Politics of the Orphans of War: 72 Children's Journey from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh to the Suburbs of France

At 7:30 am, on the chilly winter morning of 6 October 1987, a group of 72 indigenous children from the remote Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh who had been living in refugee camps in India disembarked from Air France Flight no 189 and entered Charles de Gaulle Airport. Their journey from India had been long: traveling on a chartered Indian Airlines flight from Agartala, the largest city in the Indian state of Tripura, to the Indian capital Delhi, and from there to Paris.