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Asian sub-continent Repatriation of 250,000 persons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
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From September 1973 to March 1974, more than 250,000 persons have been moved from one side of the Asian sub-continent to the other in a vast operation involving the extensive co-operation of the ICRC. It was possible for this repatriation operation to be carried out only through the positive stand adopted by the three countries concerned and the co-operation shown by Switzerland, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the ICRC. Since the end of the Second World War, this is the most extensive repatriation operation undertaken by the ICRC, and its sheer size compels us to give in the pages that follow a summarized account of what has been accomplished. The relief efforts, though of considerable magnitude, undertaken by the ICRC since 1971 in support of prisoners, internees and civilians in the Asian sub-continent, will not be touched upon here, as they have been mentioned on several occasions in past issues of the International Review.
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- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Information
- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 14 , Issue 157 , April 1974 , pp. 179 - 188
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1974
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page 179 note 1 In charge of diplomatic negotiations relating to the operation betwen those three countries.
page 179 note 2 Plate.
page 180 note 1 “Non-locals” is the term used for those mostly Urdu-speaking Muslims who, at the time of the partition of British India in 1947, had opted to leave that part of the country that was to become the Republic of India in order to go to Pakistan. A second migration, to both East and West Pakistan took place following the first outbreak of hostilities between India and Pakistan in 1956.
page 186 note 1 In addition, one ship completed 5 return voyages between Karachi and Chittagong.