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Citizens of Nowhere: The Stateless Biharis of Bangladesh
02/15/2006
Citizens
of Nowhere: The Stateless Biharis of Bangladesh
Citizens of Nowhere: The Stateless Biharis
of Bangladesh calls attention to
the plight of 300,000 Biharis or "stranded Pakistanis" who were
stranded when Bangladesh
seceded from West Pakistan after a bloody civil war in 1971. The report recommends
that the Governments of Bangladesh and Pakistan grant citizenship to
the hundreds
of thousands of people who remain without effective nationality.| Table
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To The Reader
The Human Cost of Statelessness
The Global Problem of Statelessness
Bangladesh: The People and the Land
Who Are the Biharis and Why Are They Forgotten?
Camp Conditions
Seeking Solutions and Restoring Human Rights
Refugees International's Recommendations
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