10-07-2008, 01:55 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Assam ethnic clashes toll 49 </b>
Pioneer.com
Syed Zarir Hussain | Guwahati
Violence against illegal immigrants intensifies
Authorities in Assam on Monday said the weekend violence that killed<b> 49 people and injured more than 100 was a systematic ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a large Christian rebel group fighting for an independent tribal homeland.</b>Â
"The string of violence in the three districts of Darrang, Udalguri, and Baksa, is not clashes between the tribal Bodos and immigrant Muslims, but a planned ethnic cleansing by the NDFB to drive out all non-Bodos from the area," Assam Government spokesman and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
"We have already arrested four NDFB cadre on Sunday with weapons who were involved in killing a woman and a child in Baksa district. So far 49 people have died since violence broke out on Friday, 15 of them in police firing, and the rest in clashes," the Minister said.
Eight of the injured died in different hospitals, while nine more bodies were recovered from various parts of the violence-hit districts of Udalguri, Darrang, Baksa in northern Assam on Monday.
The fourth district where violence spread was the adjoining district of Chirang
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No need for President rule because killers are Christians and state is ruled by Congress Party whose President is Sonia Gandhi is Roman Catholic Christian.
Pioneer.com
Syed Zarir Hussain | Guwahati
Violence against illegal immigrants intensifies
Authorities in Assam on Monday said the weekend violence that killed<b> 49 people and injured more than 100 was a systematic ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a large Christian rebel group fighting for an independent tribal homeland.</b>Â
"The string of violence in the three districts of Darrang, Udalguri, and Baksa, is not clashes between the tribal Bodos and immigrant Muslims, but a planned ethnic cleansing by the NDFB to drive out all non-Bodos from the area," Assam Government spokesman and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
"We have already arrested four NDFB cadre on Sunday with weapons who were involved in killing a woman and a child in Baksa district. So far 49 people have died since violence broke out on Friday, 15 of them in police firing, and the rest in clashes," the Minister said.
Eight of the injured died in different hospitals, while nine more bodies were recovered from various parts of the violence-hit districts of Udalguri, Darrang, Baksa in northern Assam on Monday.
The fourth district where violence spread was the adjoining district of Chirang
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No need for President rule because killers are Christians and state is ruled by Congress Party whose President is Sonia Gandhi is Roman Catholic Christian.