The Greater Bangladesh Dream

In pursuance of Survival 2007 campaign, the Ao Kaketshir Mongdang (AKM) undertook a comprehensive investigation on the problem of unabated influx of illegal migrants into the state and the region, particularly from Bangladesh. We discovered that although influx of illegal migrants to Nagaland is purportedly economic driven, the imminence of a sinister politico-religious design of some external fundamentalist agencies cannot be ruled out. These are some of the information we garnered on this regard:

That, the Muslim League had in 1947 prior to India’s and Pakistan’s Independence drawn a political map of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which indicated the whole of present-day NE India falling within East Pakistan territory. Basing on this, some utopian fundamentalist Islamic agencies are reportedly endeavoring to carve out an Islamic state out of NE India and then assimilate it with Bangladesh to form “Greater Bangladesh” or “Brihot Bangladesh” or “Bangistan,” as they term their utopian Islamic State.

That, Brigadier DK Bux of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Abdul Hasan Muadish, founder of Jamat-e-Islam met at Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 15, 2004 and jointly declared Operation Pin Code. The reported objective of Operation Pin Code is to cause havoc and corruption in the NE India. The Islamabad based Islamic Development Bank has sanctioned 35 million dollars for the Operation, we have learned. Muttahida Jihad Council (United Jihad Council) of Jammu and Kashmir is also reported to be roped in to spread bloodshed in the NE India region.

That, the Islamic Bank of Saudi Arabia sponsors up to a sum of Rs.1,00,000/- to any Muslim migrant who marries a local woman, which perhaps serve them a big deal to further their utopian and sinister design of Islamitization of NE India by destabilizing the very social fabric of the indigenous peoples of the state and the region.

That, the Muslim Liberation Front of Burma led by Maulana Abdul Qadir Mullah is co-operating with the Bangladeshi Islamic extremists to further their cherished dream of carving out Greater Bangladesh. This nexus is financed by the Saudi Arabia based Rabitat-al-Islami, as per reports.

That, Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islamic (HUJI) under the leadership of Sheikh Farid and based in Chittagong, Bangladesh, was formed under Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda patronage to further their Greater Bangladesh dream.

That, Rabita Trust of Bangladesh managed by Wael Hamza Julaidan in collaboration with the Muslim World League and the International Islamic Relief Organization as well as the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce reportedly masterminds the move to transform the NE India region into an Islamic State which will be assimilated into Bangladesh to form “Bangistan” or “Greater Bangladesh.”

That, Bangladeshi intellectuals, such as Dr. A.H. Jaffar, whose real name is Abdul Hassanath, based in New Orleans, USA, are very vocal patrons of “Bangistan” or “Brihot Bangladesh” and his comments with clear separatist designs in an article was floated in the site www.deja.com.

That, in line with the Greater Bangladesh dream, NE Indian states bordering Bangladesh has shown a sudden upturn in Bangladeshi Muslim population since the eighties. While Bangladeshi illegals initially come as economic refugees, they are subsequently used for Bangladeshi political interests. It is also reported that they get State patronage, under the tutelage of Bangladesh’s Directorate General of Field Intelligence (DGFI) to infiltrate into India, and are punished if they attempt to return.

The AKM require the Nagaland Police Intelligence Bureau to urgently investigate on the above cited information for governmental discernment and initiate necessary counter measures immediately, which otherwise left unattended could prove annihilating for the Nagas in particular and the whole NE India region in general. The rapid growth of international Islamic fundamentalism may provide the driving force for this demand of a utopian “Greater Bangladesh.” We must not allow any misconceived notions of secularism blind us to these realities.

Further, the AKM once again strongly reiterate that not a single illegal migrant shall be allowed to walk the Naga soil within our traditional jurisdiction.