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Take steps to resolve dispute over enclaves to ensure HR

Speakers urge govt

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday demanded urged the government take necessary measures to resolve the dispute over enclave issue between Bangladesh and India to ensure human rights and security to the people of both the countries.
They also called for implementation of the 'Enclaves Exchange Treaty' signed by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the then Indian premier Indira Gandhi in 1974.
They placed the demand while addressing the roundtable on 'Life in enclaves: Looking into the perspective of citizenship, human rights and security' organised by organised by Centre for Human Rights, Development and Human Security (CHRDHS) at the National Press Club in the city.
CHRDHS Executive Director Fazlus Sattar said, “The people of these enclaves have been suffering a lot for long. They are deprived of all the civil rights and government facilities as they are not enlisted in the voter list and they have no national identity."
"We hope that the government will take necessary steps to ensure their civil rights and security, as the major duty of a state is to ensure its citizens' social security, dignity and establish fundamental rights,” he added.
“The people of these areas cannot move freely, as both the Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) never allow them to come out of the fenced areas. They cannot have education, because the neighbouring school authorities do not allow the admission of children belonging to a family of the enclave areas.”
Sattar said the people of these areas are facing tremendous problems in getting married. They cannot marry another one outside the enclaves. That is why, they have to be married with their neighbours or relatives which accelerates the tradition of multi-marriage system.
In some enclaves, people sell or buy lands signing in a white paper because of absent of the government office or law enforcement agencies.
The speakers called on the civil society members as well as media men to come forward to eliminate the sufferings of people, because coordinated effort can only save them from being in a state of helplessness.
Former adviser to a caretaker government Major Gen (retd) M o i n u I Hossain Chowdhury called on the NGOs to extend their activities in enclave areas by providing
different assistance and creating awareness.
Former foreign secretary Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury and CHRDHS President Abu Musa Md Tarek also spoke, among others.