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    This document discusses the plight of landless tribes in Northeast India who are legitimate citizens but whose rights are often not upheld. Specifically, it focuses on the Reang and Chakma refugee populations who have historically resided in the region. While large-scale migration into the area is often discussed, the struggles of these stateless groups are rarely addressed. The document calls for reconciling with these people and upholding their rights to life, property, and self-expression like other citizens. It also questions why issues facing tiny remote hamlets, like malnutrition claiming children's lives, receive less attention than crimes in major cities.

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    This document discusses the plight of landless tribes in Northeast India who are legitimate citizens but whose rights are often not upheld. Specifically, it focuses on the Reang and Chakma refugee populations who have historically resided in the region. While large-scale migration into the area is often discussed, the struggles of these stateless groups are rarely addressed. The document calls for reconciling with these people and upholding their rights to life, property, and self-expression like other citizens. It also questions why issues facing tiny remote hamlets, like malnutrition claiming children's lives, receive less attention than crimes in major cities.

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    This document discusses the plight of landless tribes in Northeast India who are legitimate citizens but whose rights are often not upheld. Specifically, it focuses on the Reang and Chakma refugee populations who have historically resided in the region. While large-scale migration into the area is often discussed, the struggles of these stateless groups are rarely addressed. The document calls for reconciling with these people and upholding their rights to life, property, and self-expression like other citizens. It also questions why issues facing tiny remote hamlets, like malnutrition claiming children's lives, receive less attention than crimes in major cities.

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    From the desk

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    Vol.2 No.3 October 2008 here has been
    constant talk about
    Editor in Chief & Publisher – Pradyot Manikya Deb Burman
    Managing Editor – Rajoo Sharma
    influx and large scale
    Entertainment Editor – Gail T.W. Thomas
    migration from different
    Office secretary – Sanghamitra Roy
    parts of the country and also
    Tripura Office:
    our neighbours in the region.
    Bureau Chief - Tapas Dey (94361 29853) What we have failed to
    dey.tapas@gmail.com
    Correspondent - Ratnadep Choudhury realise is that amidst all this
    Circulation-in-charge - Ashish K Roy (98620 99839) talk about large scale demographic changes
    Advertisement-in-charge - P S Nath (98624 55949)
    Assam: D. Saikia within the northeast there lie areas where, due
    Correspondents: to historical reasons there are tribes who are
    Assam: D. Banerjee, A. Roy landless within the confines of the states. In
    Columnist - Subir Bhawmik his issue we look at the people of whom very
    Proof Reader - Errol Morehead few speak, people who are legitimate citizens
    Technical Team of this country whose fundamental rights are
    S.S. Chandel and associates often not-adhered to. Maybe, the time has
    Circulation come to reconcile with the people who have a
    John Jamatia - 98631 94096
    Rajiv Yadav right to express and a right to live like the rest
    Mukib Hussain - 98541 21162 (Guwahati) of us. Maybe, we take our freedom too easily
    Mridul Hazarika - 98646 06014 (Guwahati)
    because these people who are born within the
    Advertisement Incharge
    G. Lyngwa - 98630 25621 confines of a makeshift camp one day will
    Business Director ask questions about how the world’s largest
    Sanjay Singh democracy has failed to protect their lives and
    Production Consultant property.
    Debopriyo Chakrabarty
    But then again, we the media, must also
    Kolkata Office Incharge
    D. S. Pathak - 93310 07632 ask ourselves, when out of a tiny hamlet of
    Advisor to Editor/Chairman 1600 families, forty children die within a
    Nyamar Karbak month due to malnutrition and disease, why
    Printed and published by Pradyot Manikya Deb Burman from do we still give more importance to an Arushi
    Shillong on behalf of The Northeast Today and printed by him at
    Swapna Printing Works, Doltala, Kolkata Talwar case in Delhi? Maybe the capital is too
    Graphic and Layout Artist – Creative Corp. Inc. big for people like them but then what about
    us? Aren’t we, too, guilty by turning the other
    way?
    In this issue we hope and pray that we will
    Head Office reconsider the plight of these Reang and also
    Post Box No. 51
    Tripura Castle, Chakma refugees because it so easily could
    Cleve Colony
    Shillong – 793 003, Meghalaya
    have been us. Maybe then
    Tel: 0364 2228868 | 98624 00151 we will reconsider.
    e-mail: tntnews@dataone.in | news.tnt@gmail.com
    Website
    www.tntonline.in
    For advertisements contact:
    Shillong - 98630 25621
    Kolkata - 93310 07632
    P. B. K. Manikya
    Agartala - 94364 57674 Editor In Chief
    or email us at ads.tnt@gmail.com editor.tnt@gmail.com
    While best efforts have been made to contact every individual for the
    material used in this edition, we, however, regret for any lapse that might
    have occurred without our notice.

    October 08 

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