India attack: Suspected rebels kill dozens in Assam

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Separatist rebels have killed at least 62 people in remote villages of India's north-eastern Assam state, police say.

Women and children were said to be among the victims and there are fears the death toll could rise.

Police blame the attacks on the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB).

The NDFB wants an independent homeland for the ethnic group to be carved out of Assam. Tuesday's attacks took place in areas populated by non-Bodo people.

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24 December 2014 Last updated at 12:28 GMT


Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30594622

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Assam rebels kill scores on night of brutal attacks in Indian state

Agence France-Presse in Guwahati
The Guardian, Wednesday 24 December 2014 09.28 GMT

At least 56 people, including children, have died in a series of militant attacks in Assam as the rebels intensified a long-running separatist campaign in the north-eastern state, according to Indian police.

Witnesses said armed militants pulled villagers from their homes and shot them at point-blank range in a series of co-ordinated attacks carried out across the remote and volatile state on Tuesday.

Assam, which borders Bhutan and Bangladesh, has a long history of often violent land disputes between the indigenous Bodo people, Muslim settlers from Bangladesh and rival tribes in the area.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/24/assam-rebels-kills-scores-india-bodoland

[oberliner]

1. What is your stance on an independent Bodoland?

Do you think it can be achieved non-violently?

[cosmicone]

2. It will never happen.

The "bodoland" fantasy was concocted by the Chinese to separate India's NE from mainland India. After the Brits nefariously created Pakistan, the so called "bodoland" is the isthmus that connects mainland India to the NE territories which have oil and so China wants them.

Pakistani ISI trains, arms and funds these stupid terrorist movements all over India. The previous government and corrupt INC governments with their Marxist and Communist supporters turned a blind eye towards these terrorist movements.

That will not happen under Narendra Modi. There will be hell to pay after this terrorist attack in Assam and law and order will be established.

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3. Yeah, Modi was just up there, I don't think he intends to ignore it.

He just did well in elections in Jammu & Kashmir too.

And there are a bunch of insurgent groups all through there, and Myanmar, and Thailand, and Malaya too.

[cosmicone]

4. The first order of business should be balkanizing

and thus weakening Pakistan into a much smaller land-locked territory.

Then all the terrorist activities supported by Pakistan around the world will come to grinding halt.

[bemildred]

5. Well, I do know what you mean, but I'm not getting into it.

I have known Pakistanis, they (she, actually, a fiancee of a Palestinian friend) were nice people, and Jammu & Kashmir should be a world historical/conservation site, protected and saved. Instead they fight stupid wars.

I do agree that empires are failing all over the world, and lots more local control is the way to go if you want domestic order. But power is soooo addictive.

[cosmicone]

6. I get you. I have been to Pakistan many times

The people are wonderful but many have been radicalized against India which has destroyed the country by an obsession over Kashmir.

Here is a great documentary on this phenomenon:

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7. Well, I'm not defending what the British did there.

By any means. Very destructive it was, and a clear marker of their cultural blinders, that they thought it was a good idea. Much of the stupidity we have been subjected to these last 100 years can be easily attributed to the racist stupidity of the class-ridden British ruling elites and the destructive policies they pursued. There are lots of examples in Africa, but India is the prime example.