Silent Demographic Invasion in Northeast India

Necessity, Importance and Problems of International Barbed Wire Border Fencing: an exclusive report by Shib Shankar Chatterjee:

Episode/Incident happens In Assam State

“..... Our houses are situated within India, but right on the ‘Zero Line’ of the Indo-Bangla International Border. We are feeling insecure because, our houses have gone beyond the International Barbed Wire Border Fencing (IBWBF). As a result of this, the Bangladeshi miscreants always not only steal away our cows, food-grains and others properties but also cut our crops as we can’t go and protect it. Even, sometimes they have wanted to take shelter forcibly in our house on gunpoint after committed crimes in their respective lands. Most dangerous thing is that few months ago (around early of the year 1998), our neighbour, Narayan Barman was kidnapped by the Bangladeshi miscreants, when he was working his paddy fields, which is outside of the IBWBF and kept him captive around 03 months.

To combat this illegal activities of the Bangladeshi criminals, the village people set up Village Defense Party (VDP) with the strength of 50 numbers to 60 numbers of young and middle-aged man and the young chaps, who exercise their patrolling duty by term round-the-clock .....”, revealed Prafulla Kumar Roy, the inhabitants of Bhogdanga-kutti village and Narayan Barman, the denizen of Bishkhowa village. Both the hamlets are situated under Dhubri district of Eastern Indian State, Assam.