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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Assam ethnic violence spreads to new districts-Prabin Kalita

Assam ethnic violence spreads to new districts-Prabin Kalita

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published Published on Aug 17, 2012   modified Modified on Aug 17, 2012
-The Times of India

GUWAHATI: The ethnic violence between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims, which sparked off in Kokrajhar on July 20 and soon affected neighbouring Chirang and Dhubri districts, has spread to new areas with fresh incidents of violence being reported from Baksa, Nalbari and Kamrup (rural) in the past 12 hours. There was no report of any loss of life.

On Wednesday midnight, after miscreants set a Tata Nano car on fire at the Bodo-dominated Kaurbaha village in Baksa district, a public bus was set ablaze in Rangiya on Thursday morning. The passengers were asked to disembark the bus before two motorcycle-borne miscreants set the bus on fire.

Also on Thursday, some other miscreants burnt a wooden bridge on the Bhatkhursi-Kuwahati road in Nalbari district. Police said when residents of Kaurbaha on a night patrol in the village tried to stop a speeding Nano car, the passengers fired some shots and then fled after their vehicle got stuck in mud. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said, "These incidents do not mean the situation has deteriorated. The situation is improving and our job is now to see that no new incidents occur."

The Kamrup (rural) district administration immediately clamped indefinite curfew in Rangiya as a preventive measure and additional central armed police forces were deployed. The army has already been deployed in Baksa apart from the other four lower Assam districts of Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Chirang and Bongaigaon since July 25.

Gogoi said that apart from stopping further spread of the clashes, the prime objective of the government now was to rehabilitate the people staying in relief camps. "Of the over four lakh inmates, 1,88,122 people have already reached their homes and 2,92,542 are still living in the camps. "We thought the rehabilitation would be complete by August 15 but now it seems that it will take some more time. We have put fixed police pickets at 104 locations and there will be more. We assure that security will be provided to one and all," Gogoi said.

The chief minister has called a meeting of all parties on Friday to help the government build confidence among the inmates of the relief camps so that they leave for their homes. "We need the help of all parties, all sections of people and the media as well to create an atmosphere conducive for the people to return to their homes," Gogoi added.

He reiterated that the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) authorities should shed their apprehension that a larger number of people than those affected by the riots and living in relief camps would go to BTC areas. "We are clear that only the genuinely-affected people, who have been leaving in the BTC for long, will be rehabilitated. There may be more people in relief camps, but we have our own records and we will go by them."

The Times of India, 17 August, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Assam-ethnic-violence-spreads-to-new-districts/articleshow/15524588.cms


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