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To: kumar who wrote (2949)	1/29/2003 11:41:10 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 15987

And this is probably not a good time to remind him that the finances for IRA came from the US for the most part. Remember IRA, Baader Meinhoff, Red Brigade ? Remember Munich Olympics 1972 ?

To: kumar who wrote (2949)	1/29/2003 8:15:19 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Expelling the aliens 16 January 2003 The Indian government has labelled its 20 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants a security risk, and plans to forcibly repatriate them. The immigrants, many of whom fled to India after its 1971 war with Pakistan, are mainly Muslims and hence regarded as a threat by the India's ruling Hindu BJP party. Delhi says some Bangladeshis are working for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, while others are common criminals. "The presence of a large number of illegal foreign immigrants, particularly from Bangladesh, poses a serious threat to internal security and needs to be tackled with the utmost urgency and seriousness that it deserves," the Indian home ministry said in a statement. Impractical Aid groups and other NGOs have dismissed the expulsion call as both politically motivated and impractical. They say Bangladeshis living in India already suffer police harassment. PR Chari, of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in Delhi, says he has seen no evidence that Bangladeshi immigrants represent a security risk. PR Chari speaking to Newsline´s Lovejit Dhaliwal 3´12 "I have not come across . . . any kind of firm evidence, apart from suspicions that might exist, that these unfortunate people pose a security threat. In fact, most of them lead a rather miserable existence, and are exploited by local people for all kinds of purposes." Dr Chari questions both the numbers of immigrants, and the practicality of moving them. "Assuming there are a few million involved, it would be extremely difficult. How would they be identified, how would they be forced to return to Bangladesh? I personally think this is a political statement, and nothing more than that." "It's partly [playing on the fears of the Indian electorate], and it's partly ideological. The party in power, the BJP, had made it an election plank, and had inscribed this in their manifesto, that they would expel all illegal immigrants who had entered India, particularly Bangladeshis, but also some Pakistanis who come here on valid visas, and then overstay." Economic reasoning Dr Chari also points out that the expulsion idea is politically popular because the Bangladeshis are in economic competition with poor Indians. It is estimated that half of all Bangladeshi immigrants in India have remained close to their homeland, in the northeastern states of West Bengal and Assam. To stem the flow of migrants, India is building a fence along its 4300km-long border with Bangladesh. oneworld.org