Caught in crackdown against illegal immigrants, two Assam residents recall perilous trip across the border

Hands, eyes tied, asked to urinate in plastic bags, given a few hundred takas and abandoned across the border, the residents say after returning home from their ordeal. They recalled that the only thing district officials had to say after this was that it was a ‘mistake’ and that they should not ‘think too much about it’.

​Hands, eyes tied, asked to urinate in plastic bags, given a few hundred takas and abandoned across the border, the residents say after returning home from their ordeal. They recalled that the only thing district officials had to say after this was that it was a ‘mistake’ and that they should not ‘think too much about it’.