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From: varikoot@gondor.UUCP (kill)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Rajiv Gandhi takes a cue from the ultra-Zionists
Message-ID: <1952@gondor.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 11:46:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 11:46:07 1985
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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)
   These immigrants are illegal immigrants. Bangladesh and India had
   a pact that after the 1971 war that all illegal immigrants to India
   will be taken back by Bangladesh.
> 2.  Immigrants from
> between 1966 and 1971 (tens of thousands more) may remain but lose
> the right to vote for ten years.
>
  Even these immigrants are illegal but since they have not been covered
  under the treaty it was proposed to regularise their situation after
  ten years. The US congress is proposing a somewhat akin regularisation
  of illegal immigrants before 1984 ( ? )

     
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