[Assam] Urging Justice for Detained Burmese in India

[Nava Thakuria]

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Urging Justice for Detained Burmese in India
 
The pro-democracy Indian civil society groups and the exile Burmese in India came one and all to raise voice for the detained 34 Burmese freedom fighters in the Kolkata Presidency Jail for their immediate release and to mount pressure on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for granting refugee status to those detainees. 

To mark a decade long illegal detention (of those Burmese), the Burmese pro-democracy organizations in India had organized a protest demonstration program in New Delhi on February 11. Simultaneously a book titled 'Rough Agent', authored by a reputed human rights lawyer Nandita Haksar and published by the Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., was released by Dr Tint Swe, a minister of National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (in exile) in the national capital.