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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Soldiers from Assam village fight a bitter battle to prove citizenship -Rahul Karmakar

Soldiers from Assam village fight a bitter battle to prove citizenship -Rahul Karmakar

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published Published on Mar 3, 2019   modified Modified on Mar 3, 2019
-The Hindu

GUWAHATI: The Indian Army, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force (BSF) have never had a problem counting these soldiers as their own and deploying them to protect the country’s borders from the frozen reaches of the Siachen glacier to militancy hit Kashmir or to combat home-grown insurgents.

But these battle-hardened men from a western Assam village have struggled for years to overcome a bigger threat back at home — a system that continues to doubt their citizenship.

Barpeta district’s Saru Harid, about 145 km west of Guwahati, is often referred to as a village of ‘faujis’. At least half a dozen youth from the village of some 6,000 people, most of whom are Muslims, join the security forces every year.

But that has not stopped the local administration, particularly the State’s Border Police, from suspecting them to be foreigners and asking them to prove their citizenship.

The irony does not escape farmer Ratul Ali, whose brothers are among at least seven serving soldiers or paramilitary personnel from Saru Harid labelled foreigners since 2003.

“As we speak, my uncle’s son Mafuzur Rahman could be battling foreign mercenaries on the frontier,” says Mr. Ali. “But he is deemed a foreigner at home along with all members of his family.”

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The Hindu, 2 March, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/soldiers-from-assam-village-fight-a-bitter-battle-to-prove-citizenship/article26419864.ece?homepage=true


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