Students’ body welcomes Arunachal Pradesh move to relocate Chakmas, Hajongs
The Hindu
Refugees settled in State after they were displaced in erstwhile East Pakistan
An apex students’ organisation has welcomed the Arunachal Pradesh government’s decision to relocate Chakma and Hajong settlers beyond the State. The Buddhist Chakmas and Hindu Hajongs were displaced by a dam in erstwhile East Pakistan and mostly settled in southern Arunachal Pradesh from 1964-69. Some had faced religious persecution. Indigenous communities in the frontier State have for decades demanded the resettlement of the refugees, now numbering more than 60,000, arguing that they had not been consulted when New Delhi decided to settle the Chakmas and Hajongs 1,200 km east of their home in present-day Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts.
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