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Northeast Echoes : Relief and rehabilitation not easy
The Telegraph | Patricia Mukhim | Aug 26
There is fear everywhere. We are not better placed today than we were in the past to analyse the cause of fear and paranoia that sent droves of students and job holders rushing back to their homes from Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai and Pune.
People displaced within their own country are not called refugees. But isn’t there a UN policy for internally-displaced people when the Indian state has obviously failed to rehabilitate its own citizens? The clamour that “illegal immigrants” form a substantial chunk of the displaced does not take away from the pressure of offering them humanitarian aid. In such a wretched situation those who render assistance cannot be partisan.
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