Ex-DG BSF on Dandakaranya Project and How Tribals Displaced for Bangladeshi Refugees

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In an exclusive interview, former DG of BSF speaks on the controversial Dandakaranya Project, where tribal communities were forcibly displaced to resettle Bangladeshi refugees during the 1971 war. This discussion sheds light on the social and human costs of this resettlement, the impact on indigenous populations, and the lasting implications on tribal rights in India. Watch.   Watch full Interview: https://youtu.be/CVtTz64Hjag  #Infocus #DandakaranyaProject #ExDG #BSF #TribalDisplacement #BangladeshiRefugees #1971War #IndiaHistory #HumanRights #TribalRights #india   🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE  Download the Asianet News App now!  Available on Android & iOS  👉 Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vserv.asianet&hl=en_IN   👉 iOS:  https://apps.apple.com/in/app/asianet-news-official/id1093450032   For More Updates:  Follow us on our What's app Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va5Bq3yKwqSLSQTxam0r  English: https://newsable.asianetnews.com/  Hindi: https://hindi.asianetnews.com/  Malayalam: https://www.asianetnews.com/  Kannada: https://kannada.asianetnews.com/  Tamil: https://tamil.asianetnews.com/  Telugu: https://telugu.asianetnews.com/  Bengali: https://bangla.asianetnews.com/  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianetNewsa...  Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ann.newsable/  ➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports and more.

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00:00I call it civil operation. That is all this development. That is what Honorable Prime Minister

00:05tells. Because until and unless you don't do that, civilians will not come to you because they have

00:11not seen the world. They do not know anything. I'm very sure I've talked to them several times.

00:18They don't get anything. You know, the sugar was 75 rupees a kg. That's what in 2013 I was checking.

00:25That time it was 75 rupees a kg in Tulsi Duguri and those areas where I have gone. I have gone like

00:32you. I didn't go as a police officer. I went as a journalist with a separate telephone with chapel

00:38and I didn't take any any help from anybody. So, I went to Tulsi Duguri and there I found they never

00:44get any reason and government reason or anything. So, that is how it has reached them. Now, our

00:52battalion, our forwarding of forward operating bases, we also receive those items from state

00:58masonry and all. We also help in distributing it to the villagers as per their need, as per their

01:07quality and quantity concerned we give them. And the best part of it, a lot of them are being

01:14taken in state masonry also. Not only in police forces, they are being taken in civil

01:21areas also particularly in the health sector, education sector, a lot of ladies have been

01:27employed. And the young girls, we thought of teaching them because you see the Buster Olympics

01:34did come up. The Buster Olympics has also helped them. Now, the best part of it, the ladies and the

01:41young girls in those areas, they must come up. I salute to those ladies and tribal ladies.

01:47They are telling their children, please don't. They are not telling, they are forcing their children.

01:53Go and study. You will get a job. Don't go to the zoonaxals. They have already humiliated us. They have

02:00already killed a lot of us. Now, this is the final thing. We, not even our children should ever join

02:09Mao Zim. Mao Zim is going to be finished. And the best part of it, I request all the states,

02:16they must, their civil organizations must enter, penetrate to those areas where we are there with

02:24our forwarding bases. And they must start developing, developing in every respect so that we take the

02:31help. We get the help of those tribals. Tribals are sun of the soil. Let us first look after them. I'll give

02:37you now one example. In Sunabada, Kurapur, Dhandakaranya, when in 1971, we had war with Bangladesh. About

02:4950 to 60,000 Bangladesh refugees entered and they were settled in Dhandakaranya by our honorable so-called

03:00prime minister. Then, in 1971, I mean, beginning of 1972. Anyway, you will come to know who was the

03:08prime minister. And what happened there? What happened there? They removed all those tribals from that

03:16area and they gave land, they gave, I mean, cows, they gave bullocks to all these Bangladesh migrants

03:25and sending them out to our own tribals. But they will do that. They became Naxalites. This is not the

03:34way for Bangladesh refugees. Our people suffered. Tribals were not looked after. We thought perhaps

03:42they are from some other country. That is what they also thought about us, that we are their enemy.

03:48We get all the facilities, but they don't get anything. That is what Naxalijim and Mahavajim,

03:55it flourished in Red Corridor. And now, the Red Corridor is not there in 11 districts. I am very sure

04:03it has gone down to 9 districts. Earlier, it was in more than 180, I think. 150, yes. It is now 9,

04:11it is not 11. As it was told during Hidma's encounter, now it is 9 districts. And those 9 districts,

04:19all our forces are now entering. We are getting more forces there and we are entering. We will ensure

04:25these, these all 9 districts will be free of biology very soon.

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