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(5 Feb 2003)

Satgachi, India-Bangladesh border, West Bengal state - 4 February 2003
1. Bangladeshi border milestone, stranded people in background
2. Armed Indian border guard watching over stranded people
3. Pan over stranded people camping in no man's land with their belongings
4. Mid shot old man and woman
5. Close shot old woman
6. Stranded family with children
7. Close shot child
8. Woman with young child
9. Various of woman feeding sick child
10. Mid shot luggage
11. SOUNDBITE (Bengali) Mohammad Shahabuddin, stranded man:
"I don't know what is written in our destiny. Why is the Bangladesh government not taking care of us? Even if they shoot us with bullets we will accept it. But I cannot say why they are not taking us back. My entire family is suffering without food and shelter."
12. SOUNDBITE (Bengali) Sumita, stranded woman:
"We are Bangladeshi citizens.
Q : Which country do you belong to?
A: We belong to Bangladesh."
13. SOUNDBITE (Bengali) Maris Mia, stranded man:
"Even if we have to die, we will return to Bangladesh. Bangladesh is our motherland. It is our motherland."
14. Various of snake charmer and his snake
15. Mid shot charmer's family
16. Close shot of child

New Delhi - 5 February 2003
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Navtej Sarna, Indian Foreign ministry spokesman:
"At the field level I understand, there has been an offer to have a joint verification, one by one of each person. This was not agreed to by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR- border security) "

Satgachi, India-Bangladesh border, West Bengal state - 4 February 2003
18. Wide shot stranded people
19. Various of armed security guard
20. Mid shot border security guard in position

New Delhi - 5 February 2003
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Navtej Sarna, Indian Foreign ministry spokesman:
"There is no question of pushing Indian citizens into Bangladesh. The people involved themselves are claiming that they are Bangladeshis and are offering their proof."

Satgachi, India-Bangladesh border, West Bengal state - 4 February 2003
22. Various of armed Indian border security guards in position

STORYLINE :

Bangladesh and India have strengthened their border security even as villagers from both sides began leaving their homes on Wednesday as a standoff over a deportation issue heightened tension along their frontier.

Tension has been building up along Bangladesh's northern and western border with India in the past two weeks since the Indian authorities tried to deport hundreds of Bengali-speaking Muslims it says are illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

Bangladesh maintains they are Indian Muslims from India's West Bengal state who are physically similar to Bangladeshis and speak the same Bengali language. It says they were forcibly brought to the West Bengal frontier in a special train by Indian authorities for deportation.

Indian authorities have denied that they are trying to move the deportees across the border by force.

Hundreds of men, women and children, meanwhile, have been left stranded at border areas under open skies with little food or water as the two countries argue over their nationality.

Most of them are traditional snake charmers and are living on the no man's land near Satgachi along the India-Bangladesh border.

India's foreign Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna told reporters in New Delhi that Bangladesh has rejected India's proposal for individual verification of 213 stranded men, women and children.

Sarna said India was trying to end the impasse through diplomatic efforts.





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