Monday, June 22, 2009

steps to second partition: Follow legal route and you wait endlessly, become illegal immigrant and you are vote bank

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    • Sadla (Surendranagar)
    • these six families have been running from pillar to post to attain Indian citizenship.
    • Facing harassment on the other side of the border, both by neighbours and authorities, these families crossed over to India in 1995.
    • They say they were subjected to humiliation by the residents and authorities in Pakistan. And it became unbearable when the “humiliation passed on to their female members”. “Females in the families had to face a lot of problems and so we had to move to India,” says Vershi.

    • “We told them that either keep us in India or kill us,” said Raniben, Vershi’s wife.

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