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From: lazarus@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Andrew J &)
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Subject: Rajiv Gandhi takes a cue from the ultra-Zionists
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 21:23:07 EST
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The Sunday 12/15 and Tuesday 12/17 _NY Times_ contain some interesting
news about elections in the Indian state of Assam.  You may remember
Assam as a state in NE India where riots 2 years ago killed thousands
of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh.  (The rioters were Assamese and Hindu
Indians.)

The Indian government quelled these riots with an agreement, which,
according to the newspaper, included these provisions:  1.  Immigrants
from after 1971 would be expelled from Assam, in some cases back to
Bangladesh.  This affects between 500,000 and 1 million people.
(i.e. about the population of the West Bank)  2.  Immigrants from
between 1966 and 1971 (tens of thousands more) may remain but lose
the right to vote for ten years.

I look forward to a justification of these events from certain persons
who criticise the Israeli government for pursuing a rather similar
(perhaps even more moderate!) policy.....

Why is the Arab/Israeli
conflict is at the center of the stage -- no UN session is complete
without a new anti-Zionist declaration -- while stories like these
remain on the back pages?

andy