HINDI SPEAKERS HERDED AND MASSACRED IN ASSAM
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Monday, August 13, 2007
Panic-stricken Hindi-speakers have started fleeing Assam
fearing more terror attacks as authorities herded hundreds
of poor migrant workers in government shelters after 36
people were massacred.
'People are being killed like cats and dogs. I don't want
to get killed here,' fumed Sunil Chauhan, a Bihari migrant
working in a brick kiln in eastern Assam as he boarded a
train out of Assam.
There were four coordinated attacks beginning Wednesday in
eastern Assam's Karbi Anglong district in which 28 Hindi-
speakers were killed.
Most victims were from Bihar and three from Rajasthan. All
of them had made Assam their home for decades and were
engaged in petty business or were brick kiln workers,
fishermen or simple daily wage earners.
Eight more civilians, mostly Assamese, were also killed in
a series of explosions across the state linked to India's
Independence Day celebrations Aug 15.
The police blamed the attacks on the outlawed United
Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the Karbi Longri
National Liberation Front (KLNLF), both working in tandem
in parts of Karbi Anglong district.
'Hindi-speaking people are scattered across the district,
some of them residing in interior areas, making them soft
targets for militants,' Lajja Ram Bishnoi, deputy inspector
general of police in Karbi Anglong district, told IANS over
telephone.
Authorities have opened two relief camps to shelter migrant
workers and have shifted more than 100 other families to
safer areas.
'There are an estimated 200 Hindi-speaking people in two
relief camps currently staying under police protection. We
have also persuaded about 100 families to leave their homes
and take shelter in safer areas,' Karbi Anglong district
police chief Anurag Thanka told IANS. 'These steps were
being taken as a precautionary measure.'
But many of those who are settled in Assam for generations
have decided to fight back.
'The attacks are perpetrated by terrorists. The general
Assamese people are not against us and so we have no plans
to leave the state,' said Sailesh Jha, a 60-year-old
sugarcane cultivator in Bokajan in Karbi Anglong district.
Jha's grandparents migrated to Assam a century back.
The attacks are reminiscent of the wave of killings by the
ULFA in January targeting Hindi-speakers in which about 60
people were killed.
In 2000, ULFA militants killed at least 100 Hindi speaking
people in Assam in a series of well-planned attacks after
the rebel group vowed to free the state of all 'non-
Assamese migrant workers'.
'The government should take stern steps to finish off the
ULFA,' said Bina Devi, who lost her husband in one of the
massacres.
Like Devi, elderly Ram Chandra Mahato was equally angry.
'The militants should be killed without any mercy,' shouted
Mahato, who lost his son in one of the weekend attacks.
Fear still haunts Pritam Yadav and his teenaged nephew who
work at a brick kiln.
'We are still worried with a general fear that the ULFA
might strike again,' Yadav said.
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true Hindus are a minority.
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In article <xynwi.131390$BX3....@newsfe13.lga>,
"harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
gitarthi
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Shree Krshn ji has already advised Hindus in that regard, but
> true Hindus are a minority.
>
> Om Shanti
>
> In article <xynwi.131390$BX3.61...@newsfe13.lga>,
> "harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
>
>
>
> > hindus need guns - and shri krishna to tell them to fight.
>
> > <use...@mantra.com and/orwww.mantra.com/jai(Dr. Jai Maharaj)> wrote in
'<<The attacks are perpetrated by terrorists. The general
Assamese people are not against us and so we have no plans
to leave the state,' said Sailesh Jha, a 60-year-old
sugarcane cultivator in Bokajan in Karbi Anglong district.>>
Yes. Lord Krishna did say that one should not be spineless. In this
siituation one should also notice that the general Assamese people are
not to be blamed. Then there may also be a possibility of interference
from Bangladesh and this possibility should not be ignored