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Cross-Currents: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal on Humanities & Social Sciences | Volume-1 | Issue-02
Statelessness : A Study of Chakma Refugees of Arunachal Pradesh
Dr. K.C. Das, Adidur Rahman
Published: Dec. 25, 2015 |
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DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2015.v01i02.005
Pages: 50-54
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Abstract
The word statelessness has long been recognized as an important problem in international law. Nowhere is the
problem of statelessness more acute than in South East Asia. The Sri Lankans, Tibetan, Afghani etc. in India, Burmese in
Thailand and in Bangladesh, Vietnamese refugees in Cambodia and many ethnic Chinese in all parts of South East Asia
are currently stateless and thus specially vulnerable the same type of human rights abuses as those suffered by the
Chakmas of Arunachal Pradesh. The Chakmas are the victims of the partition of the country. They were displaced from
their original homeland and migrated to Northeast India. They were rehabilitated in NEFA by the Government of India
but still fighting for citizenship status. The present paper examines the statelessness of the Chakmas of North East India,
especially in Arunachal Pradesh. It tries to analyze the origin of the problem of migration of the Chakmas from
Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of erstwhile East Pakistan to Mizoram and Tripura and their rehabilitation in NEFA (now
Arunachal Pradesh). It examines the causes of reactions from the Arunachali indigenous tribes, the All Arunachal
Pradesh Students Union and from the State Government. The paper concludes with a study of the role of the Chakma
organizations, the Union Government and the Supreme Court in the fight for Indian citizenship status of the Chakmas.