8/12/2019 Biharis in Panic, Insecurity With Repeated Attack, Clash

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Biharis in panic, insecurity with repeated attack, clash

Staff Correspondent----------------Iqbal Mahmud

The Urdu-speaking community people were passing their days in insecurity andpanicked as there have been repeated attacks on them and clashes with lawenforcers in last few days

! "resh clash erupted between stranded #akistanis and police in Mohammadpur$s%eneva Camp on Monday afternoon as the Urdu speaking people were staginghunger strike and sit-in protesting an attack on the &ihari camp at 'alshi in thecapital

The clash occurred two days after the gruesome arson attack on Saturday at

#akistani relief camp in 'alshi that burnt nine people to death and another gunneddown

The stranded #akistanis people and their leaders said that they have been facingthreats and adverse attitudes from the lawmakers( administration and lawenforcement agencies

)uman rights watch dogs were also blaming the influential lawmaker and policefor the repressive actions

The Stranded #akistanis %eneral *epatriation Committee general secretaryShawkat !li told +ew !ge that they are being victimi,ed by lawmakers who luststo grab their land and the most unfortunate that they are also getting accused incases

arlier on Saturday( nine people including eight members of a family were burntalive as locals set several houses on fire at 'alshi &ihari camp in Mirpur in a seriesof clashes with &ihari people over firecracker e.plosion !nother &ihari man died

after being hit by bullets during the attackThe following day( they were barred from staging demonstration there They wereeven not allowed to file cases seeking /ustice( alleged the Urdu-speaking people

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There are =6 camps for stranded #akistani people in the country where over threelakh people live in congested atmosphere

The Urdu-speaking &iharis are descendants of Muslim refugees who fled from

India after the partition of 1>:=( fearing communal riots3uring the 1>=1 &angladesh$s =:

In 766?( about 1;6(666 &iharis( who were minors at the time of the liberation warof 1>=1 or born after were given citi,enship rights They were able to vote for the

first time

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