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The Supreme Court of Bangladesh ruled Biharis eligible for Bangladesh citizenship in 1972, and about 500,000 chose repatriation to Pakistan. [1] [12] Some repatriation was implemented by the Red Cross over a number of years, [13] but in 1978, the Pakistani government stripped Pakistanis remaining in Bangladesh of Pakistani citizenship. [12]
The Geneva Camp for "Biharis" (mostly from the Indian state of Bihar and other parts of India who migrated to the then East Pakistan during the Partition of 1947) is in Mohammadpur. Biharis have been living there since the end of the 1971 War of Liberation .
Ullah was a very visible leader in the refugee camp and a spokesperson for Rohingya worldwide. The Rohingya in the camp nicknamed him 'Peace Father'. [3] [2] In March 2019, Ullah travelled to Geneva to address the United Nations Human Rights Council on behalf of the Rohingya in Bangladesh. [4]
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India treated the war prisoners in accordance to the Geneva Convention, ruled 1925, but used this issue as a tool to coerce Pakistan into recognizing the sovereignty of Bangladesh after three countries reached compromised in 1974.: 78 [10] [2] The issue of war prisoners contributed to quick recognition of Bangladesh, but it also had effects on ...
DHAKA/KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh July 25 (Reuters) - H eavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flooding in southeastern Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing five children and forcing a ...
The Bangladesh genocide [a] was the ... "violations of any humanitarian rules applicable in armed conflicts laid out in the Geneva Conventions of 1949" and "any other ...
The head of Bangladesh's interim government, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, on Sunday called for a fast-tracked third-country resettlement of Rohingya Muslims living in the south Asian ...