaders though that dismemberment of Pakistan would lead to the accession of Bangladesh to India.

Despite relentless conspiracy that did not happen yet, Bangladesh rather gradually emerges as a strong state and poses to get out of Indian influence. Indians feel envious at the prosperity of the Muslims whether they are Bangladeshi or Pakistanis. It is beyond their blueprint. They never dreamt that the Bengalee Muslims should have an independent and sovereign country their own.

The high-rise building in Dhaka and elsewhere in Bangladesh, its flag that flies in Calcutta and elsewhere in the world, the long queues of cars and vehicles in our cities, high living standard, growing per-capita income, above all, educated and trained patriotic manpower, etc. pain the Hindus. The Hindus suffer from mental agony seeing the prosperity of the Muslims of British East Bengal, who were supposed to remain as their tenants, slaves and agricultural labourers. They design to pull us to that dark era.

To reach to that goal India leaves no stone unturned to disturb and squeeze Bangladesh. For this reason, the Hindus vehemently opposed the partition of India and creation of a separate homeland for the Muslims. After 59 years of the partition of the subcontinent, the Hindus still feel pity not for getting the Muslims as their maidservants, and farm workers. Hindus did not hesitate to express their agony in public.

Hindu leaders belonging to the Jatiya Puja Udjapan Committee in a meeting held at Dhakeshari Mandir on August 20, 2004, publicly said that is was a pity for them that no Muslim is available to work in the houses of the Hindus. Muslims do not want to work in the houses of the Hindus. According to them it is a very unfortunate change and it started since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

I think no more explanation is needed why so-called professor Sriti Kumar Sarkar felt that Bangladesh does not need separate existence and sovereignty. The Hindus sitll work to make the Muslims their slaves. Sriti Kumar expressed that dream in other way. One would get zero logic why the Indians contemptuously comment on Bangladesh frequently. Only a fool may believe that Bangladesh could be a threat to India. But the Indian leaders shamelessly brand Bangladesh as their dangerous foe.

It is to be mentioned that Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister, was busy in holding meetings with the Indian ministers in New Delhi while Sriti Kumar made his anti-Bangladesh utterance. It is strange that she did also not protest the most objectionable utterance of the Indian national. She reached Calcutta from New Delhi on the following day, October 2, when the Indian dallies carried this report.
HRCBM in Brief
HRCBM is a worldwide campaigning movement dedicated to protecting the human rights of people in Bangladesh. In particular, we work for minorities in Bangladesh. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct, and to bring offenders to justice.
We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We demand government and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We follow the guideline enshrined in UDHR, International Bill of Rights and other standards. In general we are working to end xenophobia, human rights abuse, racial discrimination, civil resentment, brutality and oppression against minorities in Bangladesh.

Mission Statement
We are a human rights organization and has no political interest of any sorts, however we will oppose any government law that discriminate minorities including 8th amendment of Bangladesh constitution and vested property act. Racial discrimination and xenophobia in Bangladesh must be ended and any offender who has committed human rights abuse against minorities should be prosecuted. We will pursue our activities through worldwide campaign and followed by appeal to government of Bangladesh and world leaders to end human rights abuses in Bangladesh.

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