13. Chief Election Commissioner, M.S. Gill’s press conference in New Delhi, 12 August 2000, reported as ‘Voters Have to Prove Identity: EC’ in Statesman, New Delhi, 13 August 2000

14. Director-General, BSF talk in New Delhi to civil service officers, 16 October 2000.

15. Hazarika, Strangers of the Mist, p. 65.

16. Myron Weiner, The Global Migration Crisis: Challenges to States and to Human Rights, HarperCollins, 1995

Appendices

1. Obtained by interpolation from Lee L. Bean, M.R. Khan and A.R. Rukanuddin, Population Projections for Pakistan, 1960-2000, Karachi: Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Institute of development Economics, 1968.

2. In view of the uncertainties associated with the components of population change, it would be safe to assume that, at 95 per cent confidence level, the population size of Bangladesh on January 1, 1973 will range between 73.9 + 1.5 million.

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