Illegal 'Bengalees' in NE India

After the suspected racial profiling in Assam in northeastern (NE) India, now the state of Meghalaya is being found on the scene. True, thousands of Bengalees crossed the border into that state in 1971 after the Pakistani junta started genocide in the occupied Bangladesh. They returned to their independent homeland, like those in West Bengal and Tripura.

The other day a news commentator on India's Zee News channel alleged that a large number of the Bengalees who took shelter in West Bengal refugee camps in 1971 stayed back. It's a blatant distortion of truth.

K.M. Choudhury

Laxmi Bazar,

Dhaka