Daily Brief: Assam woman pleads to die at home after pushback from Bangladesh; newsletter moves to Substack
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The Daily Brief newsletter announces its migration to Substack with a redesigned format. The featured story covers a year-long crackdown by the BJP government in Assam that has forced at least 300 people into no man's land at gunpoint, focusing on a woman who was pushed back from Bangladesh and now struggles to recover, pleading to die at home.
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a year ago, the BJP government began a crackdown that led to at least 300 people being forced into no man's land at gunpoint
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