'Initiate steps to reunite Indian Chinese with families'

GUWAHATI, May 19 -- The Union Home Minister has been urged to initiate the requisite steps towards creating space for reuniting the broken Chinese families of Assam who are still facing the consequences of the 1962 India-China war.

Writer Rita Chowdhury and a victim of the war Lyong Linchi aka Pramila Das, who got separated from her parents at the age of six, have appealed to the government of India to come forward and resolve this humanitarian crisis.

Interacting with media persons at a function held at the auditorium of Vivekananda Kendra here on Tuesday, Lyong Linchi shared her emotional sufferings...