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The violence in 2012 followed ethnic tensions between the indigenous Bodo people and Bengali-speaking Muslims. While the Bengali-speaking Muslims state that they are descendants of East Bengali Muslims brought to Assam during the British Raj, local indigenous communities allege the Muslim population has increased, boosted by refugees from the erstwhile East Pakistan before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 [21] and by subsequent illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
Jul 26, 2012 · India's north-eastern state of Assam is a veritable tinder-box. So why does it periodically erupt into violence and blood-letting? The latest bout has left about 40 dead and displaced tens of ...
Assam shares a 164 km-long border with Mizoram. India's north-eastern state of Assam is advising locals against travelling to neighbouring Mizoram in the wake of violent clashes at the border. Six ...
Aug 8, 2021 · Neighbouring Assam is also ruled by a BJP government. But that didn't prevent leaders on both sides from accusing each other of provoking the violence. The two states have filed murder cases ...
Jun 2, 2016 · An investigation of the ethnic eruption in Assam 2012. ON THE EVENING of nineteenth July, 2012, two men sat in conversation on a low concrete bench outside a tea garden in lower Assam. The village was beautifully Assamese, with the name Magurmari: where they catch catfish. The tea garden was called Lalmati: red earth.
Oct 17, 2021 · The burnt remains of a home that had been torched in Dholpur, India. Karan Deep Singh/The New York Times. Some of the toughest measures have focused on Assam, where about one-third of the ...
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Sep 29, 2021 · Up to 1,300 families made homeless and two killed as authorities in India’s Assam launch eviction drive. ... the police first with machetes and sticks and that the violence was a result of a ...
