Assam: Minority Students’ Union Demands 'Re-verification' of Foreigners in Detention Camps

Guwahati, October 29, 2019:

The All Assam Minority Students’s Union (AAMSU) on Tuesday turned down heavily on the Assam government over the death of people kept in different Detention Camps of Assam.

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Addressing the media, AAMSU advisor Azizur Rahman and President Rejaul Karim Sarkar stated that the minority students body has received letters from over 60 people lodged in the Tezpur Detention Camp. They wrote to the body about their miseries within the camp and how they have been held captive with scarcity of food and clothing.

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Rejaul Karim Sarkar said, “Over 95 per cent of the people lodged in the detention camps of Assam are Indian citizens. They have been lodged into these camps despite having relevant documents.”

Demanding Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal to hand over the declared foreigners to their respective countries, Sarkar asked, “If the deceased of the detention camps can be handed over to their families, why are these people not being verified while they were alive?”

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The AAMSU leaders also alleged that the detainees are being kept like captive cattle.

The leader of AAMSU also urged the state government to allow media into the detention camps to show the actual living condition of the detainees in these camps.

Demanding the re-verification of these declared foreigners, AAMSU threatened to launch an intensified agitation if the government fails to do so.

Slamming the politicians who have been visiting the kin on the death of the victims, the AAMSU further added that they have been trying to influence these uneducated people in the name of religion.

Calling it a conspiracy of the government to murder these people in the detention camps, AAMSU further asked the government to allow these declared foreigners to live with their families until their emigration is settled.

“If necessary, bonds can be signed between the accused, government and other parties. The AAMSU will take the responsibility of handing the accused over to the government whenever needed,” it added.

Azizur Rahman also urged the government to stop the construction of the world’s biggest detention camp here in Assam’s Goalpara. He added, “The detainees had to protest- ‘fast till death’ inside the detention against lack of food and clothing.”

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