Afghan Refugees
More than 60,000 Afghan refugees came to India in the years following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which India supported. The Indian government does not officially recognise them as refugees, but has allowed the UNHCR to operate a programme for them.
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“The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass. Armenian refugees, Jewish refugees, refugees from Franco Spain. But a political leader or artistic figure is an exile. Thomas Mann yesterday, Theodorakis today. Exile is the noble and dignified term, while a refugee is more hapless.... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.”
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