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| 47 children missingfrom refugeecamp |
| Seven of them have returned in the last with stories of child labour.
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| INDIA
, 9-November-2007
0:39:55 AM |
| In a shocking case of child trafficking, 47 children have gone missing from a refugee camp in north Tripura.
Seven of them have returned in the last with stories of child labour.
Kanchanpur in north Tripura is the home to thousands of refugees from Mizoram since 1997. But now it has become a zone of missing children.
Since 2002 Biradamani Reang had been visiting these refugee camps in search of children, promising to give them an education.
Reang, a government employee in neighbouring Assam, allegedly got documents signed by several parents who did not realise they were declaring their children as orphans. He managed to take away 47 children in all between the age of 5 and 15 years.
''They told me my daughter will be there till graduation and will come back after 3 years. They told me that I can go and meet her but where are they,'' asked a worried parent.
Reang has disappeared and all that the parents have is the name of an orphanage, the Ananda Marga Children's Home. But there is no address.
With no news of the children the families filed a missing report on October 11. Seven children returned recently but with horror stories.
One of them, taken in 2001, was in the Ananda Marg ashram in Shillong. He says he worked as a domestic help.
''I was taken to a Shillong ashram. I have worked as a cleaner in houses,'' said a boy.
The Tripura police now confirm it is a case of child trafficking with a network spreading to West Bengal.
''Earlier it didn't come as human trafficking issue, reason being that the guardians of these children they had themselves willingly taken their wards but now as the events show it appears that they were not taken to any school, they were engaged in domestic work and for other kinds of labour,'' said DGP, Tripura.
Govt apathy
The central office of Anand Marg in Kolkata termed the allegations as baseless.
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