Assam: Bongaigaon relief camp turns into home for refugees - NewsX

  • 5 years ago
The recent outburst of violence in Assam is but a symptom of long standing unrest and fear psychosis becoming part and parcel of the lives of the Assamese people. News X visits a relief camp in Bongaigaon set up in 1993. It's as good as a permanent village now with next to no signs of things ever changing here. Since 1993 these people have been living under the shadow of goverment apathy as permanent refugees. in 1995 an attempt to rehabilitate them failed misereably under fresh attack and ever since they have been forced to live as permanent refugees.

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