00:00Harin Chandra Singha received a distressing call from his family.
00:04Their home was torched in Bangladesh.
00:07Bangladesh has been in a state of turmoil
00:10after weeks-long violent protests against a controversial Job Khota scheme.
00:16The student-led demonstrations forced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
00:21to resign and flee to India.
00:23Singha lives in Khoch Bihar,
00:25a city in India's West Bengal state that borders Bangladesh.
00:29He moved to India in 1971
00:31during Bangladesh's War of Liberation against Pakistan.
00:35Some of his family members continue to live on the other side of the border.
00:39Following Hasina's departure,
00:41there have been reports of violent mobs attacking minority groups
00:45and their places of worship.
00:59Many people like Singha are worried about the future of the country.
01:03They are worried about the future of the country.
01:06They are worried about the future of the country.
01:09They are worried about the future of the country.
01:12They are worried about the future of the country.
01:15They are worried about the future of the country.
01:18They are worried about the future of the country.
01:21They are worried about the future of the country.
01:24They are worried about the future of the country.
01:27Many people like Singha are worried about their relatives in Bangladesh.
01:31Thousands have gathered at the Indian border,
01:34hoping to get refuge in India.
01:36But the Bangladesh Border Guards
01:38and Indian Border Security Force are not allowing it.
01:41India shares a 4,100-kilometre-long border with Bangladesh.
01:58There is a river.
02:00The river has a lot of water.
02:02That's why we can't cross it.
02:06Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
02:08recently said that his government will protect Bangladeshi Hindus.
02:12But the border situation is more complex than these promises.
02:16Sara Prasad Das, a local leader, is working as a mediator
02:20between Indian and Bangladeshi forces
02:22and the people gathered along the border.
02:26Many people came to the border on the 9th,
02:30about a thousand people.
02:33They sent an order to leave.
02:36We are saying that our generation is Bangladesh.
02:39Our West Bengal is Bangladesh.
02:42We are all Bengalis.
02:44We all live together.
02:46You should all try to understand each other
02:49so that there are no unnecessary incidents.
02:52Many people in Koch, Bihar told DW that they will welcome the refugees from Bangladesh
03:04as they have gone through similar experiences, but they are also wary of the possible conflicts
03:11in the future.
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