21 August 1998, India Abroad

By Vasantha Arora

India is home to over 320,000 refugees, but has no coordinated approach to deal with them or their problems, according to a U.S. report.

Of the total number of refugees in India, 110,000 are from Tibet, 100,000 from Sri Lanka and 40,000 each from Bangladesh and Burma. In addition to these foreigners, India has about 200,000 internally displaced persons, says the report, released by the U.S. Committee for Refugees, a Washington-based nonprofit humanitarian organization.

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TNN Nov 22, 2001 | The Times of India

new delhi: the south asia human rights documentation centre (sahrdc) has described the prevention of terrorism ordinance (poto) as ”yet another blot on india’s democratic fabric”. in a booklet on poto, ”government decides to play judge and jury”, released on tuesday, sahrdc says there is not a single provision in the ordinance — except those which contradict the crpc, ipc, evidence act or the constitution — that is not covered by existing laws such as the nsa, armed forces special powers act, unlawful activities (prevention) act, prevention of seditious meetings act and a host of other acts.

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The Statesman

NEW DELHI, 26 Oct. 1998 – A report on the situation in Bhutan has warned of a possible conflagration if the root causes of the unrest are not addressed.

The situation there, with the presence of the Indian insurgent groups, the unrest amongst the Lhotsampas of south Bhutan and the Sharchop community of eastern Bhutan and the presence of a large number of small arms in the region has been described by the South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre as a powder keg.

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