A camp in the hills 8km from Diphu, capital of Karbi
Anglong. It was set up by the government in 2005. It is home to 996 Karbi
families (around 5000 people). Despite the precarious conditions in the camp
they fear reprisals in their villages from insurgent groups and do not wish to
return.
India: Large numbers of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's) are
Unassisted and in Need of Protection
Girl
and her grandmother at the entrance of their shelter, near Bijni, western
Assam, Dalles, 2007
Civilians have fled fighting and have
sometimes been directly targeted by militant groups in Kashmir, the North-East
and in several states of eastern and central India. Insurgency and retaliatory
operations by security forces are the major immediate cause of conflict-related
displacement in India. A majority of the internally displaced people (IDPs) have
not been able to return for several years, due to either protracted conflicts or
unresolved disputes over land and property. One example is India’s largest group
of internally displaced, the Kashmiri Pandits who have been fleeing the Kashmir
Valley since 1989 due to persecution, killings and massacres. Thousands more
have languished in relief camps in Assam since the early 1990s, while more than
5,000 families remain displaced after the communal violence that erupted in
Gujarat in 2002. During 2006, displacement has been on the rise in Chhattisgarh
state, where more than 45,000 people are currently in relief camps and many
thousands are thought to have fled to neighbouring states. Ongoing conflict
between ethnic armed groups and anti-insurgent operations by the national army
in the states of Assam and Manipur have also displaced thousands.
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