According to sources here on Monday, intelligence inputs suggest that some Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators may be working under the guise of municipal sanitation workers.
He called for unified international efforts to address the crisis faced by the Rohingya and other ethnic minorities in the country.
In recent times, it has made headlines that in the name of SIR, a large number of Bengali workers engaged in jobs across different states of India are being questioned, detained, and harassed by the police on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshis or Rohingyas.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Friday called on the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus to bolster diplomatic efforts and exert pressure on Myanmar to facilitate the safe, dignified, and voluntary repatriation of Rohingyas who sought refuge in Bangladesh.
“Tripura shares a long and porous international border with Bangladesh. If any Bangladeshi or Rohingya tries to enter the state illegally, we will not allow them. And if they somehow manage to sneak in, we will ensure they are pushed back after following the legal procedures,” Saha told reporters.
Hitler began with victimizing the Jews but this soon spread to the Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, blacks, the physically and mentally disabled, political opponents…. dissenting clergy, resistance fighters, prisoners of war, Slavic peoples etc. (Ina R. Friedman). Can we perhaps see a trend building in India too? First, we start with an antipathy towards the lower castes, then it may escalate to others who don’t look like us (peoples from the north-east), then the Dravidian southerners and soon who will be left outside this hate-filled ambit?
The state government also provided the names of Rohingya refugees who were staying in the northeast division of the city. It further added that all these Rohingyas, except those below 12 years of age, have been given individual numbers by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
It is learnt that the North Bengal Frontier BSF has apprehended 167 smugglers since January 2021. Of them, 97 have been identified as Indians. During the same period, 4167 cattle heads were seized by the BSF, with their estimated value at Rs 6,33,12,530.
The extent to which the in house spilling of the beans will tarnish the standing of the omnipotent military and a generally tightlipped Suu Kyi can only be speculated upon.
To buttress the impact of the crisis that has shaken the world, the UN chief has drawn a fine distinction between a health crisis and a “human crisis”.
