Mr. President. in June of this year. the tiny. northeast Indian state of Tripura was rocked by violence. More than 400 Bengals--ethnic immigrants from Bangladeshwere slaughtered by native Indian tribesmen. who resent the presence of foreigners in their remote border state. Fighting broke out for several weeks. as indigenous hill people attacked the ethnic immigrants. who have become a majority in Tripura since 1971 when war and starvation drove them across the border from their homes in Bangladesh. In addition to an estimated 400 dead. 50.000 were left homeless after dozens of refugee villages were destroyed. Tripuras chief minister said the mass killings had assumed "genocide" proportions. Although the slaughter in Tripura would probably not fall under the terms of the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. it might come very close.
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