BONGOAN, BENGAL, November 22, 2001: Hundreds of Bangladeshi Hindu families who have crossed the border into India to escape repression at home are refusing to return to their country. To escape any possible move by the Indian authorities to send them back, these families were apparently hiding in a village near the Thakurnagar railway station. Dipali Adhikari related how a group of armed men entered their house of and looted everything they had. “We also heard stories of Hindu women being raped and murdered by armed hoodlums in neighboring villages,” Dipali said.
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