Rafat Unissa married a Sudanese national in Hyderabad eight years ago. She never imagined that one day she would have to return with her four children to her parent’s home back in India. In fact, she is one among of the Hyderabadi poverty ridden girls married to Sudanese and settled in African country
The break-up of Indian families is happening in Sudan where fighting has erupted in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere.
While the tension is not new in n Sudan but the ongoing conflict that began on April 15 is a matter of concern for Indian living there, reported siasat.com.
Take the case of Rafat Unissa who married a Sudanese national in Hyderabad eight years ago. She never imagined that one day she would have to return with her four children to her parent’s home back in India. In fact, she is one among of the Hyderabadi poverty ridden girls married to Sudanese and settled in African country.
Though she married to a Sudanese national she chose to remain an Indian Citizen. Her four children – two sons and two daughters – are also Indian nationals.
‘I can’t risk the life of my children in Sudan and decided to return to my home India’, she told this correspondent over the phone from Port Sudan while waiting to be airlifted by Indian Air Force aircraft.
The family of Mohammed Ziauddin of BHEL Ramachandrapuram is in more fractured.
In another case, a man from the Lungar House area of Hyderabad has been living in Sudan for many years. A former resident of Dubai, he settled in Sudan and married a Sudanese woman. His case is peculiar and more interesting, he is already married in India and his first wife is living in Hyderabad along with the children
Settled in Sudan three decades ago, his two sons married African women. When war erupted they left for neighbouring Eretria with their wives. As foreigners their African wives weren’t able to avail Operation Kaveri meant for Indians.
The father decided to return to Hyderabad along with their mother and his Hyderabad employees. He was operating an industrial pipes manufacturing plant family.
In another case, a man from the Lungar House area of Hyderabad has been living in Sudan for many years.
A former resident of Dubai, he settled in Sudan and married a Sudanese woman. His case is peculiar and more interesting, he is already married in India and his first wife is living in Hyderabad along with the children.
While working in Sudan, he fell in love with a local woman and married her.
The Hyderabadi is not ready to leave his Sudanese wife and return home. Neither can he bring his Sudanese wife to India.
Further, he is apprehensive of his Indian wife in case he brings his Sudanese wife to India, according to his friends.
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