Reuters: Rebels kill 28 in multiple attacks in India's Assam

[Eugene]

Rebels kill 28 in multiple attacks in India's Assam
06 Jan 2007 07:12:53 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Biswajyoti Das

GUWAHATI, India, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Separatist rebels in India's restive northeastern
state of Assam killed 28 people, mostly labourers and traders, in a series of coordinated
overnight attacks, police said on Saturday.

Police said heavily armed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) guerrillas gunned down
at least 12 people in one remote village in Tinsukia.

"The massacre took place in an inaccessible area and the victims are mostly brick kiln
workers and milk sellers," a senior intelligence officer told Reuters in Guwahati, the
state's main city.

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Police said the violence was an attempt to create an atmosphere of fear after an
independent opinion poll by a peace group in nine districts of the oil-and-tea rich state
showed 90 percent of the people rejected the ULFA's separatist demands.

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[maddezmom]

1. updated link; Rebels kill 43 in multiple attacks in India's Assam

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP135442.htm

[David__77]

2. India cannot survive without self-determination for its nations.

India is a multi-national state and several of those nations want out. Perhaps if they are given the freedom to do so, they can be convinced to remain in a new India. Probably not. I blame British colonialism for this horrible situation, starting with the bloody partition resulting in Pakistan. Between the national independence movements, and the class-based Maoists, India has a serious strategic pit into which is has fallen.