Dear All,
Please watch these videos. The same problem like in Rakhine state of Burma.
Bangladeshi Population Explosion cannot be controlled by their government (65 million in 1970 and now 180 million in 2012). So, Bangladeshis are crossing the border to both of her neighbours, namely India in the west and north, and Burma in the east.
In recent years Hindu and Christian tribes have vented strong anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment against Bangladeshi settlers. The Bodo tribe has clashed with Bengalis in deadly riots several times since the 1950s.
Indian Government announced that there are about 15 million Bangladeshis living illegal inside India!
Indian Border guards are ordered to "shoot out at sight" and more than 150 Bangladeshis who tried to enter were killed by Indian border guards, however, since India is the World's Largest Democracy and pseudo-super power with atom bombs. Hence, Muslim countries, illegal immigrants and their advocates NGOs cannot make big mouth and bully like in the case of weak Burma known as a Pariah State!!
Best regards
KMS
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India struggles to control ethnic violence in Assam
By Biswajyoti Das | Reuters – 2 hrs 26 mins agohttp://news.yahoo.com/india-struggles-control-deadly-assam-riots-hamlets-razed-075359785.html?_esi=1
GUWAHATI (Reuters) - Police shotdead four rioters in Assam on Tuesday as security forces struggled to containethnic fighting that has killed 26 people and left remote hamlets in flames,forcing tens of thousands from their homes.
Rioting between Bodo tribespeopleand Muslim settlers has raged for days. Some of the victims died of machetewounds, aid workers who had seen the bodies said.
Police opened fire on a mob that wasburning property in the Bodo-dominated Kokrajhar district, killing the four,police inspector general S.N. Singh told Reuters.
Earlier, hundreds of men armed withspears, clubs and rocks attacked an express train passing through Kokrajhar,injuring several passengers. In another incident, several people sufferedbullet wounds and others were injured in a stampede when police fired todisperse a gang of 400, a senior police official said.
Soldiers and central paramilitarytroops patrolled Kokrajhar town and outlying areas on armoured vehicles mountedwith machine guns. The government said more security reinforcements weretravelling to the region.
In defiance of an overnight curfew,rival mobs spread to rural areas and neighbouring districts overnight,targeting hamlets along river banks and in the jungle. Some 500 villages havebeen destroyed by arson.
"The security forces weresilent spectators when village after village was burnt down," veteranlocal politician Urkhao Gwra Brahma told Reuters.
Ringed by China, Myanmar, Bangladeshand Bhutan, India's northeast is home to more than 200 ethnic and tribal groupsand has been racked by separatist revolts since India's independence fromBritain in 1947.
In recent years Hindu and Christiantribes have vented strong anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment againstBangladeshi settlers. The Bodo tribe has clashed with Bengalis in deadly riotsseveral times since the 1950s.
The latest violence was sparked onFriday night when unidentified men killed four youths in Kokrajhar district,police and district officials said. In retaliation, armed Bodos attackedMuslims, suspecting them of being behind the killings.
Hagrama Mohilary, the leader of thetribal council governing the region, warned that former separatist rebels hadjoined the violence to protect Bodo villages. He called for the rebels, who areofficially observing a ceasefire, to lay down their arms.
Bodo tribes shot at Muslim villagesclose to the border with Bhutan on Monday night, a senior police officer whoasked not to be named told Reuters. He said no casualties had been reported.
Assam's chief minister Tarun Gogoitold TV network CNN-IBN that he hoped the situation would be under controlwithin two days. He said some 30,000 villagers have fled their homes and takenshelter in relief camps, but local officials said the numbers were at leasttwice that.
The main opposition Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) criticised Gogoi for not stopping the rioting and Prime MinisterManomhan Singh called the chief minister asking him to do everything possibleto stop the violence. The Hindu nationalist BJP has in the past been accused offanning religious conflicts.
Tribal leader Mohilary said reliefcamps were overcrowded and suffering a shortage of food and medicine becauseroadblocks across the region had stopped supply trucks.
(Editing by Nick Macfie and AlisonWilliams)
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Muslim-Bodo mistrust exists for many decades
PrabinKalita, TNN | Jul 24, 2012, 05.25AMISThttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Muslim-Bodo-mistrust-exists-for-many-decades/articleshow/15115081.cms
GUWAHATI: Located on the westernedge of Assam along the state's border with West Bengal on the west and Bhutanon the north, Kokrajhar district is a cauldron of simmering communal tension.Four ethnic clashes over the last 60 years - involving the Bodos, the firsthuman race in this part of the country, Bengali-speaking Muslims and adivasis -have been borne out of mistrust among the communities.
The mistrust is based on land -while Bodoscontinue to seek a separate political identity, the non-Bodo groups live inapprehension of losing their land and getting ousted and their resistance ismanifested in waves of clashes. "All the clashes are of similar nature.The mistrust is so high that just a small spark is enough to create aninferno," a top Assam Police officer said. He added: "Dozens ofpeople are rendered homeless in every such clash, but we have seen that thesepeople return to their land even after living for 10 years in reliefcamps."
The only marked difference in thecurrent clashes is that so far no Bodo militantelement has been found to be involved. Additional director general of police(special branch) Khagen Sarmah said: "Most people have been killed byordinary citizens. Some have been shot and there could be unaccounted arms hereand there, but we have not seen any involvement of militants."
The current clash is also a resultof mistrust, the seeds of which were sowed a few months ago. Much before theflare-up on Friday, one 'fake' NDFB militant waskilled at Howraguri in Kokrajhar district on May 25, while he was extortingmoney from a Muslim. The slain militant was not only found to be fake, but hewas a Muslim.
On June 30, a Muslim carpenter waskilled in Sapkata in the district and all the people of the community took outa rally with the body of the deceased and blamed the dominant Bodo tribals forthe crime. The killers were later found to be members of an adivasi militantoutfit. On July 5, two more Muslims were killed at Antihara under Dotoma policestation in the district and this time, too, the killers were not Bodos but fromthe Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO). However, the Muslims' backlashagainst the Bodos only gained momentum, which culminated in the killing of fourBodo youths last Friday. The next day, three more Bodos, all elderly persons,were killed.
It was in 1952 when the Bodos firstclashed with Muslims. But then, the Bodos were only a part of a larger battlebetween the Hindus and Muslims when several Muslims wanted to join parts ofAssam, mainly Goalpara district, with East Pakistan. Kokrajhar was then part ofthe undivided Goalpara district. In 1993 and 1994, Bodos clashed again withMuslims after the Bodo Accord, giving autonomy to the Bodos, was signed by theCentre. The clash was termed as 'ethnic cleansing' by the then state government.More than 100 people were killed and at least 60,000 others from both thecommunities were rendered homeless. The Accord did not work out, but the scarsof the hatred only deepened.
The genesis of the mistrust lies inthe Bodos seeking a separate political identity, which range from autonomy toseparate state and even sovereignty. Their struggle for separate identity datesback to 1960s. They struggled for recognition of Bodo as an official languageof the state, which was granted in 1976. Their hardened stand to attainseparate identity made other coexisting communities apprehensive of losingtheir land. As the accord of 1993 failed, Bodos resumed their struggle foridentity and turned so fierce that there were merciless killing of Santhals in twoback-to-back clashes in 1996 and 1998, when over 300 people were killed andmore than 3 lakh rendered homeless. The last time the Bodos clashed with theMuslim was in 2008, but that was far away from the heartland in Udalguridistrict, where the dominant Bodos are surrounded by areas dominated byMuslims. The two major non-Bodo land owners in the Bodo heartland are theadivasis and the Bengali-speaking Muslims. While the adivasis have occupied theforest areas, the Bengali-speaking Muslims live on the chars (riverine areas)and nearby land. The population of Bodos, which is largest tribal group amongthe 23 notified STs, is just over 5% of total population of the state whileMuslims constitute nearly 33% of the population.
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