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Bangladeshi immigrants hound out indigenous Assamese

Meri News
10/19/2008

Assam State, IndiaWho can save the indigenous people in Assam? Can the government of Assam, ever hear the cry of the indigenous people? Legislation is the need of the hour to protect the indigenous people in their own land, before it is too late..

 

CJ: Monjib Mochahari

MORE THAN two-lakh people in relief camps, more than 1000 houses burnt to ashes, more than 60 lives lost. All this is no wonder, but the smoke and flame is on and people are now roofless even in their own land. Who is responsible for such a grim tragedy? Every passing year, the landscape is changing in the hands of the illegal Bangladeshi settlers in Assam. In small groups, they are pouring into the land of the local people. Is the state government so caring towards the unwanted guests?

No wonder, reality is yet to stare us in the face. We are all there to experience it. The illegal settlers will become the real king makers in the next couple of years, in Assam. Even then, successive governments with their vote bank politics failed to accept the reality. But the people of Assam continue to suffer.

By turning a blind-eye to the situation, the government is adding to the agony of peace-loving indigenous people, whose very survivable is under threat today.


To live with Bangladeshis is a curse.

The ongoing clash in Udalguri and Darrrang districts is a clear indication of the ground reality that the immigrants from Bangladesh will continue to ignite fuel to the local people in order to occupy their land.

The clash in Udalguri and Darrang district is not between Bodos and illegal Muslim settlers. Its between the indigenous tribes and illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. Though, the Bodos are the main sufferer in the communal flare-ups, other communities like Rabbhas, Garos, Addibasis, Nepali, Assamese are equally being threatened in their own motherland.But the governments denied to acknowledge the truth.

Today, indeginious people are on the verge of extinction due to increased pressure from the illegal immigrants. In eight of the twenty-seven districts in Assam, indigenous people have already become minority.

The hour has come to give safety and security to the people of Assam against illegal immigrants. By imposing indefinite curfew in the region will not solve the problem. Unless and until the massive migration of Bangladeshis in Assam is stopped for ever, the indigenous people in Assam will continue to be the victim of Bangladeshi immigrants. For this, a specific law is needed to prevent any further escalation of the grim problem.

The state government cannot turn a blind eye to the indigenous people. To provide safety and security to the people is the responsibility of the state government. CM Tarun Gogoi is making a mockery of the people of Assam by calling the illegal immigrants as citizens of India.

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Assam is , rather was......
The fact that I am the first person to comment on this article, after 1(one) full year, inspite of 1326 page hits is ample proof that the readers are apathetic, to say the least, to the whole issue. Multitude ethnic tribes and cultures are on the brink of extinction, and the demography of Assam as a whole has been changed. The tribes in interior villages are either getting hounded out by hordes of silent but menacing invasion of bangaldsehi settlers, or are being plainly neglected by the powers-that-be into oblivion. But the Assamese (for the greater good of all the indigenous people and tribes, they better consider themselves to be united under one broad name even now at this crucial juncture, rather than consider themselves as belonging to this community or that tribe when their numbers just add up to a few lakhs at the most, within their fractious tribal set-ups)are either too lazy, too passive, too self-centered, too self-destructive or on the other hand are being repressed by the state machinery (read Centre)into abject submission and loss of identity of any sorts. The entire people of this region, have been known to be of simple, gullible, indolent and accomodative nature, which has been well exploited first by the Britishers, then the business seekers from erstwhile Marwar kingdoms (which has continued well into this present century), followed by labourers from Bihar, then the refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan which became an obvert influx of the very pepole who were driving out the minorities from there. Today, when the Assamese (meaning the Assamese, Bodos, Mishings, Karbis, Ahoms, Kacharis, Deuris, Dimasa, Tiwas,Garos, Khasis,tea tribes and the other small tribes are at the brink of their end__ of land, identity, language, political rights, culture, customs etc. And, the Government of India (mostly run by Congress Party whose interests are inimical to the indigenous people), whose Constitution guarantees to safeguard its people is the main culprit in dealing the death blow to the civilization that once existed in these parts..... since, (what irony), independence itself in 1947. What is the term that describes a situation where the Govt, itself trains its destructive will & power on its own people__ is it called SECULARISM ? or, SELECTIVE GENOCIDE. !!!! Maybe, when somebody comes up with an answer to this, the next time around, Assam will no longer exist and be all history only, and we will have a Bangladeshi pretending to be an Indian pretending to rule a part of India pretending to be a constituent state. As Assam is still a political and geographical part of India now, the acts of omission & commision by the rulers (Center)and their cohorts in Assam, in destroying and finishing its own people is an act of treason and subversion. But who cares when we all toe the official line, and pretend everything is hunky-dory and there is no such thing as INFILTRATION from across the borders__ Bangladeshis__ pooh, pooh__ tell me if u have seen even one at all, and I will show you a hundred Assamese who will vouch for that__ won't you, you miserable fellas, wont you (growl) or else, I will let in some more of those characters you dislike, to quietly sneak in. You Assamese are good at pretending there is even some thing as impossible as a Bangladeshi immigrant. Tcch, tcchhh. India is one big nation of diverse people__ so what if we cannot annex another country, we can allow them to come and vex the most docile set of people within our borders. Tcchh, Tcchhh! Paradise Lost, Paradox gained. Tcchhhhhhh.

Posted by: Riff Raff on 10/22/2009

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