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Assam’s Evictions Are Turning Skilled Bengali Muslim Farmers Into Labourers -Makepeace Sitlhou

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In driving out ‘illegal encroachers’ from farms in an area smaller than Assam’s capital for an agriculture project that does not interest native Assamese, the Bharatiya Janata Party government is dispossessing productive Bengali Muslim farmers, many of whom say they bought land from locals and have been paying land taxes, some for up to 70 years.

Darrang, Assam: On the day Moinul Haque, 28, was shot in the abdomen and killed by an AK-47 bullet fired by a policeman in this district in the central part of the state, his family moved from their 30-year-old tin-walled home that was dismantled in a government eviction drive on the day of his killing to the 1,000 bighas (330 acres) of land allotted temporarily to their village, across a shallow stream.

In the low-lying khas (wasteland), a hastily erected tin roof was now the Haques’ home. Children dipped in the water to cool off from the scorching heat, as farmers washed their cattle and tractors a few metres away.

The Haques are among 1,300 families of illegal immigrants encroaching government land in the villages Dhalpur 1 and 3, located in Darrang district in the Sipajhar revenue circle, according to the state government. The villages stand on southern Assam’s chars or sand bars, shifting islands of fertile land formed by the waters of the mighty Brahmaputra, whose average discharge is the fifth largest among rivers worldwide. 

The eviction drive of 20 and 23 September was conducted to free 4,500 bighas (the size of 2,113 football fields) of land in Dhalpur 1 and 3 of encroachments, the government said.

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