[Assam] Is Assam going the Kashmir way?
Pradip Kumar Datta
pradip200 at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 4 11:05:26 PDT 2008
Is Assam going the Kashmir way?
Issue of illegal immigration is nothing new for the Indian government. With increase in population and lack of job opportunities, this matter has now reached its zenith point. Besides immigration harbours causes for more terrorist activities.
THE LARGE-scale influx of Bangladeshis into Assam has been continuing from the pre-independence times. This unprecedented migration gave rise to a historic movement, the Assam Agitation (sometimes referred to as the Assam Movement) between 1979 and 1985 to force the government to identify and expel the illegal migrants. The problem has now reached epidemic...more
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